Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

Make the content visually appealing and supportive by using crisp, high-quality graphics, photos, and animations. To encourage multimodal learning, it blends audio, text, and images. Make the material more practical and relatable for the learners by relating it to real-life situations and instances.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

They will Tweet from location, break news on Facebook, send out group text calls to action, document in real-time photos and videos, and blog report backs live from events as they unfold. TwitPic.com allows you to easily share photos on Twitter in real-time. 12Seconds.tv. 12Seconds.tv is like TwitPic, except for video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

Historypin is a new (and free) application for Android, iPhone, or the web that arranges photos, videos, and text in the context of time and location (leveraging the Google Maps API). I also have been taking photos of buildings and locations and sharing them back to the community to continue documenting the world around us.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 19, 2024

Visuals: Visuals, like photos, videos, and graphics, add to your supporters’ viewing experience and make your website more engaging. For example, you might feature a fundraising video on your donation page to appeal to supporters or include photos of your beneficiaries on your homepage.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The campaign rebuked and said they had no ill intent with this design, that they’d simply dropped the photo down to black and white to show contrast between the candidates and that the point of the flyer is to contrast them. What audio are we bringing in to keep this from the perspective of the black people we’re profiling?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

For example, ensure your website reflects: Your mission and vision Your credentials, such as any awards and accreditations your organization has received Innovations and research that you’ve contributed to the healthcare sector Stories compel and inspire support , especially when paired with intriguing visuals like photos and videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Experts point to several reasons why we are feeling a loss of vitality, productivity, and wellbeing in our virtual workplaces: Online-mediated interaction and communications deprive us a full sensory experience as we are only limited to audio and visual experiences (when using video conferences) or just text. see the photo at the top).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The down side is the potential for technology glitches and, of course, not being in the room to catch the audience vibe. We got around those challenges quite well. Avoiding Technology and Presentation Fail. Last year I audio-skyped into a conference in the UK to present with Steve Bridger.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In celebration of the occasion of getting to meet this huge hero of mine, I’ve outlined five ways that companies, institutions, and nonprofits can harness technological innovations to advance financial inclusion and empower the world’s most vulnerable people: 1. Crowdfunding to unlock empathy and investment capital.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Photo by Global Fund for Children. There are contests to push filmmakers to “ tell the story behind the still ” and television producers are turning to this compact video recording technology. Along the way we learned some valuable lessons to help nonprofits use this new video technology to tell their stories.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Flickr photo: lovebugstudios As an Executive Director, I especially love talking to other leaders about technology. For the ED, the ultimate win for technology comes when we get even 1% more efficient. So, for my fellow nonprofit leaders, here are the technology tools I can't live without. That's all it takes.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. We came up with a system that was much more structured and is based on audio, not video.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Staff from the radio station pulled all-nighters to ensure that official information and reports were released to the public while the community pitched in, posting photos, updates, and other information as the fire moved further into the community. The KRTS Facebook page soon became a hotbed of crowd-sourced reporting on the fires.

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2015

The photo recognition software uses a database of photos pulled from Gmail and Outlook (and at some point will include LinkedIn). Users can also add photos to the database by taking pictures of their friends, families, and colleagues. Like XploR, the BlindSpot cane uses audio notifications by way of Bluetooth.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

One of the reasons why I learned to do photo and video was because media outlets weren't showing up to the actions that I was organizing. I don’t trust technology to work when I need it to. Aside from music, the quality of your audio is really key. You’re able to essentially have a live studio in your house. I come prepared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Photo by Matt Westervelt Back in April I created a slide presentation for an Ignite session at NTC about the Many Uses of Friendfeed that Beth Kanter picked up on , intrigued with the idea of using it as an internal listening tool. for the last five years or so). for the last five years or so).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2017

Within the HTML for a web page, all photos and graphics have ALT tags, allowing someone with a sight impairment to hear, via their special audio browser, what graphics and photos are on a page. 
. All links use descriptive text; instead of "Click here," you say "Here is a list of our staff," for instance.

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Care2

AUGUST 24, 2011

Historypin Historypin is a new (and free) application for Android, iPhone, or the web that arranges photos, videos, and text in the context of time and location (leveraging the Google Maps API). I also have been taking photos of buildings and locations and sharing them back to the community to continue documenting the world around us.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

Museum visitors can use the in-app camera to photograph individual works of art which the app recognizes to serve up information about the piece, comments from past visitors, and for some works, audio orientations from the artist. This app is heavily informed by its content and can adapt with each new exhibition installed at the museum.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

We welcomed the following experts: Amy Sample Ward , Membership Director of the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). During its Member Appreciation Month , for example, NTEN invites its members to share how they are using technology at their organizations to make a difference. Paula Goldman , Director at Omidyar Network.

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Tech Soup

JULY 23, 2013

So it's a good thing many TechSoup donor partners offer mobile versions of the technology you already rely on for your nonprofit, charity, or library. Shoot photos directly from the app or import photos from your mobile device, then edit them using a simple touch interface. Then check out Adobe Revel.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Advances in technology now mean that many nonprofits most likely have access to basic video storytelling tools. Mobile devices seem to be everywhere and are easily used to take photos and record videos. For instance Instagram and its many photo filters can make photo stills used in video much more compelling.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Plan for any additional staff and budget needed for technology, design, content, online advertising, and other implementation costs for the year. Add visual variety by highlighting new photos, captions, and links in the slide rotation every week. Media – Photos, Video, Audio. Publish 1-2 blog posts each week.

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NTEN

APRIL 15, 2010

We were honored to meet him at the Nonprofit Technology Conference this year, where he accepted his award. With Open Data Kit , grassroots activists can capture and export text, photos, video, audio, bar codes, even location.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

Many non-profits have embraced features such as forums, blogs, user profiles, and photo/video sharing as a means to extend their reach. He has expertise in the areas of requirements gathering, training, implementing social technologies such as wikis and blogs, and tailoring e-commerce solutions.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. Then we started working with our local design and technology firms— Ziba Design and Fashionbuddha —and in the prototyping, it became clear we had to go another way. Photos are fun. We had planned on having it be video.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

This MIT Technology Review post talks about how Rayid Ghani, and other Data scientists that helped with the re-election of President Obama are now using big data for social good. The tool can embed video, audio, photos and data visualizations easily with text. Data Won the U.S. Now Can It Save the World?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

use apps and mobile technology. And these technologies can help patrons engage with library (and other) collections in new ways. African-American history mobile tour uses GPS technology to pinpoint historically relevant campus sites nearby. access related text, images, audio, and other content from. collection?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. I'm pretty sure an audio recording will be available eventually. Julie has some good photos from the session in her post, And My Water Didn't Break at All. Photo of Gwen Bell by Joel Longtine. Below are some of the ideas, events and people that have stayed with me this week: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Photo by Justin Benttinen. Know Your Audience’s Social Technology Adoption. Twitter Training Notes and Audio File. Flip Cam Training Training Video , and Audio File. Photo by Justin Benttinen This past week was a busy one for leading workshops. This past week was a busy one for leading workshops. Why or why not?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

" Or so said Aaron Pava , a strategist at CivicActions in his 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference. 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. Photo : Timothy Appnel.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We therefore want charities and libraries to make maximum use of our articles, blog pieces, how-tos, tech-for-good news, and other nonprofit technology information. From our point of view, sharing our content helps TechSoup achieve its mission: making technology information available to every charity and library that needs it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

No matter the technology, the process of capturing and sharing a good story quickly is the same. Photo by Aliza Sherman. Shoot close to your subject so the audio doesn’t suck especially when using a camera with built-in mic. I hope you’ll take the five minutes to watch the clip. Some Tips. The Technical Stuff.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

Use the first column for imagery and the second column for audio. Whether it’s a voiceover or background music, adding audio to your video can enhance your message and deeply effect the emotions of your audience. Featured Photo: Using Texting to Increase Literacy in Afghanistan by Afghan Institute of Learning. Congratulations!

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