Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

At TechSoup, we support the efforts of nonprofits and public libraries working to build digitally inclusive and literate communities through donated technology from our corporate partners. These initiatives are exciting opportunities for libraries and nonprofits to get recognition and support for the work they're already doing.

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Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

The DALL·E 2 Prompt Book : This is the OG image prompt library and guide on designing great prompts. ArtHub AI Library : A collection of AI-generated art prompts and a platform for artists to showcase their AI-generated artwork. Prompt Library on Twitter : A Twitter account that shares AI-generated prompts and resources.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

This CMS also offers a vast library of ready-made themes to choose from, with over 11,000 themes available. Drupal offers a smaller theme library than WordPress, but it still has plenty of ready-made themes to work from. After reviewing each platform, you might feel torn on which one is the right system for your nonprofit.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

This vast library contains more than 34,000 freely available philanthropic resources authored by organizations in our sector—including reports, case studies, surveys, toolkits, and more. At Candid, we believe that sharing and learning from one another helps empower our sector’s collective success. 

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

Have your intern review the past year of posts and data from your major platforms. Manage and Organize Photo Library. Have a volunteer organize your image assets and put them in the right folders or work to build a library on Box.com, Dropbox, flickr or a shared Google Photos account. Build a Photo Library.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. I’d also modestly recommend our Cloud Basics for Nonprofits and Libraries. MIT Technology Review declared 2013 the year of the Internet of Things. Social media is now officially the most common thing we do online.

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Read my review. A “must have” for your fund-raising library. If I could only choose to keep two books in my library, I’d go with Influence and Pre-Suasion. Ken’s book guides you gently toward understanding exactly what donor-centricity is and why it matters.

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Candid

MAY 31, 2023

We’ve scoured our online library to find you our best quick reads and easy listens that will inspire you and help you recharge. If you’d rather listen… Did you know that Candid’s online library also includes audiobooks ? Read this Philanthropy News Digest book review.) Don’t have time to read a book cover to cover?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. Offer to draft, edit, review and improve the acknowledgment emails or letters the organization sends to donors. Offer to review organizational materials and offer feedback on how it could adapt or improve its talking points. It’s easier than it sounds.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

We reviewed the importance of year-end from the data itself to craft a better, more effective year-end email campaign. But most organizations are missing out on even more donations because they either won’t send more emails or don’t know the research-driven strategies to create higher converting donation appeals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Enable Media Replace – easily replace an image or file without having to delete, rename, and re-upload to the Media Library. Akismet Anti-Spam – automatically deletes spam and comments with malicious content on your blog posts and contact forms; also has an option to queue them for manual review.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 22, 2017

This means looking through your content and reviewing what’s working and what isn’t i.e. what are your visitors looking at and what are they ignoring. So add a media library review to your list of must-do tasks and optimize your images at least twice a year (there are some great plugins that do all the work for you).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Expert Advisors Review the Treaty for the WBU I’ve been here in Geneva the last few days, meeting with the World Blind Union immediately after the SCCR session. Since many of our organizations operate as libraries, we note that commercial availability of a book rarely impacts the availability of that book on the shelves of a library.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2010

I went through every catalog the NLS had and every Braille Book Review. Footnote: NLS stands for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, part of the U.S. Library of Congress and the nation's number one provider of books for blind people. Ever since I was a kid, I was a title glutton.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

His views have been featured in print and broadcast media including the BBC, The New York Times , CNN, NPR, The Daily Beast , Harvard Business Review , Information Today , Forbes , Writers Digest , The Bookseller, Publishers Weekly , and the Library Journal. Skip Prichard.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2022

In this two-part course you’ll learn how to assess your organization’s readiness to apply for government grants, research grant opportunities, determine whether you should apply for a particular grant, and get tips for developing the content that reviewers are looking for.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

It used to be that you needed to enroll at a local school or spend hours in the library to learn new skills. You don’t need to spend hours searching the library for the best books to learn about specific topics anymore. Be sure to check on the source to be sure it’s trusted or peer reviewed before you subscribe to these materials. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 15, 2020

His views have been featured in print and broadcast media including the BBC, The New York Times , CNN, NPR, The Daily Beast , Harvard Business Review , Information Today , Forbes , Writers Digest , The Bookseller, Publishers Weekly , and the Library Journal. Skip Prichard.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Look at who they’ve funded in the past by reviewing their IRS Form 990 (you can find these for free on www.Candid.org , formerly GuideStar.org) – this is always a revealing place to start. Also, don’t forget to review the funder’s grant guidelines , eligibility criteria, and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) if they have a website.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

After the last WIPO session in November, the World Blind Union convened a group of experts to review the current Treaty draft and make recommendations to the WBU on the most important issues for WBU to work on in this next session. We expect that many of the big issues with the current text will get ironed out this week.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Designed to assist and support an organization (and most commonly hospitals, museums, libraries, and arts organizations), these groups historically focus on raising funds, sometimes manage the volunteer corps, and nearly always maintain their own governance system. Mapping the Change. This is where collaboration is especially crucial.

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Forum One

MAY 10, 2021

At first, we reviewed individual components. Over time, we had enough components in our library that we began building prototypes of full pages. After each review session, we documented feedback and decisions and made adjustments in code accordingly. A backstage view to our collaborative review sessions. What we learned.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Cynthia Adams, CEO of TechSoup donor partner GrantStation , recently did an important online training webinar on how rural charities and libraries can get grants. If your charity or library happens to be located in rural America, it's not your imagination that it is harder to get grant funding in rural locations.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Here’s my latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR Blog or below. —– The Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference takes place Febrary 28-March 2 in Austin, TX, and I’m SO honored to be a keynote speaker!

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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. " There isn't a large nonprofit or library presence on Steller — yet — but there are a few fun stories. So when a new digital storytelling tool comes along, we jump at the chance to test it out.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

This post originally appeared as part of an online debate about How Big Data Can Have a Social Impact, which the Harvard Business Review Blog Network hosted jointly with the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. Skoll World Forum Skoll Syria SWF Big Data Harvard Business Review Web Reader human rights SkollWF SWF13 Bookshare'

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

As Cornershop Creative’s guide to web maintenance explains, website maintenance involves both the ongoing review of your site’s performance and ad hoc solutions to address unexpected problems as they arise. However, there’s one key element still missing: long-term maintenance. Keep your website organized.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 11, 2019

His views have been featured in print and broadcast media including the BBC, The New York Times , CNN, NPR, The Daily Beast , Harvard Business Review , Information Today , Forbes , Writers Digest , The Bookseller, Publishers Weekly , and the Library Journal.

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New York Broadcast Teach Journal 52

Whole Whale

JUNE 22, 2021

The weekly check-in is effective for non-remote workers, but it becomes even more important for those who are remote as it ensures that there is a time every week where the remote worker can raise concerns, give feedback, review goals, and feel connected to their manager and/or direct report. Build a community outside of work.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Here’s your #GivingTuesday & Year-End Fundraising Resource Package: Access Our Free Library Of #GivingTuesday & Year-End Fundraising Tools, Blog Posts, Webinars, and Conferences On-Demand: 1. As we head into #GivingTuesday and year-end, we want to share these tips and tricks to make this your most profitable Q4 ever!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Of course, part of the role is the bread-and-butter work of a nonprofit GC: day-to-day transactions, reviewing our 990, providing counsel to our senior team and board. as well as our Human Rights Program, which supports activists fighting injustice around the world. when we bring them to developing world countries. What’s next?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

The Four Elements of a Nonprofit Self-Audit of Your Marketing Plan When you walk through your nonprofit self-audit, you have four major tasks: clarifying your marketing goals, taking stock of your organizational assets, reviewing your systems, and tracking your progress. Review your recent emails. Let’s take it one step at a time: 1.

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Kindful

APRIL 19, 2021

Review and edit your annual report. Review and edit your annual report. The drafted report should also be reviewed by the leadership executives of your nonprofit for approval before the report is distributed to stakeholders and the community. Brainstorm and create an outline. Distribute your annual report.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2011

Graduate student Maria Georgakarakou, who is blind, gave us a rave review for the Read2Go app which allows those with print disabilities to listen to books in the DAISY audio format. In addition to being a Bookshare member, Maria is a book scanner and volunteer proofreader.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2019

His views have been featured in print and broadcast media including the BBC, The New York Times , CNN, NPR, The Daily Beast , Harvard Business Review , Information Today , Forbes , Writers Digest , The Bookseller, Publishers Weekly , and the Library Journal. Skip Prichard.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. The presenters, Austin Stroud of the Monroe County Public Library and Crystal Schimpf of TechSoup for Libraries, shared resources for teaching online safety and security. Assessments/Quizzes.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2010

In our quest to shine a light on shine a light on what's going on in green IT for nonprofits, libraries, and really anyone running or working in a small to medium sized office, we'd be remiss to not call some attention to a new book by UK-based author, Mark O'Neill called Green IT for Sustainable Business Practice.

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