Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Subscribe to social media and mobile technology blogs. Get the necessary training (HTML, digital photography, video, social media, and mobile technology). Write social media and mobile technology policies. Purchase a digital camera. Write content and secure photos for website pages. Create a master login sheet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

This week in San Francisco, technologists and human rights advocates are meeting at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference (or RightsCon )to grapple with the realities of how we better manage the human rights implications of new technologies. At WITNESS, we’ve been wrestling with the promise and peril of new communications technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2012

Flickr Photo by Nielio. Note from Beth: Innovation was the buzzword at the Nonprofit Technology Conference! Everyday Technology: Innovative Ways To Do More With Less, Guest Post by Laura Quinn and Chris Bernard. We use a lot of photos—we’re kind of obnoxious with our camera,” she said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. You can use the online whiteboard platform Mural for the drawing tools or ask everyone to use paper and pen and hold it up to the camera. Can this technique work for an online meeting?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

QR Codes are two-dimensional bar code images that when scanned by a camera on a smartphone open a link to a website, send a SMS, or dial a phone number. Related Link: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Mobile Websites, Group Texting, and Text-to-Give Technology. So, what are they? In window displays.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

They voraciously consume nonprofit technology blogs and study the mobile and social media campaigns of other nonprofits for inspiration. Rather than feeling overwhelmed by the speed at which technology now moves, they are energized by it. Photo and Video Editing Ability. Leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Photo by Global Fund for Children. There are contests to push filmmakers to “ tell the story behind the still ” and television producers are turning to this compact video recording technology. Along the way we learned some valuable lessons to help nonprofits use this new video technology to tell their stories.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

up a camera. Cisco Flip video camera. First Place Photo. Cisco Flip video camera. Second Place (Photo or Video). Third Place (Photo or Video). Acquiring Technology Donors Software causes online community community tsdigs digital storytelling' Well, we believe that. emotional change.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

We believe that you're only as good as the technology at your disposal. Our team was quite impressed with the quality of photos and videos submitted, and all the hard work that was put into each. Cisco Flip camera. " First Place Photo. Cisco Flip cameras. Flip camera. We all have a story.

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2015

Researchers are trying to make these canes "smarter" by adding a GPS, facial recognition software, and a camera. The XploR's camera and facial recognition software work together, and the researchers claim that it can recognize a face from 30 feet away. If it finds one, it will alert the user via a Bluetooth earpiece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Silence on video calls makes us anxious about the technology compared to natural pauses that happen during in-person communication. ( BBC – Gianpiero Petriglieri ) . see the photo at the top). Now more than ever we must create a robust workplace culture and stronger relationships to retain our humanness. second delay.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2013

Flickr photo: Anne Helmond The Rob Stuart Memorial Award honors the spirit of the man who was so pivotal in creating our community. Central to all of this work was the idea that technology can accelerate the pace of change, making it possible for movements to grow overnight and for change to be created in new and suprising ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

But true to NTEN’s mission, Julia really put technology to work by stretching the limits (and functionality) of video chats so that we could really understand how she felt about things. Photo Credit: freddiefraggles via Compfight cc We are glad to have had the chance to call Julia a teammate even if it was over the air waves from Chicago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

I couldn’t help but think – what if Joe Page or other community foundation board members had flip cameras, some video and story telling training and shared their stories on the Alaska Community Foundation Facebook page? No matter the technology, the process of capturing and sharing a good story quickly is the same. Some Tips.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

You don't even have to go to a store to buy a camera, you can just shoot film on your phone. One of the reasons why I learned to do photo and video was because media outlets weren't showing up to the actions that I was organizing. I don’t trust technology to work when I need it to. I come prepared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The photo above is me at age 14 in Alaska with my mom. Social Media and Online Digital Technology Discussion. I couldn’t help but think – what if each of these people had a flip camera or inexpensive digital camera and shared their stories on the Alaska Community Foundation wall. My First Trip to Alaska.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Elliot blogged about a group that gives cameras to local groups around the world in order to share their stories. The use of telling stories through photos has also been discussed here various times, with tips on different photo-sharing and slideshow tools discussed. These stories don't need to be fancy or expensive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2013

When he was almost 80, he and my mother accompanied my husband and I to Cambodia to adopt our first child, Harry. He gave Harry his first bath and soothed him by holding him and dancing around singing “ I’m Just Wild About Harry ” that I captured my first digital camera. My father was an OB-GYN in Margate, NJ for many years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

I was lucky enough to work along side Mark Horvath and Shawn Ahmed , both experts at capturing stories on video and sharing through social channels. This post is a roundup of the videos, photos, and tweets from the day. To be a little meta, here’s a photo by Mark Horvath as the video was being shot. Tech Recycling Day.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. technology behind these things. Thomas Grasty - Stroome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2008

Flickr Photo by Veesees Elise Bauer , a food blogger who writes Simple Recipes. She looks at traffic building in three elements: content, community, and technology that you use to support. She looks at traffic building in three elements: content, community, and technology that you use to support. Technology. Keep at it.

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Media Cause

JUNE 21, 2022

App Privacy Report: Every time we download a new app, the first thing it does is ask for access to your location, photos, microphone, and/or your camera. This feature is for anyone using the mail app on their Apple device. . This new report now allows you to see how many times an app accesses these things and adjusts as needed.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

But nonprofits should still keep tabs on movement in mobile as it is shaping workplace technology. If you're not active on the technology your community is using, how can you reach them? Video-Sharing Apps and Super Smartphone Cameras. For reference, most professional DSLR cameras don't have that megapixel count.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2014

To celebrate, I've rounded up some of the latest news in green mobile technology news. I always love new camera apps so it was exciting to hear that Google just launched its own in the Play Store. Called Google Camera , the app supposedly has a few improvements over the native Android camera app. Happy Earth Month!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Security Camera - Photo by Sirius Rust. Privacy is, as Beth says, primarily a matter of human behavior, but there are very interesting intersections with technology and security. Beth threw down the gauntlet , and I had to pick it up. I’m sort of surprised I hadn’t written about this before.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

One of the main causes is the advancement of smartphones and their camera technology. THS posts frequently feature photos and descriptions of adoptable animals, receiving sometimes hundreds of likes and shares. What about organizations that don't have naturally engaging content or a community network to tap into?

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Take advantage of ChatGPT and AI With the rise of AI like ChatGPT , you can utilize these new technologies to increase your organization’s efficiency. Either keep a camera on your digital thermometer or set up a physical thermometer your organization can fill in on screen.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2014

Secure Digital (SD) cards are removable flash storage memory cards that most smartphones and digital cameras use to increase the storage capacity. They hold our photos, music, videos and apps. Additional TechSoup Resources: Donated and Discounted Mobile Technology. What if you need to erase one? No problem. Here’s how.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. Here's a little more about this year's esteemed cohort of judges!

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

This post is a roundup of the videos, photos, and tweets from the day. Nonprofit techies helped collect, sort, and assess technology equipment for refurbishment and recycling at the WildTech Shelter. To be a little meta, here's a photo by Mark Horvath as the video was being shot.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2009

We'll do our part in joining the effort by talking about -- what else? -- technology! The Climate Change movement has embraced technology for all the good it can do. . Here's a few highlights: Social Media and Climate Change : #4Change, the Twitter-based chat, recently tweet-chatted about social media in the climate movement.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Aaron Bramley - Lights Camera Help. Thomas Grasty - Stroome.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology. It is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and as part of Civil Society 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

Photo by WhiteAfrican. We often hear the term “digital native” used to describe young people who don’t remember a time when phones were attached to the wall, but just because kids have only ever known a technology-rich world doesn’t mean they know how to engage with and through technology responsibly.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

We also have a contest in which we're giving away US$7,000 in cash prizes and a new camera (but don't be afraid to start with the cell phone in your pocket!). Mukono, Uganda: How to Create a Digital Photo Story to Fundraise for a Community Cause. Columbus, Ohio: Nonprofit IT Forum: Assistive Technology. Friday, April 22.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 5, 2007

Of course, one of the reasons I liked his blogging is because he used several photos I took, which I posted on Flickr! I just got a brand new camera and I've been having lots of fun taking pictures of the many events I attended in the last two months.

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