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6 Innovative QR Code Strategies for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Include them in table tents, banners, and event badges to provide instant access to live event schedules, donation portals, or interactive activities. Design for Accessibility: Ensure QR codes are large enough and in high contrast, and, when you can, include alternative text.

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How to use Foursquare to market your business & reach a new audience

The Next Web

Alternatively, you can do this through the app as well, if the location doesn’t have an owner, or you can ring or mail Foursquare to verify your location. Foursquare badges. One of the most popular features of Foursquare is the ability to earn badges when they check-in at various locations.

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Startup Xpenditure turned down 20 VCs, but for what?

The Next Web

Alternatives to VC rounds are rarely considered. For a young startup ‘VC-funded’ is seen as a badge of honour to attract new employees and investors. Feted by startup founders, by the media and by government, VC’s wield power, influence and, most importantly, money. It’s expected that Series B follows A, and A follows seed.

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Post, a publisher-focused Twitter alternative, launches to public

TechCrunch

Post , a Twitter alternative of sorts that’s rethinking how publishers should engage with social media — and how they should monetize their readership — has opened its doors to the public. Of those, 430,000 people actually created an account. That’s when publishers took notice. That has some draw.

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Is Your Blog Listed in All Top Nonprofits? Add A Badge To Your Site

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can now add a badge to your site. Here's the official badge. The one above is an alternative badge from a collection created by Jenny Lawson. I just discovered that my blog is listed in alltop nonprofit version. There's quite a few of nonprofit tech bloggers in there too.

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How to Spot Misleading Charts, a Checklist

Tableau

To learn more about distributions, check out the Data Distributions badge on Trailhead. A bar chart would be the better alternative. Inappropriate line chart (left) using a qualitative axis and an appropriate alternative bar chart (right). The median value of $3.8 The average is much higher at $7.2 Chart Design.

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Locked out and totally down: Facebook’s scramble to fix a massive outage

The Verge

Since Facebook requires employees to log in with their work accounts to access tools such as Google Docs and Zoom, those services also weren’t working, leading some employees to use alternative services like Apple’s FaceTime and Discord.

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