Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

A passionate technology-for-good advocate, Gerardo has made major contributions to Benetech’s social mission since he joined us over four years ago. He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects. These projects ended up becoming successful and found sustainable funding streams, allowing the innovation to go to scale without needing continued funding from Lavelle.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Unfortunately, we cant just wish out projects through to completion. Make sure you’re clearly outlining how this technology will make their work and daily lives easier. Incompatibilities can throw a wrench in any technology implementation. General nonprofit technology nonprofits npCloud npTech Office 365 online'

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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. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. Lots of inspiring and practical tips below - enjoy!

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

An essential step is starting with a specific digital advertising plan that accounts for assumptions, projected growth, budget, flight dates, targeting your ideal donor profile, design, analytics, and reporting. Reach top-funnel users with podcast & audio ads. Nonprofits can essentially purchase leads at a set CPA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

NTEN is hosting the Online Nonprofit Technology Conference - a two-day virtual conference taking place on September 16 and 17th. Remember the whole conference will be archived, so you if you can't spend the entire two days online listening in real time, you can always download the audio files and listen later. You can register here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2012

The recent upgrades in our Bookshare site and service such as the new audio formats, images, and image descriptions motivated several Members to share their thoughts, and we sought their permission to share those thoughts with you! Another Member, Diane Fazackarley also commented on our new downloadable audio formats. I love them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

“As organizations,” Osborne said, “we must liberate spending to focus on the promotion, learning and innovation around braille,” and recognize that we ought to embrace today’s changing economics and technology so that braille can be part of an equation which delivers access to information for all, not just to those who can afford it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change.

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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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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. The Stakeholders Platform and the TIGAR project were time-limited and needed to be replaced by a new structure.

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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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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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Qgiv

JANUARY 17, 2024

This approach combines modern technology, data intelligence, and donor-centric giving experiences, creating a dynamic strategy that adapts to the evolving needs and preferences of supporters. He is an avid (but aging) soccer player, audio book enthusiast, and the heavily-disputed UNO champion of his household.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

This Challenge encourages innovations for mobile technologies in human rights investigations and advocacy. Cell phones, combined with GPS, cameras, video, audio, and SMS are transforming the way the world understands and responds to emerging crises. Here’s the four easy steps to submit your Project: Register and/or Login.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I wonder if you could bring us in to this project, explain what is the poem that you were working with and what you all made? And so I’m kind of a radio producer and audio nerd, and I just thought it would be amazing to bring in sounds from the natural environment to accompany her words. So I thought it was powerful audio to use.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Samasource connected us with Daproim in Nairobi to proofread books for our Bookshare project. 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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Love of the print book.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Are you promoting cutting edge technologies in a physical trade show supported by access to virtual trade show elements? . Beyond safety, look for a venue that can accommodate your technological needs as well. Choose the right event technology. Why are you holding this event in the first place? . What are your short term goals?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Of the 53% of nonprofits that spend money on social advertising, only 17% invest in Twitter Ads compared to 97% who spend on Facebook Ads and 47% on Instagram Ads, according to the Open Data Project. Launched in November 2020, Twitter Spaces ( @TwitterSpaces ) are live audio spaces that speak on a variety of topics. Twitter Spaces.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

They voraciously consume nonprofit technology blogs and study the mobile and social media campaigns of other nonprofits for inspiration. Rather than feeling overwhelmed by the speed at which technology now moves, they are energized by it. Video content needs to be edited and embellished with visual effects, animation, and audio.

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Classy

MARCH 24, 2021

These could include helping run your social media pages, assisting with data entry, or facilitating research projects. When COVID-19 shifted the majority of schools to an online learning environment, the nonprofit partnered with JBL , a company that specializes in audio equipment. Consider using livestream technology to run your event.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

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. The Raspberry Pi was designed to help educators and students understand technology better. Simply put, the Raspberry Pi is a computer.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

Who's doing audio tours on iPods? The Museum Computer Network and Museum Software Foundation have teamed up to bring you MuseTech Central , a site where you can share your own technical projects and search through a growing resource list of others. How did this project come into being? Who tried GPS Twitter craziness and failed?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille. These ebooks can be instantly turned into the accessible format needed by the student with a disability, such as braille, enlarged print, or our most common format, audio through a computerized synthetic voice.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

How do you get started on a new project? I don’t trust technology to work when I need it to. If I find a track or some song, I’ll base a project off of that song. Aside from music, the quality of your audio is really key. It’s okay for the footage to be blurry or black and white, as long as the audio quality is great.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Event technology assets and AV equipment rentals. This means that in addition to using more technologies, you’ll need to consider hiring more staff or expanding your event team. . Here are some positions that might need to be filled for high-quality event production: A project manager or event planner assistant. Hospitality.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Event technology assets and AV equipment rentals. This means that in addition to using more technologies, you’ll need to consider hiring more staff or expanding your event team. . Here are some positions that might need to be filled for high-quality event production: A project manager or event planner assistant. Hospitality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Making wise and affordable technology investments can help in all of this. Pro 2012 (admin fee: $35) links donor databases and contact history to calendars, tasks, project summaries, and appointment schedules. Do you need software to manage volunteers and human resources? Does your organization have a website? Learn more.

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BoardAssist

JULY 30, 2014

Board members may participate in a meeting by video or audio conference. Paul is equally comfortable as an interim Chief Financial Officer or as an adviser for a specific project. BoardAssist brought Paul and The Animation Project together. My nonprofit’s bylaws permit fax or email for meeting notices but not for voting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

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. DSLR Audio Isn’t Good. Why use a DSLR?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. I finally finished the first edited version of the scifi novel I wrote last summer. That feels good.

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Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2020

One thing we know for sure is that technology and digital marketing are more central than ever to nonprofits’ strategies. For instance, if your website has many images, make sure to also include some sort of text or audio alternative for those who might be visually impaired. Read our guide for the top tips to improve it. .

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2012

There they can share the screen of one computer or project the view to a big screen. With GoToWebinar, audio is available either through free integrated VoIP services or through toll-based phone conferencing. Any number of staff can gather in a conference room and participate as a group. More Training Resources from TechSoup.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2012

There they can share the screen of one computer or project the view to a big screen. With GoToWebinar, audio is available either through free integrated VoIP services or through toll-based phone conferencing. Any number of staff can gather in a conference room and participate as a group. More Training Resources from TechSoup.

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