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Go Green with Video, Audio, and Web Conferencing

Tech Soup

Travel also creates huge carbon costs to the environment. In fact, one of the most significant ways that IT can help the environment is that it enables us to meet with each other online or in "virtual meetings. So far, the Skype premium mobile phone app allows only group audio calls.

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5 Takeaways from the bbcon 2020 Virtual Higher Ed Super Session

Connection Cafe

In a time of unexpected and continued change , we discussed new trends from 2020 and how Blackbaud customers and the industry are responding to today’s environment and developing new strategies for success. . They were able to meet via phone and social media channels, a s well as in person while remaining s ocially distance. .

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Connect with TechSoup at NCVS!

Tech Soup

Windows LiveMeeting — Our partners at Microsoft have been innovating web conferencing tools as convergence software , allowing for integration across Microsoft Office and Outlook in addition to synchronized audio and video. WebEx and GoToMeeting , available through TechSoup, offer free iPad apps and easy availability on mobile devices.

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Should Nonprofits Focus on Email or Facebook?

Connection Cafe

Almost everyone in this country who uses the internet at all has an email account, whether they access it by phone, tablet or laptop. . Though email is now a mobile medium as well, Facebook and mobile phones have long gone hand in hand (hah!). . Synchronous. Crowded communications environment. Email Strengths: .

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Your Guide to Credit Card Processing for Nonprofits

Neon CRM

While previous generations might have preferred to give via check, cash, or even over the phone, those older analogue giving methods are on their way out, especially as even well-established donors switch to supporting their favorite causes online. As you can see, processing a credit card donation is far from simple.

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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It means creating a meeting environment where people feel valued and heard. We think of meeting facilitation as a real-time or synchronous activity where a group of people exchange ideas or discuss topics. Whether via text, chat, or phone, they have a private line of communication constantly available throughout the meeting.

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Metaverse Museum? Guest Post on Second Life and Museums by Sibley Verbeck

Museum 2.0

Just as with the telephone, television, the Web, mobile phones, e-mail, etc., Hmm, interacting with other people you may or may not know within an interactive environment – that’s starting to sound very Museum 2.0… in a way that can be used both within the real museum and at home – both synchronously and asynchronously.