Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

Gerardo’s contributions related to the Benetech Global Literacy Program include: Overseeing the building of the tech infrastructure that has taken Bookshare from serving tens of thousands of members to over 300,000 members, with a rapidly growing collection of 280,000+ accessible ebooks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

In the virtual workplace, being on video conference meetings and communicating via online collaboration platforms takes more energy than working face-to-face. My absolute favorite, which comes from Katy Grennier, DSIL Global , is the dance off that can be done on a video conference platform. This can make the experience lonely.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

The app fosters a sense of community engagement and wellness, connecting users globally in a shared mission to support charitable organizations through their everyday activities. What we love about Buffer This platform is highly collaborative, allowing your marketing team to collectively refine your event marketing plans before posting.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I pulled out this book, The Politics of Design this week, and it details the way in which global narratives around the color of people’s skin have long upheld the idea that lighter skin is more pure and darker skin is more evil. Danielle Coates-Connor : This piece that you two collaborated on is stunning, I think. Amy, welcome.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Highlights of this Update: Human Rights Global Literacy Benetech Labs and Board of Directors Human Rights In the age of hyper-surveillance, it is clear that at-risk human rights defenders are no longer the only ones who need the know-how to protect sensitive information. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Watchitoo — The new tool behind the TechSoup NPlive web series offers video from many sources integrated with images, YouTube and social chat, Q&A, and webinar tools including a collaborative whiteboard. We think Watchitoo.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. That’s why braille is an important focus for us in Benetech’s Global Literacy Program — we know that we must keep braille relevant and make it more available. How can we make tactiles easier to produce, use and share?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Michael De Long , TechSoup Global Online Community Manager. " The purpose of the project was to connect young women globally and inspire them to create positive change in their communities. BetterWorld Telecom provides audio conferencing, VoIP, and data services to nonprofits and mission-driven businesses.

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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2011

BetterWorld Telecom - a provider of audio conferencing, VoIP services, and donated phones for. To that end, BetterWorld is a donor partner with TechSoup Global to make services. With BetterWorld audio conferencing and VoIP. nonprofits and public libraries through TechSoup - is a company founded with a vision of.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

With Lync, users can share their desktops and calendars and do live audio and video conferencing. The software offers several ways to get in touch – office phone, mobile phone, tablet, instant message, email, collaborative calendar, video conference, audio conference, and so on. or remote workers.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

Use video, audio, or text--all work well. Capture presentations made during the event with live embedded audio and share them on a tool like Slideshare after the event. The Center for Global Development does this a lot. Tags: Collaboration. We happen to have a software for this very thing: Live Interviews Online.)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

It’s a communication and collaboration app. It lets you make audio and video calls, run online meetings, check my team’s presence status, and send instant messages. Images: TechSoup Global. I like Skymap. I use it with my kids for stargazing. It identifies all the constellations and celestial bodies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

In-world speakers from nonprofits who spoke about their work included Evonne Heyning from Camp Darfur, Barry Joseph from Global Kids , Lori Bell from the Library Alliance , and Marc Sirkin from LLS. I also turned off my audio. Both events had their share of clunkiness. that didn't last long or ruin the event.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2008

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

As I am an avid viral video fan and spend way too much of my own time seeking and sorting out great video and audio about sustainability, science and activism (primarily) I started two tagged feeds called " I Like To Watch " for video and " Juicy Pods " for audio. Juicy Pods is not really running yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Unfortunately, not the best thing for global nonprofits. PicNet reviews MyQuire , a collaboration tool for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Michael Hoffman from See3 points us to the 1 Second Film , a collaborative art project, micro video blogging example, and micro fundraising campaign. Global Development Matters is a new site with lots of video, quizzes on global development and extensive q/a on a variety of global development project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

There is no official organized nonprofit blog census, npo blogroll or a bridge blog like Global s. s experiment and examples in Brian Russell from Audio Activism's recent presentation. An internal focus for organizations to capture knowledge and support collaboration and go external. Omidyar Thread on Nonprofit Blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

" This was a rich conversation and was not able to capture all the details as my audio faded in and out and was multi-tasking in a major way, so here is what I as able to capture. These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. It isn't entertainment.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

This type of event is less collaborative than a video conferencing app like Zoom. For convenience, you can use Facebook or Instagram live as well, although the quality of both video and audio might be limited. For performances, your best bet is to use a live-streaming platform such as Twitch (free to use).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The basic idea is that there is a set of skills that need to be emphasized for kids today to be good citizens, workers, and leaders in the 21st century--skills like collaboration, global awareness, and media literacy.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This type of event is less collaborative than a video conferencing app like Zoom. For convenience, you can use Facebook or Instagram live as well, although the quality of both video and audio might be limited. For performances, your best bet is using a livestreaming platform such as Twitch (free to use).

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Whether video, animation, photos, or audio, most course authoring software allows you to add a wide range of elements to your courses to convey information clearly and interestingly. Some stand-out features of Absorb Create include: Collaboration tools including team workspaces and the ability to differentiate permissions across team roles.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And another great thing about WhatsApp that not other messaging apps have is that you can share audios. Audios, files. Well, probably not obvious because we have a global audience, maybe someone from Japan doesn’t know where Stanford is.” ” and I said, “No. ” Right? So always keep that in mind.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

She’s also the founder of The Rooted Collaborative, which I think she’s going to tell you more about later on. And as Steven mentioned, my baby that I released into the world is The Rooted Collaborative. Steven: Hey, Kishshana, we lost your audio. Y’all are in for a super awesome treat over the next hour or so.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. Patrick, his team and I are also brainstorming about how to expand the impact of our Human Right Program on promoting better human rights globally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

Somewhere between the soothing visit Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece, Falling Water , and the shock therapy of monster trucks I began to think about collaborative note capture at conferences using Web2.0 So I scribled down some patterns related to blogging, tagging, photostreams, and wikis. I wouldn't need to find any babysitters!

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

I've included links to each audio interview, as well to transcripts (when they're available). Cristi Hegranes Executive Director and Founder, Global Press Institute. Favianna 's vibrant posters deal with issues like war, immigration, globalization, and social movements. Favianna Rodriguez Activist printmaker and digital artist.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Loomly is an online social media calendar that allows multiple users to collaborate from one master calendar. GoToWebinar enable organizations to host webinars with VOIP audio or toll free numbers, polls, analytics, and recording. Loomly :: loomly.com. The service also provides analytics about content performance. Cureo :: cureo.com.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2011

BetterWorld Telecom provides services that enable and support a virtual work environment, as a donation partner with TechSoup Global. This post was authored by Salem Kimble, social media development manager with BetterWorld Telecom. However, BetterWorld itself works as a virtual team, with team members scattered literally across the U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And the podcasts became an extension of that, because I realized I wanted to do interviews, and it was a great way to do the interviews and have them in an audio form for people who are interested in audio, and then also I get them transcribed and put them on the blog. And there wasn't.

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