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Five Tech Tips for Every Executive Director

NTEN

Flickr photo: lovebugstudios As an Executive Director, I especially love talking to other leaders about technology. Evernote lets me organize files, web sites, pictures, audio, and notes, from any device. Another resource that lets you work on the files you want, when you want, is Dropbox. That's all it takes.

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3 Visual Design Tips to Strengthen Your Nonprofit Website

Get Fully Funded

Annual filing requirements To strengthen your visual design, you need to adhere to web accessibility best practices. For visuals with audio like video and podcast, you should supply users with transcripts and closed captions. Operable: Operable content means users can interact with all elements on your page.

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10 Volunteer Training Ideas for Onboarding All Types of Volunteers

Qgiv

or “I love filing so much! Even if shoveling soil or filing reports is their volunteer role, chances are they’re with you because they believe in the higher purpose of your nonprofit: the mission. A mission is much more than a formal statement approved by your board of directors. Focus on your mission. That’s why I volunteer.”

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Meet Chris Simoes, Director of Engineering

Connection Cafe

For the second Connection Cafe podcast series, I had the pleasure of chatting with Chris Simoes, Convio Director of Engineering. Download audio file. Author: Corey Pudhorodsky. Chris has always impressed me with his enthusiastic and friendly approach to challenges and tasks at Convio. Connection Cafe Podcast 2 - Chris Simoes.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There was also an associated effort called the Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources (TIGAR) project, to ease the exchange of accessible book files between libraries for the blind and print disabled. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e., There was one big area of consensus.

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The Future (and a Little History) of Network Neutrality

NTEN

Steve MacLaughlin, Director of Internet Solutions, Blackbaud. It all started in 2008, when Comcast deliberately slowed Internet traffic for BitTorrent, a file-sharing site, and the Federal Communications Commission told the ISP it can't do that. Steve MacLaughlin is Blackbaud’s director of Internet solutions and an NTEN board member.

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Storymakers 2014 Winners — A Global Success

Tech Soup

Big thanks to everyone at TechSoup — you truly are leading the way in the efforts to empower nonprofits to tell the stories worth telling," said Liz Norton, executive director of Stone Soup Films. Please visit the site to view this file). "Imagine a world without light, without sight.

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