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. Imagine you were in the 90’s and gave out CDs with your podcast audio episodes and then tried to figure out who actually listened to them. Learn more at getlighthouse.io.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2015

As the nonprofit operator of Bookshare ,the world’s largest online library for people who are blind, visually impaired, dyslexic, or have a physical disability that prevents them from reading books, Benetech strongly recommends the ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty. There is still much to do, however, before the treaty takes full effect.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

Consider your healthcare organization’s website — is it a useful resource that serves your community, or is there room for improvement? Should you use buttons and links on your homepage to direct visitors to your internal directory or research library? For instance, can you redesign your main menu to highlight your most valuable pages?

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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. My biggest argument was the “library with holes” problem. I decided to follow through and attend.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

Consider your healthcare organization’s website — is it a useful resource that serves your community, or is there room for improvement? Should you use buttons and links on your homepage to direct visitors to your internal directory or research library? For instance, can you redesign your main menu to highlight your most valuable pages?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. 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. Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Bookshare is our large digital library for students with disabilities such as blindness or dyslexia. We use digital ebooks at Bookshare’s core, which can easily be turned into braille, large print or digital audio (using synthetic speech technology). and we needed more help.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Staff at nonprofits and libraries can sometimes feel overloaded with too much information and too many competing priorities. Nonprofits and libraries will receive what is called a conference-room license. With GoToWebinar, audio is available either through free integrated VoIP services or through toll-based phone conferencing.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Staff at nonprofits and libraries can sometimes feel overloaded with too much information and too many competing priorities. Nonprofits and libraries will receive what is called a conference-room license. With GoToWebinar, audio is available either through free integrated VoIP services or through toll-based phone conferencing.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

With an exponential increase in people accessing the Internet on mobile devices, the nonprofits, charities, and libraries that don't have a website optimized for mobile devices or that haven't created a separate mobile website risk irritating — or losing — their supporters. What can you do with your mobile site?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, training is esse ntial to keep knowledge and skills up to date. Organize software trainings for your library computer lab. Resource Development. Train on Over 150 Products with Atomic Training. Build your social media presence with training on Twitter and Facebook.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

Week three of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays in May focused on use of video for nonprofits and libraries. engage audiences can be overwhelming to nonprofit and library. The hour-long chat answered many commonly held questions organizations have, as well as offering follow up resources. organizations. professionals.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

There is no money, there are no resources, and the situation is only getting worse. YouTube also has its own audio library offerd free of charge. School provides no breakfast or lunch. Fatima is doing very poorly in school because she has no energy, and she is not consuming enough calories to keep her mind sharp.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

The webinar provided case studies of how one nonprofit and one library created storytelling cultures within their organizations. The case studies were presented by Zoe Blumenfeld, communications manager for Global Fund for Women , and Viktor Sjöberg, digital services librarian at Escondido Public Library.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

For educational nonprofits, schools, and libraries, Raspberry Pi is very useful for teaching students about electronics, computing, and many other technical subjects for a price that's far less than a new computer. Libraries have also experimented with replacing terminals with smaller footprint Raspberry Pi computers. Peripherals.

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Tech Soup

JULY 12, 2011

Another donated service, ReadyTalk , provides web and audio conferencing at an affordable annual subscription and low rates for callers once subscribed. With ReadyTalk , you can hold large web or audio conferences that can be held or listened to by anyone with an Internet connection. The charge is sent directly to the.

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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. TechSoup's Chief Business Development Officer, Gayle Carpentier, had been searching for a way to offer phone systems for nonprofits and libraries for a long time.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Do you need software to manage volunteers and human resources? Human resources software can save you time, reduce paperwork, and help you get rid of paper HR files once and for all. This offering lets your nonprofit or library access discounted rates, payment terminals, check processing equipment, and card readers for mobile devices.

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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.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Content created by TechSoup is available to reuse by any nonprofit or library (for free!), We think this kind of information sharing is the essence of nonprofits and libraries' collaborative spirit. Take advantage of all of TechSoup's best digital storytelling resources. thanks to our Creative Commons license.

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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. Top feature: Google’s Drive app is a helpful resource management solution for nonprofits. Top feature: Slack’s foundational feature is channels.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new resources for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 That said, to be alerted of new resources for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 e-Newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

However, once children learn how to read it is crucial to sustain their interest by cultivating a reading habit and while the aim was to provide a book in every child’s hand and a library in every neighbourhood we found that there was a dire shortage of high-quality, low-cost children’s books. Example of Partham Books on mobile phones.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Find the free audio recording and presentation of the event here. Darian talked about lots of things, very broadly: Why mobile presents a huge opportunity for any nonprofit or public library. TechSoup: Go Mobile with TechSoup Donations and Resources. TechSoup Article: Mobile for Nonprofits and Libraries.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Like most things in the social web, though, there are tools and resources that can make creating a podcast accessible to almost any organization. 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. Tools and Resources.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. For example, sharing multimedia content like audio might not present well across some curation tools; in some cases you may need more than one tool. What Is Content Curation? The Human Element. Content and Curation for Nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 12, 2012

It also has automatic audio and video detection, so you can quickly add USB devices such as telephone handsets, headsets, speakers, microphones, and web cameras. As of this publication date, TechSoup doesn't have a donation arrangement for offering Lync Online to nonprofits and libraries. Additional Resources.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

TechSoup's forums are a place to find answers to questions and to share resources and expertise on nonprofit technology. BetterWorld Telecom provides audio conferencing, VoIP, and data services to nonprofits and mission-driven businesses. Collaboration Tools Chart for Libraries. Using Donor-Generated Content.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Visit TechSoup's Digital Storytelling Challenge for more great resources on creating effective videos for your organization. An external microphone can drastically improve audio quality. He authored a newly-published article comparing A Few Good Tools for Video Editing , as well as this blog post with tips on making video better.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 1, 2021

Effective grant management software comes with a few key features: document library, calendar tools, and reporting capabilities. For videos, live-streams, and interactive media, preview how it looks on the user’s end, testing for sync delays, loading times, and audio levels. Remove unnecessary information fields.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2015

In terms of the environment, Cisco believes its information and communications technology (ICT) can improve the world's standard of living, improve the use of resources, and improve energy efficiency. This makes us better at our jobs, smarter with our resources, and a contributor to positive change." Now a bit about us.

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See3

AUGUST 31, 2009

We’ve found that viewers are more willing to excuse poor visuals than poor audio. Take Advantage of Online Resources. For many people, Google is their #1 online resource. Create a Media Library. Don’t skimp on the microphones, though! Good sound makes all the difference. For inexpensive music, try Music Bakery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., for the last five years or so). If not, why not?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Although legal and regulatory requirements stipulate that schools must provide accessible ‘equivalent’ resources for students with disabilities, in practice the majority of these students do not have equal access to textbooks and other instructional materials that make up the primary resources of the general curriculum.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

Or that the outreach efforts of a specific volunteer, using resources provided by your nonprofit, led to the preservation of much-needed wildlife habitat. Create a content library. In your digital content library, include: Copy: This is the written version of your story. Review this resource to learn more.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

What’s more, the charity has trained some of its staff members to shoot video using inexpensive cameras, with the goal of creating a library of footage that it can use to create fresh online videos for years to come. I believe this perception helps less well resourced nonprofits see their way to get into digital messaging.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

What’s more, the charity has trained some of its staff members to shoot video using inexpensive cameras, with the goal of creating a library of footage that it can use to create fresh online videos for years to come. I believe this perception helps less well resourced nonprofits see their way to get into digital messaging.

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