Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Sounds scary? As Elliott pointed out in his post, it isn't the most user-friendly, but you can find tutorials, reference sheets, and more here. The author has a fun, easy-to-read writing style and provides helpful tutorials so you can put your knowledge into practice. Your web developer has already gone home.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Investing in data cleanup can create a sound infrastructure to build on. Create Documented Procedures : Create detailed procedures for team members including screen shots and step-by-step tutorials. Are all required fields well maintained in the database? Are records in good shape and are old solicitor portfolios properly closed out?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

” Udi was not on Twitter before he started tweeting for his organization and was a Twitter novice, but he was opened to sitting down with his communications staff for a half hour tutorial where they showed him the basics of using Twitter and how to do it from his mobile phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

People are even better at judging points on a line, but box plots aren’t yet a default option in Word (here’s a tutorial on how to force one out of Excel, though [link] Since we’re working with the defaults, here is how our social media data looks as a bar graph. Whew – sounds like a lot of work, right? Step 5: Save as a Template.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Within Media Cause’s Creative, Brand, and Design team, one of our favorite things to do— besides creating incredible work for our clients—is sharing inspirational and educational resources with each other: articles, POVs, webinars, classes, books, case studies, blogs, tutorials, cheese. This all sounds great, in theory.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 5, 2021

As difficult as this all sounds, there are significant bright spots on the horizon. Neilson created “ The Tami Show ,” a campy retro look behind the scenes, complete with interviews, beehive hair and winged eyeliner tutorials, and, of course, musical performances. . In March, legendary jam band, Phish, hosted “ Dinner and a Movie.”

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 5, 2021

As difficult as this all sounds, there are significant bright spots on the horizon. Neilson created “ The Tami Show ,” a campy retro look behind the scenes, complete with interviews, beehive hair and winged eyeliner tutorials, and, of course, musical performances. . In March, legendary jam band, Phish, hosted “ Dinner and a Movie.”

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

For educators, though, there are tutorials and projects that are a bit more practical. Creating sounds. A quick Google search of Raspberry Pi projects produces a long list of ideas. With the GPIO, programmers have made it possible to do everything from automate your home to feed your dog. Weather station. Digital camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Either way you’ll need to add a microphone to the mix to get the best sound. Both have dedicated users and a huge variety of tutorials online to help you get started. To capture better audio get a camera with a mic-in jack (these are a bit more expensive) or get a portable recorder. For our videos we use a Tascam DR-07.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2007

Excellent, stereo sound - the holy grail - an external plugin for a mic (thanks to David Tames I foud a holy grail of cheap microphone). Get a friend to give you a tutorial. Captures on a SD card, but decent quality. And, it had to be less than $750, ideally $600. I did a lot of research.

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See3

AUGUST 31, 2009

Good sound makes all the difference. But for filmmakers and DIY video folks, try Lynda.com and Creative Cow for tutorials and training. We’ve found that viewers are more willing to excuse poor visuals than poor audio. Take Advantage of Online Resources. For many people, Google is their #1 online resource.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

Twitter is all about community - up with the ppl, down with the numbers game :) @ danschawbel RESOURCE: Top 7 Twitter Tutorials on YouTube [link]. It sounds like he did an electronic version of many of us done for years on flip charts or on the wall in low tech ways. (See . @ uberbabyboomer #TWTRCON sez @ shelisrael & I say, Yes!

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

The organization uses TechSoup donations of QuickBooks to do all its accounting and Adobe Creative Suite to create things like its video tutorials. It is an all-volunteer organization that produces the annual NW SolarFest , the Puget Sound region's largest and longest running renewable energy and sustainable living fair.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It's a worthwhile 30 minutes of discussion about the use of sound to provide an emotional context for stories--specifically, stories about science. They have arguments about consciousness without sounding pretentious. They make radio a discussion, not a tutorial. They ask each other the dumb questions a listener wonders.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Furthermore, one of the things that actually one of my colleagues did that had to change was music and other sounds playing on a website designed for some of our clients; they could not easily locate the place to turn this music off and it disabled them from using a screen reader.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2006

has gone on to build other games and tutorials, but their bread and butter is the crafting of honest, successful "interactive conversation interfaces." First released in 1995 by an educational films company, the game has grown into the Obama of the trivia world. It's sassy, smart, and successful.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday may sound like a great one-off event for your organization, but you may also be worried about retaining donors in the long run. Here are some of our favorite from Qgiv’s list of virtual fundraising ideas : Virtual bingo night Photo or cooking contests Virtual scavenger hunt Classes, tutorials, or webinars Online game-a-thon.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

What’s the sound of your nonprofit’s brand? Colleen Fahey’s article, How Audio Enhances Your Brand Content: Find Your Signature Sound , provides guidance for how your nonprofit can strengthen its voice. Mix it up, break some rules, and most importantly.get to the point. Have you ever thought about it? You should.

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