Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2015

Last week, companies, journalists, and enthusiasts convened in Las Vegas to showcase what's to come in technology. My colleague Jim Lynch and I have been following the CES news closely and picked the most intriguing technology to come out of the show. Small Tech That Packs a Punch. " What earns this praise? Fitness Tech.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Assisting with the search for new learning technologies. If you have eLearning courses that are outdated (for example, built using Adobe Flash, which was sunsetted at the end of 2020) or otherwise not meeting your needs (such as a live webinar that you want to repackage for on-demand viewing), a consultant can assist with this transition.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2012

Take donations by using your phone as a mobile credit card terminal. You can search for contact information right on your phone (great if you think you’re at the wrong address), and show off your organization’s website to people you meet at conferences and events. Apply the phone to an existing AT&T plan.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

He is a programmer and web developer who helps other charities use technology more effectively. For example, after entering your username and password on a website, the website sends a code to your phone. office productivity suites, Java, Adobe Reader, and Flash. She edits www.stopthinkconnect.org and www.staysafeonline.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

Somewhere around 2006 or 2007, I got a call from Michaela asking for advice on a career path for Nonprofit Technology. I spent some time on the phone answering questions, referring resources, and later introduced her to colleagues. . We will use technology to stay in touch and collaborate on ideas. Together we can do it.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2014

I am not what most would refer to as an "early adopter" of technology. You’re more likely to find me sitting on the porch rocker with your great-granny (since even granny’s probably got a tablet of some sort) lamenting kids and their phone these days. LastPass 3.0 can import passwords from competitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2009

Now the Smithsonian Institution, in a flash of cloud like behavior , is coming to life on the social web. Over the weekend, I took my kids to the movie, Night of Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. They thoroughly enjoyed watching the exhibits come to life. (My My kids especially liked the Einstein bobbing heads).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

They had no internet access and – most distressingly for me – no phone service at all. When they evacuated from their small island, I reminded them to take their cell phones and chargers. Aided by technology, they gathered and shared and used data to figure out where my parents were and how to get them out. They could not cook.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

The Raspberry Pi was designed to help educators and students understand technology better. Landline phone (PBX). You can always flash a card on another computer before transferring it to the Raspberry Pi, but buying a preformatted card may save you an extra step. Programming with Raspberry Pi. Weather station. Digital camera.

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Tech Soup

JULY 12, 2012

Web conferencing is a technology that can be a game changer for an organization. It is advisable to use an audio conferencing service (that all meeting participants call into with their phones) in conjunction with your web conferencing service to help decrease meeting costs. Adobe Connect. Webcam sharing (multiple users).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2009

If you haven't done so already, we hope that you'll have a look at our 10 technology tips to help you reduce your need to travel, and try out some of the travel reduction tools we've found. We're now in week two of our month-long TeleGreening Your Workplace travel-reduction campaign. read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

   And it seems like the concept of flash mobs for the arts is not limited to FourSquare. Create a custom mobile phone app for the iPhone, Droid, Blackberry, etc… using  their API ( Mobile is where the future is in case you’re trying to figure out what to invest in). created to mark their 2009-2010 Season of Belief. 

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2008

Technological change is no different. You can dismiss some of these things as fads or just a flash in the pan. The technology landscape of the past 30 years is littered with big hits and even bigger misses. The technology landscape of the past 30 years is littered with big hits and even bigger misses. Change is messy.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 19, 2015

I learned computer programming in a chilly room filled with massive equipment, flashing lights and mysterious noises. Without algorithms and matrixes to select the best candidates to receive a message, we had to learn our donors’ preferences by reading their letters, taking their phone calls and talking with them face-to-face.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 7, 2006

But this flash-based software is not a toy application either - you can use it build network diagrams, entity-relationship diagrams, floorplans, mockups of user-interfaces. Speaking of phone interfaces, Jeremy Wagstaff, in his Loose Wire blog, comments on the shortcomings of trying to use a desktop point-and-click approach on a phone.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

In 1999, Blackbaud pioneered the nonprofit technology market by introducing reliable, secure, and donor-friendly online donation forms. There are 7 billion people on Earth and 5 billion of them have a mobile phone. But digital technologies have transformed these techniques in amazing ways. Mobile is the New Normal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2007

To view a higher quality flash flie, click here. What I really like about screencasting is that it has helped me learn about software and technology. Nor I have been able to find his phone number or email to ask him directly. Click To Play. UPDATE: June 18th. Jon Udell answered my questions ! maybe he'll leave a comment here!

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Other platforms like Java and Flash could end up being (once again?) How smart are my phones? While Windows-based phones are the most vulnerable, the other operating systems may be "light" enough to be affected eventually. Is it the wave or my surfboard that is muy mal ? the culprits. Click ahead for more variety.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2006

This is a powerpoint that Cheryl Hanback and I used to lead an N-TEN Affnity Group of technology trainers at last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference. Embed Powerpoint Slides as Flash Presentations in your Blog without Spending a Dime , I just had to try it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Use all the mobile features on your phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. In this post, I???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

More at TechCrunch and Technology in the Arts Blog. Musematic is a group blog of museum technology professionals. The description: "Rants and raves on the latest trends in the world of museum informatics and technology. The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup.

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DipJar

MARCH 29, 2022

How organized your team’s back-end processes are, the items your source, the timing of your event , and the technology you use are all important. Guests can simply flash their phone with the barcode and have it scanned to join the event. Empowering guests to make a payment directly from their phones once they’ve won an item.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2013

Welcome to the final blog in our technology planning series. You now know how to develop a well-thought-out plan and how to conduct a technology assessment. Now let’s look at technology disaster preparedness. How do you keep your technology and your organization running and meeting. Your Technology Assessment.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

To learn more about launching a mobile strategy for your nonprofit, please see the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Mobile Technology and Mobile Fundraising. Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Mobile Technology and Mobile Fundraising. It’s ironic how Web design has come full circle.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Yet you encourage donors to keep giving to cover even more technology needs for students. If you can’t meet in person, ask over Zoom or schedule a phone call. Some organizations have success with flash campaigns, offering a match but only within a tight time-frame, such as within the next 48 hours! or by midnight on Sunday!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Since we see many people carrying FlipCameras, mobile phones with video recording capability, etc, it seemed like it could be interesting to have people share footage of the conference from a participant perspective. Still later in the conference we saw numbers of about 30-60 viewers in Second Life and over 100 on the live Flash stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

What have women bloggers who work in the nonprofit technology space been talking about this past month? A few posts on mobile activism Sparechange blogger, Nedra Weinreich writes about two social activism strategies using mobile phones designed to involve young people. My full review is coming soon.)

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

" Others have criticized its weight , lack of Flash support, or closed architecture. Who could have predicted that one of the most popular iPhone applications would be one that turns the phone into a flute , or that a first-aid app would save the life of man trapped in the rubble in Haiti? Personally, I'm bullish on the product.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

I would also argue that a petition to the phone carriers to increase the $10 limit on text-to-give in the United States would have much greater impact on the nonprofit sector. Getting CSR Right The whole debate over donations in app-land reminds me of the ongoing saga of getting Flash to work on the Apple iPhone or iPad.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

While there's not much interest in playing with strangers, kids as young as 6 will make plans with school friends to meet up in the virtual igloo afterschool for scripted chat and simple flash games. Someone recently said to me, "the mass audience for virtual worlds is growing up with the technology." But they don't use it to swear.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Choosing HTML and CSS over Flash Player. Since you’ll most likely receive sensitive information like street addresses and phone numbers from your donors, you should use Extend Validation (EV) SSL certificates to protect their data. Dependence on technology is growing. Minimizing plugins and fonts used.

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Harassmap is a project that utilizes open-source mapping technology to allow women to report incidents of sexual harassment by sending a text message, an email or employing the Twitter hashtag, #harassmap. "It We are a bit of an online flash mob.". The impending protest would have been via cell phones and social media.

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