Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NYC Haunts is a mobile game created by the Global Kids Online Leadership Organization in a partnership with the New York Public Library. Created by local NYC students, this game is designed to be played in and around city libraries and teaches players how to use library resources. Additional Resources.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

The Natural Resources Defense Council is conducting a survey to determine whether efficient server technologies (for example, virtualization) have penetrated the small server room market. Headquartered in New York City, NRDC is an environmental nonprofit membership organization with 1.3 Drew is a MAP Sustainable Energy Fellow.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

So what does this mean for nonprofits, charities, and libraries? "The special things about the phone are not in the device itself, but in its connection to Amazon's enormous cloud and computing power," writes Claire Cain Miller for the New York Times. Got any mobile news to share? Sounds a bit creepy, right?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. As the content manager here at TechSoup, part of my job is to help nonprofits and libraries learn to choose and use the right technologies to help achieve their mission.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

For example, for every short-haul round trip on an airplane (for example, New York to Chicago or Frankfurt to London) you don't take, you'll save the environment around one half of a metric ton of CO2. More conversations in our Virtual Community Forum. Why Is Online Collaboration Green? plus $2 per user license.

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NTEN

MAY 14, 2010

Deborah Elizabeth Finn updated her nonprofit technology bookshelf and shared her recommendations for what should be included in anyone's nptech library. Ilearned a lot -- and had fun in the virtual conference space meeting folks from as far away as Australia, without the jetlag! Did she miss anything you'd suggest we all add?

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In 2020, they set a goal of raising $40,000 for their combined #GivingTuesday/year-end fundraiser to raise funds for their virtual summer camp. SOS Children’s Villages Illinois acquired 75% of their new donors for the entire year with their year-end peer-to-peer fundraising campaign. Developing A Year-End Campaign Strategy.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. As the content manager here at TechSoup, part of my job is to help nonprofits and libraries learn to choose and use the right technologies to help achieve their mission.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 at the 92nd Street Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact in New York City. A reliable auction platform also makes it easy to pivot this experience to the virtual space! These can work as in-person, virtual , or even hybrid events. Expand your reach with virtual events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. local time). They document their learning."

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

At in-person sessions in New York City and San Francisco, and virtually on Youtube Live , Demo Day brought together nine social entrepreneurs to explore solutions for problems they’ve experienced. Fast Forward, a tech nonprofit accelerator, highlighted a few such organizations during their Demo Day 2022 event.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. If you get people in a museum (or library) for WHATEVER reason, chances are they're going to notice the exhibits sometime. I don't think so.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

So if you have to leave early, or maybe you get interrupted, or a kid that you’re homeschooling virtually comes into your home office, don’t worry. There’s sometimes we need to do that, you know, before the big event or virtual gala or, you know, campaign launch, whatever it is. Mostly it’s in libraries.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2012

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. She returned home and started a “mommy blog” – purely as a hobby and virtual scrapbook. and LA Media Reform Group , to name a few.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

There’s less personal contact, more virtual communication, and there are consequences for this. The question here is, how often do you actually meet with donors in person or perhaps virtually on Zoom for any reason? So he created this organization that builds libraries, schools, girls’ scholarships around the world.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2007

At the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston, there is an inverted fountain in the Hall of Ideas on which projections of letters form inspirational quotations which swirl around the pool towards the center. Consider LibraryThing , on which people catalog and tag the books in their personal libraries. Two quick examples: 1.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. What are the essential differences and similarities between libraries and museums?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2007

I graduated college in New York City the summer of 2004 and went to the Republican National Convention (RNC) protest at the end of that August. We blogged every step of the way, uploading our travel stories at libraries and free Internet cafes. Check out our local spotlight with great action photos on our site.

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