Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. We’ve added over 1800 books since then.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 27, 2013

Image courtesy of MeetUp. TechSoup discusses unified communication (UC), which is a type of internal communication structure that combines text messaging, web conferencing, email, video, and instant messaging, among other technologies to connect employees more effective and efficiently. Yes, an obvious one. Office phones.

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NCE Social Media

MARCH 6, 2012

If you have a Facebook page for your organization be prepared for a change on March 30, 2012. Dimensions for the image should be 850px by 315px. Make sure the image you choose for your cover photo is this size or stretches to the size without distortion. Another hat tip to John Haydon on his insightful how-to videos.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 23, 2012

While the barrier to video production and distribution tools has lowered greatly in recent years, many organizations miss the opportunity to present their stories, lacking the skills to use the tools effectively. Image: dancetechtv. The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge , powered by Lights. Tuesday, January 31, 11:00 a.m.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2012

and cause-driven organizations to use film and video to tell their. Image: Festival poster ( Lights. Aaron Bramley is the co-founder and director of communications and education of Lights. a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to encouraging other nonprofit. The Lights. Nonprofit Film Festival, please visit our website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

Why did you decide to do a crowd-funding campaign in 2012? In 2012, President Obama responded to the activism, passion, and residency of the Dreamers, by issuing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to protect them from deportation and provided them with temporary work visas. We used powerful images and our timing was great.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

TechSoup has been running international video and photo competitions for some years now. Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. Please visit the site to view this video). The Winners in Their Own Words.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

It affected every step of the evolution of digital media—from the VCR to the digital video recorder to YouTube. DIAGRAM: Making Images Accessible Fair use also has continued relevance to our social mission as we look to the future of our work within our Global Literacy program. Universal City Studios, Inc.,

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The W³ Awards competition honors creative excellence on the web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, videos, and marketing programs. Attendees were assigned to a table, as visualized by the group of tables in the image above, where they experienced the event for the evening.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The W³ Awards competition honors creative excellence on the web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, videos, and marketing programs. Attendees were assigned to a table, as visualized by the group of tables in the image above, where they experienced the event for the evening.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The following advice can help an NGO move away from constantly seeking grant funding by building a constant inflow of funds from individuals: Plan you crowdfunding campaigns early – what will you raise funds for, how will the funds be spent, plan your media campaign including a compelling story and images/videos.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

By most accounts, the annual late November #GivingTuesday online giving tradition has been gaining traction since 2012. It was founded in 2012 by New York's 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation. GivingTuesday has had double-digit year-over-year growth in online donations since 2012. Image : 92 Y.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

If you’re trendspotting the latest in webwear like me, you’ll notice that the bold and beautiful charity websites are slimming down the text and accentuating the images. that the very latest trend in web design this fall is all about the images. Nonprofit Video Production Tips. Who, What, Wow.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2015

(Please visit the site to view this video). Public Good is a new donation platform from the people who revolutionized grassroots online giving for the 2012 Obama presidential campaign. Learning from the 2012 Obama Campaign. Video: Public Good. Image 1 : Bill Rice / ideastream.org / CC BY-NC-SA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. Their marketing has tangible results: in 2012 alone they raised $33 million, and over $8 million of that was raised through their online fundraising platform. Here are a few images from the charity: water website that show how they employ social proof.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Video marketing. In its 2012 State of Inbound Marketing report , Hubspot notes that with inbound leads, the cost per lead is 61% less than outbound leads. The report also mentions that in 2012, small businesses plan to allocate a significant percentage of their budget (43%) towards inbound marketing ventures. Landing pages.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 at the 92nd Street Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact in New York City. Giving Tuesday has come a long way since its inception in 2012. Ask local performers to appear on your livestream or send in a video performance recorded ahead of time.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 18, 2012

Also, some of our newer computer offerings come with donated copies of Norton AntiVirus 2012 already installed, which has been generously provided by our partners at Symantec. Note that PowerPoint is not included as part of the Office 2007 Basic package, but is available as a separate donation through our Microsoft Software Donation Program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

UPDATED 1/8/12: Thanks to the launch of Google+ Pages for brands, Google+ traffic hit an all time high in December 2011 and it’s likely that the trend will continue in 2012. Finally, I will be offering a Google+ and Google Products Webinar for Nonprofits on February 28, 2012. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Nostalgia is much more than mere reminiscing; it’s a warm, fuzzy emotion that we feel when we think about fond memories from our past. In a 2012 study, researchers discovered that nostalgizing helps people relate their past experiences to their present lives in order to make greater meaning of it all. Images work for engagement.

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Care2

JULY 22, 2011

Some sources are indicating that more people will own smartphones than traditional cellphones by 2012. As Gary Vaynerchuk put it the other day , you need a mobile strategy by 2012. could embed the video]. This is a good argument for minimalistic header images in email. In mobile, images are vigorously suppressed.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 27, 2012

Bilton cites a 2012 UC Irvine report stating that those who didn’t check email regularly at work were less stressed and more productive than those who checked more often. Take Control of Email Interruptions (Video). Image: Man smacking his own forehead ( music2work2 ). 5 Symptoms of Email Addiction.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

TechSoup and Interconnection , one of our Refurbished Computer Initiative partners, teamed up to supply a group of nonprofits and libraries with everything they would need to set up a MultiPoint Server lab in their environment during the fall of 2012. Installation date: mid November 2012. " Image: Photo by Reliatech.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

Video-Sharing Apps and Super Smartphone Cameras. We're all about photo- video-sharing apps here at TechSoup and think it is a great way for nonprofits to tell their story. Apps like Vine or Instagram (which now has video) let you experiment with storytelling in a shorter format. Windows Phone Evolves. More on Mobile.

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CauseVox

JUNE 28, 2021

Since 2012, thousands of nonprofits have run campaigns on CauseVox ’s fundraising platform. If you’ve held a Zoom meeting, been on Facebook live, or done any kind of video chatting, you’ve live-streamed. On your CauseVox page you can highlight that match in your header image to make it even more obvious to donors.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

This post is Development Director Ryan Ginard's first impression of seeing how powerful a virtual reality video is in putting the viewer in the middle of a compelling story at the most recent meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. Image : kevin / CC BY. What VR Can Do. The VR revolution has already begun in earnest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Image from Gasland The Movie. Every Memory Matters is expected to go live in January, 2012, when Granito is broadcast nationally on the PBS series POV. Note From Beth: Yesterday, I attended a convening called “ Beyond Dynamic Adaptability ” for arts organizations about cultural participation in the arts.

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

The Donor Class of (TechSoup Fiscal Year) 2012. Almost any file type — Word documents, PDFs, images, and even video — can be uploaded to Huddle’s workspaces. Make sure your organization gets all of the hardware or software it needs from TechSoup before our fiscal year ends on June 30, 2012. Why the rush?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Through Stifter-helfen.de, the organization received donations from Microsoft, SurveyMonkey, as well as 18 Flip Video Mino-HD cameras. The employees then create presentations with the videos. In September 2012, the project was expanded to serve Austria as well. Image: streetfootballworld/Stifter-helfen.de.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

Dara recommends a 2012 PBS Frontline documentary on their work. Image One - Temple: Courtesy of Stuck in Customs Creative Commons. Image Two - Dara Westling: Courtesy of Dara Westling. Image Three - Bazaar: Courtesy of Stuck in Customs Creative Commons. Image Four - Courtesy of Global Donors Forum.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Installation Date: Dec 7, 2012. Their youth users have a strong interest and talent in editing, graphic design, video, and photography. Day-to-day use problems: The YMCA participants did complain of "slow Internet" or "trouble loading," especially using high-density videos or photos. 1 USB Hub.

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NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

Just 150 milliseconds after seeing an image of a baby, people’s medial orbitofrontal cortex – the part of the brain associated with emotion – becomes abuzz with activity. People viewing videos shot from an airplane vs. a car were far more cooperative because they had viewed something from a higher position.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Videos posted by charity or charity supporters are one of the largest opportunities for future engagement, with 27% of donors being interested in connecting through this channel. If you do not currently have a video strategy, now may be the time to create one. Similar to video is imagery.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2015

But, with a 60 percent increase in the use of peer-to-peer fundraising between 2012 and 2013 , peer-to-peer is on the rise. Pictures, videos, and text to help share your story, and one clear ask. Send supporters a toolkit that includes a social media plan they can follow, logos, videos, and exclusive content. Find a hero.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

I think Adora Svitak, a 16 year-old education activist, whose 2012 Ted Talk, “ What Adults Can Learn from Kids , has almost 4 million views said it best when describing the impact that these “kids” will have and why we should pay attention to them: “New generations grow and develop and become better than the previous ones.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The current donated product available through TechSoup is Windows MultiPoint Server 2012 , and the specific installation steps may differ slightly between versions. For a quick overview of the installation process, see How to Install Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 (video) and Interns Guide to MultiPoint Set Up (PowerPoint). Learn More.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Protecting your valuable donor, client, and project information is made simple with Symantec Norton software : Norton AntiVirus 2012 guards against botnets, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, rootkits, and spyware and scans all existing, incoming, and outgoing data, including email attachments and cookies.

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