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Using Super-Short Videos to Reach New Audiences

Tech Soup

Super-short videos have become one of the coolest (and easiest!) Free video services like Instagram and Vine that feature short videos now attract millions of users, offering nonprofits, charities, and libraries an opportunity to connect with new audiences. Why Super-Short Videos? Fundraising videos.

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. We’ve added over 1800 books since then.

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Meet the 2012 Digital Storytelling Challenge Judges

Tech Soup

Submissions for the 2012 TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge have closed, but the fun has just begun! Let's meet the folks who will decide which one-minute videos and five-photo slide shows take home these excellent award donations from our generous partners. He also blogs at davidleeking.com , and loves making video!

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Windows 8 Apps for Nonprofits and Libraries

Tech Soup

Need a good vlogging (video blogging) tool? Try YouCam , a video and photo capture app with a built-in editor. The Box cloud storage app comes with 5GB of free storage to help you backup and manage your photos, documents, videos, and other files. Social Media and Communication. File Management.

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HOW TO: Engage 5 Generations of Donors and Supporters

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Currently, more than 50 percent of children ages 0–8 spend an average of 43 minutes daily on smartphones and tablets watching videos, reading, and playing games. Milliennials also value privacy and time away from mobile and social media, reading print copies of books, and regularly visit libraries.

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Some Reflections about Social Data in the Cloud from the Social Innovation Summit 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

William Kennedy, Chief Pediatric Urology, uses a video system from Cisco to check in with patients in remote clinics. (He writes about this on Huffington Post ). He did a live demonstration of a check in with a patient and reviewing his ultrasounds. It was inspiring to see it in action, but also how they improvised to get it started.

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It affected every step of the evolution of digital media—from the VCR to the digital video recorder to YouTube. students) with a collection of 220,000+ (and counting) accessible books—the world’s largest library of its kind. Universal City Studios, Inc., Why do we at Benetech care about this so much? In the U.S.,

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