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An Easy Recipe for Making Text Overlay Images

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My favorite free tool for this is PicMonkey because it is very easy to use. (You With this simple recipe, you can create a great text overlay image to illustrate a blog post and use on social channels in less than 15-30 minutes. 3. Measuring Tools. 4. Remember some basic rules of graphics design: Simplicity. Any secret sauce?

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones.

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App Recommendations from the TechSoup Staff

Tech Soup

90% of the apps that people use are free ones. PDF Viewer to look at PDF documents and also eBooks. is a free way to listen to music, sports and news from all over the earth. It’s nice to see which channels are not congested. We spend 39 minutes using apps per day. The most downloaded apps are games (33%).

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4 free ways to access Candid’s demographic data 

Candid

Candid’s team of technologists (of which I am a member) has been charged with providing multiple channels to make this information freely available and easily accessible. 4 ways to access nonprofit demographic data for free 1. Our free API powers various use cases that fit within your new or existing grantmaking processes.

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How to find donors online – 22 ideas that work

Whole Whale

This locked content might be a download PDF ,or just the rest of the article. They have a landing page and can be promoted across many channels or used as a search engine marketing page. This free $10k per month in in-kind search advertising on Google search results is a powerful way to drive traffic. Content lockers.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

ReadyTalk is proprietary and not free (as in beer). WebHuddle is free, and open source. But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. In addition, DimDim has an integration with Moodle (PDF) ! Well, it seems that it still is “coming soon.&#

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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