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10 Twitter Apps for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They may not even know the tools exist. Once you start browsing around and experimenting, you’ll quickly come to realize that there are a phenominal number of free Twitter tools now available to nonprofits – that can also be used to improve website, e-newsletter, blogging, and social media campaigns. Bit.ly : Bit.ly

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Mobile for Good: May Edition

Tech Soup

June is generally a very busy month for mobile with Google I/O, Apple's WWDC, and lots of summer phone/tablet releases. A kill switch would allow consumers to remotely lock and wipe their phone so thieves can't get a hold of their data. You point your camera at a sign, menu, or document, and the app translates the text.

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Capture and Share Events with Mobile Apps

Tech Soup

Also, make sure to follow TechSoup's Online Community Coordinator, Alexandra Bezdikian, as she tests the digital storytelling tools of the trade. CoverItLive is the go-to liveblogging tool for journalists all over the world. Some phones even let you upload to YouTube directly from your video gallery. More Resources.

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Using Smartphones and Portable Wi-Fi Hotspots to Tell Your Story

Tech Soup

TechSoup has some tools that may come in handy. Here's an idea for using smartphones with good cameras and video capability like the Dell Venue Pro touch screen phones for digital story telling: Send someone out to video compelling work that your nonprofit or library is doing out in the field for your holiday message.

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New on SSIR: #4Change Examines Social Media for the Climate Change Movement

Amy Sample Ward

How can we and how are we using social media tools for social change? “Social media is a storytelling tool, it’s let voices effected by climate change be heard around the world&# (@ amysampleward ). Social media is still the tool or the medium, not the change or the action. Lesson #3: Local vs Global.

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Nonprofit Technology News for January 2014

Tech Soup

Many of the new wearables are biometric tools that dominate the emerging field of fitness wearables. The Interaxon Headband is a brain-wave detector that sends real time information on your brain activity to your phone, supposedly so you can improve concentration and composure. It identifies any problems with a runner’s form.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

I would say that we made the best use that we could of the tools that we had,” she said, “but I’d say about 10% of our volunteers are not tech savvy and so they got left behind.”. Sure, there are tools out there, Google Translate and the like, but they are not yet robust enough to replace human interpreters and translators.