Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

A video I saw recently (a great one, worth watching), is called "The Revolution is Love" and there is a comment in it about how we don't just want to knock down the 1% and put a different 1% in it's place. Eve Ensler reminds us that even in the midst of a movement like Occupy, women still get raped. And people still get shot. Spirituality.

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APRIL 19, 2022

You can conduct the site visit in-person or, given our current environment, via video conferencing. For example, when conducting a site visit in Oakland, CA, a private foundation let us know that one area of concern they had with this particular grantee was late reporting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

As a Bay Area liberal blogger who lives in Oakland , I feel like I should be taking part in occupations, posting photos, interviewing organizers, and sharing ways to get involved, but I haven't done any of those things. I want to be excited about this global movement, but I'm not. It just makes me sad, and a bit tired.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

From fixing wrecked park benches to cleaning up litter, the platform enables people to take action by submitting photos or videos of the problem and forwarding it to the correct authorities. " This project encourages citizens to make positive changes in their community.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Trans*H4ck is based in San Francisco, but has held events in Boston, Chicago, Oakland, Las Vegas, and more. Watch Allyson Robinson, vice president and director, talk about the program on Comcast Newsmakers: (Please visit the site to view this video). Video: Comcast Newsmakers. Lesbians Who Tech. Liberating Ourselves Locally.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Julie Elmore, library director, Oakland City-Columbia Township Public Library (Indiana). Julie Elmore is the library director of the Oakland City-Columbia Township Public Library in Indiana and its only full-time employee. Image 2: Oakland City-Columbia Township Public Library. Our guests for this webinar were. spanhidden.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 19, 2011

Image: Photo taken in Oakland's Redwood Regional Park made to look extra awesome with Instagram. Nonprofits could use Instagram to share photos: from the field from an event, march or fundraiser as they build, or create something (e.g.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

One undeniable trend is that people are increasingly attracted to images and videos and much less interested in unadorned text. This means that the rules for consent apply not only to photos, but also to videos and audio recordings. How to Get Consent for Photos, Videos, and Audio. Images bring life and interest to anything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Stay tuned for a video interview I did with him while in Vegas. But even more fun was this video interview with the good folks at the Gifts In Kind International who I ran into in the lobby and they pulled out their copy of the book and shared a few thoughts about they’re applying the ideas. Independent Sector in Atlanta.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

There are also first, second, and third place prizes in each of the seven categories. The winning images will be published in the 2010 March/April issue of Momentum Magazine. The deadline to submit your photo(s) is November 31, 2009. bike walk advocacy nonprofit photgraphy contest

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Submit your digital video, five photographs, or a super-short story. Oakland, CA: Office 365 for Nonprofits. Storymakers is live! TechSoup’s digital storytelling challenge is open between now and September 26, 2014. We have $13,000 in prizes available! Looking for inspiration for your digital story? Thursday, September 18, 2014.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

His work on legendary viral videos like The Meatrix and The Story of Stuff series has brought key social issues to the attention of more than 60 million viewers and his interactive work has been honored with 'Best Of' awards three times at the standard-setting South By Southwest interactive festival.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The iPad app provides free videos to K-12 students on various topics, including math, science, finance, and history. Windows 8 adopters can also try out the Viewer for Khan Academy desktop app, which lets you watch Khan Academy videos on your desktop. Khan Academy (Windows Phone, iPad) is a nonprofit on a mission to change education.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 15, 2008

For example, I live in Oakland, CA where according to an August 2008 Oakland Tribune article , 17.6% of Oakland residents are living in poverty. Geography and the Invisibility of Poverty (Blog Action Day ‘08) from From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign Blog Action Day: The "P" Word from Idealist.org Video: 4REAL Vancouver ft.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Six Sudsy Soapmaker Blogs And 2 interviews on The Extraordinaries blog: Chat with an Extraordinary: Lauren Bacon of Raised Eyebrow Web Studio Chat with an Extraordinary: Jimmy Santosa of Applied Materials And 6 news posts on the WE Volunteer blog: Love Making Videos? Become a YouTube Video Volunteer Is Volunteering Good for Your Health?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

It is a social venture of the Oakland-based employment training nonprofit Stride Center. The server has four GForce 7600 video cards installed; each card runs two monitors. He mentioned that it takes a robust desktop computer with enough PCI slots to accommodate the extra video cards. Installation date: mid November 2012.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

The organization has a staff of 40 across three offices (Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). With a distributed global staff, we depend on things like Skype video chat to reduce travel. We have weekly global Skype video calls for various teams. An example is 350 Mexico. For file sharing we use Box.net.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Submit your digital video, five photographs, or a super-short story now, because we have $13,000 in prizes available! Oakland, California: Office 365 for Nonprofits — Bay Area! With less than two weeks to go, TechSoup’s Storymakers campaign is roaring along. Looking for inspiration? Thursday, September 18, 2014.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2006

Click to Play This is a 14 second video made with my digital camera of trees in the Redwood Regional Park in Oakland. This video was originally shared on blip.tv Nor does it come from assessing what's possible and going for that. Since it's not possible to know what's possible.we find new energy in this very truth.

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AUGUST 15, 2006

Unfortunately, I didn't get to interview this week's Solutionary Woman, Majora Carter, but I did get to hear her speak last May at a Solutions Salon put on by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland. You can watch the video of her speech (she gave the same talk at the Solutions Salon as at the TED Conference) on the TED site here.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). With a distributed global staff, we depend on things like Skype video chat to reduce travel. We have weekly global Skype video calls for various teams. More than 19,000 citizen generated photos and videos, and posted them onto the Internet. An example is 350 Mexico.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 6, 2008

For example, when I type in my zip code in Oakland, CA, it tells me, "Your electricity provider, Pacific Gas Electric Co., iLoveMountains is asking bloggers (and non-bloggers) to tell folks about all of these tools, and about the mountains that can still be saved by sharing videos about America's Most Endangered Mountains.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

The Oakland Museum, which tried a similar approach with their "touch me" stickers throughout the galleries (as shown above in the photo), has reported an overall increase in touching. The Milwaukee Art Museum has a video explaining do's and don'ts of the museum for children. all over the place. Keep your arms behind your back.

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DECEMBER 28, 2010

While the staff who led the project cheerfully commented that they didn't know what they were doing when they started, the process they ended up with bears remarkable similarity to other successful co-creative efforts , like the Wing Luke Asian Museum's community exhibition process or the Oakland Museum's Days of the Dead project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Accessing sustainable food is easier with for mobile access to databases (Seafood Watch), delivery of hyper local foods (Spud.com), online links for farmers and buyers (Roots of Change), and maps of food grown in your neighborhood (Forage Oakland). How do online videos fit into your non-profit's digital space? With snacks!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Michael Jackson had just died, and I was at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, where they hastily erected an exhibit of the jacket and glove he wore in the Thriller video. People lining the street on the Tuesday afternoon when the boards arrived from the Port of Oakland, cheering as the crates came off the truck.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2014

Thursday, September 18 th in Oakland. It includes hosted email, calendar, video conferencing, and access to your documents and files from anywhere. We'll also report back after the Oakland event to share what we learned. Here’s the schedule: Friday, September 12 th in San Diego. Register here. Register here.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Peter Campbell, Director of Information Technology at Earthjustice in Oakland, reviewed several drafts and added his insights. Training videos? I’ve organized these tips around the traits Ms. Kaufman identified. Show functional business orientation and communication skills Show colleagues that you can think like they do.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Thursday, September 18 th in Oakland. It includes hosted email, calendar, video conferencing, and access to your documents from anywhere. Monday, September 15 th in Los Angeles. Registration for this free roadshow is here. Wednesday, September 17 th in Silicon Valley. Registration for this free roadshow is here.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The inaugural class of diverse and passionate teens, hailing from all over California, was trained in how to produce shareable video, create social media content, write compelling blog posts, and even take their outreach offline, speaking in person in their community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Is it video and audio? We've done audio, we've done video, we've done text, and we've done some photo slide shows. What really, really turns me on in terms of journalism is what I would call networked journalism, which is where you can get a bunch of different people to break up a story into smaller, different bits.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

LISC's Oakland field page is an example of how Silk enables you to tell a more complete story by including images, text, videos, and more. We have a lot of text and video assets and didn't know how to make them available. Silk calls these pages "data cards."

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

I work with a medicine woman from Oakland. Lately we have had people do video blogging and put shorts up, or a couple people have written songs, and sent them to me to put into the community music player. I'd been in the hospital five times in three months, or something like that. Her name is Mbali Creazzo.

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MARCH 1, 2011

You can connect with Jenn on Twitter @artizencoaching , the RBBP Facebook Fan Page , The Right-Brainers in Business Video Summit , her personal blog , and on Instagram: @jennlee. Women here in Oakland.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Early in his nonprofit career, David became the founding director of the Eastmont Computing Center in East Oakland (now called the David Glover Education and Technology Center ). Watch the How a Good CRM Implementation Can Propel Your Nonprofit video. Here is David’s story. Getting Started in Nonprofit Technology.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

LISC's Oakland field page is an example of how Silk enables you to tell a more complete story by including images, text, videos, and more. We have a lot of text and video assets and didn't know how to make them available. Silk calls these pages "data cards."

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