Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The FEMA app is available in the Android marketplace , with iPhone and Blackberry versions coming soon. Engaging the Community in Innovative Ways. The WISER mobile app is available for Apple, Windows, Blackberry and Palm devices. The Red Cross has a simple shelter search web app , accessible via any web browser.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Twitter has proven itself time and again as an excellent method of communication in times of crisis. During the hurricane, communities kept each other updated by using hashtags like #Sandy on what was happening in their neighborhood. Now, community members are using hashtags like #SandyVolunteer to find out where they can help out.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

As part of the App It Up 2: Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore some of the latest apps for managing your organization's social media accounts. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

PayAnywhere (Android, BlackBerry, iOS) is a mobile and web-based payment processing service that lets you accept donations from just about anywhere. Sage Mobile Payments (Android, BlackBerry, iOS) is another mobile payment service available through TechSoup. PayAnywhere is available from TechSoup, as well. More Resources.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2020

But, also, it was fun to put whole potatoes in roaring fires and eat wild blackberries. Community anyone? But here are some of my reflections from this year in museum work: Camp Life: I came to camping late and through my children. What I thought of as dirty and cold often turned out to be that way. Wow, did I get a response.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The NTEN community can save $50 on the National Conference for Media Reform , taking place in Boston, April 8-10, with the code NTEN_NCMR. Do you know what to do if your Blackberry stops working? Nice work, Louisiana. Window-licking foxes ! And have we mentioned that the Online NTC is only $150 for NTEN Members ?) Take it to the BBC.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

It's important to remember that if you intend to appeal to the ever increasing mobile web community of users, you will first need to include a convenient mobile donation platform as a fixture within your email and social media messaging. It's advisable to research and select a firm with good customer references.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

This was a great way for the students to contribute to their community. device or operating system (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, etc.). The really cool thing is how Public Art Omaha did it: their public art. database and mobile apps were created by Information Science and. But this isn’t the only option.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Will there be improvements in Facebook functionality/design of groups and communities so they can find one another - what I call "distributed social good."? Each phone app - blackberry, Iphone, etc - does its own thing. That's a great idea and something perhaps Causes might do. Eddie Harran). We don't have control over them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

There's so much going on these days at Bookshare: a growing community that's getting hard to keep track of! and Blackberry pie, my dog, at my side. We came up with a book wishlist for donors who wanted to pitch in and buy specific books requested by Bookshare members.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2015

We plan to grow organic tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, potatoes, onions, garlic, shallots, peas, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, figs, and grapes." IT training will be done in cooperation with a local community college. We hope to get 500 pounds of produce out of every 5 raised organic beds in each growing season.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. and the top 15 Featured Projects were selected through a Community Vote. The Extraordinaries -- On-demand crowdsourcing volunteerism via smartphones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

The video incorporates some slides from Angela Byron's excellent presentation, " Women in Floss " which also speaks to the dark side of gender issues in FOSS communities. The presentation offers some good pointers to women in how to get involved in FOSS communities. What is the best tool for very large communities?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

NpTech Community. Steve overheard this about another faceted celebrity in the NpTech world, "I first decided Jon Stahl was a legend in this community when." Peter Campbell equates Buying Software To Buying A House , a great metaphor, inbetween working on site redesign for the NPTech Community site. " Findhabeas.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 7, 2010

We're looking down at our BlackBerries. It's this amazing community of people who take a few minutes out of their day to leave something behind for someone to find just to let that person know that they're not alone, and that someone is thinking about them. We're looking down at our BlackBerries. We walk down the street.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 10, 2010

iPhones and AT&T are also expensive, so your user demographics will be narrow in comparison to the general web community. Are you going to also create Apps for Palm, Blackberry, Android, etc.? There are 4.1 billion mobile subscribers worldwide (277 million in the United States) and just a small fraction of those are iPhone users.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Location-Based Communities (Facebook Places, Google+ Location, Foursquare) and Mobile Social Networking: 5 Hours Weekly. Chapter 3 :: Facebook Community Pages? You can now request to merge your Facebook Community Page with your Official Page. Geolocation and location-based communities have had a volatile existence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Location-Based Communities (Facebook Places, Google+ Location, Foursquare) and Mobile Social Networking: 5 Hours Weekly. Chapter 3 :: Facebook Community Pages? Facebook Community Pages as discussed in the book have been phased out. Geolocation and location-based communities have had a volatile existence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Location-Based Communities (Facebook Places, Google+ Location, Foursquare) and Mobile Social Networking: 5 Hours Weekly. Chapter 3 :: Facebook Community Pages? You can now request to merge your Facebook Community Page with your Official Page. Geolocation and location-based communities have had a volatile existence.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

We're in the season for charities to brush off their video cameras to tell their story and it's looking like the other Facebook (Google+) is starting to become a more useful tool for community organizing. Nonprofits Using Google+ Communities. Google+ Communities are similar to Facebook's Groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

This way we knew when they’d do it, and since most of the people we asked had an iPhone or a Blackberry, they could do it from wherever they were–particularly important on a holiday (though as you’ll see below, in hindsight we could have spread those out more over a longer period of time.).

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

We witnessed the best and the worst of people, but in the end I am left with a strong sense of community, pride in the people of Cancun for pulling the city up so quickly and the strength to know that I personally can survive just about anything. We did start a group hurricane blog after Wilma, thankfully we have not put it to good use.

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