sgEngage

JULY 27, 2021

Before passing away earlier this year, Captain Tom Moore also topped the UK music charts and received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. Dedicated to the lifelong pursuit of learning and discovery for all, Chicago Public Library Foundation created an online space for avid readers to connect and participate in their Read-A-Thon.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

This is a written out visual plan, sort of like a comic book, which highlights what each shot in your video will look like and what you want them to convey. Audio is important in post-production as well, as that’s when you get to pick some engaging music to go along with your visuals. Storyboard It Out. Be Genuine.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I was delighted to speak at the November 15th joint plenary session on “The Right to Read” campaign to achieve a world where published books are accessible and available to all individuals who are blind or have other disabilities. This shift is already happening in major markets: Amazon.com now sells more digital books than print books.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 22, 2021

We even have fun channels like “Travel” and “Music” where employees can post non-work related content. We put BOCs on the calendar about once a month and talk about anything new in our lives like things going on with our families, our workout routines, new music we love, an awesome movie we saw, etc. Build a community outside of work.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Participants can collect pledges based on the number of books they read for the duration of the campaign to raise money for your cause. Encourage participants to take advantage of your local public library and get reading! Play some upbeat music and offer food and drink concessions to make it the event of the spring!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

We came up with a book wishlist for donors who wanted to pitch in and buy specific books requested by Bookshare members. One donor made a special offer to our top volunteers, those who have provided at least 150 books to Bookshare: that they could request any one book and we'd (not they!) Pavi • What a great present!

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Judi Sohn

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I use Spanning Sync to keep iCal and Address Book on the laptop in sync with iCal and Address Book on the Mac (and in sync with Google Calendar and Gmail). Sure, I can charge my phone, but I have to be careful not to let iTunes sync, because it insists on only syncing to one iTunes Library at a time. should be left alone.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2015

The Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library (MBWML) was established in 1958 and named to honor the mother of America's first president. The museum and library preserves the rich history of the Northern Neck through its collections, exhibits, tours, and educational programs. Small Staff, Big Impact. Keeping History Protected.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 7, 2013

You get unlimited storage, however, for purchased music, movies, apps, and books from iTunes. also known as "Leopard"), you can use a program called Time Machine to handle incremental backups of your iTunes library. It also backs up photos and videos from your camera roll. If you're using a Mac running Mac OS X 10.5

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Luckily, there are some great Internet safety resources that are specific for healthcare organizations , libraries , seniors , kids , and small offices (like the ones that most nonprofits have). It is a noncommercial site that has ratings and reviews for movies, games, apps, TV shows, websites, books, and music.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2017

At TechSoup, we love to supply good, solid, low-cost refurbished or remanufactured IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. The science that makes the environmental case for refurbished IT equipment is explained by Dr. Eric Williams of Rochester Institute of Technology and Ruediger Kuehr in their book.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. " Waukesha Public Library. An increasing number of public libraries are discovering TechSoup donations, but few are maxing them out like Waukesha Public Library in Wisconsin.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

One of our missions at TechSoup Global is to supply low-cost refurbished IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. Paul Hawkin, in his book, Natural Capitalism , finds that the volume of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1. The Basis for the Environmental Benefits of Refurbished IT. The Bottom Line.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. Dear Museum 2.0-ers, From the Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2012

Instead of booking a room and inviting people to come and see what they’re up to, our community team is much more likely to host an online demonstration like this one so they can reach many more people, regardless of where they are. This team brings you our discussion forums. It’s definitely worth checking out!

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

With a youth-oriented fundraiser, you can raise money for educational trips, sports equipment, classroom supplies, art supplies, musical instruments, or any other cause. Used book sale. Do you have outdated textbooks or slightly worn library books that can no longer be used or checked out? Costume contest.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

One of our missions at TechSoup Global is to supply low-cost refurbished IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. Paul Hawkin, in his book, Natural Capitalism , finds that the volume of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1. The Basis for the Environmental Benefits of Refurbished IT. But I digress.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

If you want good info, there is a great book by a fellow Linuxchix , called “ Beginning GIMP &# by Akkana Peck. It’s not just that it doesn’t look like Photoshop (you can check out gimpshop – it has a Photoshop UI on top of the GIMP libraries.) Just about all of what Photoshop does, it does.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Throw in beer and pizza and music and it can be fun. Are there online courses, Youtube videos, music lists, playlists, podcast episodes you have been on, guest appearances on radio shows you recorded, news clippings, etc.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2016

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance in advance of its release. I wrote this book because of a fundamental curiosity about what relevance is and how it works. This chapter appears midway through the book. To get into this chapter, imagine that your institution/program/art is a room.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

In particular, electronic books (or e-books) offer the possibility of dramatically improving access for students with disabilities – and for disadvantaged children everywhere. This is because e-books (unlike traditional print) can easily be rendered in many different ways and presented in the format that best suits one’s needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

The Denver Art Museum's Side Trip poses many specific questions about visitors' experiences with psychedelic rock music, concerts, and drugs. My local public library does an annual summer book recommendation wall, on which patrons can post their mini-reviews of books they've read and enjoyed.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

The Denver Art Museum's Side Trip poses many specific questions about visitors' experiences with psychedelic rock music, concerts, and drugs. My local public library does an annual summer book recommendation wall, on which patrons can post their mini-reviews of books they've read and enjoyed.

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Technique Question Design Develop 52

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Live Music Battles Live music battles make for great events because you can find a lot of excellent musical talent who want to get their names out there. Book Sales Collect and sell donated books at a book sale event, with proceeds supporting your nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

I actually came from a very for profit industry; I managed a live music venue. You make restaurant reservations, buy movie tickets, pay your bills, book your vacations, and even order your pizza online. This guest post was authored by Kristen Gastaldo and originally appeared on npENGAGE.com. Amazon will mail you cereal.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

What’s the most endearing part of your local book/music/video store? When you walk into a bookstore without a specific book in mind, how often do you leave with a book? The Boston Library main branch used to have an “ask a librarian” booth in the front featuring a person sitting at a card table with some books.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 22, 2012

Bookshare , Benetech's online library for people who are blind or otherwise print-disabled, is fortunate to have a variety of summer interns and volunteers working in our Palo Alto office this year. Our main focus has been our text book image description project. Originally I did book metadata adjustments and wrote synopses.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby. I’ll be doing a fair bit of experimentation with Derby (’cause I’m curious.) It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby. I’ll be doing a fair bit of experimentation with Derby (’cause I’m curious.) It has a command-line tool, and it is possible to use C/C++ and Tcl for database access.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

There was funky music. They had a library designed like a British library with cabinets and books and couches to stretch out on and nooks and crannies for kids to slide into. They also have one with chairs with iPods for listening to music. There were lovely couches. I walked out somewhat perplexed.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2014

To counteract all of this somewhat negative mobile news, I'm also highlighting a very positive story on digital inclusion and public libraries. You can now opt to have "unlimited Facebook" or "unlimited streaming music." Marin Libraries Helping Close Digital Divide. Let's dig in!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

The median music blog reader is a 26 year old man with an annual family income of $60,000 reading 5 blogs a day four hours a week. The Ann Arbor District Library System uses a blog for the front page of their site. She reads 4 blogs a day, five hours a week.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I think it's a good thing that librarything gives me a way to talk to strangers about books that feels safer than approaching the drooling guy at the public library. Imagine a music store where each CD lists the names of the last 20 people to pick it up, and what those people ultimately bought.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

In the interview, Cami mentions that she is writing a book about the 29 Day Giving Challenge. So, go through your book collection and take books to the library or a used book store, or pass them on to someone on the street, or whatever. The deadline to submit your story is November 29, 2008. I was very, very ill.

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