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Curtis Memorial Library: A Tradition of Local Support

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Public libraries are some of our favorites. If you haven’t been to your library lately, check it out! We recently spoke with Joyce Fehl of the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, Maine. Joyce is the development and marketing manager for the library, which serves both Brunswick and the smaller community of Harpswell.

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10 Essential Tools for the Nonprofit New Media Manager on the Go

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Foursquare is essential for nonprofits that are location-based (such as museums, food banks, and libraries ). Foursquare does have a mobile website ( m.foursquare.com ) for laptop users, but the best way to experience Foursquare is on a smartphone.

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Mixed Reality Learning Lab: @techsoup at NCVS

Tech Soup

Susan Tenby , Josephine Dorado , and I camped with our laptops, video cameras, resource guides, favorite game-building sites, and a bountiful new Nonprofit Resource Library in Second Life providing a playful space for participants to get hands-on with mixed reality technologies.

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Nancy Jo Craig’s Lifetime Achievement Award In Nonprofit Computer Refurbishment

Tech Soup

Actually the biggest need was for laptop bags to serve as suitcases for refugees. Nancy Jo's and CACRC's work in frontline disaster relief was featured in Sundance Channel's "Big Ideas For A Small Planet" series. Their volunteers already do trainings in the libraries. Nancy Jo recalls that it was a mess.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. I’d also modestly recommend our Cloud Basics for Nonprofits and Libraries. Here’s what it all looked like to me.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Nonprofit Fundraising Platforms

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With an auction platform, you can run an in-person, virtual, or hybrid auction easily, and all your guests can bid on the items they want from their smartphones, laptops, and tablets from anywhere in the world. Social media is one of the most important and powerful marketing channels available to nonprofits. Social media tools.

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

For 2014, our NPTech experts made strong predictions about charities doing more multi-channel marketing or going beyond email and direct mail into social media. But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. Social Media and Fundraising. Privacy and Security.

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