Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

I’m now a fan of Reed Stockman’s AFP technology blog. What I’d expect from an online blog from such an established institution is a weighty selection of content from equally businesslike sources. Much of their blog contact is tagged (e.g. ?NPtech The Association of Fundraising Professionals. NPMobile ,

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

I was hearing a bunch of new buzzwords being thrown around on AIGA’s Eye on Design blog. The idea was the same as what we did in kindergarten as children: cut out images from magazines and assemble them into a new layout. Inspiration came from two very different places. .

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

For content creators, a news story can inspire a moving blog or article. For example, you can search "nonprofit technology" to find related blogs, or you can peruse Feedly's curated "Technology Hub." Flipboard (Android, iOS) is like your own personal magazine for your smartphone or tablet.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2011

WordPress started out with a focus on ease of use for bloggers and content creators, and secondarily providing a platform for developers to build plug-ins and such. WordPress was born as a blogging tool, primarily, and has expanded outside of that realm, to encompass different kinds of content management use cases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

This is the type of news sound byte you will typically see in Alumni magazines or that alums (or their parents) might share with your organizations. You want to celebrate their personal , social, or professional accomplishments. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement. Images work for engagement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Audience size, breadth, and depth: If your organization has big lists, lots of traffic to your website or blog or social media pages, or big crowds at events, there are many ways to turn this into a donor benefit. A dedicated blog post about the sponsorship. A set of screensavers and background images.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Here's where Jason learns about the latest trends and news in technology: In nonprofit marketing, I enjoy Beth Kanter's Blog , as well as Kivi Leroux Miller’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog. I also like Marlene Oliveira’s Nonprofit MAR Community content. I like reading old-fashioned paper magazines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

I learned of two terrific examples of small nonprofit leveraging social media and user created content for their campaigns. It also has a benefit of generating campaign content as well as documenting support for an issue. Recruiting additional supporters through high quality content and action opportunities.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 14, 2016

Creating web content, a blog post, an email, an e-book or a press release can be intimidating even for professionals. Even a magazine ad or a billboard that reaches millions of readers is seen by only one person at a time. The best copywriting is direct and to the point, uses an active voice and often creates mental images.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 5, 2016

Whether it's a favorite show on Bravo, the tabloid magazine we read in the check-out line at the grocery store, or that box of Girl Scouts cookies hidden in a desk drawer, there are certain things we become attached to and will not give up, on pain of death. Image 1 : U.S. Image 2: Derrick Feldmann. spanhidden.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pinterest is a new(ish) and growing a image based social network and the newest darling of social media marketers. Beth explains that much of her attraction to Pinterest is due to her visual learning style and role as a content curator. Bonus if you convince members to pin their own recipes posted on their own blogs.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Gerald Marzorati, Editor of The New York Times Magazine , has revealed that "contrary to conventional wisdom, it's our longest pieces that attract the most online traffic." If we don't find it quickly enough, we can much more easily jump to another source of information than we could with a stack of magazines.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

Here's where Jason learns about the latest trends and news in technology: In nonprofit marketing, I enjoy Beth Kanter's Blog , as well as Kivi Leroux Miller’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog. I also like Marlene Oliveira’s Nonprofit MAR Community content. I like reading old-fashioned paper magazines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

In a follow up blog post by Pamela Passman, Senior Vice President of Global Affairs, who was our host for the event, she amplifies this point. “Our citizenship work is grounded in the power of our people, our products and our partners to address social and economic opportunity. Tags: Content Networks Philanthropy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Search for bloggers who write about topics related to your cause on Technorati , Google Blog Search and Ask.com's blog search engine. for blog posts tagged with words related to your topic. Read blogs. Most bloggers aren't paid to blog. An image they can illustrate the post with. Search del.icio.us

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2009

We recently celebrated the first birthday of the Connection Café blog. When we launched the blog, we committed in the very first post to "writing about the issues you care about and the topics that can help you succeed online." Like many of you, I was excited about the prospect of our blog but anxious about the "what ifs."

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Top Nonprofits

JUNE 30, 2022

Images are powerful because they can communicate what words cannot. Are you going the more traditional route, with stock images and business-style infographics? Some more goals that you should figure out ahead of time with your team are your content goals. Figure out what kinds of content your graphic design is going to enhance.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

But Wally Wood inspired this post, and got me thinking about how we approach the task of content creation. Which is fitting, because Wally Wood was an illustrator and innovator who drew sci-fi novel covers, pulp magazines, and, most importantly, comics from the 50s through the 70s. It will give you some why to go along with the what.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2021

No images, logos, testimonials, statistics, or other supporting elements? Many nonprofits have a single online donation page linked from dozens of buttons, blog post links, social media posts, and even paid ad campaigns. Andrea Schlottman is a graphic designer, copywriter, and content strategist. People don’t read online, right?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Last week, I received an inquiry from Mary Maher, editor of Hand to Hand, a magazine put out by the Association of Children's Museums , about Museum 2.0. It's hard to fool yourself into thinking you define the museum experience when your visitors are jumping on, chewing, and giggling at your content.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This iPhone/iPad app that allows you to easily flip through your favorite news sources and magazines.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 9, 2005

Pages can have comments, images, and a list of file attachments. You can use it as a classic wiki; but I've seen how some small organizations have used it as a poor man's content management system for their main web site. won PC Magazine's Editor's Choice back in Dec 03 for best wiki service. a month, it's hard to complain.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

blog readers much that the main guiding dynamics were Flexibility and Openness. blog's suggestion, I had started a wiki (in Dutch) in the hope to fire up a general discussion on museum innovation. The wiki did become more active when I started to organize workshops and asked participants to contribute inspiring images.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In a time when photographs circulate around the globe at an unprecedented scale and speed, and revolutions are propelled by viral images, it has become more important than ever for mission-driven organizations to create impactful visual media that can drive action and fuel awareness. Photo by Alex Masi on behalf of The Bhopal Medical Appeal.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2021

No images, logos, testimonials, statistics, or other supporting elements? Many nonprofits have a single online donation page linked from dozens of buttons, blog post links, social media posts, and even paid ad campaigns. Andrea Schlottman is a graphic designer, copywriter, and content strategist. People don’t read online, right?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Is social media the domain of a single department, walled off in marketing, communications, or content? Empower staff by sharing up-to-date information, making them aware of style guides, and having images, logos, and copy readily available. Image: Lindsay Shaver. But don't panic if your coworkers use their own voices.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2007

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Usually this blog is more about analysis than links. But this week, two articles about art, in the NYT and the Washington Post Magazine respectively, called out to be combined into a post about the role of visitors in art interpretation. They expect it, and they hope to be rewarded with good content.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

We started with a brief presentation of the basics of each project, and then spent about an hour responding to questions from the audience, using illustrative images and documents to support the discussion. Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. " Ginny Mies, Global Content Curator.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Zeen is a new product soon-to-be launched by YouTube’s co-founders that will allow users to “discover and create beautiful magazines.” Upworthy is a content filtering tool that features the most read, shared, and buzz-worthy content on the Web. Share As Image :: shareasimage.com.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was fascinating to see people--across social differences--responding to representations of love in the paintings, images, objects and narratives that were part of the installation. The inclusion and prominence of amateur art in the museum makes a complicated statement that is worth a whole other blog post. Some are conceptual (i.e.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. " Ginny Mies, Global Content Curator.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

The following article was originally published in the June 2014 issue of User Experience Magazine. The rotating image carousel is a good example. Content strategy. Figure 4: Browse by Topic box from Project on Government Oversight’s blog. Figure 5: The Related Post pop-up on Government Oversight’s blog pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. e-Newsletter. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. Based in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC). A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 7, 2016

When she’s not working at Qgiv, Abby can usually be found writing for local magazines, catching up on her favorite blogs or binge-watching sci-fi shows on Netflix. Incorporate images. Make sure that you break things up by including images of the people, animals or communities that you help. Optimize for mobile devices.

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