Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Complex, document-heavy library sites, or sites that need document management. Kinds of sites best done in Drupal: Large community sites where you need different kinds of content generated by users (blogs, wikis, job postings, etc.). eCommerce sites.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The Kansas City Public Library. They have developed a way for anyone with a Kansas City public library card to use expensive professional applications like those from Adobe and Microsoft without owning them. They are building a free software lending library. How The Lending Library Will Work.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Put together documents that discuss your organization’s purpose, goals, and history. In addition to traditional questions and answers, they embedded instructional videos and provided a participant resource library. We suggest setting up shop in libraries, the mall, community centers, and anywhere else people visit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Canva’s drag-and-drop features and professional layouts enable users to easily design stunning graphics and documents. Snappa is a simple-to-use graphic design tool with a built-in stock photo, illustration, and icons library. Sejda allows users to easily edits PDF documents. Graphic Design & Photography.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

Other use cases include marketing, project management, and construction document creation. “There’s a really big opportunity there for AI to illuminate the library and the wealth of materials available right now,” she says. That could open the door for smaller architecture firms to be more competitive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2017

Canva’s drag-and-drop features and professional layouts enable users to easily design stunning graphics and documents. Snappa is a simple-to-use graphics design tool with a built-in stock photo, illustration, and icons library. PDF Merge allows users to easily merge multiple PDFs into on PDF document. Graphic Design.

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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2017

This program is offered in partnership with WebJunction and with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). A competitive application process for selection of libraries from across the United States is now open and will continue until August 25. Register for webinar. About the Author.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 29, 2021

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Grammarly allows users to upload documents to scan for common and complex grammatical mistakes, spanning everything from subject-verb agreement to article use to modifier placement. See also the Noun Project.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

Follow the lead of organizations like the Austin Public Library who have a sign-up form for those interested in participating. I especially love how the library messages the program as one about the volunteers, not the organization. How about interested parties already following you on social media or visiting your website?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Grammarly allows users to upload documents to scan for common and complex grammatical mistakes, spanning everything from subject-verb agreement to article use to modifier placement. Grammarly :: grammarly.com.

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Ars Technica

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Last night, Apple posted a new support document about migrating purchases between accounts , something that Apple users with long online histories have been waiting on for years, if not decades. If you have movies, music, or apps orphaned on various iTools/.Mac/MobileMe/iTunes If you have movies, music, or apps orphaned on various iTools/.Mac/MobileMe/iTunes

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

Wiens says the effort began with a crowdsourcing campaign to collect repair information for hospital equipment, with a focus on “ventilator documentation, anesthesia systems, and respiratory analyzers — devices widely used to support COVID-19 patients.” It also provides more than 13,000 manuals from hundreds of medical device manufacturers.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. Of course, just as we're solving the text problem, more and more content is moving to richer, more visual forms like graphics, simulations and flash!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Canva’s drag-and-drop features and pre-designed layouts enable users to easily create graphics and documents. TurboScan is a mobile app that enables users to scan documents and images and convert them into PDFs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Canva :: canva.com Canva’s drag-and-drop features and pre-designed layouts enable users to easily create graphics and documents. Learn more & register !

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2019

Imagine if you were a large organization that got its website hacked with hundreds of pages and thousands of documents. Uploads protection: WordPress files that allow your nonprofit’s team to upload files to the Media Library get an extra level of security to keep hackers out. How many months would you lose trying to rebuild your site?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Zach Bryant The change happened when Zach was in high school and his Assistive Technology teacher introduced him to Benetech’s Bookshare library. I don’t wait for my books for new classes; I search the library and find them myself.” With Bookshare’s accessible ebooks and reading tools, Zach made a successful transition to college.

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The MatrixFiles

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It also allows you to enter sample documents to match tone and formatting. You can upload specialized knowledge like reports or other documentation that the GPT should pull from first, before going to the rest of the Large Language Model (LLM). This works like a personal library that you can query against.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

HRP’s statistical analysis of evidence from the Guatemalan National Police Archives, which contains some 80 million documents, has helped to establish forced disappearance as a crime in Guatemala. It is the world’s largest online accessible library, adding books at nearly four times the rate of the next most prolific U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. Human Rights Our Human Rights Program continues to focus on helping activists and journalists securely document the stories of human rights abuses worldwide.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

However, as the founder of the Bookshare online library, we have a great deal at stake in how the Treaty gets implemented. Although it might seem like a complicated document , we’re really excited about it because we think it will greatly improve global access for people with bona fide print disabilities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

They will Tweet from location, break news on Facebook, send out group text calls to action, document in real-time photos and videos, and blog report backs live from events as they unfold. Foursquare is essential for nonprofits that are location-based (such as museums, food banks, and libraries ). Foursquare.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

How to Stream and Apply Real-Time Prediction Models on High-Throughput Time-Series Data Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash Most of the stream processing libraries are not python friendly while the majority of machine learning and data mining libraries are python based. So we need 10s overlapping windows with 1s overlap.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Basics of Meta Ad Library Meta has 3 versions of its Ad Library, each with its own caveats. Ad Library is a user interface that lets you search ALL the ads currently running and archived (up to 5 years) in the past across Meta. The Easy Steps Pull up ad library view. The caveat is that the data can’t be exported.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

This reality changed when both Kevin and Sophia learned about the accessible online library Bookshare , an initiative of Silicon Valley technology nonprofit Benetech. With its rapidly growing collection of over 225,000 (and counting) accessible ebooks, Bookshare is the world’s largest library of its kind.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

You’ll be able to share a file within Teams and be presented with an option to create a shared link that allows files and documents to be shared strictly within a company or to anyone. This includes content shared from OneDrive or shared libraries from Microsoft Teams or SharePoint.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 1, 2022

There are billions of historical documents housed in archives, museums, and libraries around the world. The vast majority of these documents do not have full-text transcriptions or indexed data, making them difficult to search and largely inaccessible to historians, students, scholars, and the general public.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 27, 2025

Documentation archaeology: Deciphering actual code behavior versus initial intent. Dependency detective work: Methodically untangling AI-created library and framework integrations. Performance pathology: Diagnosing underlying causes of performance slowdowns and inefficiencies.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

When I was assigned this article, I opened up a shared document to more than 200 of my colleagues. Moving Toward A More Collaborative Sector There is increased opportunity for international collaboration and engagement across civil society. People around the globe shared tens of thousands of words. GenAI allowed me to parse their input.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The Box cloud storage app comes with 5GB of free storage to help you backup and manage your photos, documents, videos, and other files. The app also lets you make "desktop mode" your default Windows startup screen. File Management. You can access, view, edit, and share your stored files right from the Start screen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

– Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work. The facilitation methods are participatory. Lucid Meeting Agenda Templates -Lucid Meeting is a collaboration and meeting platform.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At Candid, we partner with libraries and nonprofit resource centers across the country to provide nonprofit organizations and local communities with free access to Candid’s educational resources, trainings, and products. Candid community partners are strengthening the local nonprofit sector and helping their communities.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Trying to add the titles to your digital library earlier today was harder than it should’ve been, as continued server problems, following yesterday’s Fortnite outage , slowed down the store. Tomb Raider titles! link] pic.twitter.com/G83gfAhncb — Epic Games Store (@EpicGames) December 30, 2021.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Digital readers: refer to your Kindle library , your read shelf on Goodreads , listen history on Audible, timeline on Libby , or any doc or spreadsheet you maintain with your favorites. Limitation: Some documents I tried to import, like my Readwise reading highlights, were too large to fit in a Claude Project I created for my taste atlas.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

We use technology today to help hundreds of thousands of students with disabilities succeed in school, as well as help human rights activists around the world document abuses and seek justice. As one of our partners from an LGBT group in Uganda noted last year, “If it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

But letting multiple people interact with the same document, form, whiteboard or piece of content is still incredibly hard. When you open a document in Google Docs, you can see several profile pictures in the top right corner. It tells you who is viewing a document right now. Liveblocks essentially helps you get there faster.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Dropbox today announced that it’s acquired FormSwift , a cloud-based platform designed to help businesses build, edit, approve, share and print custom personalized documents. A screenshot showing FormSwift’s interface. Image Credits: FormSwift.

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