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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns.

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Free Digital Storytelling Online Event

Robert Weiner

From September 30 to October 21, TechSoup will host a free Digital Storytelling online event including expert roundtable discussions, nonprofit case studies, online discussions, live chat, and a community challenge with a final screening awards ceremony in the virtual world of Second Life. Follow the action on Twitter #tsdigs.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. Jimmy explained it wasn’t software from the Internet; he had gotten it from his friend Chris who lived two doors down from us.

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Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration

Tech Soup

Cloud computing basically means services you use over the Internet like Google Apps, Microsoft Office Web Apps , Live Documents , or One Hub rather than installing software and housing the document or information in-house. More conversations in our Virtual Community Forum. some useful software tools like Microsoft Lync Server.

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6 Technology Concepts Nonprofits Need to Understand in 2018

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Wikipedia. A cryptocurrency is a digital or virtual currency that uses cryptography for security. – Wikipedia. Cloud computing means storing and accessing data and programs over the Internet instead of software and hardware installed at your organization’s physical location. Cryptocurrency – #cryptoforgood.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The winners get $65,000 in-kind contributions of consulting, hardware, and software. Google Earth launches Virtual Telescope: Sky as noted by the Viralroots blog where you can see both GoogleEarth and the sky. And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals. Global NpTech.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.