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Going Viral: Creative Social Media Campaigns to Inspire Museums

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This figure represents a massive adoption of this connective tech with only 5% of American adults using social media in 2005 and 50% in 2011. [1]. Moving visuals paired with compelling audio are inherently more interesting than a stagnant image and text and worse, just simply text. Art Fund “See Everything”.

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Leveraging Impact through Technology (LIT)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The theme of IDPD 2011 is “Together for a better world for all: Including persons with disabilities in development.” In my Fall 2011 President's Update , I mentioned some of our incredible recent achievements in this core program, including the amazing milestones of our Bookshare library.

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Curating Valentine’s Day From Nonprofits, Geeks, and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s first Valentine’s Day logo appeared in 2000, looks quite primitive compared to today’s this American Life style animated and audio doodle. Generosity Day: This got started in 2011 by Sasha Dichter, Scott Case, Ellen McGirt, and Katya Andresen. Visit the Doodle Museum to view the history of doodles.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And more than 20,000 of our users now use Read2Go , our reading app for iOS introduced in 2011. For those who want to use audio with other mobile devices or DAISY players, we have added DAISY audio and MP3 format download capability for all of our titles, in addition to our existing DAISY text and Braille Ready Format (BRF) options.

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Losing Mobile Users? Easy Mobile-Website Builder Can Help You: New TechSoup Program

Tech Soup

Also consider the mobile upswing in global audiences worldwide and in developing countries (more than one billion mobile-broadband subscriptions worldwide in 2011 according to the International Telecommunication Union). Multimedia, Maps, Social : Upload and share multimedia content like video, audio, text, and images on your mobile website.

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Your Free, Fun December/January 2010/11 Big Vision Worksheet

Have Fun - Do Good

Because the Winter section goes into January, you could start writing your 2011 goals in the Big Vision section too, but personally, I kinda like the idea of staying with your 2010 goals in the Big Vision section, and then getting a hint of your 2011 goals in the Winter Section. Format: virtual or in-person?

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Open Data Kit: Mobile Phones for Social Change

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With Open Data Kit , grassroots activists can capture and export text, photos, video, audio, bar codes, even location. The nomination deadline for the 2011 prize is February 11, 2011. We were honored to meet him at the Nonprofit Technology Conference this year, where he accepted his award.

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