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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. It must be downloaded and is available only to nonprofit organizations. It is a must download! The design is slick, the functionality is cutting-edge, and the reviewers are raving. Based in the U.K., Viddy :: viddy.com.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Direct Content. What’s so important or interesting about this?

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature…” These great qualities of ideas led to our legal system regulating the propagation of ideas differently than physical objects.

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Intro to Photoshop for Nonprofits: Part 5

Tech Soup

This logo file was available in part 1 , but for the sake of convenience, you can download it here , too. Designers create most logos in a vector format so they can be placed on anything from a business card to a billboard and still look good. Place the Logo. Let's add the logo!

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Intro to Photoshop for Nonprofits: Part 5

Tech Soup

This logo file was available in part 1 , but for the sake of convenience, you can download it here , too. Designers create most logos in a vector format so they can be placed on anything from a business card to a billboard and still look good. Place the Logo. Let's add the logo!

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. The company also donates $1 to the partner nonprofit for each download. It is a must download!

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Other times it is more important to have an open API or an app that is properly designed for plug-ins or extensions. (But it is annoying when something is trumpeted as open source but hasn’t been architected or documented in a way that would allow others to make practical use of the code).