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For the third consecutive year, Adobe and TechSoup Global have joined together to award three $1000 cash grants plus Adobe software to nonprofit organizations and libraries that demonstrate outstanding or innovative use of Adobe products to increase their impact and further the missions of their organizations.

If you're not familiar with this contest and you want to jumpstart your creative inspiration, check out last year's winners.

River Rally 2009

TechSoup Canada had the great opportunity to be a part of of River Rally 2009, sponsored by Alberta Ecotrust. The River Rally is a capacity building conference for watershed stewardship groups in Alberta. The conference offered a variety of workshops on how to communicate with impact, and ways to leverage volunteers and money. In addition, it was a great opportunity for organizations to network and learn from each other.

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Does your organization have great stories to tell — but lack the skills required to plan and produce compelling videos to post online?

Last week’s Toronto Net Tuesday was all about using video to communicate your stories to the world.

This week, TechSoup was a proud participant in My Charity Connects, a conference about teaching charities about using online technology to improve their fundraising and marketing. Donnie Claudino, TechSoup’s Marketing Manage, brought a lesson about how to use storytelling in online media.

Have you heard the term "cloud computing" and wondered what all the hype is about? Many similar-but-slightly different definitions exist but in a technical sense, it's a style of computing where services and platforms are delivered to users over the Internet; organizations can stop worrying about installing or managing software locally.

But besides some of the obvious administration advantages, what can this new paradigm mean for non-profits?

Today’s non-profits operate against the backdrop of two major global challenges: climate change and the financial crisis. Can green solutions help non-profits stay afloat financially?

This month’s Net Tuesday tackled this question with a panel of representatives from Carbonzero, the David Suzuki Foundation, and TechSoup Canada.

At TechSoup Canada we are committed to providing resources to help you create 'greener' workplaces, increase employee productivity and retention, and reduce operational cost.

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Is Twitter a big deal?

You might be interested in learning more about Twitter after hearing that David Miller, the mayor of Toronto is 'tweeting' with fellow Torontonians, about the location of potholes.