Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

Some great data resources are featured this week, along with telling insight on the use of big data for global development and the use of open data by citizens. Open Source data big data crowdsourcing' Data Use by Citizens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand. Here's an article that examines how the Salvation Army in Canada is using YouTube Why do young adults love social networking ? t documentation" from the list of what open source communities can learn from nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2017

Source: State of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising 2017. Email and social media are the first apps opened. Source: ReportLinker. Source: GlobalWebIndex. 46% of Americans say they check their smartphones as soon as they wake up, while they’re still in bed.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2021

Have some fun with it by creating teaser videos to create anticipation on social media, like Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Minnesota does every year on Facebook (and this year on YouTube, as well!). For example, Facebook Live and YouTube Live benefit from being on platforms already familiar to your supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Google announces " Broadcast Your Cause, " a nonprofit channel on YouTube. It's an open source free web meeting service. hidalgo is on "an open-source journey around the world documenting free culture, social innovators, and global change." He also shares the key points of his presentation here.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. This topic was especially relevant….

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Google Ads Platform overview: Google Ads are digital advertisements that appear across the Google ecosystem, including Search, YouTube, and Discover. Hootsuite Platform overview: Hootsuite is a social media marketing platform that integrates with multiple top social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Jesse Shapins, the other panelist, is the co-founder of Zeega , an open-source web application. Zeega is a content curation tool that lets you collect video clips, sound bites, and images from sites with public media (like Flickr, YouTube, Dropbox, and so on). Create Documentaries for Your Cause.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

Flash (and, therefore, YouTube) is working, as is Java. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. Be Helpful.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 29, 2020

OBS Studio is an open-source tool for video recording and live streaming. The platform integrates seamlessly with social media channels like Facebook and YouTube so you can reach your target audience where they live. Capterra Rating : 5/5. 3D video editing. Brand overlay. Media library. Video capture. Audio tools. Text overlay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Connecting nonprofits to youtube users like blog brothers who have thousands of viewers. YouTube audience is a lean forward audience says. Youtube users and environment lends to active participation. be as succinct and transparent with YouTube is what wins. It was very specific and linked to outcome. psa don't work.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

The InterHealth OPEN Initiative has brought together a cadre of famous artists including Youssou N'Dour, Nas, Peter Buck from R.E.M. (a a fav of mine), Duncan Sheik, and others to help raise awareness and support of putting open-source software technologies directly in the hands of health care and aid workers around the globe.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

at 10:36 pm I played with it here: [link] Seesmic is to youtube, as twitter is to blogging. There were a bunch of other tools, and I look forward to seeing which of them emerges to become more mainstream. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 02.05.08 Be Helpful.

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See3

JUNE 22, 2009

They made it open-source and invited anyone who wanted to add actions to the database or develop new applications using the database. As part of the All For Good effort, YouTube has launched a new project called YouTube Video Volunteers. He called this Social Actions.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

YouTube/Google. Three Affordable Solutions: Using Open Data and Open-Source Data Science to Reach Your Goals — Friday, March 25 — 10:30 a.m. Are you curious about how to use open-source tools and free open datasets to better deliver on your mission? Amazon Web Services. DonorPerfect.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 5, 2007

YouTube ain’t bad. The advertised speeds are 1.5 down, and 256K up. As you can see, the download speed is fine, the upload speed is positively zippy compared to what they say it’s supposed to be. Pandora works dandy. It even snowed a bit – and everything seems fine. Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Facebook was just getting its first venture funding, YouTube was just starting, and Twitter was still a year away from being founded. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, which heralded a new, participatory web culture. What Is Web 2.0?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Based in the U.K., 2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

If you're considering revamping your website to include social elements like the Facebook Like button, streaming from YouTube, or adding information from a social site through its API, it can be overwhelming to know where to begin. Open source. Open Source – API. Debra Askanase, Founder, Community Organizer 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. As a quick comparative look between a small number of open source systems, it’s hard to argue that it contributes no information. More on that in a bit.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

Low-cost movie editing is also possible with built-in computter software (iMovie on Macs and Windows Movie Maker on PCs) or YouTube's own editing tools. The answer for smaller organizations is to look for open source software as suggested in the Cambridge portion of the tweet chat.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 26, 2012

A new explanatory screencast about open-source software? A tweet about an inspiring video on YouTube? Or about an interesting blog post by someone other than the sender of the tweet? A tweet about a useful free resource for educators? A tweet that'll make me chuckle?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2012

Software for creating wikis is easy to use and is available in both open-source and proprietary forms. As its name implies, it is designed for beginners looking to learn the fundamentals of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, and Delicious.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 29, 2020

OBS Studio is an open-source tool for video recording and live streaming. The platform integrates seamlessly with social media channels like Facebook and YouTube so you can reach your target audience where they live. Pricing: Starts at $20/m. Capterra Rating : 5/5. 3D video editing. Brand overlay. Media library. Video capture.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Member News online this week: NTEN member United Nations Foundation is featured in a Forbes article for turning to innovative online strategies -- including YouTube and Twitter -- to raise money in tough economic times. While we're handing out congrats, nice work, EchoDitto , on the new open source Mother Jones website.

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See3

MAY 4, 2009

Folks from YouTube and Flip Video Spotlight were in attendance for Michael’s session, and added to an engaging discussion around these issues. We unveiled our partnership with Kaltura, the first open-source video platform, to provide exceptional video solutions to nonprofits. You Made a Video, Now What?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Los Angeles, California: YouTube for Nonprofits. Durham, North Carolina: North Carolina Tech4Good Annual Conference, June 6 – 7, 2017. Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2015

Also announced was the winner of this year''s Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest , an annual award of a $10,000 cash grant to one individual who has created or led an effort to create an open source software product of significant value to the nonprofit sector and movements for social change.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

But without a doubt, YouTube made vlogging, and mass video creation mainstream. Vlogging are video blogs – and they are as simple as a talking head in front of the camera, and as complex as including animation and other things. It could be argued that iTunes made podcasting mainstream. Be Helpful.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

UNF has a YouTube channel and uses Twitter to engage support online. Those familiar with Michelle's work in the nptech sphere understand that this non-open-source tool review is rare, so go take a gander and join the discussion in the comments! One tactic is going online.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 18, 2006

The you that writes blogs, creates podcasts, shares open source applications, creates entries on Wikipedia, posts videos on YouTube, meets friends on MySpace and chats with avatars on Second Life. By now you've probably seen the announcement that TIME has named "you" the person of the year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

It also offers a glimspe of how widgets will change the web and uses a metaphor of open source software development: I think the greatest value widgets offer is the ability to add functions and services that aren't built-in to existing blog platforms. Steve Rubel has an interesting post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

One of the things that I do before I teach this workshop is look at the participant's social media ant trails by looking at their web sites, twitter streams, Facebook and YouTube. Paula Kahumbu – WildlifeDirect Nairobi, Kenya. I look for examples that match the principles for effective use and incorporate them into the presentation.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

Whether social media posts or YouTube tutorials, weekly blog posts or podcasts, there’s no denying that we’re in a content creation golden age. Seeking an open-sourced platform and the ability to adjust to changing learning needs quickly. Growth in User-Generated Content. Looking to expand their learning businesses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Marshall Kirkpatrick points us a tag 'PrezConference" for YouTube users to record their questions for the candidates on YouTube. ActiveCollab an open source project management tool. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. and asking for ideas. Top Rated Resources at Kikono.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

    Downloading the Twitter Vote Report iPhone application Participating in the Twitter Vote Report project are an impressive range of organizations including the Election Protection Coalition, Rock the Vote, Credo Mobile, Common Cause, Plodt, YouTube, Twittervision, NPR???s

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