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Upcoming Webinar on April 11: Explore, Report, and Share Your Data Online

Anna Kuliberda — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:45:02 -0400

Uncertain about how to report and share your nonprofit’s data?

Join our webinar on April 11, at 3 p.m. GMT, Explore, Report, and Share Your Data Online, to find out the answers to your data sharing questions.

SAP and Business Objects BI OnDemand

During this free, one-hour webinar, we will be hearing from SAP's Steve Williams and Saurabh Abhyankar about issues surrounding data and reporting. We will talk about possible solutions, culminating in a closer look at SAP's product, Business Objects BI OnDemand.

What is Business Objects BI OnDemand? It is a cloud-based business intelligence application which supports multiple data formats to help you understand how your organization is performing.

Nonprofit Questions About Data Reporting

Want to hear concerns that real nonprofits have about implementing data reporting tools? In preparation for this webinar, we have reached out to organizations using BI OnDemand. These organizations have shared their concerns with us, and we will in turn be addressing them during the webinar.

If you have questions of your own, feel free to email those questions to akuliberda@techsoupglobal.org or post them in the comments below. You will also have additional opportunities to ask questions during the webinar.

This free one-hour webinar is presented in cooperation with SAP, a donor partner of TechSoup Global, and is appropriate for technology decision makers in nonprofits.

Anna Kuliberda
Global Commuinity Builder for Community Driven Innovation
Fundacja Techsoup
akuliberda@techsoupglobal.org

Fundacja TechSoup (Polish Donations Program)

List of European NGO Connection Days Feb-June

Caroline Neligan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:21:04 -0500

Hello everyone,

We've received this list of upcoming European NGO Connection Days for the next 5 months from Microsoft.

If you have plans for your day, we'd love to hear from you, so please do get in touch with Heba (hgamal@techsoupglobal.org) and me (cneligan@techsoupglobal.org).

Thanks!

Caroline

Region	Conutry	Contact	Qr	Event Date
CEE	Albania	Sokol Muca	Q4	12 April 2012
CEE	Czech Republic	Marketa Kuklova	Q3	May 2012
CEE	Estonia	Tina Viderfeld	Q4	May/June 2012
CEE	Greece	Eleanna Tsertou	Q3	April 4th 2012
CEE	Latvia	Kristine Mennika	Q3	26 April 2012
CEE	Malta	Angela Micallef	Q3	27th April 2012.
CEE	Poland	Barbara Dylus, Katarzyna Lorecka	Q5	11 May 2012
CEE	Romania	Todi Pruteanu	Q4	17 April 2012
CEE	Russia	Julia Sarviro	Q3	29 March 2012
CEE	Ukraine	Yaryna Klyuchkovska	Q2	25 Nov 2012
WE	Austria	Barbara Warecka	Q3 18th April 2012
WE	Belgium	Laurence Verriest	Q4	12 April 2012
WE	Belgium	Laurence Verriest	Q4	13 April 2012
WE	Belgium	Laurence Verriest	Q4	4 June 2012
WE	Denmark	Anne Kjaer	Q4	June 11-12, 2012
WE	France	Jean-Luc Detzel	Q3	5 February 2012
WE	Ireland	Tara O’Shea	Q4	April 2012
WE	Italy	Roberta Cocco	Q2	15th May 2012
WE	Germany	Simon Leopold	Q3	9th March 2012
WE	Portugal	Patricia Fernandez, Faviane Teixeira		14 May 2012
WE	Spain	Carlos de la Iglesia Fuertes	Q2	February 22nd 2012
WE	Switzerland	Lorenz Isler, Joanna Hafenmayer		TBD
WE	UK	Sarah Foxall	Q3	15 March 2012

TechSoup Global Partners

Partners - We Need Your Contribution!

Clemens Frede — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:10:15 -0400

Dear Partners,

About a month ago we informed you about Stifter-helfen.de - IT for Nonprofits winning an award in Germany (please see related blog post: http://pngo.techsoupglobal.org/node/6141).

On October 4th 2011 we will celebrate this award with a special event here in Windhagen. We will bring together existing and potential donors, NPOs as well as representatives of the public sector. Social change through technology will be the comprehensive motto of the event.

In this context we would like to show and highlight the diversity and richness of our global network to the audience. Therefore we need your help and contribution!

We would like to show a video to the audience, containing a few words of all TechSoup partners worldwide. Can you please send us therefore a short video message considering the following:

Please give us a few words like congratulations or greetings. Please tell us from which country and partner you are.
We don’t mind who of your team will give the message – please be as creative as you like. We would appreciate if as many as possible of your team would be visible.
Please take care, that clip does not exceed 15 seconds. The shorter and incisive the better.
We don’t mind in which format you produce the video since Adobe Director will manage it all. You can use the Flip Cam you we´ve all got from Cisco at the summit to make you video J
Please upload your video messages until May 31 2011.

Since video files are too large to e-mail we set up 2GB online storage space at www.mydrive.ch. Using the below login details you can upload your files in there so that we can transfer them to our discs. Please don’t worry because of the Swiss host - you can switch the language to English :-)

Login details for www.mydrive.ch are:

Username: PNGO@Stifter-helfen.de
Password: techsoup
Folder: PNGO video files

We already set up a folder called “PNGO video files”. Please upload your files in this folder. We would very much appreciate your contribution and look forward to receiving your videos.

Thank you very much beforehand and warm regards from all of us at Stifter-helfen.de!

Clemens

TechSoup Global Partners

Please welcome Pia & Kirsten

Clemens Frede — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 03:54:12 -0400

I'm delighted to introduce our newest staff members, Pia Prangenberg and Kirsten Reinmann who have recently joined the Stifter-helfen.de team. Pia and Kirsten will support us in the daily operations and the general development of the TechSoup program in Germany. For further information please check out their short biographies.

Pia is a qualified foreign language assistant for English and French. She gained first practical experience at an international trade company and then studied North American Studies, Political Science and Public Law at Bonn University, Germany and at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, USA. During her studies she worked at a public relations agency and at Médecins Sans Frontières in Bonn. From 2004 until 2006 she worked for a fourth party logistics provider in Cologne. At the end of 2006 she and her husband moved to Dubbo, Australia where they lived for three years. During that time Pia worked at Charles Sturt University. At weekends she guided tours at the local zoo as ZooFriends Volunteer. At the end of 2009 Pia went to Arusha in Tanzania to volunteer as visitor coordinator at the School of St. Jude, an Australian NGO which provides free education for children from the poorest families. Pia loves to be outdoors (hiking, camping, skiing, walking her dog, etc) and to explore foreign countries and cultures.

Kirsten Reinermann was born in Cologne. Today she lives in Windhagen. In Cologne she did an apprenticeship as dental assistant, doctor's secretary and office clerk. Up to the birth of her children she worked as a broker's attendant and sales representative of an insurance company. For some years she has been engaged in the school sector and in 2003 she was cofounder of a basketball supporting association. As a member of the board of this organization, she took over the duties of the treasurer. Additionally she was involved in planning and organizing events for the supporting association. She also did further education in financial accounting, inventory management and public procurement law. Besides she worked as a headhunter for a management consultancy as well as a stand in for parental leave in the purchasing department of the University of Applied Science Bonn-Rhein-Sieg. Further she could gain an insight into a foundation of the public sector before she started working for Stifter-helfen.de - IT for Nonprofits in March 2011, in the Rhineland office of Stifungszentrum.de.

Best regards

Clemens

Stiftungszentrum and TSGN

3rd Update from CDI Chile's Mobile Telecentre: You Can Help!

Rachel Weidinger — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:53:36 -0400

This is a cross positing from the TechSoup.org Blog

Originally posted Thu, 03/25/2010 - 5:56pm by Elliot Harmon begin_of_the_skype_highlightingend_of_the_skype_highlighting

Over the past two weeks, we've been reporting on CDI Chile's Mobile Telecentre, a project to reconnect individuals and NGOs in Chile after the recent earthquake (first update, second update). The idea behind the project is elegant: the telecentre allows people to reconnect with loved ones with whom they haven't communicated since the earthquake. At the same time, CDI equips key local NGOs with the tools they'll need to get back on their feet and serve their communities for the weeks and months to come. With this dual approach, the CDI Mobile Telecentre is an excellent hybrid of short-term relief and long-term rebuilding.

Please consider making a donation to support this important work. Each USD 1,000 raised will allow the telecentre to serve another city in Chile.

CDI director Javier Figueroa sent us an email yesterday with some updates on the telecentre's progress. Thus far, 800 people have used the telecentre's services in three Chilean cities, Lota, Dichato, and Cauquenes. (It's no coincidence that these were three of the cities impacted the hardest by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. As one reporter bluntly put it, "Dichato is no longer Dichato, and it will never be Dichato again.")

Of course, most of the people who use the telecentre are anxious to reconnect with their families and friends. Thanks to an in-kind donation from Skype, the telecentre has been able to offer users free phone calls. Here are some other ways that residents have been taking advantage of the telecentre:

Applying for jobs, and following up on job applications they had sent out before the earthquake.
Registering for classes. (Chile's school year begins this week.)
Organizations communicating with each other about their needs and resources.
Scanning, archiving, and emailing important documents.
Over 200 soldiers working in the affected areas were able to reach out to their families.
Children used games as a distraction from the stress of the past few weeks.
Local NGOs of large NGOs like the Red Cross and Hogar de Cristo have been able to send updates and urgent requests to their national and global offices.
Volunteers who've traveled to these areas to help with earthquake relief have connected with their loved ones.

Bookmarks

GlobalGiving page for Mobile Telecentre (English)
CDI Mobile Telecentre on Ning (Mostly Spanish)
CDI Chile homepage (Spanish)
DonaTec (Spanish)
CDI Facebook Profile (Spanish)
CDI on Twitter (Spanish)

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