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10 Must-Have Skills for Nonprofit New Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They voraciously consume nonprofit technology blogs and study the mobile and social media campaigns of other nonprofits for inspiration. Rather than feeling overwhelmed by the speed at which technology now moves, they are energized by it. Photo and Video Editing Ability. HTML Knowledge. Leadership.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Tips for Shooting A Winning Video For Your Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Global Fund for Children. There are contests to push filmmakers to “ tell the story behind the still ” and television producers are turning to this compact video recording technology. Along the way we learned some valuable lessons to help nonprofits use this new video technology to tell their stories.

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[Guide] Creating Video for Nonprofits

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

You don't even have to go to a store to buy a camera, you can just shoot film on your phone. One of the reasons why I learned to do photo and video was because media outlets weren't showing up to the actions that I was organizing. I don’t trust technology to work when I need it to. I come prepared.

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Five Tips for Nonprofits to Avoid Virtual Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Experts point to several reasons why we are feeling a loss of vitality, productivity, and wellbeing in our virtual workplaces: Online-mediated interaction and communications deprive us a full sensory experience as we are only limited to audio and visual experiences (when using video conferences) or just text. see the photo at the top).

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Smart Canes: Bringing High Tech to a Common Assistive Tool

Tech Soup

Researchers are trying to make these canes "smarter" by adding a GPS, facial recognition software, and a camera. The XploR's camera and facial recognition software work together, and the researchers claim that it can recognize a face from 30 feet away. If it finds one, it will alert the user via a Bluetooth earpiece.

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In Search of Bachelors and Philanthropy in Rural Alaska and Video Story Capture Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I couldn’t help but think – what if Joe Page or other community foundation board members had flip cameras, some video and story telling training and shared their stories on the Alaska Community Foundation Facebook page? No matter the technology, the process of capturing and sharing a good story quickly is the same. Some Tips.

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