Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

It gave us the opportunity to conduct for the first time a sizeable outreach campaign in education, provided us with informative user feedback and case studies, and supported the development of Bookshare’s initial K-12 collection. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Thousands of ebooks are pouring into the collection each month thanks to the dedication of our volunteers around the world and partnerships with more than 500 socially responsible publishers who donate their digital files. Bookshare titles range from vocational to research to teacher-recommended reading. The majority of our members are U.S.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 15, 2023

Logistics and Operations: Overseeing event logistics, including registration, ticketing, seating arrangements, audio-visual requirements, transportation, and event flow. Knowledge Transfer: Provide thorough documentation, including event files, contact lists, budget details. These items help the incoming chair hit the ground running.

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AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

RTMP, at a glance, transmits video files from an encoder to an online hosting platform. . RTMP works with a simple protocol request, including the client sending the necessary coded information to the server to let them know about the RTMP protocol, the time stamp, and all the essential data. It is now referred to as RTMP ingest.

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sgEngage

JUNE 23, 2022

You probably carefully crafted it to be informative, inspiring, and useful for supporters of your cause. 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.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Your website should be Easy to navigate Capture new visitor information Enable a seamless donation experience from every page If not, you’re probably missing out on converting qualified prospective donors. Reach top-funnel users with podcast & audio ads. Use social media to drive traffic to your website.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 11, 2010

opening the room at the right time, filtering questions, and managing the recording so we have a file we can post afterwards. I record the webinar from my VMWare Fusion Windows 7 virtual machine, upload the file to our Vimeo Plus account , embed back on our website. I got the file the next day and I couldn't do a thing with it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

argued that we must shift from spending on the provision of hard copy braille to the provision of refreshable braille and the associated digital file formats to enable people to read so much more. “As

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Will your volunteers have one point of contact, or will they need the names and information for several others? 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. That’s okay.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

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. I can also email a link to the file to anyone else, like a collaborator on the document or a staff member that needs a copy.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

So when building these forms, how can you capture the information you need while still maintaining accessibility? Provide text alternatives: Whether using the ALT attribute on an image , furnishing a full transcript of an audio podcast , or embedding captions in a video , every media file must have a corresponding text version available.

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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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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2013

We aimed to make this video informative, concise, and personable. I wanted to share some behind-the-scenes information on how we made the product demo video for one of our donation programs, Mobile Beacon. As for the sound, I had an Audio-Technica AT899 lavalier microphone attached to record my voice. Camera and Lighting.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Web and Audio Conferencing. Recording and playback : Record the audio and on-screen content of your meetings to send to others or review later. GoToTraining includes many of the same core web and audio conferencing features as GoToMeeting. See the Citrix Online eligibility and restrictions page for additional information.

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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.,

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Human resources software can save you time, reduce paperwork, and help you get rid of paper HR files once and for all. Storing and retrieving your HR information is made simple with Staff Manager (admin fee: $30) from Atlas Business Solutions. Check out our breakdown of donor management tools to help make a more informed choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

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. However, the idea of editing a long file in Camtasia does not sound appealing to me.).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 27, 2011

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. For more information about how to use OneNote , check out: Microsoft OneNote 2010 – Planner and Note Taking Software. Searchability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

When deciding where to indicate licensing information, it is again a case of ???more CC takes a three-pronged approach to this: 1) Include credit information in the media itself, for example credits shown at the end of a video or, as in the case of Magnatune , a ???shout-out??? into the file itself. more is better???

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Best Free Nonprofit Software for Donor Management Donor management software, also known as nonprofit CRMs , are solutions that allow nonprofits to store donor information, track interactions over time, identify prospective major donors, and maintain ongoing communication with supporters. Looking for more information about nonprofit software?

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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

This information is probably for someone who is burning serious about podcasting or after you've experimented with some of the techniques that Steve Garfield shared. (In 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.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Creative Commons basically provides a free and standardized legal infrastructure that joins up the free flow of online information with traditional copyright laws that were devised in an earlier age. We share Creative Commons' belief in the free flow of information. We are in pretty good company. Ready to Go Creative Commons?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2014

QuickBooks 2015 has updated features to help you: View information quickly with an improved dashboard and notes you can pin. Update and easily protect precious financial and donor information against viruses, phishing, and network hacks. Record training webinars and save them as video files. Check it out. Get connected.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

The image gallery is visually high-impact, and details on every person killed by law enforcement are noted on a datacard, providing information surrounding his or her death. Users can add text, videos, images, audio files, Twitter feeds, PDFs, and more. And what are they expecting from the information?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2017

Your donors and members trust that you will keep their information safe. Guide by Cell lets you create interactive audio tours of exhibits that visitors access with their mobile phones. Our museum members particularly like Microsoft Project and SQL Server. Save on Microsoft software.

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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

APRIL 12, 2006

Is the title of a research study by William Jones, Ammy Jiranida Phuwanartnurak, Rajdeep Gill, and Harry Bruce that explores the way people organize information in support of projects ("teach a course,' "plan a wedding", etc.) The folder structures to organize project information ??? especially electronic documents and other files ???

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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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 21, 2006

To get that book in large-print or as an audio book somebody else (the publisher, in most instances) had to decide to make the book available in alternative formats. Aren't there options out there already that aren't as difficult? There are some options, but the selection is limited: fewer than 5% of books are available in accessible media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Use the list to augment or inform your own strategy. 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. The gesture sometimes matters more than the information gathered.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

Box is an online file sharing and collaboration tool. Box is completely in the cloud, so you can share information with volunteers and external partners without giving them access to your network or emailing documents back and forth. Litmos is compatible with numerous media types, including Microsoft Office, Flash, video, and audio.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

but pack in a tremendous amount of information. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation. Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?) With the information and story this new map was able to convey, they were able to stop the logging plans.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

According to law firm Seyfarth Shaw, its researchers counted a whopping 5,592 ADA Title III lawsuit filings within the first six months of 2019! Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act covers federal programs or agencies and their use of electronic and information technology. which specifies levels of compliance.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

general awareness at around 40%, though… people don’t necessarily know they are consuming a podcast, audio embedded in rss etc. general awareness at around 40%, though… people don’t necessarily know they are consuming a podcast, audio embedded in rss etc. existing and target. about 50/50 male/female.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 17, 2023

For a successful board presentation, you need to clearly present the necessary information in a way that engages your board members and gets them to connect with your cause. Use a table of contents slide to inform your board members of your meeting’s agenda from the start. Remember: knowledge is power!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

The blog on www.youthnet.org/blog is a great way for us to consolidate our position and role as experts across the areas we work - volunteering, youth information provision etc, Small readership, but a relevent one. Internally, we use a wiki to manage many projects and communicate across the organisation. link] Plan International???support

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