Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Nonprofits and libraries are consistently challenged to collaborate with their staffs, boards, and other supporters in efficient and effective ways. If these scenarios sound familiar, come see if Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Online could be a fit for your organization. Pacific time. read more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

From the first experience of surround sound to seeing your hands function and your body moving through a digital world, nonprofit marketers and fundraisers absolutely need to explore this next iteration of the internet. The universal menu includes: Apps : View and launch apps from your library.

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M+R

JUNE 5, 2023

As incredible as they might sound, these are just a few of the new “children’s rights laws” that could become a reality under a new United Nations program if fully implemented by the Carter administration. You never know who has anti-vaccine videos buried in their content libraries. QA: make sure they’re value-aligned.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. You can follow along with the sessions today through Wednesday using #ERL11.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

It may sound scary and a bit daunting, but consider adding a content and SEO “audit” to your list of regular maintenance tasks. So add a media library review to your list of must-do tasks and optimize your images at least twice a year (there are some great plugins that do all the work for you).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

—– The Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference takes place Febrary 28-March 2 in Austin, TX, and I’m SO honored to be a keynote speaker! The keynote will focus on “Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation”. Libraries, whether associated with a school, government, agency or geography, serve a community.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Rather than trying to create a smaller or lighter CD player, or one that held multiple discs, or one with longer battery life, or one with slightly better sound quality (see also: a faster horse) Jobs gave us the ability to hold our entire music library literally in the palm of our hands!

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

American Jazz Museum Best Arts Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room and Gem Theater.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

That being said, making a video isn’t as simple as it sounds (and it doesn’t even sound that simple to most). If you don’t pay attention to getting good sound quality your video will always look unprofessional, even if the visuals are great. A great, free resource for background music is the YouTube Audio Library.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As the sector evolves, students aren’t always sure which available resources are the most sound to support our studies. For instance, if you live in New York City, several libraries offer free access to Candid’s tools. More importantly, after paying tuition bills, we often struggle to find resources we can afford—free resources. .

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

American Jazz Museum Gold – Cultural Institutions Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

It used to be that you needed to enroll at a local school or spend hours in the library to learn new skills. You don’t need to spend hours searching the library for the best books to learn about specific topics anymore. But the question so many people ask is how to actually learn new skills so that those benefits become possible. .

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Danielle Coates-Connor: And you, Devyn, have been creating a visionary library of images with all of the branding work that you’ve done at Edge Leadership, with all of the illustration work that you’ve done for Nonprofit Quarterly and for The Voice Lab. And so, you know, that’s what I did. It’s not their story.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 16, 2021

Harold Grinspoon Foundation organizes many programs, including summer camp funding, facilitating end-of-life giving, and distributing over half a million educational books a month across 32 countries through the PJ Library. How would the many active programs and initiatives of the organization need to adjust to the new challenges?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 24, 2018

I was always coming up with new, crazy ideas of social ventures, and Gerry was a great sounding board. Bookshare has gone on to become the world’s largest library for people with disabilities, serving more than half a million kids with disabilities in the U.S. Third, there would be no Bookshare if it had not been for Gerry.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library. Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. 100 Years of the flagship library in New York. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2011

public libraries and some nonprofits provide. If this sounds like you, join us for this upcoming online event! Analyst at the Colorado State Library and a BTOP grant recipient, will discuss. they track, and how this data will benefit their libraries beyond the grant. To bolster their efforts, the. their computer skills.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Library book sales or "friends of the library" donations. However, setting up an online store hasn't necessarily been a simple or inexpensive thing to do for many nonprofits or public libraries. So we're pretty excited about this program and the creative ways that nonprofits and libraries will use it.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

If outsourcing the work sounds like an offer you can’t refuse, take the time to find an agency that offers the exact services and expertise your team needs. Koios By specializing in libraries, Koios empowers clients to make their resources more discoverable online. Targeted ad development.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Use the Foundation Directory at the library or a university to find foundations out of state. It’s easier than it sounds. By maintaining a relationship with the community foundation’s staff it may unlock opportunities to connect with DAF holders during the year.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2016

Staff and volunteers at your organization or library can also purchase products through this program for their personal use and save up to 40 percent. You'll find everything from public computing workstations for your library to high-performance laptops for your office. Browse RCI catalog. Browse InFocus catalog.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

" It might sound harsh, but it will challenge you to come up with a click-worthy subject/headline and an introduction that will draw a journalist in. At TechSoup for Libraries' July webinar , we featured two libraries that had wildly successful crowdfunding campaigns. Find a News- or Viral-Worthy Angle.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

Week three of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays in May focused on use of video for nonprofits and libraries. engage audiences can be overwhelming to nonprofit and library. Nonprofits and libraries need not worry excessively about technical quality, as chat participants were in agreement that content mattered most.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2016

No matter your budget or movie-making skills, you can find the right combination of equipment for your nonprofit or public library. Many cameras have a built-in microphone, but these microphones have a limited range in terms of the sound that they capture. For more on sound, check out Wistia's Choosing a Microphone article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Sound proof the office. Create a leadership library of nonprofit books for staff to check out and read. Building basic processes for getting work done, for example collaborative calendar planning. Enough staff to cover work or prioritize work flows. Improve internal information systems. Responsive tech support.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

Sounds a bit creepy, right? So what does this mean for nonprofits, charities, and libraries? Perhaps that sounds a bit cynical, but after writing about the Vendor Relationship Management movement, the need for customers to be able to control their own data has become abundantly clear to me. Or helpful? I'm not sure.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Since we're a partner of Hadley's (our goal is to be the school library for their students), Hadley's president, Chuck Young, invited me and other Hadley supporters to accompany him and his staff on this celebratory trip. We started our visit in Hong Kong, visiting the three main nonprofits there serving the blind.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2016

Sounds like it's only for the elite tech-savvy user, huh? Data is most meaningful when you can use it to determine actions that will improve your nonprofit or library. Jordan will show you easy tips to maneuver through this data analytics tool to gain a better understanding of your nonprofit or library's data.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2016

Sounds like it's only for the elite tech-savvy user, huh? Data is most meaningful when you can use it to determine actions that will improve your nonprofit or library. Jordan will show you easy tips to maneuver through this data analytics tool to gain a better understanding of your nonprofit or library's data.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 13, 2009

If this sounds familiar, you won’t want to miss TechSoup’s free online event and webinar: Basics for Beginners: Getting Started with Social Media Tools. So you’ve heard about Facebook, Twitter, and other online social networking sites. You know your organization should use social media, but you’re not sure where to start.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

There has been some interesting mobile-related legislation news as of late that affects some nonprofits, charities, public libraries, and social sector organizations. TechSoup Global staff weighed in on what the FCC ruling means for both nonprofits and public libraries. Legislation Beat. Tablet Tales.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

Combining the slideshow functionality of PowerPoint with the capability to create unique and interactive content curated from all corners of the web, Zeega allows you pull videos from YouTube, photos from Flickr, sound clips, and music from the cloud to create meaningful and engaging digital stories.

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Tech Soup

JULY 3, 2012

Michael Sauers, Technology Planning for Libraries. In PowerPoint, you can add sound, animate text and objects, and even animate your SmartArt. You may notice that each slide has just enough information to arouse curiosity , and that the slides are largely dependent on what the speaker would be saying. Bobbi Newman, Why Transliteracy?

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2017

It sounds pretty technical, but it is reasonably straightforward. TechSoup's RCI program provides warrantied factory-refurbished, commercial-grade computer systems to charities, foundations, churches, and libraries across the country at around half the cost of equivalent new equipment. How to Make an ROI Case. Microsoft Office.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

This one-hour online event will take you on a tour of all the things TechSoup does to help nonprofits and libraries around the country (and world) have the technology resources and information to reach their goals. Sounds lofty, right? But it's true! I hope you'll join us!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our Online Safety for Nonprofits and Libraries: Paranoid or Are They Really Out to Get You? He authored our recently released 12 Tips to Being Safer Online Guide for nonprofits and libraries. Social engineering is not what it sounds like (at least to me). Meet Our Security Experts. Top Recommendations. Getting Personal.

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NTEN

MAY 30, 2013

You can map the vicinity in which your phone is located once you lose it or activate a siren that sounds for up to a minute to help you locate it. Sophia Guevara is the Chair of the Consortium of Foundation Libraries, and is a new member of the NTEN:Change editorial committee for 2013. What would you recommend to your colleagues?

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