NTEN

MAY 30, 2013

Evernote app - This free app allows you to save notes and ideas as an audio recording, picture, notes and to do lists. Sophia Guevara is the Chair of the Consortium of Foundation Libraries, and is a new member of the NTEN:Change editorial committee for 2013. What would you recommend to your colleagues?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

We use digital ebooks at Bookshare’s core, which can easily be turned into braille, large print or digital audio (using synthetic speech technology). Carol shared that they had received an Impact Sourcing grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and scaled up their capacity. and we needed more help.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. Our team presented at multiple sessions at the recent RightsCon Silicon Valley conference , which brought together human rights defenders, security experts, and tech executives.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

Woe to the nonprofit that incorrectly assumes that a new media manager is a tech position. Video content needs to be edited and embellished with visual effects, animation, and audio. The foundation of effective photo and video editing is a creative eye and an appreciation of digital photography and video. Good Writing Skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

I don't know if I'm still shaking from the excitement or the hour long multi-tasking frenzy of listening to a live audio feed, seeing a blog.tv MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. Foundations don't do it directly but via nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Foundations that give grants to non-U.S. foundation grants for your international work, join the conversation in a live chat on Tuesday, February 26 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Kelly Shipp Simone is the vice president of legal affairs at the Council on Foundations , a membership organization that supports grantmakers in various aspects.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2012

Women Who Tech TeleSummit – May 23rd. The virtual Women Who Tech Telesummit which happens via internet audio and the web provides some of the most web thought-provoking, inspiring, and skills building sessions for nonprofit campaigners and social change makers. Register now! AFP TechKnow – June 4-5th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. Civil Society Catalogue NGOs Online Ciprian Ciucu – PR & Marketing Manager, Foundation for Civil Society Development Gave an overivew of their program and how ngos web presences have evolved from web 1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

This tech trend is all the rage. We recently shot a fundraising campaign video for the Autism Science Foundation with our Canon HD DSLR. DSLR Audio Isn’t Good. To capture better audio get a camera with a mic-in jack (these are a bit more expensive) or get a portable recorder. The HD DSLR video revolution is here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Some nonprofits have begun to lay a foundation for their mobile communications strategies. Trottr allows you to record brief audio messages with your cell phone that are then hosted on the Trottr website. A smartphone or tablet will be their primary tool. Most haven’t considered it.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2015

If you're creating a video, a podcast, an online training, or any other project that might benefit from adding some sweet tunes, the Free Music Archive (FMA) offers more than 80,000 free, completely legal-to-use audio downloads. Here's how to get the most out of this free resource. A Little About Us. Others, not so much.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Last week, the UK-based nonprofit Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the latest version of their popular Raspberry Pi computer. It includes a CPU, graphics processor, RAM, USB port (multiple ports in later models), audio and video ports, and an Ethernet port (later models only), and runs a Linux-based operating system. HDMI (rev 1.3 &

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Forj

MAY 13, 2021

Before we dive into the many lessons learned in the quick pivot to virtual association events in 2020, let’s briefly touch on the basics of hosting a virtual conference to ensure we’re building from the same foundation. Use closed captioning alongside audio elements. Compare your virtual event platform against the WCAG standards.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

They supply charities, libraries and foundations with discounted Cisco and Polycom office phones. They also offer a discounted audio conferencing. Additional Resources: Find the TechSoup Betterworld donation offers for discounted Cisco and Polycom phones, VoIP phone services, and audio conferencing.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Find the free audio recording and presentation of the event here. He is also the former executive director of the Craigslist Foundation , one of the founders of the national Social Media for Nonprofits conferences, and the author of Nonprofit Management 101 (Jossey-Bass) among many other things. Sign up for this free webinar here.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. It is in his honor that the Tides Foundation works to promote open source software and promoting social good. About the Prize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

In the first of a series co-sponsored by NTEN and Salesforce.com Foundation , I covered the integration of Google Adwords with salesforce.com. So that left me with a few hours of video and audio to edit and that's too much to do in Camtasia. Because the screencast is conversational, the screen doesn't have to exactly synch the audio.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

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. Our current model mainly depends on government and foundation support enabling us to provide free library services to members.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2009

These stories help convey the work they do, advance their missions, and highlight the communities they're working within by giving a visual (and sometimes audio) story to help supporters connect with their mission and values. Third Place: Tabor Kalaka 2009 by The Community Foundation of Odorheiu Secuiesc awarded Adobe Production software.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

What are the benefits of a tech-fueled approach to nonprofit training? “If Taking a tech-fueled approach to nonprofit training comes with the following benefits: Increased Flexibility and Accessibility: One great example is volunteer orientation. Why not use it to train your team as well? If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.”.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Participants learn skills in digital storytelling, photography, video production, and audio production, and use these skills to tell powerful stories about the lives of young people. "The film was developed by our youth participant, Tyson Sanford-Griffin, whose love of free running has been hampered by safety concerns in urban Baltimore.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2016

This approach is called the 4 Strategic Foundations of Effective Websites™ and has helped many clients achieve these results. The approach uses brand (the most important of the "foundations") to contextualize the other three (content, technology, design) for members of the team. Brand Strategy. For a website, it means.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 21, 2016

April 5, 2016 — Storymakers 2016 #NPTechChat with our partners, the United Nations Foundation and +Social Good. April 4, 2016 — Storymakers contest opens and new educational curriculum on digital storytelling launches. May 3 – 4, 2016 — Around-the-world Twitter chat (sign up in this Google doc ).

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

In order to capitalize on this momentum and host a successful virtual conference, there are a few foundational elements and processes that absolutely need to be considered or addressed. Have Robust Tech Support. Provide captions for audio and video feeds, and provide descriptive audio for visual elements.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

I just read the new book from Sally Osberg, President and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and strategy guru Roger Martin, Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works. Of course, this is a familiar concept to me as someone who started his career building for-profit tech companies in Silicon Valley.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2015

The core of the church is a 2,000-seat theater with a fully functional performance stage and state-of-the-art audio and video capability. The Hoss Foundation Partnership. One especially unique thing the church does is to partner with congregation member, Jeff Hostetler and his family foundation, The Hoss Foundation.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

In order to capitalize on this momentum and host a successful virtual conference, there are a few foundational elements and processes that absolutely need to be considered or addressed. Have Robust Tech Support. Provide captions for audio and video feeds, and provide descriptive audio for visual elements.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For starters, Zoom has excellent video and audio quality, and it is easy to use. Zoom is a great tool to help our staff coordinate the delivery of services, but sometimes people think innovative tech like this is itself the entire solution to the challenges facing nonprofits. We Shopped Around, and Zoom Is a Great Solution.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

If you’re raising money for a hospital foundation, for instance, you may want to focus on sharing stories of hope. Does the venue have any requirements for decor, audio-visual equipment, catering, or other event elements? Think about what mood or tone you want to underscore your event. Does it suit our mission, audience, and theme?

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

Let’s walk through five steps to start telling your story from a strong foundation. If your story includes other digital media assets, such as audio files or infographics, include those in your content library as well. Team DNL can both formulate your storytelling strategy and ensure your tech stack is up to par to carry it out.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

For starters, Zoom has excellent video and audio quality, and it is easy to use. Zoom is a great tool to help our staff coordinate the delivery of services, but sometimes people think innovative tech like this is itself the entire solution to the challenges facing nonprofits. We Shopped Around, and Zoom Is a Great Solution.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 16, 2015

Audio and Web Conferencing. Whether you need to conduct a meeting across continents or hold a training session for remote volunteers, we've got the audio and video conferencing tools you need. You can use ReadyTalk to host webinars for internal training or for audio and video conferencing services.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

I was a tech reporter. Is it video and audio? We've done audio, we've done video, we've done text, and we've done some photo slide shows. in the spotlight on the Knight Foundation Blog Q&A: Spot.Us My background was in journalism. I was a freelancer. I got my Masters in Journalism. And are stories only written?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2015

Creative Cloud is the evolution of Creative Suite: a suite of design applications for creating graphics, video, audio, and interactive content for print, the web, and mobile devices. WildiZe Foundation – video created with Adobe products. You can use Creative Cloud to tell your story in a variety of media. Case Studies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Wistia is a video and audio creation tool that allows you to add email pop-ups to your videos and podcasts. GrantAdvisor allows anyone in the nonprofit community to anonymously write reviews about their grant experiences with foundations. Zoom is an affordable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing. Content Marketing.

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

I had the honor of participating on the ROI (Return on Investment) of Social Media panel at the Women Who Tech TeleSummit with Monique Eldwell of Conversify and Cheryl Contee of Fission Strategies where we laid out some key metrics and useful case studies. The result for a single day was $4.3

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

List compiled by Heather Mansfield , Editor-in-chief of Nonprofit Tech for Good and creator of the 101 Digital Marketing and Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits blog and webinar series. Earn a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising from Nonprofit Tech for Good! For mobile, see the Zoomerang app and Story Swag App.

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