Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

The digital content is presented as text, but the built-in read-aloud capability is disabled because of ambiguity over audio rights. So, the student might be able to read only 60% of the relevant content, and have no idea about what the equations say. Amazon now ships more ebooks than print books in the United States.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

You know it’s a good idea, but your staff may be reluctant to jump into a new tool that will interrupt their status quo. Easier file access. Office 365 offers offline file access, making it possible for your employees’ files accessible anywhere. Explain the benefits. Check your bandwidth. Check out your security.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 28, 2023

A podcast is basically a coded feed of XML that lists the information about your podcast, titles, descriptions and a link to where the MP3 audio file lives. Once this file is downloaded by a user’s device, your ability to track what they do with that file falls off of a cliff. Trying to track podcasts is pretty similar.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 15, 2023

Fundraising Strategies: Working closely with the committee to develop innovative fundraising ideas , sponsorship opportunities, and effective marketing and promotional campaigns. Serving for a limited time period provides continuity and stability while allowing fresh perspectives and ideas to be introduced.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

It was again a grant from the Lavelle Fund (our third) that allowed us to develop the ability to provide accessible MP3 audio versions of our materials and realize the enormous potential impact of mobile reading options for individuals with print disabilities. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Here are a few ideas about how to make virtual/hybrid versions of your favorite in-person events. Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. Why not take some of these ideas and apply them to a fundraising format? 9) Movie screenings. 14) Gaming tournaments.

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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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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

And for you nonprofit techies out there, some ideas for winning over your ED.). I have some of my best ideas while washing dishes, and I find some of the best sites while on the train. I have some of my best ideas while washing dishes, and I find some of the best sites while on the train. That is all, and that is enough.

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sgEngage

JUNE 23, 2022

However, the general consensus is moving toward the idea that websites should be legally required to be accessible. Recent court cases have found that if charges are filed against a nonprofit for not being accessible, they can be required to bring their site up to par from an accessibility standpoint. Live captions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

In what is known as the “ braille provision ,” the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 2004 mandates that the teams who help write educational plans for students with disabilities presume that all blind and visually impaired children should be taught Braille unless it is determined to be inappropriate. Accordingly, U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

From questions about the actual production of the files, to distribution, to listener metrics and feedback, there are plenty of moving parts that can raise questions. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

My first idea was to use Ready/Talk and its screencapture features. One thing I learned just two weeks ago from a phone call to the TechSmith tech support guy is that the.wmv files from Ready/Talk can be run through microsoft media encoder - so they could be pulled into Camtasia and edited. I recently read a blog entry by Jon Udell.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

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., type, the Australian-type and one other I don’t remember).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I confess that I am constantly writing things down – whether they be tasks, meeting notes, or ideas. I have tried to use basic tools, like Notepad, to store notes, but that turned into an exercise of organizing multiple files with no way to easily find information or share it with others. Searchability. Unfiled Notes.

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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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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Worse, most have no idea that it stands to severely restrict the way they communicate and serve their constituents. 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. Think it can't happen?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Slack Platform overview: Slack is a messaging platform that enables employees to send and receive multimedia messages, including regular chats as well as audio and video clips. This can streamline everything from new employee onboarding to cross-team collaboration and secure file sharing. This keeps all conversations focused.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2016

And yet, it's important to make the effort, becauses email "churn" eats away at the size of your file as people change email addresses, close accounts, and change jobs. These free ideas and strategies will build your email file by tapping into your current website traffic and social media follower community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

15 per person/minute for audio is very tough to swallow. Even the unlimited plans (which start at $50/month, or possibly discounted) have pricing for audio, which I hadn’ t realized. It was this audio pricing that drove a stake in the heart of my ReadyTalk plan. It does, apparently, do audio via VOIP. It’s $.24

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

Gather your ideas Create a script - don't go free form or you might end up with a lot of ums and ahs. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2005

Gregory Heller did a little snippet of a audio clip of his conversation with Amanda Hickman about tagging. I mean maybe the idea would be to somehow aggregate all the audio feeds of all npotech sessions podcast that one could subscribe to. Sort of do what nptech tag in delicious does for audio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

Why add KB or MB to the file size when my content instructional. Lack of technical skills or software tools in cutting, splicing, fading the audio and weaving it with the video track. The decision to add a music track is a trade-off between file size and dramatic impact. I've resisted adding music for three stupid reasons: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2006

We used some of the ideas presented here as a jumping off point for small group sharing on how to make trainings more interactive. And, now I'm not sure where my upload bombs of png files were due to that problem or not). In the end, I decided to produce as a SWF at 640x480 size with second to highest audio/video quality.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2014

This is our idea of a fun gift to you. Conferencing options let you share your screen or presentation, use your computer or smartphone audio (no dialing in), and add up to four presenters to a live video feed. Record training webinars and save them as video files. Tech Donations: How Much Do You Know? Get connected.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I particularly like the MP3 experiments , events at which Improv Everywhere distribute an audio file to people for free as a podcast. Participants gather in a physical venue with their own digital audio players, and everyone hits “play” at the same time. The recording starts with two and a half minutes of music without talking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Files: Is your organization the holder of the official record of something? Do you have the news clippings of major events in your files? Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. You get the idea. Phone call to the donor from a person impacted by the nonprofit. Welcome packet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. at 3:56 pm Great America Networks Conferencing has a WebConferencing tool called QuickVisuals that lets you share your desktop, PowerPoint, video files, webcam from a PC/Mac/Linux platform easily.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. My appreciation for the ability of songwriters to avoid those pitfalls drove a lot of the writing here; still, I have little idea whether any of these songs managed to find that line. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?) What about idea that e-newsletter is “dead&# ? Google’s Mapping tools include: Google Earth.

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Candid

APRIL 27, 2021

Or anything else with a center (read: core idea or problem) and shoots (related points to consider for that idea realization or problem solving). It's a visual representation of keynote thoughts centered around the main idea. Brainstorm ideas for innovative solutions for your projects. How to create mind maps.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This produces a film-quality shoot without creating a massive video file. Check the audio quality. Because you’re likely going to record from a smartphone, it’s important to listen to the recordings you make to determine that the audio quality is both consistent and loud enough to come across crystal clear. Wrapping the Shoot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

" -- the poll was done with mp3 files and so you can hear their voices. 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. Alexandra Samuel has a great idea for using twitter - provide updates on how you've changed the world! mean for you?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

When other cities replicate the model, we’ll be able to track the origin and migration of these ideas from city to city through individuals. Someday we want to collect audio and video, too, but we’d need a pretty serious operating budget to do that and at least one full-time employee.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 17, 2023

You can also save your theme to your organization’s shared files for you and others to have ready to use for future proposals. If you’re confident in the solutions that you’re presenting, you’ll inspire your members to trust your research and ideas for a successful proposal.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Here are some ideas on how to thank donors that we’re thrilled to share: 1. Below is a list of some other fun donor thank-you ideas to take you even further. Bonus “Thank You” Ideas. Explore more ideas and examples for thank you letters. Audio Message. Not sure where to start? Donation Page Confirmation.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In Part 2 (coming soon) I’ll discuss ideas, uses, and strategies for incorporating these visual elements into your online strategy to help accomplish your goals and better communicate with your constituents. First, let’s all get on the same page.

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