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3 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Use Vine And Instagram

TechImpact

Image courtesy of Ciniva Web Agency. Nonprofits must adapt to the contemporary market and take advantage of every tool available to them. According to Time, Facebook has lost over 11 million young users since 2011. The one demographic that is increasingly difficult for nonprofits to reach is the nation’s youth.

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10 Email Mistakes You Can Easily Avoid

NetWits

As we move into the last month of the year, let’s take a quick look at how you can improve your email newsletters and appeals in 2011. There are many low cost online tools that can help you track email results. You fall in love with your own images. Don’t be afraid to experiment with limited images in your emails.

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10 Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofits on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Written for the June 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine , where I am writing a quarterly column throughout 2011. Unfortunately, many nonprofits upload horizontal logos to serve as their avatars, resulting in the obvious cropping of the images. Absolutely not! YouTube.com/nonprofits. Enough said.

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Leveraging Impact through Technology (LIT)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The theme of IDPD 2011 is “Together for a better world for all: Including persons with disabilities in development.” In my Fall 2011 President's Update , I mentioned some of our incredible recent achievements in this core program, including the amazing milestones of our Bookshare library.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And more than 20,000 of our users now use Read2Go , our reading app for iOS introduced in 2011. In 2012, this meant a growing push to add image descriptions, especially to math and science content. DIAGRAM This increase in accessible images would not have been possible without great tools. Have an Android device?

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Going Viral: Creative Social Media Campaigns to Inspire Museums

sgEngage

This figure represents a massive adoption of this connective tech with only 5% of American adults using social media in 2005 and 50% in 2011. [1]. It’s no secret that video is a very strong marketing tool. According to Pew Research Center, 72% of the American public uses some type of social media. Art Fund “See Everything”.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. Furthermore, the legality of digital fair use continues to be challenged.

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