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The Fantastic Five GIS Tools for Nonprofits

NTEN

By Steve Spiker, Director of Research & Technology, Urban Strategies Council As more and more people are bombarded with maps from every media source, many nonprofits find themselves asking “How can we use maps in our work?” – followed by, “Just how hard can it be for us to make maps for our work?”

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A Guide to Storytelling for Nonprofits & Digital Marketing

DNL OmniMedia

Map out the basic arc of your story. Before you get lost in the details of your nonprofit’s story, map out its basic arc. So for example, let’s say you’re mapping the arc for a story featuring a volunteer. In your arc, you mapped out the general flow of your nonprofit’s story. Introduce a compelling character.

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Designing for Good: Central Park Conservancy

Connection Cafe

Print design, visual design, graphic design, illustration, product photography, park kiosks, mobile apps, and all things webby are managed by their team. You can send updates or questions about a project to your team and have all the communication and files in one place to avoid searching for information buried in emails. Ryan: Right.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can think of it as having 24/7 access to another users filing cabinet, but each user's collection of bookmarks helps to build an rich knowledge network. Photography students use Flickr to post, organize, share, and critique their colleagues?????? Chicago Crime Maps; Another googlemap mashup with crime statistics.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it You might see an over representation of Point Lobos- this is because of the pre-conference digital photography workshop a few of us (including me!) cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog.

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106 Free or Low-Cost Online Tools and Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Mapme is a web-based platform for creating, sharing, and embedding online maps. Dropbox is a cloud storage service (sometimes referred to as an online backup service) that is frequently used for file sharing and collaboration. Graphic Design & Photography. Issuu :: issuu.com. Mapme :: mapme.com. Dropbox :: dropbox.com.

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82 Free or Low-Cost Online Tools & Mobile Apps for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Graphic Design & Photography. For advanced for photo editing, the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan provides users access to numerous Adobe photo editing tools, such as Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC. Mapme is a web-based platform for creating, sharing, and embedding online maps. Canva :: canva.com. Photo Editing.

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