Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Young people are not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's tech-centric workforce—and that's a huge problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

But there are challenges, too. This image above, recently making the rounds on social media, is a funny statement on the challenges of an open office layouts, where there are no walls or doors. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This last November, I had the honor of giving a plenary talk at the Eighth General Assembly of the World Blind Union ( WBU ), in which I addressed these opportunities and the challenges ahead. Benetech’s Bookshare is the world’s largest accessible online library dedicated to serving people with print disabilities.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? At tightly facilitated events called Generators, leaders with a range of expertise from the nonprofit and library communities discuss their daily work. public libraries to the app.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

The Relevancy of the Internet Problem. He said that the first order of business is to address what he calls, "the relevancy of the Internet problem." The Challenges of Digital inclusion. Providing rural broadband coverage is one of the big challenges of the project. Image: Connect2Compete.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Interestingly, the hackathons varied in terms of their activities and the challenges. Leonard Library. The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa’s natural resources, and a few others. Image 2: Code for Hawaii, Bytemarks.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. While AI does involve logic and problem-solving, it does not think. It calculates.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2012

Their web-based professional-grade service for creating and sharing presentations online is available to eligible nonprofits and public libraries through TechSoup. created a truly engaging presentation that highlights the challenge of. provides both an awakening to the problem and inspires the viewer to. Waste Ventures.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

For the past year, I've been ending many of my talks with this image. Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. To do this, the library didn't create a complicated computer system or send people online.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

GrantStation's State of Grantseeking Report found again that the lack of time and staff continued to be the greatest challenge to nonprofit fundraising. This is unchanged from previous survey results and an indicator that the overhead myth is still a problem. Image 1: Wes Holing. Image 2 : Rawpixel.com / Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. They can go straight to work to create useful apps and other tools for solving social problems.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

In our TechSoup Global NGO cloud survey we found that people in nonprofits and libraries are indeed concerned about data security in the cloud the world over. Cloud data security and privacy challenges were cited by 27% of respondents as a significant barrier to cloud adoption. How Big Is the Cloud Data Security Problem?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

sense of both the opportunities and challenges cloud computing can bring. " Part of the problem, I think, is that the term "cloud" is used in a lot of different ways by a lot of different people. Cloud Challenges (The Less Good Stuff). Of course, there are also challenges and risks in transitioning to the cloud.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2021

Nonprofit fundraising and development is hard work, especially amid all of the challenges that have been thrown our way over the past year. Let’s walk through three of the most common web design challenges for nonprofits and how to start addressing them: A lack of engagement from users. Challenge 1: A Lack of Engagement from Users.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In fact, despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Giving Tuesday reported that participants gave $2.47 You can solve this problem by choosing a more sustainable Giving Tuesday campaign idea—a recurring giving campaign. The last thing you want to deal with on Giving Tuesday is problems with your donation form.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

Your story’s arc is the overall path it will follow, generally broken up into three main points: The Beginning: This is where the main characters and basic details about your challenge are introduced. The Middle: This is where the challenge reaches a peak or climax, and your characters learn, grow, and take action against the challenge.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Recently, I learned about an innovative, super-low tech tagging pro ject in a library that does this beautifully. As you read the story in the next few paragraphs, consider the four-step approach in the image above. But there’s a problem (for me) with this kind of tagging: it only affects the Web. Sounds complicated?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Because of this, the images we consume are not an accurate depiction of reality. Marketing images in pop culture—like TV shows, movies, music groups, clothing, and even cartoons—tend to include primarily white people as the focus. The problem with non-inclusive imagery. A bit of extra effort and awareness can go a long way.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

on the library side of the fence. It's fascinating: the term "Library 2.0" Consider, for example, the above image, created by David Lee King , which describes less a spectrum than an ascension to 2.0topia. Addressing the Challenges So if you're someone (like me) who cares about sharing Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Where Dialogue in the Dark is a tactile and auditory experience led in complete darkness by blind guides, Dialogue in Silence is an exhibition of interpersonal challenges that must be completed in total silence. IMLS also wanted to help museums and libraries improve their skills, both for audiences and for their own professional communities.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

We started with a brief presentation of the basics of each project, and then spent about an hour responding to questions from the audience, using illustrative images and documents to support the discussion. But the overall experience for everyone of uncertainty was challenging to manage. This spanned all the projects.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

You need to get honest with yourself because we’re going to solve the problem here. Excuse me for the violent image. Our new library capital campaign needs to reach into the community for money donation, best way to do that? It’s a beautiful thing a new library. If people have to leave, no problem.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

While today is the official launch, Ghosts of a Chance had its "trailhead" (ARG-speak for a first entry point or teaser) at July's ARGFest in Boston, when a heavily-hennaed clue (see image ) crashed the conference and gave a whole new meaning to the term "marketing exposure" as applied to the Smithsonian.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Think carefully about what your target audience wants or needs to learn, consider the obstacles or challenges they face, and put together a program that delves into these ideas. . By posting images and videos with trendy, relevant, and branded hashtags, you are providing your audience with another way to connect with your content.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

Applying technology to disaster relief has evolved by leaps and bounds since I joined 2,000 people, most of whom I'd never met, to tackle the problem of creating a single searchable database of every person displaced by Hurricane Katrina in the days after the disaster. Technology Challenges in Katrina Disaster Relief.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

One of the interesting problems Karen raises when it comes to putting internet-enabled computers in the museum is the question of whether visitors should be able to move beyond the Internet art to other websites. Of course, in these cases, I would advocate for museums providing full computer services a la libraries.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Tyler Benari, Principle Web Designer. Tyler is reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Dividing your story into "The Problem," "Our Solution," and "How You Can Help" Creating a single sentence version of your campaign. He knows firsthand the challenges nonprofits face, and is passionate about equipping them with the resources and insights they need to rally people around their cause.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Think carefully about what your target audience wants or needs to learn, consider the obstacles or challenges they face, and put together a program that delves into these ideas. . By posting images and videos with trendy, relevant, and branded hashtags, you are providing your audience with another way to connect with your content.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Tyler Benari, Principle Web Designer. Tyler is reading Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

It’s pretty hard to make sense of what cloud services your charity or library actually need. I love working with technology – it is a quickly changing field that provides challenging problems and opportunities for real-world application. TechSoup: What are a couple big challenges your customers try to tackle?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Focus on solving problems, not adapting to solutions. Roll out new features and services gradually, as need demands to solve a specific challenge. Keep a library of training materials. Instead, I solve a problem one step at a time. With Screen Steps, I can easily edit the file to replace an image or rewrite a step.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Focus on solving problems, not adapting to solutions. Roll out new features and services gradually, as need demands to solve a specific challenge. Keep a library of training materials. Instead, I solve a problem one step at a time. With Screen Steps, I can easily edit the file to replace an image or rewrite a step.

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