Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session. More than 3.5

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Tech Soup

JULY 12, 2012

That's why BetterWorld Telecom, a TechSoup donation partner, is offering nonprofits a special rate on one of our favorite tools – Adobe Connect. cents/minute for Adobe Connect and audio conferencing services combined, just for nonprofits. Why Should You Also Use Audio Conferencing Services? Whiteboards, breakout rooms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2006

Embed Powerpoint Slides as Flash Presentations in your Blog without Spending a Dime , I just had to try it. I exported the slides a jpg because I didn't have enough bandwidth to upload the pngs as batch without the upload bombing. In the end, I decided to produce as a SWF at 640x480 size with second to highest audio/video quality.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Elliot will be talking with participants about technology planning for nonprofits, and Evonne and Susan will be talking about interactive online events and social media tools. ReadyTalk — This standard for webinar production offers integrated slides, screensharing, live moderated chat, and high-quality recorded audio.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well. Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths. Built-in mike MicroTrack 2 by M-Audio. This is by no means a comprehensive list, so please add your suggestions in the comments!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

SlideRocket , the cloud-based tool for creating and sharing presentations, recently announced a new SlideRocket Player app for iPad. Like PowerPoint, SlideRocket lets you create customized slides with text, images, and media. You can add flash animation, audio narration, YouTube videos, and polls to your presentations.

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Forum One

MAY 7, 2009

If you have more than a few international participants, especially from developing countries, voice connectivity for the audio portion of the meeting can quickly become a problem. Consider using a tool that offers a VOIP options and just broadcasting the presenter?s The presenter(s) should practice beforehand ? During the meeting.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2009

That's the idea behind GoldMail , a communications tool that marries email to voicemail, and throws in a visual slide presentation to round out the experience. Once you click it, the online mini-slideshow (Adobe Flash) with synched audio is opened in a browser window. The folks at GoldMail recently gave me an overview.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

So, once I decided that, I realized I needed to find the right tools. ReadyTalk – this had been the tool I thought I’d use. 15 per person/minute for audio is very tough to swallow. Even the unlimited plans (which start at $50/month, or possibly discounted) have pricing for audio, which I hadn’ t realized.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2007

It's better if you view the slide show in its full size here. Threads is an online media album that allows people to make audio or text comments and embed those comments on the Slide Show. You can also leave a comment in the slide show or set one up yourself. What a great way to tell a shared story!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Tonight we worked on Harry's slide show. He discovered a lot of stuff on his own, including how to use the drawing tool to make a drawing (see the last slide) and automatic slide transitions. Our next task is to add some audio and I think I might use Alan Levine 's 50 ways to tell a story next to teach him some web 2.0

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Ready to learn how practical AI tools can make your life easier? AI-powered tools can make your workflows more efficient. Your organization probably generates and collects a lot of data, and AI-powered data analytics tools can help you gain insights into donor behavior, program outcomes, and other key metrics.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Videos, interviews, client stories, audio, emails, podcasts, social media posts—there are so many types of storytelling opportunities available to nonprofits of all missions and sizes. Utilize a few slides to share a story. Add a story (or a quote from a story) to your email copy or mailed materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

So he cautioned me that some of the information might not be entirely up to date that he shared on listserv including a pointer to his awesome slide show with audio. He has since started doing freelance work on his own at rootwork.org.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Ensure you have active, agreed-upon communication tools with your remote guest speakers, such as phone, instant messaging, or email. During this phase: Check audio to make sure speakers sound loud and clear. If multiple people are speaking in the same session, ensure they all wear headphones to prevent audio feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Technology can be a huge barrier for inclusion if we don’t consider the digital divide of skills, tools, and Internet speeds when selecting platforms and tools for meetings. The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2008

videos, audio guides, web projects and more. Yesterday at NDN: New Audiences, New Tools , the question of organizational culture change, resistance from communications director/eds who were "analogue adults" came up. And that's where the slide show above comes in. This example may be unusual.

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Forj

MAY 13, 2021

Use closed captioning alongside audio elements. While the show still went on, many of these events were riddled with growing pains in the form of technical difficulties, whether registrants struggling to navigate the event, buffering video, or splotchy audio. Compare your virtual event platform against the WCAG standards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

His approach is definitely a few pegs of up from entry level and if you invest in the tools, software, and services it will run about $500-1,000. His slides will be posted on the Podcamp wiki -- so look for them. If you want to spend money, SONY has tools like soundforge. Adjust the audio signal and keeps the quality high.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

As I sit here avoiding the completion of the rest of the powerpoint slides for next week's Circuit Rider Conference in UK session I'm leading with David Wilcox called " Demystifying Web 2.0 tools and business applications for it. apps at ground level and assessing which tools are right for each job. tools already out there.

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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. An incredible listening tool. for the last five years or so). If yes, how is it going?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

We wanted to give everyone a chance to get more familiar with the tools, and, more importantly, understand how social media is relevant to their goals. The audio-visual crew did a top-notch job juggling all the video, countdown clocks, slides, props and miking, adding to the sense that this social media stuff is really big-time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

It focuses on relationship building -- very important to any fundraising success -- both online and offline - and regardless of tools. Dave is using distributed networked fund raising approach, but connecting it to specific outcome - journalism ( see slide 19 ) In this post, he describes the soon to be launched site. donate now???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

How: 6 Tools and Tips. If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. I think I made up the term " social instructional design " which is how you integrate social media tools into your workshop AND how you plan for engagement during delivery.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Use a table of contents slide to inform your board members of your meeting’s agenda from the start. Save your presentation theme Create a theme in your chosen presentation software with your brand color and logo in the corner of the slides. Approach your slide design with the reminder that less is more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools. Video The AFP Nonprofit Technology blog points to a story by Jennifer Gilomen from BAVC about digital storytelling techniques and tools for nonprofits in the NPTimes. Ever wanted to incorporate a slide show in your drupal site?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Use phone line with audio clarity and stability. See slide 30 for a simple recipe for doing this exercise as part of a virtual meeting. My secret is to write out a step-by-step facilitator agenda if using a new technical tool and rehearse it. My best tips and tools are in this post. Find a quiet space to participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Someone on the call had moderator access and was able to flip the slides (I had them memorized) and they also read any of the questions in the chat line to me. I wanted to use more video examples, but only selected one that was more of a music video in case the audio didn't work. We got started about a half hour late. No problem.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2008

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

David Tames and I did a session called crash course on social media tools for filmmakers. But how about using Twitter as a feedback tool ? Website grader - useful tool to search trends. Here's the slides. She introduced me to a utterz , a micro audio blogging tool. In your title, include keywords.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2015

We know nonprofits need good tools for illustrating their accomplishments and communicating with their donors and constituents. Tools for Creating Presentations, Graphs, Sketches, and More. Cool features are: It allows you to incorporate text, images, audio, and video, including embedded video from sites like YouTube or Hulu.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2007

youre a funder in the philanthropic sector, and youve concluded that online collaboration is a great tool for solving issues like. You can follow the one-hour archived session (or the slides on Slideshare) to get a nice slice of perspective from Amy Gipson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Melissa Schoen of.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

This post recaps these sessions, provides my slides, and shares what I learned at the conference. Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. Download my slides here. Download our slides here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

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. Wikis Laura Whitehead writes about how to use a wiki as a trainer tool. An excellent slide show about the issues in wiki adoption within the organization. It's recently been updated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Gobuki Blog identifies the steps from migrating nonprofits from stand-alone email tool to Salesforce. If you want to learn more about mindmapping and diagramming tools, the Web Worker Daily has a review here ) Share the Technology , a computer recycling database that matches requests with donations. bleeding edge tool, twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. Use phone line with audio clarity and stability. Do not multi-task (do other work) during the meeting.

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