Tech Soup

JULY 12, 2012

Web conferencing is a technology that can be a game changer for an organization. Audio, video, application, and screen sharing (jpg, ppt, pdf, flash, mp3, doc). Sharing of specific applications (not just full screen). This post was authored by Salem Kimble, social media development manager with BetterWorld Telecom.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

The Raspberry Pi was designed to help educators and students understand technology better. You can always flash a card on another computer before transferring it to the Raspberry Pi, but buying a preformatted card may save you an extra step. Broadcom BCM2835 SoC full HD multimedia applications processor. 256 MB SDRAM.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 31, 2010

The primary benefit of the Pro version is that you can create PDF files from any application that can print, or natively from Microsoft Office. PDFs can also be a container of different file formats, allowing the user to embed pictures, PDFs, and even Flash files to create a professional document to showcase your different types of work.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2014

I am not what most would refer to as an "early adopter" of technology. The way it works is that the password management software has a local database or a file that holds the encrypted password data for secure log-in onto computers, networks, web sites and application data files. See the "encrypted" part?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2011

According to Andrew Kantor, technology writer of USA Today : We're not only a more mobile society, but we're also an almost entirely information-driven one. Big Data and the Cloud Define Future Technology. Big data and the cloud will define future technology. Big data and the cloud will define future technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

   And it seems like the concept of flash mobs for the arts is not limited to FourSquare. Build an application using the Foursquare  API. Tags: Art Sector Arts & Technology location. .  "If you goal is to dip your toes into the waters of social media, then your measure is the dampness of your toes."

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2012

The Venue Pro includes the following software: Office Mobile: a suite of basic Microsoft Office programs including Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile, OneNote Mobile, and Outlook Mobile; Office Mobile applications are compatible with their desktop counterparts. These donated phones include a Windows Mobile operating system, 4.1-inch

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2007

BITS reported on October 12th that LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye is " rushing to copy the electronic underpinnings of Facebook's elegant application programming interface, or A.P.I., will essentially be a set of APIs and a new markup language that will allow third party developers to create applications that run within MySpace.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Aided by technology, they gathered and shared and used data to figure out where my parents were and how to get them out. Then, one of his cousins texted directions based on a new smartphone application called “Waze,” which crowdsources data from nearby drivers to create real-time traffic and road reports and find the best routes.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 7, 2006

Applications Take a look at Gliffy. But this flash-based software is not a toy application either - you can use it build network diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams, floorplans, mockups of user-interfaces. I've also been exploring DesktopTwo - this application came to my attention via Emily Chang's eHub site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

A few weeks ago, HandsOn Network launched The Good & Ready Campaign that leverages interactive technologies and social networking to support their partners, The American Red Cross , Ready.gov and FLASH by recruiting, inspiring and mobilizing volunteers in support of their goals for September, National Emergency Preparedness Month.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Ro)bots (or spiders) are scripts or applications that search out information on the web. Other platforms like Java and Flash could end up being (once again?) Software as a Service (SaaS) are online applications that frequently live on cloud servers; think of your webmail account. Is it the wave or my surfboard that is muy mal ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. He Blogs at [link] regularly speaks at nonprofit conferences and loves to see how technology helps nonprofits further their mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

More at TechCrunch and Technology in the Arts Blog. Musematic is a group blog of museum technology professionals. The description: "Rants and raves on the latest trends in the world of museum informatics and technology. The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2007

I try not to focus too heavily on web tools on this blog, but this application is too lovely to pass up. They are committed to making this technology accessible (and free!) Tags: storytelling Technology Tools Worth Checking Out web2.0 to educators permanently. Unusual Projects and Influences.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Smart organizations create and publish their data widely to other sites, widgets, social networks, and aggregation applications. Feeds and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the most efficient ways to make this happen on the web today. Today, there are many tools to visualize and share data online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. website with The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology we???ve

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

For more than 20 years I’ve worked to harness the power of technology to do social good. So for me, it was incredibly cool to be introduced to a new piece of technology that has a clever and (as far as I know) new approach to making information accessible to people with vision impairments.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2007

whose applications are designed to be simple enough for anyone to use—is a term that mostly confuses and overwhelms people. application is not so easy. The technology is maximally flexible and allows staff to learn and respond on their own terms. have to do with the social aspect of the applications. Many in-museum 2.0-style

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2006

From the technology blogosphere: Tim O'Reilly wrote an excellent commentary on the "economics of disaggregation"--basically, the idea that new technologies (digital cameras, iTunes store) are allowing users to unbundle content (like an image or song) from traditional packaging (roll of film, album) so that they get just the content they want.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

These systems represent an interesting design and technology strategy to consider when trying to foster users to do something and engage with a product and experience continually. There are a few like the “Swarm” badge that requires 50 people to check in at the same location within a given period of time all flash mob-like.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Sometimes I find that it helps to have some plain language questions and answers on a technology that is new to me, so here are some basics on what Microsoft's Windows MultiPoint Server is and how it works. The software is ordinarily downloaded from the Internet and burned to a CD or loaded on a flash drive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

is the term for the technologies and business practices that liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email. It provides business managers with access to the right information at the right time through a web of inter-connected applications, services and devices. Enterprise 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

To learn more about launching a mobile strategy for your nonprofit, please see the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Mobile Technology and Mobile Fundraising. Feature “Text-to-Give Now” Functionality, if Applicable. Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Mobile Technology and Mobile Fundraising.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2010

From time to time, we get a chance to find out firsthand what some of our TechSoup donor partners are doing in the area of green technology and corporate social responsibility. The occasion for getting to know Adobe better came with the launch of Adobe's new wind turbines at their headquarters building in San Jose. read more.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Should nonprofits focus on giving through iPhone applications? Should Apple allow donations to nonprofits in their iPhone applications? Even the most downloaded iPhone applications reach a small percentage of users. They really are applicable to anyone wanting to handle donations on behalf of nonprofit organizations.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

" Others have criticized its weight , lack of Flash support, or closed architecture. There are now 140,000 applications available for the iPhone and most of them are expected to run on the iPad. 4) Training Tool: Educators and trainers are already incorporating new technology into the classroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. They are akin to plugins or extensions in desktop applications. Web Widgets often but not always use Adobe Flash or JavaScript programming languages.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Writing a series I think gives me the space and time to think about particular technology issues in way more detail than I can in one post, and Web 2.0 applications every day.

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