Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing, take 2 January 31, 2008 Back in August, I did a review of web conferencing tools, with a decidedly unusual slant – as a presenter, I had to be able to share my Linux desktop.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

I was also wondering if I could do a quick audio interview with you on this topic. And in realms more familiar: This week’s nptech tag roundup has some great stuff to read about { 1 trackback } Blog Carnival 10.31.06 at 7:44 pm { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth 10.31.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Podcasts are simply audio blogs that were downloadable, and you could put on your favorite digital audio device (hence, "Pod"casting). Beth Kanter has been doing some great coverage of the emerging fields of blogging, podcasting and vlogging (she has a fabulous linkroll of blogging how-to’s on her blog.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

com - a free site where people can create and share ringtones about the 2008 election. com is first free site that lets people easily create and share ringtones about the upcoming 2008 elections. com, click on "Submit Your Tone" and follow the steps on MyxerTones' site to upload their 20 second audio file. RingTones08.com

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2010

It all started in 2008, when Comcast deliberately slowed Internet traffic for BitTorrent, a file-sharing site, and the Federal Communications Commission told the ISP it can't do that. Audio and video have proven to be highly effective media for nonprofits -- and throttling would impact all orgs -- no matter where they fall on the spectrum.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2012

Microsoft Lync is one of the least understood Microsoft product donations in the TechSoup catalog; however if yours is a larger organization that already runs on Windows Server 2008, uses Office Professional Plus 2010 , and has multiple offices or lots of work out in the field, it's definitely worth looking at.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Use video, audio, or text--all work well. Capture presentations made during the event with live embedded audio and share them on a tool like Slideshare after the event. See a recent tweme from our Marketing & Online Community conference 2008. We happen to have a software for this very thing: Live Interviews Online.)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 22, 2007

The top four photos, one from each of SARE’s regions in the United States, will receive grand prizes of free attendance and accommodations at SARE’s 20th anniversary conference, March 25-27, 2008 in Kansas City, Missouri. Check out SARE's video and audio profiles of "New American Farmers" and their book of the same title.

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See3

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

Sit with Danny Alpert, See3 Executive Producer and Award Winning Documentary filmmaker and brainstorm on new video stories, approaches and styles, explore how to repurpose your existing audio-visual assets and how to distribute your media to the widest and most effective audiences.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2007

December 10, 2008 will mark the 60th anniversary of the General Assembly of the United Nations' adoption of the Declaration. From the site: "The WITNESS Hub and Google Earth are working with the Every Human Has Rights campaign to build a global digital databank of human rights stories, in text, audio and video."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2008

2008 has been a record year for disasters and therefore a record year for disaster response. We created a wiki full of sample avatars, banners, widgets, videos, audio clips, etc. But, in this economic climate the Red Cross is certainly making more aggressive online marketing moves. that are easy to grab and use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting. to come out of 2008's SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it in real time. One of the reflections.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

I've listed all of the interviews below with links to the audio and the transcripts. A big thanks to everyone who listens to the program, and reads the interview transcripts here on Have Fun * Do Good. Please note that because the interviews take place over three years, some people's work has changed.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

“Increasingly, audio and video on the Web are critical tools [for nonprofit groups] for communicating to people about the work they’re doing, and I only see that intensifying,&# Ms. Rosenberg says. When your audience is looking at you in a web browser, if they’re bored, they’re on to the next site.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

“Increasingly, audio and video on the Web are critical tools [for nonprofit groups] for communicating to people about the work they’re doing, and I only see that intensifying,&# Ms. Rosenberg says. When your audience is looking at you in a web browser, if they’re bored, they’re on to the next site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

He imagines a Jamaica ten years in 2008, ten years after the initial discussions about this project began. "We might imagine J amaica in 2008 that has become a remarkable leader in the world. The initial cyberstrategy was to capitalize on the inmates' interest in music by using music as a means of teaching digital skills.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. The DCM was a temporary, pop-up museum which ran from October 2008 - April 2009 in an unused storefront in downtown Denver. It was free to participate in and to visit.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?)

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

in the Spring of 2008 at an Innovations in Journalism conference, I thought, this is going to be big. was a 2008 Knight News Challenge Winner. We launched in November of 2008. Is it video and audio? We've done audio, we've done video, we've done text, and we've done some photo slide shows. What are the mediums?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web? What if we demanded that a basic low cost connection and computer and training were available to every Aussie who wanted it like the telephone? What if networked better and created stronger communities of practice? Need time and patience.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

Audio/visual content and video in particular is rapidly moving to the mobile space as the number of video service providers increase and bandwidth reaches 3G capacity. August 12, 2007 | Francis Copyright © 2008, Care2.com This could finally make online fundraising a success. All rights reserved.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

data from edison research from 2008 on podcasting listenership. general awareness at around 40%, though… people don’t necessarily know they are consuming a podcast, audio embedded in rss etc. if you are recroding with multiple people, you can record them to separate audio files so you can edit more easily.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?) May 15, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com You can embed Google Earth into your website to present information to your community that really helps tell the story of your work and your issue. All rights reserved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 26, 2014

He had the audio equipment to help me with the recording and iTunes had recently added support for podcasts. I started the Big Vision Podcast in 2006 about six months after starting Have Fun, Do Good. When I told my husband that I wanted to interview social changemakers for my blog, he suggested that I start a podcast.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

And when individual museums invest in projects, such as exhibits, they tend to put a lot of their resources into proven model (gallery, furniture, labels, marketing, audio guides, associated programs), and count on them succeeding. 2, 2008) will be offered as a free webcast on Jan. In a stable environment, that worked pretty well.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. That is a project that trains low-income women, or no-income women, to tell their own stories through audio documentaries. She has co-authored publications on fair taxation, housing and the racial wealth divide.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2009

As Holly said , smart phone usage grew 80% between June 2007 and June 2008. Then, grab some free audio mixing software , some free video editing software , a free clone of Auto-Tune (to make speech sound like song ). Your guide to the resources that will help you put technology to work for your cause. Market to Mobiles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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See3

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Video We recommend the following settings: MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format 640×480 resolution (* most updated recommendation) MP3 audio 30 frames per second Resizing your video to these specifications before uploading will help your videos look better on YouTube. 23 Feb 2008 daniel seems you forgot the link to the YouTube Uploader.

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

Political: I closed out by using an example from the 2008 presidential campaign—and no it wasn’t Barack Obama. You can check out the podcast for yourself here (and you can also see the slides and skip to the portions of the audio that’s most interesting to you.) The result for a single day was $4.3

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. Steven: Hey, Kishshana, we lost your audio. So one of the things that I’ve talked about a ton over the last year has been about wellness and wellbeing and what it means to lead in a changing time. Oh, my gosh. And what I found was that many of. That was weird.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

The “Ghosts of a Chance” alternate reality game (ARG) ran from July 18 until October 25, 2008 and was a collaboration between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and CityMystery. The eye images were posted to the site, and the incantations were layered over the top of each other in an ever-growing audio file. The game website is here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

I've included links to each audio interview, as well to transcripts (when they're available). Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (February 6, 2008) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 5. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (December 22, 2008) Read: Transcript on Have Fun, Do Good 6.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Trebor Scholz, Platform Cooperativism Consortium,” interview by Ethan Zuckerman, January 20, 2020, Reimagining the Internet, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, podcast, MP3 audio, 36:00, publicinfrastructure.org/podcast/11-trebor-scholz/. 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

And the Democrats want to be the fiscal conservatives in 2008 who want to run against Bush's mega deficit. You can listen to the audio from this interview on the Big Vision Podcast. And that costs money. million dollar budget, and six attorneys, and a new ED. So, it's pretty exciting.

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