Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2009

SSDs have been around in various forms for a long time , but only in recent years have manufacturers started seriously marketing them to consumers as an alternative to traditional hard drives. Those first and second generation SSD drives turned out to be slower than their magnetic equivalents, despite the eager promises of vendors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

Or in the words of Urban Dictionary, “the act of participating in obviously pointless activities as an expedient alternative to actually expending effort to fix a problem.”. But it politicized and generated social power that can instigate political change.” – Tim Leberecht. Tags: sxsw.

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Achieve

JUNE 11, 2020

One tactic I observed being particularly effective was individual fundraisers tagging their friends who had donated thanking them for their support. This helped to generate a lot of buzz around the fundraising goal and encouraged friend groups to come together. . SMART RIDE – VIRTUAL EVENT .

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

I hope that in the future we don’t have to turn to a back up/alternative, but I’d love to hear your thoughts about the use of CoverItLive this time! Action = money, sale, clickthrough, unique visitor, download, lead generation, email address, form fill out, questionnaire, etc. Usually generates a lot of energy.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

There are many options for creating the code, but no matter what, you may have to make some adjustments as not all HTML tags are usable in Facebook. Here, Facebook outlines the allowed tags – I found that I only had to cut the HTML and BODY tags, and our invitation worked just fine.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Try pushing through writer's block by using some alternative writing and methods: Lists. Generate ideas from outside your current frame of reference. Tags: Influence Internet Strategy. Use tools like Google Calendar to assign work and plan publishing in whatever time frame is realistic for you -- week, month, or quarter.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

Putting on my technical hat, I pointed out that the technical advances needed to make synthetic speech a reasonable alternative to human narration were years away and that gave author’s plenty of time to price these conditions into their negotiations with publishers. It’s the right long-term solution.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

FaceTime allows two iPhone -- and soon, next-generation iPad and iPod Touch -- users to have a streaming video and audio conversation while both are connected to a wireless network. We'll have to move to alternate methods of communication and examine results versus attendance. FYI: it doesn't work over 3G.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Social media, in particular, offers a day-to-day alternative to annual reports, press releases and grant reports in showing direct impact in a consistent, immediate way. Tags: movement building. 3) What are you trying to change? This post originally appeared on Lina's blog Strategy for Social Change.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2006

Here's a fun alternative to the "comment book" or talkback wall. And could you go one further, post multiple bubbles and encourage visitors to generate whole conversations between inanimate objects? Tags: exhibition design usercontent. now the question is now to make the adhesive on the bubble stickers non-damaging.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Some authors are also creating video trailers to generate excitement around their book launch. The author of Social Software in Libraries hosted an Alternative Book Cover contest. Tags: askbritt. You can see some fancy examples on BookVideos.tv and the BookVideos.tv YouTube channel. The winner gets a Flip Video camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

Forum One recently supported a groundbreaking, education summit in New Mexico: "Unleashing Knowledge and Innovation for the Next Generation of Learning", convened by the Stupski Foundation , West Wind Education Policy , and the Knowledge Alliance. Tags: Collaboration Communication Strategy Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. This session introduces the concepts and tools behind the next generation of internet technologies or what has been dubbed "Web.20" I don't like the repeated use of support, but at the moment am lacking good alternatives). 20" or "Social Media.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Families like the idea that museum memberships offer a low-cost alternative to recreational activities like the movies, which cost money every time you go. Unsurprisingly, museums are loathe to cut or alter membership programs that successfully serve visitors' needs and generate revenue. Tags: membership business models.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Alternatively, this could be an open-ended assessment in which the learner is asked to write about their conclusions. Specifically, we recommend seeking an LMS with the following capabilities: Question banking, categorization, and tagging. A set of questions about that fact set is asked, most often in multiple-choice format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Do posts with more questions in the title and questions in the end generate more comments? Looking at Alternatives to Feedburner To Track RSS Subscribers Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn? Tags: socialmediametrics RSS. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. .

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Tags: beth kanter NPTech sxsw. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. But can they also combat apathy?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2007

She is an expert in alternate reality gaming (ARGs), the first woman to keynote at the Game Developers Conference, and she’s thrown down the gauntlet for a game designer to win a Nobel Prize in the sciences by 2032. Tags: storytelling web2.0 Jane McGonigal wants to make it happen.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

GivingMail stands out as a nonprofit consulting firm by offering an affordable and efficient alternative to handling your direct mail needs in-house. Their full range of tools and services include: Electronic document capture, tagging, and filing systems. Simplified audit preparation and generation, ideal for grant management.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

Yes, much was generated by the game masters, but there are now 143,000 google hits for "world without oil," the majority of which are player-generated blogs, livejournals, photo pages, videos, you name it. Alternate reality can encourage players to take action in their real lives. Tags: storytelling web2.0

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

It is an exhibit of user-generated content? He encouraged his friends and followers to help him generate a package of comments and complaints on this topic to send to museum executives at the end of June. Tags: web2.0 Is this a research project? Is it a conversation? What will you do if they say something you don’t agree with?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Even visitor-generated exhibits and experiences can be treated this way—when they have an end date. Most visitor-generated museum experiences are about creating, not curating, content. In the past, I’ve talked about this as an alternate newcomer experience: you want to make a video, I want to put them in a meaningful order.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

The content-producing experiences were engrossing for creators, but more importantly, the spectator experience of these visitor-generated stories, posters, and light shows was really excellent. Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0 Would Side Trip have been better if it had been fully integrated with the Psychedelic posters show?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

They were extremely successful in generating the support of politicians all over the country. We're also working with those cities on generating some demonstration projects. What we're trying to do is generate enough support to indicate that we need these announcements out of the auto industry to translate into something tangible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent. The Ontario Science Center runs fabulous Rapid Idea Generation (RIG) sessions, for which they gather and hoard huge volumes of mysterious junk to spark the creative process.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

For example, I’m modifying a digital midi theremin as an alternative mouse device. Tags: interview Unusual Projects and Influences game. He started out as a poet, started messing around on the internet with digital media, and launched into a series of highly unusual interactive projects. You just need one access point.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

Here's a roundup of some of the ones that generated the most discussion: External Communications and Social Media. If you're looking for an alternative to Meltwater 's media monitoring capabilities, check out the list of PR tools on PRstack. However, there are some alternative calendar tools. We all miss Sunrise!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

.” Charity Jacking is similar to brand jacking and news jacking , defined by David Meerman Scott as the process by which you inject your ideas or angles into breaking news, in real-time, in order to generate media coverage for yourself or your organization.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2008

Instead, it uses hundreds of tags, signifiers assigned to each song by a team of musicians, to find correlated songs that may be of interest. From a single seed song, Pandora will generate a whole channel of music, and will shift and refine that channel based on your thumbs up/down rating of each song played.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Personal PSAs are those shared via mobile and social networks, in addition to being user-generated.). *. Objective : Provide an alternative route to collect donations for those not wanting to donate online via credit or debit card. Tags: guest blogging mobile social media. As a result, over 44,000 student applied in 1.5

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2005

The law does prohibit you from harvesting addresses from other websites or generating addresses at random by means of a program to find ones that exist, or trading in email lists that have opted out of someone else's program. Tags: nptech , email , spam This is not true. Misconception 2. I hope this clears up a little of the confusion.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

The “Ghosts of a Chance” alternate reality game (ARG) ran from July 18 until October 25, 2008 and was a collaboration between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and CityMystery. There were also some murmurings on the forum that we were just doing this to generate viral buzz about an exhibition and that it wasn’t really a game.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The site should be supported by rich media and user profiles, enable submission of user-generated stories by individual Americans as well as polished stories on historical figures by government web managers, provide functionality for user content rating, sharing, and commenting, and be fully integrated with third party social media sites.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

The third is probably the best way to get involved, and that's the free -- well I won't call them the "free rider", but the idea is that it's both beneficial to the folks who can come in, spend an hour or two, maybe even once a month or once a week or whatever, and just are looking for a random space to sit in, that's an alternative to cafes.

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