Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2020

By now, you likely already have a number of preferred platforms, but it’s always worth it to see if there are any additional ways you can streamline how you use them or generate more value with them. A comprehensive fundraising platform is also beneficial if your nonprofit’s team is working from home for the foreseeable future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

In the virtual workplace, being on video conference meetings and communicating via online collaboration platforms takes more energy than working face-to-face. My absolute favorite, which comes from Katy Grennier, DSIL Global , is the dance off that can be done on a video conference platform. This can make the experience lonely.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

You can boost perception by using sufficient color contrast between the foreground and background, adding alternative text to images and videos, and creating audio descriptions for text when necessary. Promoting your website’s donation opportunities using your social media and email platforms.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

While lockdowns and stay at home orders are in place, virtual events are the best alternative to postponing or canceling an event altogether. Once you have these questions answered, you can begin to look for venues, plan out content, choose a virtual event platform, and develop the event agenda. . Offers live streaming video.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 27, 2022

Preparing a solid event alternative doesn’t have to cost time and money. Use an online bidding platform. If your nonprofit already uses professional video production or audio-visual services, offer online guests the chance to watch the live event from home. Use video and sound production to plan ahead for your event.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

You can boost perception by using sufficient color contrast between the foreground and background, adding alternative text to images and videos, and creating audio descriptions for text when necessary. Your site must be: Perceivable: All users should be able to perceive the information on your website.

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Forum One

APRIL 6, 2021

Are there alternative ways to describe the work that we do? Is our brand narrative telling a cohesive story across all our platforms and formats? There may be instances when audiences may only hear audio about your brand, read an excerpt in the news or on social media, or read your boilerplate in a publication.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

My first experience using a webinar platform was with GoToWebinar , provided by Citrix Online. ReadyTalk Audio and Web Conferencing (from ReadyTalk ). more information on webinar tools, check out the following pages: Training Your Staff: Online Alternatives. that I've just heard about, in the case that your organization is.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The Author’s Guild asserts that they control the audio rights and that delivering a text ebook to a device which could speak it aloud with synthetic text-to-speech and that their commercial market for audio books will someday be significantly affected by TTS.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Many of the audio responses were later rebroadcast on the program. .

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 5, 2020

Whether it’s with professional-grade comprehensive platforms or more one-off solutions, any size organization can now fully take advantage of virtual fundraising efforts, something that might not have been possible just a few years ago. For example, Monterey Bay Aquarium’s mission statement is “To inspire conservation of the oceans.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Although this appears at first glance to be beyond reach in a virtual setting, consider breaking down each aspect one by one to consider online alternatives. Alternatively, you might combine a silent auction with a shop by allowing buyers to either purchase an item at a buy-it-now or have the item awarded to the highest bidder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

This is crucial if we all believe in "A Book in Every Child's Hand" and consequently, it implies the need to create alternate channels of creating and reaching books to children. The last part, a community publishing platform, is something we are working on with the Connexions Project and a brief video about it is here.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2016

To ensure that the written content, images, audio, and video on the site contribute to an effective presentation, your content team should understand the organization's brand strategy and be able to answer the following: What content do we have? For a website, it means. What's the anticipated development effort and timeline?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) Some SaaS, like Salesforce.com, and increasingly the nonprofit CRM SaaS vendors, are open platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

Use phone line with audio clarity and stability. Alternately, you can use a process called Gifts and Hooks where participants share what gifts they can bring to create an engaging meeting and what they need to be engaged. Many platforms have a technical testing page and good tech support, include those links ahead of your meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. Use phone line with audio clarity and stability. Do not multi-task (do other work) during the meeting.

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Achieve

JULY 23, 2020

Because many individuals are finding themselves with more time on their hands than usual, these alternatives are a perfect solution! Ask supporters to raise awareness for your mission using their social media platforms, essentially acting as influencer volunteers for your nonprofit. But what do non-financial contributions look like?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Someday we want to collect audio and video, too, but we’d need a pretty serious operating budget to do that and at least one full-time employee. Our collection has a home that people can visit, but we’ll also bring it to them and share it on their platforms: their classrooms, performance spaces, galleries. Geography is fluid, though.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

It's not disturbing to us that films are made for personal documentation, for training purposes, and as art--few people argue that it is some kind of cosmic distortion to use the same platform for Casablanca as that used for My Trip to Cincinatti. At their core, these are fairly new, interesting platforms for expression and interaction.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

While lockdowns and stay at home orders are in place, virtual events are the best alternative to postponing or canceling an event altogether. Once you have these questions answered, you can begin to look for venues, plan out content, choose a virtual event platform, and develop the event agenda. . Offers live streaming video.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2022

Alternative text (alt text) is used to describe non-textual elements, like photos, icons, and data visualizations. Alt text will provide context when an image is missing, and accessibility tools will convey the text to audio. Alt text will provide context when an image is missing, and accessibility tools will convey the text to audio.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

It is a free app and available on all the major phone and tablet platforms. app - for reading books and documents on a phone (any platform). Dashlane – is a free password manager on all platforms. Todoist – is a tasklist on all platforms. Uber – is an alternative taxi or ridesharing service.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content. The fact that nine manufacturers are currently developing iPad alternatives is evidence that the industry is taking this tablet thing pretty seriously. New Platform = New Opportunities.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

While virtual fundraising events were simply a quick alternative, they actually proved to be a convenient and effective way to engage with donors. Specifically, for organizations using our Qgiv peer-to-peer platform, we saw the mean donation amount of $87.46 in 2019 increase to $108.62

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Wired Impact is a website platform built specifically for nonprofits. PicMonkey is an easy-to-use photo editing platform that enables users to embed text upon photos, apply watermarks, and create photo collages through a simple drag-and-drop process. Textiful :: textiful.com. Wired Impact :: wiredimpact.com. iStock :: istock.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

Wired Impact is a website platform built specifically for nonprofits. Built for nonprofits, Lightful is a social media management platform that enables organizations to schedule social media posts ahead of time and provides analytics to help organizations raise more awareness and funds. See also Duda and Wix. Lightful :: lightful.com.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Thus was born Craigslist, which soon expanded into a web-based platform where users could connect directly with each other at will to sell, trade, and donate goods, services, and gigs. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. The early promise of this emerging platform economy seemed fantastical.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

For instance, we know Twitter is a great forum to share ideas and consume new content, while Facebook has become the most popular platform for B2C consumers. However, despite this shift in audience platform preferences the strategic marketing process itself hasn’t changed much in the last 100 years. Create Your Own Images.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

The following is an excerpt from Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism (2021) by Phil Jones, reprinted with permission from Verso Books. When transcoding audio of voices, the worker knows they are putting into writing the words of a speaker with an Irish accent. A drone hovers hornet-like above Sa?o

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The technology itself is not intrinsically good -at Google we are advocates for free expression on the internet and free access for all; the technology istelf is and should be a neutral platform for this. Rather than ask if the tool is perfect or not, we should work together to make it a perfect tool, keep the internet platform healthy.

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