I am Project Coordinator of  Zavod MISSS affiliated member of TSGN as TechSoup Slovenia.  My professional/personal priorities are: developing our NGO as a social enterprise organisation, networking and support to NGOs,  but also as trainer of youth workers, youth work, counselling. Last few months I work on added value to our regular TSG activities such as atracting new donors for a small market and encourage NGOs  for actively approach to forthcoming social entrepreneurship.

Last month, I was lucky enough to attend Ashoka's Tech4Society conference in Hyderabad, India, as a writer for the AshokaTech blog. Since then, I've continued to write at AshokaTech about technological innovations in the nonprofit and social enterprise sectors. This post originally appeared there.

Ashoka hosts a monthly, Twitter-based chat called SocEntChat, in which anyone can participate and discuss issues surrounding social enterprise. It's a great place to share ideas. This month's chat was all about technological innovations, hosted by Ashoka's Tom Dawkins. Along with the usual crowd, Tech4Society organizer (and Twitter newcomer) Rosa Wang was there to share reflections from the conference. You can read the full transcript here.

Tom's first question was, "What breakthrough invention do you think will reshape the lives of the poor?" There were a lot of good answers - mobile phones, solar power, clean water - but I wondered if perhaps the question was too broad for there to be any one good answer. In a Tech4Society panel on mobile phones, for example, Ashoka-Lemelson fellow Madan Mohan Rao said that the increase in mobile phone use in rural India has the unintended consequence of limiting women's ability to communicate, as over 90% of family mobiles are carried by men. According to Rao, social equity still requires landline phones. In this way, what's more important than a specific technological solution is a willingness to pay attention to the needs you're meeting. The high-tech solution isn't always the better one, even if the low-tech one is more difficult.

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I'm new on NetSquared and thought it might be a good idea to use this first post to introduce the work we're doing at UnLtdWorld around free, open and accessible data, hoping that many members of this community will find this of interest, especially those working on social entrepreneurship.

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I'm a social enterprise research consultant at the University of British Columbia, and I'm also working with Vancity Credit Union in Vancouver, British Columbia on accountability frameworks for social enterprise.

I'm interested in hearing about how social enterprises are using technology to improve their impact and performance. If anyone has an interesting stories or case studies - please don't hesitate to fire them my way.

I also host a minimalist blog on the topic here. Stop by and give me your two cents. I try to be provocative and to the point.

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Three Free, Easy Ways to Add a Calendar to Your Web Site - Putting a calendar on your Web site can be a great way to keep supporters up-to-date on important events, meetings, and deadlines. All you need is an Internet connection, a Web browser, and a bit of spare time.

This caught my attention because I see it's more like an events diary than a calandar. It's available as a module in DotNetNuke as I suspect it is in most CMS products.

 In fact my own organisation uses such a product, not to keep track of our events but as a revenue generating facilities management product which yeilds the funds needed to maintain our human rights advocacy.