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HOW TO: Launch a Broadcast “TV” Channel for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Currently, these channels can not easily be viewed on the digital TV sets in our living rooms, kitchens, and bedrooms, but it’s just a matter of time. Nonprofits will soon be broadcasting their own live TV programs to households around the world simply with a Ustream channel and a smartphone. 5) Start broadcasting!

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

They solicit community members to volunteer, bring them into mission activities, and broadcast their work to the public. A focus group participant with an LGBTQ+ youth organization said: [Digital technology] is…really beneficial to reach out to the disabled community. On the Other Hand, Remote Technologies Can Reinforce Inequities.

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The State of the Internet 2014

Tech Soup

The user base for laptops is 789 million, and an additional 743 million for desktop computers. ” Let me translate: in social media we’re tending to have more frequent interactions with smaller groups of close contacts rather than doing Facebook broadcasts to large audiences. The worldwide user base is 439 million.

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12 Not-So-Great Realities About Nonprofits and Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Granted, the positives do outweigh the negatives, but it is important to step back occasionally and take a critical look at how social media is impacting nonprofit technology at your organization as well as your digital staff. You are not a videographer or broadcast reporter, but to be good at the Next Big Things you have to be.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Chronicle sets up a twitter account to broadcast links to blog posts. This post shows you how to jury rig a DIY periscope for your webcam if it is built into your laptop screen. This is useful if you want both broadcast AND use your laptop to take notes (or answer email).

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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Participants had digital copies of the powerpoints translated into french and used their laptops to follow along. We used real-time translators and participants used headsets to tune into the language channel of their choice to understand what was being said. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French.

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Live Streaming Basics for Virtual Events

AccelEvents

If you, like the rest of the world, have managed to shift to the virtual environment, you may be looking for ways to improve your digital presence. Or it can be a digital experience where customer avatars explore a new brand. If you want to add any graphic elements, you can, but they will require some digital finessing.

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