Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Digital storytelling enables nonprofits to tell their stories across multiple media, potentially in multiple languages, and to reach unknown readers and viewers through the power of tagging and amplification.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

Your website should be user-friendly if visitors have lost their glasses or are in an environment where they cannot listen to audio. Add Alt Tags to Your Images Alt tags, also called alt text or alt descriptions, are snippets of copy that describe an image. Situational Limitations Some users have accessibility limitations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 6, 2009

DIOSA Communications has been offering social media webinars for nonprofits since February 2008, but the content of the webinars and the time schedule mostly accommodate nonprofits in the United States. Attendees do not need to make an international call for the audio portion, only a long distance call within your own country.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 17, 2024

We used merge tags to include the date of when their last gift was given to help personalize it further,” says Heather Thompson, Chief Development Officer at Norwescap. About the Author Stephen Boudreau serves as VP of Product and Content Marketing at Virtuous. Make an even bigger impact: Don’t be afraid to make another ask.

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Care2

JULY 9, 2010

Make Audio a Vital Medium for Your Non-Profit. Using audio files may be more powerful than you think. Jill Foster , a communications consultant in DC, recently spoke to me about the virtues of stand-alone audio. Jill Foster , a communications consultant in DC, recently spoke to me about the virtues of stand-alone audio.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

Tweetmeme: TweetMeme ReTweet Buttons are for website and blog publishers who want to encourage their audience to Tweet their content on Twitter. Trottr : Trottr allows you to record brief audio messages with your cell phone that are then hosted on the Trottr website. Tags: Twitter. links are also great for text messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Marshall has a great post about a technorati tag bookmarklet that can save you a lot of grunt work. Technorati tags can help you attract more readers for your blog and also facilitate contributing to the collective community wisdom surrounding a particular tag. But it required some editing to make it link the tag to Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

In the past, I have presented remotely using skype audio and video. Last year I audio-skyped into a conference in the UK to present with Steve Bridger. For the audio, we use a phone line that was fed into the AV system and wireless mic. We had a very reliable Internet connection.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

We split participants up by topic areas for discussions and Community Voices team members lead the small group conversations, while others used various tools to capture what was said (audio, video, tweets and blogging). Session #2 Word Cloud: Relevant Content. Existing Communities. Stereotypes. Individual Level. Participate.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

We split participants up by topic areas for discussions and Community Voices team members lead the small group conversations, while others used various tools to capture what was said (audio, video, tweets and blogging). Session #2 Word Cloud: Relevant Content. Existing Communities. Stereotypes. Individual Level. Participate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

And in exchange, the SFWA encourages their members to voluntarily give Bookshare their content (high quality files remove/greatly reduce the danger of errors creeping in). Amazon isn’t distributing an audio book: it’s distributing a text ebook (which they have the rights to do so and authors get compensated for, one assumes).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

There’s a good chance that much of this content will be viewed and read on “TV&# sets. Trottr allows you to record brief audio messages with your cell phone that are then hosted on the Trottr website. The technology does not yet exactly match the needs of the nonprofit sector, but its close.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." 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. It's recently been updated.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Podcasting is formally defined as the act of distributing syndicated audio content online via RSS to listeners who use software or a hardware device to receive updates. No reason to be afraid: the important part of this definition is that the audio content is syndicated. The bit rate determines the quality of the audio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I wanted to avoid automated cross-posting of social content because I think it isn't very effective. Limited time and resources for maintaining and creating content on one hand, and a desire to get started. The secret sauce: Very focused objectives for your Fan Page and a selective strategy. What is the way out of this problem?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2009

My fees start at $300 for a Facebook Page with one cusomized Tab using graphics and content from your website. Tags: Facebook Online Fundraising. Many of these new services want exposure and buzz. 2) Hire someone who knows html and Facebook, like myself. 2) Create a customized Tab for your default Landing Tab.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 5, 2013

You can be extremely search engine friendly without putting limitations on video, audio, or depth of social media reach. Not all of the content will apply to everyone, but there is definitely something that will apply to you. Many nonprofits favor PostLing for the task and Rowfeeder for quickly analyzing and researching hash tags.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Despite the shortcomings in Apple's v1 product, I believe that the iPad — and successors from other vendors — will change how people interact with online content. Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text, but excludes large print and video. The signals from a few European countries on its likely content have not been encouraging. A definition of formats that includes Braille, audio and digital text as well as large print. Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2009

This project in Avesta, Sweden, in which visitors use special flashlights to explore a historic site and reveal interpretative content of interest, is an elegant example of how museums can innovative the label experience. First, a little explanation about "pull" content techniques.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

For those organizations with staff in the field, it's a missed opportunity to not collect stories, photos, video, and audio. It increases the profile of the organization's experts, makes their work more accessible, and creates a stream of fresh, unique, and interesting content ripe for dissemination. Tags: Strategy.

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2010

Search engines, Facebook and Twitter reward valuable blog content with expert status and donor support. If writing doesn’t appeal to everyone, you may want to enlist your colleagues to publish photos, audio or video. Tags: Online Marketing Social Networking Trends.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

An "effective" video can be a number of things depending on what an organization's intent was in creating video content. Nonprofits and libraries need not worry excessively about technical quality, as chat participants were in agreement that content mattered most. Optimising Video For Search Engines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Shoot close to your subject so the audio doesn’t suck especially when using a camera with built-in mic. Tags: Content Philanthropy Tips Tools and Tactics. Don’t frame your subject’s eyes in the middle of the frame, use the rule of thirds. Don’t shoot when you have backlight, your subject will be dark.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2009

It will be valuable if they also capture the debate content and play it back out via Live Interviews Online text and YouTube - giving the debate a long life online. Or post your video or audio questions on our Youtube. Tags: Communication Strategy. Ask your questions here.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

Let's face it, this content doesn't come out of thin air. Too many groups set up a perfect web site platform for storytelling, only to find that they can't populate it because they haven't gotten senior leadership buy-in, or they haven't identified regular contributors to develop content. "It's part of our DNA," they tell me.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Freedom Fone leverages audio as a mobile function using IVR, a technology that allows a system to detect voice and keyboard input. IVR allows a user to call, enter or say specific numbers, and listen to or contribute audio content. Many of the audio responses were later rebroadcast on the program. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

There are a bunch of different search widgets that allow visitors (or you) to search your blog's content. You can comment, tag, search, or add audio commentary as this widget Beth has been using. Widgets make it easier to enhance the conversation around the content on a blog. It isn't a one-way conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

While the sound and visual look may not be polished, one could perfect their skills at guerrila podcasting/videocasting so the quality didn't detract from the content. They can listen to the audio, follow links, and leave comments. You can have a conversation about your content with people on your blog. Your blog is your place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

We have a couple of projects going on at the Walker Art Center that are audio based. We started off wanting to make audio tours freely available to all of our patrons and we were unhappy with most of our commercial options. And after we saw how popular podcasting was getting we packaged the same audio up as podcast (on that same page).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

Add This: A widget that allows website visitors to share your content via 50 social networks and bookmark communities. Widgets: Create widgets to share content or actions. Link to your social networks, post current news, stream video and audio clips, etc. Tags: ROI. Easy to Moderate* 9. Moderate* 10.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

It may take you only a few minutes to create a blog, but doing so means (hopefully) a commitment to frequent content posts. activities you can initiate without requiring frequent content updates. The most time-consuming part of this is not posting content (how time-consuming can 140 characters get?) The time cost of Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I had originally planned to talk about RSS/XML after tagging, but I decided instead to hold off on that as a start on the posts about the inner guts of Web 2.0. The originators of blogging probably thought of it mostly as a way for people to be able to easily update their websites quickly, and provide interesting content on a moving basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2006

The flickr set has notes and pointers to other resources if you are interested in the content. I didn't know how to correctly add the height and width tags - so I needed it spelled out for me. So, I had to google the tag to find an example. I found the editing of the code to add my specific ID numbers and tags confusing.

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NTEN

JANUARY 9, 2009

The idea of having portable, dynamic, and (often) free web content simultaneously on your own site and on your friends' and supporters' sites and blogs excites me. I built a topic widget for technology: Tags: free tools NPTech ChipIn capitol news connection Advocacy widget online tools. I love widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Content is first! Record Two families of mics Dynamic mic - $80 SHURE SM57 or 58is top of the line- any $20 USB mic Castblaster - can que up your audio files and sound effects - DJ tool. Adjust the audio signal and keeps the quality high. Audacity or goldwave can help you get a soft audio louder. Need to use dynamic mic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I listened to the audio feed of him talking to the kids, answering their questions. s certainly educational to have a world where most of the content is generated by the users??? Hat tip to Alan Levine/CogdogBlog for the transcription and facilitating the audio. with audio archive of session can be found here.

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