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10 Must-Have Skills for Nonprofit New Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Woe to the nonprofit that incorrectly assumes that a new media manager is a tech position. Young volunteers and interns who are lacking in the longer view of mobile and social media can quickly advance provided they are mentored by experienced communications or development staff, or given access to quality training.

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Storymakers 2014 Winners — A Global Success

Tech Soup

"'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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Face-to-Face Communications with Zoom Help NGOs Around the Planet

Tech Soup

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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Face-to-Face Communications with Zoom Help NGOs Around the Planet

Tech Soup

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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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

I was a tech reporter. I mean, most recently, I tried to come up with like five or six keys to collaboration, and it goes back to one of my mentors, Jeff Jarvis, who says, "Do what you do best, and link to the rest." Is it video and audio? My background was in journalism. I was a freelancer. I got my Masters in Journalism.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

We tell our colleagues, other folks have mentors, or we do some research about it. Or who do I need to talk to to continue to mentor me to be able to step up into my leadership potential to help manage a community-based strategic planning? . Let me know if my audio becomes unclear and I can turn off my video, okay? .

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

And the podcasts became an extension of that, because I realized I wanted to do interviews, and it was a great way to do the interviews and have them in an audio form for people who are interested in audio, and then also I get them transcribed and put them on the blog. And that was where it kind of popped for me.

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