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21 Strategic Lessons for Creating Great Nonprofit Games

Tech Soup

Games structure participation in vital civic actions like voting, budgeting, advocacy, movement-building, solving major challenges, and simulations for disaster preparedness. (BS). ARIS is used for designing local, geolocative games at Global Kids connected to libraries and schools to talk about the history and issues in their.

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Notes from 10NTC Community Call - Agenda!

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Storytelling as it pertains to Fundraising. Disaster recovery, preparedness - most of my nonprofit peers are lucky to think about business continuity at all, just like SF residents: they know they should but don't have an earthquake plan. Fundraising. Sessions on how to use free/low-cost tech really efficiently for prospect research.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

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About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. The Ann Arbor District Library System uses a blog for the front page of their site.

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11 Donation Drive Ideas to Support Your Community

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Is your neighborhood library in need of new books? If your drive is happening after any natural disasters, during the winter, or when your community is under intense stress, needs might be higher and your goals should reflect those circumstances. Storytelling is one of the best ways to communicate that impact to your supporters.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: DIY Blogging

Tech Soup

Here at TechSoup, we’re big on empowering nonprofits and libraries to make smart do-it-yourself technology choices since we know time, staff, and money are all limited resources. This month, we're examining the landscape of DIY blogging.

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Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014

Tech Soup

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore."

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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

Tech Soup

We also noticed a significant increase in the way that mobile technology is being used in disaster relief. More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. Mobile Computing. The Decline of PCs.

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