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Thursday Thoughts: attracting passionate nonprofit advocates

EveryAction

When you have a goal to meet—like asking a governing body to sign a bill into law, telling a CEO or other stakeholder to change a behavior or policy, or meeting goals around educating decision-makers on your issue area—you know you can’t do it alone. Provide closed captioning, translation services, and materials in multiple languages.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. This is a most exciting development: it means that anyone with a cheap MP3 player or a phone that plays MP3s can have access to our books. The third pillar of Bookshare International is developing new language capabilities.

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this entertaining video of the keynote, they explained these complicated technologies in simple, easy to understand language. California Passes New Law That Bans Bots From Pretending to Real People: California Gov. More on the new law here. You can watch the keynote on YouTube. Hat Tip to Tal Frankfurt). ?.

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Nail Your Request for Donations During Economic Ups, Downs, and Crisis Times

Get Fully Funded

Nothing is more boring than boilerplate language: “Your donation will help us bridge the gap between mental illness and health care”. ” Speak The Donor’s Language No matter how many times you ask for donations, always act as though your audience or your “askee” doesn’t know much about your nonprofit, especially your internal shorthand.

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Can You Use Your Own Photos on Your Website? Maybe Not

Tech Soup

Are photos that you take with your camera or phone yours or your organization's property to use as you wish? law that covers this is called the right of publicity. The following rules of thumb are abstracted from Bryan Carson's Laws for Using Photos You Take at Your Library. Rules of Thumb for Using Photos of People.

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6 Tips for Nonprofit Professionals on Speaking Brilliantly with Your Slides

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A great example from last summer is from an opioid law suit — the State of Oklahoma v. Experiment with your body language and speaking volume, and try these: A natural energy level. Eileen on energy levels: “You want to change up the sound of your voice and the visual variety of the slides, so people stay with you.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . So she talks a lot about how you can actually use better texting language to create a sense of community and an offering of listening. Giving your members of the board a voice right off the bat.

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