Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

Nonprofits that work in policy and advocacy can help craft legislation and work with local, state, and national policymakers to adopt laws that balance the explosion of sharing-economy startups and protect the marginalized from exploitation. Images: Twitter pics, me. Sign in to share your thoughts in the comments below.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

If Kindle ebooks were available on the Web, other developers could fix many of its limitations such as lousy support for images, problems with complex layouts, inaccessibility. But, the lousy quality of accessibility of the Kindle presents a civil rights problem: schools can't adopt Kindles and lock out their disabled students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

Each account is in the person's name, but they are clearly identified with the organization both in a customized Twitter profile image and in the 160 character bio. I know of about 30 chapters that have adopted it, but haven't heard any amazing success stories. There are multiple people from the organization on Twitter.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

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. Other Examples: An Adopt-a-Family campaign for families in need Movember: growing a beard for charity in November. Excert from Fiver’s Toolkit. Be specific.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

Moore’s law concludes that 20,000 years of technological advancement now occurs every 100 years. Some early adopter large nonprofits are hiring multiple new media management staff—one or two to manage social media campaigns, another to spearhead mobile efforts, and yet another to pioneer the rise of smart TV.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Virtual: Online auctions are a category in and of themselves, allowing attendees to view items remotely using live streaming or images while they place online bids. Of course, this one can put you at odds with the law if you’re not careful, so make sure to get legal advice on any laws or local ordinances you need to follow.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 6, 2023

Let’s use an example of a local animal shelter who wants to drum up support for a proposed law to ban puppy mills. That blog post—instead of just being about the law—could show how it will impact your shelter’s beneficiaries. You include images of Ruby as well as a video from the news clip when she was rescued.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In this image, runners’ legs are tied with pink ribbon to symbolize support for a cause. In this image, three women sit in a field watching a charity concert. In this image, volunteers pick up trash in a forested area. In this image, a group of adults sit in a classroom watching a teacher’s presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

David Wilcox shares an example of growing divided in the UK nonprofit sector between "traditional" online communities (listservs) and those who are adopting Web2.0 How to remix content with having a law degree is a simple guide to how to use material from the internet without getting in trouble.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Moore’s law concludes that 20,000 years of technological advancement now occurs every 100 years. Some early adopter large nonprofits are hiring multiple new media management staff—one or two to manage social media campaigns, another to spearhead mobile efforts, and yet another to pioneer the rise of smart TV.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2013

One of the advantages of being a nonprofit that treats animals is that our patients have no expectation of privacy – we can publish images of the animal’s treatment without having to navigate complicated privacy laws like HIPAA. Figure 3: Original lead of the email with x-ray of lungs.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

The WEEE Directive is the set of laws that governs the proper collection and disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in the 27 countries of the European Union. The latest update of the law is expected to be formally approved in 2014. has a patchwork of laws in half of the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

The conversation with Yeshi is “smart,” meaning that she asks and answers questions with a variety of images, maps, text, and videos. However, some experts have raised privacy concerns as robot to human conversations are not covered by doctor-patient confidentiality laws. We know from our experience (lots of experience!)

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

She explains that some nonprofits in Canada need to store their private data internally as required by law, but want to take advantage of free cloud services such as Google for Nonprofits and Office 365. If just a fraction of the 70 million or so iPhone users adopt it, it will be a big deal. Image of Joyce Hsu: TechSoup Canada.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

adoption strategies ( remix from Association 2.0). You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another. The growing adoption of wikis in educational. True adoption of Web2.0 Images: Flickr. Sharing Content is freely available for use and reuse. It's messy. Step 1: Find People.

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