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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. What’s the problem? Press Forward seeks to stop and reverse that trend.

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Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also, if you have not read it, Kivi Leroux-Miller has written a stellar piece called “ The Heroes and Villains of Give Local America Story. “ Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time – Guest Post by Peter Panepento. Last year, Give Local America raised $68.5 In Columbia, S.C.,

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All You Need To Know About Streaming Tools With Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) Services

AccelEvents

The Accelevents Studio connects with live streaming solutions (such as Lightstream, Streamyard, ReStream, and Open Broadcaster Software) through RTMP capabilities. . Luckily, this is not a problem for Accelevents users since they are only streaming into one event and are recording using the Accelevents platform.

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Event Video Production 101: The Right Choice For Your Next Event

AccelEvents

There are three main types: Broadcast video delivery (also known as live-streaming.) With broadcast video delivery, you are live — sort of. When using a pre-recorded video upload, the video actually sits on our own servers, so you don’t have to worry about things like your local video cutting out.

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Using Social Media to Engage and Recruit Volunteers

Volunteer Hub

Did you know that 47% of nonprofit leaders say recruiting sufficient volunteers is a big problem for their organization? billion social media users nationwide, it is safe to say there is strong potential to engage, inform, and recruit volunteers within your local community.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The world’s problems are many, and we keep seeing opportunities for technologists to address those problems effectively. We believe that having more minds working simultaneously on a problem increases the odds of solving that problem well and quickly. Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile!

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National Day of Civic Hacking: How to Get Involved

Tech Soup

Using publicly-released data and code, participants will be able to swap ideas, share skills, and solve challenges that affect Americans on both local and national scales. If you're unable to attend, TechSoup will be on the scene covering events in the Bay Area and broadcasting via Twitter ( @TechSoup ) and other social media channels.