Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08 Furthermore, all of the vendors should commit to a policy that if the front-end or API is unable to download or connect to their data- typically because of performance problems- then the vendor should provide the data or access for free. 5 friarminor 09.30.08

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2016

To ensure that the written content, images, audio, and video on the site contribute to an effective presentation, your content team should understand the organization's brand strategy and be able to answer the following: What content do we have? For a website, it means. Design strategy extends far beyond the visual to include.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Aside from technical issues, the biggest problem is engagement. Use phone line with audio clarity and stability. Alternately, you can use a process called Gifts and Hooks where participants share what gifts they can bring to create an engaging meeting and what they need to be engaged. Find a quiet space to participate.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 9, 2023

To solve this problem, place a color overlay on the photo so the text background is all one color. Serve Media in Multiple Formats Multimedia elements like infographics, audio recordings, and embedded videos can make your site more interactive for your audience. Transcripts of audio-only content.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Consider how the accessible online library Bookshare – an initiative of Benetech , a Silicon Valley non-profit that builds technology solutions addressing social problems – is transforming the lives of American students with print disabilities. Good design can and should be accessible design.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If you don’t have it in your budget to hire a professional to shoot your video for you, think of alternatives to get your message across, use animations, a slideshow, illustrations, or edit in other pre-recorded footage. Share facts about your field, the history of your work, and the problems your organization works to address.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. Aside from technical issues, the biggest problem is engagement. Use phone line with audio clarity and stability.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Someday we want to collect audio and video, too, but we’d need a pretty serious operating budget to do that and at least one full-time employee. From CUL’s perspective, if you’re reading to other writers, that’s not a problem, it’s a community. Geography is fluid, though. One lives a double life as a soul music collector and DJ.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

Who would set their sights on these mundane aspects of human experience, things that recede into the background, given the glitzy alternative of commercial games? The problem is that it's very hard to separate the expectations we have--about what games or comics are--from the blank slate potential of the media. Which by comics?

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

While lockdowns and stay at home orders are in place, virtual events are the best alternative to postponing or canceling an event altogether. Technical producers: It is a good idea to have individuals on hand that have experience with audio and visual production. This will help to keep video quality high for remote attendees.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

BB: When I hear that I think, wow, that is a huge, depressing, systemic problem. That is a project that trains low-income women, or no-income women, to tell their own stories through audio documentaries. What can people do to change that? AD: Well, there are a lot of different ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

was a problem for some people) and while we did offer a secondary way to pay, we need to rethink this part of the conference registration. As an alternative, we created a Cafe Press shop with many more kinds of t-shirts then we could normally provide, plus other goodies. We came in about 107 offset or 46% of the total. But it sucks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Wistia is a video and audio creation tool that allows you to add email pop-ups to your videos and podcasts. Thesaurus.com allows you to search for alternative words that you use too often when writing web and email content. Zoom is an affordable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing. Wistia :: wistia.com.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2007

And ends: The major and undeniable problem with charging is that it is a means test. The problem often lies in the question of what to do about visitors who can pay but prefer not to. Some people are turned off by the high price and choose not to come, but that is considered a marketing problem, not an inclusion problem.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

When writing web and email content, Thesaurus.com allows you to quickly search for alternatives to words that you use too often. Zoom is an affordable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing. If you discover that you are blacklisted, call your web and email host immediately to fix the problem. Trello :: trello.com.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So if you have to leave early, no worries, if you get interrupted, maybe a kid barges into your room while you’re working from home, no problem, maybe your boss bothers you, don’t worry, we’re going to get all that good stuff in your hands. Let me know if my audio becomes unclear and I can turn off my video, okay? .

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

There’s just one problem… You have about 8-seconds to grab and retain a visitor’s attention before they leave your site. Acknowledging A Problem. Looking at the headline of this article, in particular, the word “better” implies an alternative way of doing something that you may not have tried before.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

PlatformX, an emerging platform cooperative seeking an alternative to the extractive capitalist model of Upwork or Amazon Mechanical Turk (platforms that help businesses outsource tasks and operations to freelancers), doesn’t take a commission and requires users to contribute to local charities or community-based organizations. 9</sup).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Susan Pointer: We took the decision as a very complex – google.cn It was not an alternative to the normal site. The Digital category, won last year by Wikileaks, awards innovative digital content appearing for the first time on a UK-based website and covers news, blogs, features and comment or debate, audio and visual material.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. This is a particular problem when – as with Project Maven – the technologies supported by microwork are built for explicitly oppressive ends. But there is no sense of what this recording actually is (e.g.,

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