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How to Measure Podcast Downloads

Whole Whale

If you are going to pour the amount of work necessary into creating a podcast, you will want to measure its success — but how? 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. Learn more at getlighthouse.io.

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Why Circumvention for the Purposes of Access is Crucial A Bookshare Briefing Paper Prepared for the Diplomatic Conference for Visually Impaired Persons The distributors of digital content often use technological protection measures (TPMs) to discourage the making of unauthorized copies.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects. Since we first began offering this option three years ago, Bookshare members have downloaded over 150,000 MP3 files from the collection. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Grow Your Email List Without Spending Money

Tech Soup

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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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

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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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?) We are all after real world changes, so how do we measure our use of these tools on real world impact? Link to things that can be measured. Don’t measure things for the sake of measurement. Google’s Mapping tools include: Google Earth.

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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. These kinds of participatory projects can actually de-motivate because participants can''t possibly measure up to the display model. This gets a bit at the confounding question of how to measure "quality" in a participatory project.