Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2014

On March 27 in San Francisco, Microsoft is hosting its first press event with new CEO Satya Nadella. We're excited to see what's unveiled and will keep you posted on what the news means for nonprofits, charities, and public libraries! Image 3: Samsung Mobile Press. mobile phone apps tsmobiletechnology'

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

After the event, Scoop It (Android, iOS) is a useful tool for compiling press coverage, photos, social media, and more into one, slick-looking page. If your organization uses Flickr (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) to manage photos, the mobile app is a must-have companion. You can even set up an Instagram printer at your event.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2010

Our own Tim Suttle was there only a couple of weeks ago volunteering for a local organization: Just last week I was in [Haiti] to setup a computer lab at a library (Bibliotheque du Soleil). The library also hosts after school programs and summer camps for children in the neighborhood of Carrefour-feuilles.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

With an exponential increase in people accessing the Internet on mobile devices, the nonprofits, charities, and libraries that don't have a website optimized for mobile devices or that haven't created a separate mobile website risk irritating — or losing — their supporters. prompt numbers. Logos and images: Guide by Cell.

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

A Shopify store is a great fundraising tool for nonprofits that sell branded merchandise, arts, or crafts; for libraries that run book sales; and much more. Voice over IP (VoIP) is a secure, Internet-based phone that replaces a traditional phone system. Are you overpaying on your personal or organization cell phone plan?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For Fiver, this means pulling client testimonials from thank you letters written by program participants or through phone interviews with families. Other Examples: An Annual Giving Campaign, like National Center for Youth Law did $10k for a new Alzheimer’s research project Raise $25,000 to fill a new school library. Be specific.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

At TechSoup, we're all about using technology to tell your nonprofit, charity, or public library's story. " There isn't a large nonprofit or library presence on Steller — yet — but there are a few fun stories. The next icon in the tool bar is a plus sign, which you press to make a new story.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text. While social media as a volunteer recruitment tool has been a popular topic recently, TechSoup flipped the equation on its head a bit.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Built over a weekend with a friend, Statement is a simple app that allows a person to type what he or she wants to say into her or his phone and show another person the text in a large font.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

I challenge anyone to try to get through the INS process in one hour, the time limit many public libraries put on Internet use.). Their two choices (if they're lucky) are: in the school or at the public library. AT&T may want to slow the data for Skype to force people to use the AT&T phone system.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Last month, the radio show This American Life ran a fascinating episode called " Kid Politics ," which starts with a long segment about the Air Force One Discovery Center immersive experience at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Each time the students decide what to do, the young Reagan picks up a red phone and presses either A or B.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. The late Apple founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, famously announced the post-PC era in March 2011 during the launch of the iPad 2. Jobs was as usual quite prescient.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Confirm final details with them over phone, email or go to their location this time. Be prepared to spend an enormous amount of time communicating with each individual through email, over the phone and in person. Here are some other ways we compensate our collaborators: Give them as much press as possible. Get ready to talk.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

My guess is that is has something to do with the fact that African Americans and Latinos use their mobile phones regularly to access social networking sites, and there are a lot of African Americans and Latinos on MySpace. Sadly, at the same time, libraries and schools across America were blocking MySpace, but allowing Facebook.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

During those two years, not only has the used computer market been in question, but also there has been major buzz in the IT press about whether or not we're entering a “post PC” era. This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in September 2009. Growing Supply, Increasing Demand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

" They have begun inviting local bloggers as press to openings and events - usually they get in touch with Mike Woycheck or Cynthia Closkey, two of the co-founders of Pittsburgh Bloggers , who then re-blog the invitation and spread it via Facebook or their own Twitter streams. Not the press release. Write the truth. innovator.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

Find the European Court of Justice press release here. It hooks up to a phone, tablet or computer so the information can be messaged to a hospital. He taught me how to listen for the pulse and passions of charities and libraries over social media. Here in the U.S., I particularly like The Guardian’s coverage of this.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The Amazon Text-to-Speech issue This one has gotten a lot of press, especially since the National Federation of the Blind and the Reading Rights Coalition has formed to fight the soundproofing of books on the Kindle2. Of course, if there is an international treaty on the topic and the U.S. copyright law.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Include bloggers on your press list. When you are creating your press list, be sure to search on Technorati and Google Blog Search to find bloggers who are writing about your organization's issues and send them your press release as well. The Ann Arbor District Library System uses a blog for the front page of their site.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2014

We've got net neutrality violations disguised as benefits, app security flaws, and a difficult-to-repair hot new phone. To counteract all of this somewhat negative mobile news, I'm also highlighting a very positive story on digital inclusion and public libraries. Amazon Fire Phone Teardown. mobile apps mobile phone'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Young people have access to computers in schools and libraries, but there is a difference in the quality of experience. There is a gap in social skills, experience, and knowledge when you only have 10-15 minutes of access in library versus 24/7 access at home. Press Release for the Event ( Blog post about the PR aspect ).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The recent big Apple product launch has been getting lots of press, including some good coverage in Nonprofit Quarterly , Nonprofit Nate's post , and my colleague Ginny Mies' TechSoup piece, The Future of Mobile Video. You've probably also heard about some bad iOS software glitches that prevented the new phones from making calls.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

Because this is fundamentally about connecting visitors with each other in discussion about the most pressing issues related to the institution. While I’ve never heard of a museum with such a heavy call volume that they’ve outsourced their front desk to Bangalore, many museums, small and large, suffer at the phones.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And when you have websites with lots of questions before people fill it out, when you have, you know, give us your phone number, that is a thing you can just see people withering away because they don’t want to give you their phone number, because they don’t want to be called. Should I call you on the phone periodically?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

The IT press has been covering lots new developments lately in paying by mobile phone. Of course mobile phone payments are not new. CNN Money: 5 pay-by-phone apps tested. Android, iPhone, Windows Phone), annoying junk mail doesn't stand a chance. Digital Wallets. CNET Coverage on Digital Wallets.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Build a story library and add to it every time you hear or experience a story that grabs your heart. Make a media list and blast out a press release. Do you have some of your donors’ phone numbers? If you think of your “message” as everything you share, every day, it’s important to keep it interesting to your audience.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

I've picked out a few mobile trends that nonprofits, charities, and libraries should keep an eye on in 2014. inch phone with a quadcore processor. noted that it seemed like the phone's other specs were overlooked in favor of the oversized display. A company called HiSense announced a 6.8-inch 3D Printing Goes Mobile.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

We have a live library in our lobby here at Bloomerang. I don’t want to say Google Home because then my phone’s going to talk to me, and my Google Home is going to talk to me and my locks on my doors are coordinated with it, and my thermometer is coordinated with it. Author of two books, one just came out last February.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

I love year-ahead forecasts and have looked a number of them from all over the global IT press. More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. The Forecasts for 2012. The Decline of PCs.

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