Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2012

How would apps benefit your nonprofit or library? Apps for Nonprofits and Libraries. Thanks to a grant from Microsoft , TechSoup's App It Up project investigated the kinds of apps nonprofits and libraries are using to engage their constituents, tell their stories, and get their work done. Library Apps.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

From apps to new devices to connected home objects that can be controlled with your phone, the market is saturated with all things mobile. For this month's column, I'm going to dissect the latest entry into the smartphone field: the Amazon Fire Phone. Amazon Fire Phone and the Internet of Things.

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Greater Giving

MAY 17, 2024

Check online for donation forms, but know a phone call or in person visit will deliver a higher success rate. Packaged by winery – Showcase a specific winery’s current releases or library wines. Build relationships along the way – play the long game. Learn their craft and teach them about your mission.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

" Apps can be very helpful tools: they can help engage and inform constituents, tell your organization's story, and improve your internal workflows. However, many nonprofits and libraries aren't using apps, for various reasons. Some nonprofits and libraries are even creating their own apps. What Is an App?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

At TechSoup, we're all about using technology to tell your nonprofit, charity, or public library's story. Steller (free; Apple iOS) is an app that lets you build stories with your photos, videos, and text. It's also got a familiar appearance, as the main feed of other people's stories mildly resembles Instagram.

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Creative Deviations, How you can infuse your story-telling, fundraising and direct response with more creativity by John Lepp For years, my go-to bible for direct response was Denny Hatch’s Million Dollar Mailings. A “must have” for your fund-raising library. Read my review. Monthly giving has the power to transform your fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2014

While most major gifts folks would probably tell you that nothing could replace the value of an in-person visit or phone call, the real magic of those activities comes for the opportunity to tell the donor a story. A story about a need, a story about someone who has been helped, etc. Start a thank you letter with a story.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Images are powerful: they can tell your organization's story quickly and persuasively, help show your impact, and help you connect with volunteers and donors. Flickr gives nonprofits and libraries an easy way to store and share these powerful images. Hear from other nonprofits and libraries about putting their donation to work.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. A charity combating homelessness should feature stories of providing shelter, not just cute mascots. There are tons of ideas that you can shop on Meta (Facebook) Ads Library. Personal stories, donor benefits, time sensitivity?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Stay in regular contact with newsrooms and pitch stories to help the organization reach a larger audience. Help uncover compelling or creative stories of impact to use in fundraising. Use the Foundation Directory at the library or a university to find foundations out of state. 50 helps us feed one child for a week.”).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Pacific time to explore the wide world of apps for nonprofits and libraries. Recent Pew Internet studies show that 45% of American adults now own smartphones and 50% of adult cell phone users have downloaded an app. Nonprofits and libraries are using apps to reach their communities. Find the app that's just right for you!

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We heard many stories detailing the aftermath of the abrupt transition to virtual work, or the shuttering of programs entirely, beginning in spring 2020. Many of the stories we heard describe access limitations that were either introduced or exacerbated by COVID-19. Here’s what they had to say. On One Hand, Technology Promotes Access.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

To read a story, you swipe up. To look at a larger version of a photo, you tilt your phone. This means that your followers will not see anything your nonprofit or library's brand page shares on Facebook through Paper. Hopefully, Facebook will add even more categories that are relevant to nonprofits and libraries.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

ways to tell stories in just a few seconds. Free video services like Instagram and Vine that feature short videos now attract millions of users, offering nonprofits, charities, and libraries an opportunity to connect with new audiences. A few more things to know about Vine: The app is available for for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

For content creators, a news story can inspire a moving blog or article. News360 (Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Windows 8) is an RSS reader app that will actually "learn" what kind of stories you like and don't like. Check out our Apps for Nonprofits and Libraries page!

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Danielle Coates-Connor: And you, Devyn, have been creating a visionary library of images with all of the branding work that you’ve done at Edge Leadership, with all of the illustration work that you’ve done for Nonprofit Quarterly and for The Voice Lab. It’s not their story. Danielle Coates-Connor : Powerful, Amy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

June is generally a very busy month for mobile with Google I/O, Apple's WWDC, and lots of summer phone/tablet releases. There has been some interesting mobile-related legislation news as of late that affects some nonprofits, charities, public libraries, and social sector organizations. apps mobile phone tsmobiletechnology'

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Tech Soup

APRIL 11, 2013

Whether you have a big budget or no budget at all for digital storytelling, we want to educate and equip you with the tools you need to go out there and create meaningful and effective stories. Our experts will speak about a varied menu of possibilities available to nonprofits, libraries, and charities today.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2012

Donors who scan the QR code with their phone go directly to that fundraiser’s donation page – making it simple for fundraisers to raise funds any where they go. Email signatures allow your fundraisers to tell their story every time they send an email. flyers or offline donation forms). For more on QR Codes, see also: .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The information can then be erased from the phone, to safeguard it from the phone’s possible loss or confiscation. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website. Our Bookshare online library is continuing to multiply its impact.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2011

It's happening in nearly every office – employees are using their own mobile phones and tablet computers for work email and countless other work things. Many nonprofit and library workers and volunteers get work email or access databases or use the organization’s intranet using their personal devices. The Problem.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

They're designed to meet the rigorous standards of corporate users, and now nonprofits and libraries that request these Windows computers will benefit from using Windows 10 right out of the box. If it works on your phone, it'll work on your desktop. Check out this at-a-glance chart for the full story. Want to learn more?

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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2021

Figure out these details early on so you can develop a library of design collateral that is ready to be rolled out in December. Demonstrate gratitude by not only sending thank-you notes, but also showing supporters how their contributions make a difference with stories and statistics. You can get a head start on prospect research. .

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For Fiver, this means pulling client testimonials from thank you letters written by program participants or through phone interviews with families. The neat thing about Fiver is that there is time is built in for program staff to collect and story bank client testimonials, which means they’re not scrambling at the end. Every day, _.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2012

Particularly important for smaller nonprofits and libraries, troubleshooting problems, maintaining your technology, learning new tech skills, and increasing the effectiveness of every day applications can help keep you ahead of the curve and help avoid problems down the road. nonprofit or library? mail and phone directories.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2015

So when I heard about a collaborative project between nonprofits, city agencies, and the local library happening in my own backyard (almost literally!), He said his team spent countless hours getting descriptions of agencies or services, verifying phone numbers, and finding other relevant information. Inspired by ROCK's story?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

So even when you're offline, you can still tell your nonprofit or library's story with SlideRocket. They're more portable than a laptop, and they have larger display screens than mobile phones. Read an introduction to SlideRocket's features for nonprofits and libraries, from TechSoup's Patrick Duggan.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2016

A compelling story makes a video stick with its audience, but if it looks poorly made, nobody's going to watch it. So as you're plotting out your next great digital story, make equipment-planning and budgeting part of the process. If you're shooting video with an Android or Windows Phone, this tutorial is still useful.).

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2013

If your organization uses Flickr (Android, iOS, Windows Phone) to manage photos, the mobile app is a must-have companion. The app allows you record 6-second stop-motion videos with your phone's camera and then share them with Facebook or Twitter. Some phones even let you upload to YouTube directly from your video gallery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2012

” It connects a stethoscope hardware device to a mobile phone and the user is able to transmit diagnostic information into a cloud service, reproducing the diagnostic capability of a trained medical doctor.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

They also help demonstrate the human impact of nonprofits' and libraries' work. Are photos that you take with your camera or phone yours or your organization's property to use as you wish? The following rules of thumb are abstracted from Bryan Carson's Laws for Using Photos You Take at Your Library.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

This is the fourth and final installment in a series of grantseeking pointers inspired by fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding ’s great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries that came out a few years ago. Big Book of Library Grant Money. American Library Association. Information Today.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Get Your Story Up On the Local Impact Map. If you use any of TechSoup’s resources and want to have your story on the Local Impact Map, just email community [at] techsoup [dot] org with "Community Story" in the subject line. This blog is an astute collection of digital inclusion technologies for seniors.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

For educational nonprofits, schools, and libraries, Raspberry Pi is very useful for teaching students about electronics, computing, and many other technical subjects for a price that's far less than a new computer. Libraries have also experimented with replacing terminals with smaller footprint Raspberry Pi computers.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Now, it is looking like the emerging killer apps may be messaging apps that text directly to stakeholders' mobile phones. If we want to get our story out there in a form that will get attention, videos are the ticket. Here are a few new things we could be doing with our phones and tablets in 2016. This past year, U.S.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Day 3 Plenary: Ignite with Ideas, Part 2 : You Can Change Your Story Speaker: Debra Askanase, Digital Engagement Strategist, National Brain Tumor Society. They are created from stories we tell about ourselves, and stories affixed to us by others. Dyer, Volunteer Program Coordinator, Multnomah County Library.

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