Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Yes, Facebook’s new donation tools could be awesome, but only if we promote the donation tools to our supporters and donors which many nonprofits are unwilling to do at this point. Put your laptop in the closet and don’t take it with you if you are traveling for your vacation.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

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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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

Some of the tools needed to do this work are obvious: a camera, microphone, headphones, tripod, laptop, and maybe a light. As an independent producer, I can tell you that these are merely a fraction of the tools that one needs in order to properly document and later tell a story.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 4, 2022

Your email tool can help you clarify the best day and time to send the email and sending it from a person always gets better results that sending it from an organization, which is too impersonal. You need a strong photo, preferably of a person or animal looking directly into the camera. Did you specify what you need money for?

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

Microsoft released its Surface Pro 3 this week, a tablet poised to "replace your laptop." You point your camera at a sign, menu, or document, and the app translates the text. Digital Storytelling Apps and Tools. TechSoup Global staff weighed in on what the FCC ruling means for both nonprofits and public libraries.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

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. Find out how to enter the challenge and get resources and tools for telling your organization's story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Technology can be a huge barrier for inclusion if we don’t consider the digital divide of skills, tools, and Internet speeds when selecting platforms and tools for meetings. Within a room where people are connecting together, those who control the mouse or keyboard, are on camera, and/or are closer to the microphone have an advantage.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2012

You're doing it wrong if you're spending more time fixing laptops than focusing on strategy. Consider hiring an intern or full time staff to deal with these types of requests, allowing you and your team to keep your heads in the game and out of the tool box.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

Many of the new wearables are biometric tools that dominate the emerging field of fitness wearables. The startup Goji also introduced a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capable door lock with a camera. It was by most accounts a good show with lots of weird stuff on display. The thing costs $200. Sen.se, Mother. It is described in Kickstarter.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

When equipped with both web-based and mobile bidding tools, online auctions for nonprofits are not only very possible but also extremely successful. Online auction platform and versatile bidding tool. Qgiv’s bidding tool has both online and app-based bidding so that attendees can choose what’s most convenient for them.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

All of these parts can be filtered through a single device, like a laptop. Many people record live streams from a simple camera, such as the camera on a computer or mobile device. Largely, the quality of this live stream video will depend on the type of camera and equipment you are using. Audio Equipment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

I often see many people taking notes at conference, either with pen in a moleskin or typing into a laptop. tools, but what happens when you have a group of people who may not be? You can get rich photo streams when participants a) have and use digital cameras b) understand and use tag based photosharing services like flickr.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

He also shared an interactive map on his website so people could track the road trip’s progress visually using a tool called Track My Tour. Mark shared his progress around the country in YouTube videos (he’s been featured on the YouTube homepage, blog posts , and his Twitter feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2005

A new crop of computing tools is beginning to change the way we think, learn, and interact with the physical world and with other people. These new tools are both digital, rooted in the world of electrons and bits, and social, meaning they enable new kinds of interactions between people. So, I wonder how this impacts nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

I pulled out my video camera to do some moment capture. In this session we'll explore some uses for screencasting, the tools you'll need to create one, and tips and tricks for making them work. Overview of the tools needed. The session will be very hands-on, participants will be encouraged to their cameras, laptops, and clips.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 7, 2021

All of these parts can be filtered through a single device, like a laptop. Many people record live streams from a simple camera, such as the camera on a computer or mobile device. Largely, the quality of this live stream video will depend on the type of camera and equipment you are using. Audio Equipment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

In 1996, when the first digital cameras and web cams out - I got one. I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages. My first crowd sourced piece was getting people to help me proof read my pages -. I signed up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

This makes me more comfortable for me to open my laptop and take notes. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. This is the way I've described the Nptech Tagging community and other ad-hoc communities where people come ogether first through social media tools.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. It also has back-end tools including hosted Exchange (email), SharePoint (file serving), and Lync (messaging and conferencing). Here’s what it all looked like to me. PC Sales Continue To Decline While Mobile Sales Increase.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Other things around collaboration: making sure that everyone on staff knew exactly which tools to use to collaborate with their colleagues, and obviously management. So, essentially using tools that are not quote-unquote “organization-sanctioned” tools. So, you can roll out actual tools to help protect the data within a device.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. Gobuki Blog identifies the steps from migrating nonprofits from stand-alone email tool to Salesforce. bleeding edge tool, twitter. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. Also announced 2.0 Strategy, Wealth Management Edition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

" Some statistics about how many young people are using various social media tools. Henry Jenkins notes that it isn't about the tools and that it was more about the culture growing up around the technology. They are walking the walk, talking the talk." Media isn't just happening to kids. They document their learning."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Stories, data, and explanations are your tools. Each of your key points should rely primarily on ONE of these tools in order to be clear and cohesive. That’s because the cameras on our laptops and desktops are not nearly as sophisticated as the broadcast equipment we are used to seeing on TV, nor is the lighting in your home or office.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

If you don’t have a relationship like that, then you can send them a personalized video and email it to them, and record yourself talking to the camera like I’m doing right now, and make the ask again. I want to give you the tools. That’s what you need to say to somebody who is trying to give you donated Dell laptops.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Stories, data, and explanations are your tools. Each of your key points should rely primarily on ONE of these tools in order to be clear and cohesive. That’s because the cameras on our laptops and desktops are not nearly as sophisticated as the broadcast equipment we are used to seeing on TV, nor is the lighting in your home or office.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Use Technology to Automate Processes Take advantage of the tools and technology that you have—especially those that are built specifically to handle fundraising for nonprofits. Neon CRM gives you the tools to automate receipts and thank-you emails once donors submit a gift online.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

For those who have an exercise bike at home, you can also encourage them to, set up their laptop or mobile camera and cycle together. These kinds of events can easily be run on a tool like Zoom. This can easily be held virtually using a tool like Zoom and sending out an ingredient list ahead of time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The tool was a live streaming platform called Ustream.tv that lets anyone with an inexpensive web camera and internet connection to broadcast to the world. She booted up her laptop, plugged into my Internet connection, and set up her Webcam. Kari came to my house a half hour before the interview went live.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

You get yourself some kind of together and you kind of meander and find your way to your laptop. And then laptop because, you know, work, right? ” On camera, trying to stay awake. It has been a game-changing tool that I have used on every team I’ve ever run, on my own team. What about this one?

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