Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

In the past, I have presented remotely using skype audio and video. Last year I audio-skyped into a conference in the UK to present with Steve Bridger. For the audio, we use a phone line that was fed into the AV system and wireless mic. We had a very reliable Internet connection.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Cell phones, combined with GPS, cameras, video, audio, and SMS are transforming the way the world understands and responds to emerging crises. Select “HRC-UCB&# from the Prize Tag menu located below Additional Cause Area Tags on the Submission Form. Tags: challenge mobile netsquared. Find answers to FAQs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Anyone who uses the designated tag on Twitter automatically becomes a part of the ongoing global conversation on that topic of interest. ReadyTalk — This standard for webinar production offers integrated slides, screensharing, live moderated chat, and high-quality recorded audio. We think Watchitoo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

" Does that include cell phones? Tag your post with "net2thinktank." So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. hard to use ?"

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

AUGUST 28, 2018

Talk on the phone or in person to make sure you're on the page. It’s also a great idea to send along a call script and encourage folks to get on the phone to make personal invitations. Not everyone is comfortable asking for money over the phone, so be sure to prepare your host committee. Send Reminders.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

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. No reason to be afraid: the important part of this definition is that the audio content is syndicated. The ID3 tags help identify the file when it is being played.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Look what I can do with my phone! Emerging tablet computing devices, such as the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy, promise the benefit of mobile access with a larger form factor than a phone screen, making it much easier to do work in the field. Tags: Change Management grant howe Infrastructure Leadership NPTech NTEN Planning.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2010

There is also some talk that this could turn the Internet into something of a 'caste system', in which certain users would have to pay more if they want to continue using streaming video or streaming audio. Tags: Advocacy Leadership network neutrality NPTech NTEN steve maclaughlin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

They can listen to the audio, follow links, and leave comments. You Can Use Your Phone or your digital camera with video: He demonstrated how to do an audio podcast with your cell phone and a video podcast with his camera using hipcast. (I His camera is a Cannon SD300, but the newer versions have better audio quality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

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. or phone number: 612.374.8200. Technorati Tags: cambodia , nptech

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 5, 2010

Like other app phones, there's a growing supply of apps for the Pre, both free and paid. It can be used to record audio as well, although it doesn't seem to respond to an external mic. Tags: Mobile Communications. Apps & Tweaks. This includes a long list of homebrew apps available outside the app catalog. Dictionary.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The Author’s Guild asserts that they control the audio rights and that delivering a text ebook to a device which could speak it aloud with synthetic text-to-speech and that their commercial market for audio books will someday be significantly affected by TTS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Shoot close to your subject so the audio doesn’t suck especially when using a camera with built-in mic. It’s much easier now with smart phones and the flip cameras. Tags: Content Philanthropy Tips Tools and Tactics. Don’t frame your subject’s eyes in the middle of the frame, use the rule of thirds.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2010

The thing is a computer interface for new Ford cars that sports two screens or dashboards: an instrument cluster display shows vehicle information such as engine speed, temperature, and trip data; and the other dashboard shows audio, phone, and navigation information. Tags: GreenTech. Ford also plans to include a web browser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2006

I didn't know how to correctly add the height and width tags - so I needed it spelled out for me. So, I had to google the tag to find an example. I found the editing of the code to add my specific ID numbers and tags confusing. In this case, I described the IFRAME tag as javascript. Humor always comes in handy! -I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

Some techniques that I learned about that I want to put into practice in future work: Capturing secondary audio with an external mic and recorder and then synching them during the editing process. For example, I figured out a way to silence the audio in a "b" roll and replace it with a -over narrative. emotional resolution???

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Freedom Fone leverages audio as a mobile function using IVR, a technology that allows a system to detect voice and keyboard input. IVR allows a user to call, enter or say specific numbers, and listen to or contribute audio content. Many of the audio responses were later rebroadcast on the program. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

They're done on the phone and chat. Can you add audio with slideshare? ( once and it was disaster, best to use to supplement discussion in between phone calls). Tags: online communities technology training training materials. I love the way NTEN does these sessions. Can we get the full site for the twitter statistics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2005

(I've been wanting to do audio and video for a long time, but it wasn't until my blogher experience that I actually got moving and picked up the knowledge to try my first one. Anina, who vlogged me at blogher, left a comment and so did Village Girl , a khmer vlogger, who told me on the phone last week that vlogging was easy.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

It's an experiment that merges two of my greatest interests: finding novel, easy ways for visitors to contribute content to museums finding questions that draw such compelling responses that random peoples' answers would be worth browsing To participate, all you need is a phone. Tags: participatory museum usercontent. contributions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. There wouldn't be a local node or the phone had some weirdness that prevented me from dialing out successfully. Like the time I was doing a session in an artists loft and the phone jack was 150 feet away and my phone cord was only 125 feet.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Mobile devices allow multi-touch and gesture navigation, precise GPS-based location tracking; have audio, video, and camera capabilities; let you send real-time notifications and SMS messaging; and more. But uploading GPS-tagged photos from a war zone may very well endanger the person who took the photos. Photo : Timothy Appnel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting. Tags: backchannel. They appointed a person in the room as the "Backchannel Advocate" and the speaker would ask them verbalize questions from the backchannel. One of the reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

In addition to the main screen in your conference room, you can also set up laptops with their video and audio at a seat at the table. Whether via text, chat, or phone, they have a private line of communication constantly available throughout the meeting. They can also move the camera or adjust volume on the audio if needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

I'm going to try this: Put an auto responder on your email telling people that due to email volume and deadlines you only read and respond to email between 11-12 and 4-5 and if it is urgent to call you on your mobile phone. She tagged me for media snackers meme that is traveling through the blogosphere. I met her through Jane.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Did you know you can embed an audio file in Google Earth?) Tools are just tactics, just like phone-banking or canvassing. Tags: socialmedia. You can embed Google Earth into your website to present information to your community that really helps tell the story of your work and your issue. Learn more: WomenWhoTech.org.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2009

Nor does hitting different buttons on an audio guide or even a cellphone feel entirely natural in the context of the physical and visual exploration of exhibits. Unlike an audio tour, the light-based interpretative material can be shared socially. Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out exhibition design interactives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

This is interesting to me because Second Life is quite the opposite - there is a huge investment in learning the tools, there is no audio (although that is changing) and it is all visual. For the same reason, I love my cordless phone because I find I listen to long phone meetings better when I can walk around and move away from my computer.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Session Description: With portable music players, smart phones, and cheap bandwidth everywhere, more and more online marketers are turning to podcasting as a powerful way to extend the reach of their brands and engage supporters. Great to have a lapel mic and ear phones (to monitor how the recording sounds). existing and target.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2007

And, unlike face-to-face or phone meetings, which are also real-time, you don't need to preschedule; you can find out at a glance whether the person is available or not. Every communication medium has its own etiquette, and IMing is more permissive of curt, quick messaging that the phone or email. When it wasn't, we upgraded.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

I love having all 3,000 of my contacts on my phone, as well as my calendar, tasks, and notes. I want a phone that will sync with a local copy of Outlook (as opposed to an Exchange server), without requiring me to store all my data on Google. The phone usually responds quickly as long as I'm not relying on wi-fi.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

Who's doing audio tours on iPods? Which museums have experience creating collection tagging systems? I'd like to see simple projects, like updating the phone system, in there as well as the sexy ones. Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out Museums Engaging in 2.0 Who tried GPS Twitter craziness and failed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. " This was a rich conversation and was not able to capture all the details as my audio faded in and out and was multi-tasking in a major way, so here is what I as able to capture. That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Linden Labs has expressed they are well along with audio integration into Second Life, and I think there will be many other features around communication and social networking and ease of use that will come along soon. Use the phone? Tags: virtual worlds interview usercontent game. Are we escaping reality when we use the web?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2010

But most mobile applications (as well as most audio tours) are made for solo experiences. Museum technologists are also influenced by the broader world of mobile apps, which are mostly focused on supporting adult individuals with their own phones. Tags: mobile. Imagine for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content. Who could have predicted that one of the most popular iPhone applications would be one that turns the phone into a flute , or that a first-aid app would save the life of man trapped in the rubble in Haiti?

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