Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2013

Nonprofits that have the capacity to be early adopters have learned that early adoption in and of itself is a wise social media strategy. Primarily a mobile social network, Pheed also allows easy desktop publishing of status updates, photos, video and audio files, and enables users to broadcast live.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

In an ever-changing world of social media and web collaboration, tools for user interaction and engagement are becoming increasingly prevalent. So when dealing with media content, how can you ensure that everybody benefits, regardless of who contributes it? By Stuart Holland, Sr. Web Consultant and Dan Mouyard, Sr.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 10, 2017

version introduced a whole bunch of new media widgets such as rich text, audio and video etc. remedies this by including an “add media” button on the text editor that lets users quickly and easily add images inside the rich text widget. In keeping with that trend WordPress 4.9

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AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

RTMP, at a glance, transmits video files from an encoder to an online hosting platform. . For compatibility purposes, RTMP encoding works best with AAC-LC for audio codec (although AAC is also supported) and H.264 RTMFP: Real-Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP) is used in peer-to-peer technology and social media. .

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Use social media to drive traffic to your website. Develop a following on popular social media channels by posting informative articles and highlighting your organization’s work and impact. Use paid media to target your ideal donor. Reach top-funnel users with podcast & audio ads.

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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. However, going lo-fi with your media can actually suit your needs more directly than video, text or still photography. With audio, the issue is speed because it’s a simpler type of content to produce.

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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. These uncertainties may be why many nonprofits still hesitate to adopt podcasting as a part of their new media strategy. The What and Why? Tools and Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

From Icommons comes an incredibly useful legal brief to remixing media in the age of participatory media and campaigns by Steve Vosloo, Digital Hero Book Project. If you upload your images to Flickr, the license information is displayed on the photo page ; 3) Embed the license information directly into the file. shout-out???

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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 Through intense collaboration, we are advancing open tools and standards so that accessibility is built into mainstream products.

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Tech Soup

JULY 12, 2012

This post was authored by Salem Kimble, social media development manager with BetterWorld Telecom. cents/minute for Adobe Connect and audio conferencing services combined, just for nonprofits. cents/minute for Adobe Connect and audio conferencing services combined, just for nonprofits. File uploading and downloading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I was in Washington, DC where I did a session on social media strategy for a convening of Packard Grantees. My participation included: An interactive presentation on best practices for using social media for external communications. Social media is a conversation engine. This past week was a busy one for leading workshops.

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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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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

JULY 23, 2013

Huddle's file sharing, collaboration, and project management tools are in the palm of your hand with Huddle's collaboration apps , available for a variety of devices. Microsoft OneNote Mobile for creating notes and to-do lists using text, checklists, pictures, and audio clips. Never be without your important files again!

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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. So before you spend money to rent email lists, distribute an email offer through a media platform, or work with a paid co-registration service such as Care2.com,

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

The landscape of communication is evolving at an exponential rate, and digital media creation is riding at the head of the wave. "'Free Running in Baltimore' was created in Wide Angle Youth Media's Mentoring Video Project Program, an advanced media production program for Baltimore city youth 14 to 20 years of age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Remember the whole conference will be archived, so you if you can't spend the entire two days online listening in real time, you can always download the audio files and listen later. (I'm If you are on the fence about signing up, NTEN is offering up 25% discount. I'm planning to download to my Ipod and listen while walking.)

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2010

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. Audio and video have proven to be highly effective media for nonprofits -- and throttling would impact all orgs -- no matter where they fall on the spectrum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2007

But wait a minute, what if I could create a screencast out of a screensharing session or using a web conference system like Ready/Talk that offers video/audio recording? So, I just plunged in with Ready/Talk and made a quick video/audio capture of me talking to myself while looking at my screen. What did I learn?

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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

AUGUST 16, 2005

My big mistake was that I neglected to make sure the recorder was turned off while transferring the files to the computer. The files were corrupted! It records in WMA format (Windows Media Audio). I fiddled around with Audacity to attempt to edit and splice several audio files. Lost the fantastic interview!

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

Every live stream has five major parts in order to function properly: a video source, an audio source, a video encoder, a streaming destination, and an internet connection. Audio Equipment. Audio equipment can be connected to the video source, but for even higher quality live streaming, you will want a separate audio source.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

A production grid is easy to produce in a collaborative tool like Google Docs and is easily shared via email or file sharing. The site allows users to upload content — video, audio, and images — and invite others to put the pieces together. Building a Team. The Story of the Global Lives Project.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Audience size, breadth, and depth: If your organization has big lists, lots of traffic to your website or blog or social media pages, or big crowds at events, there are many ways to turn this into a donor benefit. Files: Is your organization the holder of the official record of something? Is there something like this you can try?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

Robin Good's Web-Based Delivery of Audio and Video Materials provides a great feature-by-feature comparison. The requirements to start benefiting from these new services and opportunities include: some familiarity with the basic audio and video file formats existing out there. of the most popular video sharing tools.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2017

Autodesk Media and Entertainment Collection. Guide by Cell lets you create interactive audio tours of exhibits that visitors access with their mobile phones. You can use Autodesk software to design buildings or additions, interiors, exhibits, and entertainment content. Autodesk Product Design Collection. Explore Autodesk tools.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

It does so by collecting sightings from social media and mapping them. SMEX, also known as Social Media Exchange, is a nonprofit based in Lebanon that compiles an Arab digital rights dataset. Users can add text, videos, images, audio files, Twitter feeds, PDFs, and more. Mix It Up: Different Mediums for More Impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

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. Garageban is king for Mac. Cost about $500.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

has a great post by Eric Williams from the Walker New Media Initiative. 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. So we opted for cell phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

com, click on "Submit Your Tone" and follow the steps on MyxerTones' site to upload their 20 second audio file." To post a ringtone, users simply go to RingTones08.com,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides. I also turned off my audio. The next event I attended was a poster session at the New Media Consortium where you view project posters in the virtual world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 21, 2006

There are some options, but the selection is limited: fewer than 5% of books are available in accessible media. 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. www.bookshare.org/oreillybooks.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. You can provide everyone who completes the hunt with something as simple as a digital file. Then, either choose the winners yourself or ask people to vote over social media. 30) Social Media Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2006

And, now I'm not sure where my upload bombs of png files were due to that problem or not). I originaly produced this at 800x600 as a SWF with highest quality audio/video and the resulting file was a whooping 72,000 KB. In the end, I decided to produce as a SWF at 640x480 size with second to highest audio/video quality.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2006

The call is tommorrow, but you can always listen to the audio file. Blogher Lisa Stone interviews Ethan Zukerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, Global s Founders. The topics: * What does it mean to be a "conversation community"? Are you an alternative world news agency? A stage for global activism?

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