Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2020

1) Virtual and Augmented Reality for Donations. Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are two technologies that are popular in the gaming industry because they provide an immersive experience. Virtual reality does this by creating a digital environment that you can explore with a headset and headphones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

If you haven’t done so already, update your procedures to collect contact methods and donor information that will facilitate virtual fundraising. Action Item: What data collection improvements can your nonprofit make to improve virtual fundraising? Virtual Fundraising and In-Person Events Can Co-Exist. Changing your narrative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

If you have yet to experience virtual reality (VR), your first adventure into the metaverse using an Oculus Quest will provoke many self exclamations of awe and amazement. When setting up your Oculus Quest for the first time, take your time to visually explore your virtual reality. Explore and have fun.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Welcome to “Tech Policies for Virtual Teams—A Leader’s Responsibility.” We took August off in the Leadership webinar series, so it feels really good to be back with you and to be back with you with a partner—the first of two webinars we’re going to do with our friends at Tech Impact. Jeanne Bell: All right. Next slide, please.)

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TechSpot

MARCH 17, 2022

The latter nickname plays off the term metaverse because it delivers content in a virtual 3D environment, but its technically called volumetric video. The tech used is not. Last night, the NBA became the first organization to broadcast an entire game in a format it calls "NBA CourtView" or "Netaverse."

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Some tech skills you can learn on your own. Others, like ethical hacking , are a little harder to practice without a controlled environment. TL;DR: Get hands-on hacking lessons from the All-in-One Super-Sized Ethical Hacking Bundle on sale for $35 through April 27. You won’t just read about ethical hacking concepts.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Here’s the rub: There is nothing more profoundly personal and intimate than philanthropy the voluntary sharing of time, talent, and treasure lived out in a virtually unlimited range of compelling ways to express love of humanity. Supposedly, time, effort, and pain are removed from writing projects. Its almost transactional.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

This year the IRS will be asking all taxpayers if they have transacted in “virtual currencies” on their 1040 tax return – further incentivizing potential donors to support their favorite nonprofit to offset their gains. Myth 8: Mining cryptocurrency is bad for the environment. Myth 9: Cryptocurrencies are only for the tech-savvy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2024

By Julia Campbell, host of the Nonprofit Nation podcast and founder of the Nonprofit Social Media Summit , a free all-virtual event created to help nonprofits navigate the fast-changing social media landscape to drive more donations. In order to be successful, you don’t need a large team, a huge budget, and oodles of time and tech-savvy.

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AccelEvents

JULY 1, 2020

Virtual career fairs do not face these same limitations and can open recruiters to a wider, and potentially deeper, global talent pool. If you are thinking of hosting a virtual career fair, here is what you need to know: What is a Virtual Career Fair? Instead of in person, this event is hosted through a virtual event platform.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 15, 2020

But the virtual space is not just limited to virtual staff meetings or social gatherings. Virtual conferences and trade shows are becoming the new industry standard. Best Practices for Running a Virtual Trade Show. If you are new to creating virtual trade shows , there are a few things you should keep in mind.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Among the noteworthy features included the ideal ecosystem are (i) the virtual events channel (reflecting the constraints newly imposed by COVID-19) and (ii) the increasingly feature-rich WhatsApp channel. Below are four examples: 1) Virtual Team Management. Digital Storytelling Framework.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2021

There appear to be a few immersive moments created just for the virtual reality component, like tapping an enemy on the shoulder and quickly getting out of sight to fool them. And just like the base game, there seems to be a load of interactable objects, which should translate well to virtual reality.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The event industry has shifted toward hybrid or virtual event formats, but what does that shift mean for networking events? Should you switch to virtual networking events? The good news is that facilitating networking in a virtual setting is quite simple. Here are our suggestions for navigating this virtual environment: .

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Over the last few years, virtual events have seen incredible growth in popularity and yet still remain a complete mystery to most people. Event organizers may have thought that trade shows were about to disappear altogether but the fact is, trade shows are perfect candidates for virtualization! The benefits of a virtual trade show.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

1) Virtual Events Are Here to Stay. In response, we saw an explosion in the number of events that made the pivot from in-person to virtual. Many of these virtual events were born from a spirit of innovation and resiliency from organizations that were forced to evolve in a matter of days and raise much-needed funds in new ways.

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Achieve

AUGUST 18, 2020

Amid all the challenges and disruptions that 2020 has already thrown our way, tackling a new kind of virtual event might feel like a major undertaking for your nonprofit’s team. Besides, virtual engagement is now an integral (and necessary) part of keeping up your fundraising momentum. online and virtual fundraising.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic forced event organizers to make a quick pivot from in-person events to virtual events. Running a successful virtual event is easy if you are willing to learn from the mistakes that you and others have made. Here are 8 virtual event mistakes and some recommendations on what you can do to avoid them!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2022

Virtual reality is about to launch in series production cars this summer, starting with Audi sedans and SUVs. Holoride announced Saturday at the SXSW tech, music and film conference in Austin that its headset-based virtual-reality entertainment system will debut in June in certain Audi models with the latest MIB 3 software.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In remote and hybrid work settings, ensuring employees feel connected to their teams through structured check-ins and virtual social space is critical. Leaders must create environments where feedback is welcomed , mistakes are viewed as learning opportunities and employees feel empowered to express their perspectives.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

In 2020, SkyDeck — along with much of the rest of the world — went virtual. We are also hearing chatter that Demo Day will be larger than ever before because virtual events are much more scalable.”. ” The tech uses gas sensing to detect early traces of vented gases that occur prior to battery failure.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Now, in a spot of perfect timing, a startup out of Talinn, Estonia, called Ready Player Me — which has built a popular platform for creating dynamic, animated avatars to use across virtual worlds built and operated by others — is announcing $56 million in funding to grow its business.

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The Verge

AUGUST 14, 2020

Pinterest employees are staging a virtual walkout today to protest discrimination and retaliation at the company. The news set off a firestorm, in part because Pinterest is a company that caters specifically to women and had been lauded for leading the tech industry on policies that prohibit racism and misinformation on the platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Age-tech startups at this year’s CES demonstrated the potential breadth of the sector. If tech can help an older person live more comfortably, it can also help out a lot of other people. Other startups that use a combination of IoT sensors, AI-based tech and mobile apps is Caregiver Smart Solutions , Unaide and Smart Macadam.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

BadVR uses virtual and augmented reality tools to visualize geospatial data for a range of government and commercial applications. The startup’s tech is already being used by big telecom companies to accelerate the planning and deployment of 5G networks. Image Credits: BadVR. Image Credits: BadVR. ” . ”

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The Verge

MAY 3, 2021

G4’s newest host looks a little different from the rest of its lineup: it’s hired CodeMiko — one of the biggest virtual streamers on Twitch — to bring her eccentric interviews to the network. CodeMiko, unlike the typical G4 host, is not human — or at least, not entirely. If you haven’t seen CodeMiko’s interviews, you should check them out.

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TechImpact

JULY 8, 2014

We live and work in fluid working environment that is constantly changing. The post Part 2: Simple Tricks To Get More From Your Nonprofit CRM appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. Step 3: Track the designated performance data in your nonprofit CRM. Evaluate and analyze outcomes from data.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 25, 2020

The emergence of virtual events during the COVID-19 pandemic has lead to the development of new and unexpected roles on an event team. For an event planner, hosting a successful virtual event takes more than just finding the right virtual platform and using the proper marketing tactics. A virtual emcee. Virtual Emcee.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2023

Founded in 2018, the startup initially focused on conversational AI, aiming to build cutting-edge, top-of-the-line voice recognition and speech synthesis tech. MeetKai’s room-rendering tech. MeetKai launches new room-scanning tech and metaverse builder by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 3, 2020

But moving to virtual work doesn’t have to mean sacrificing business continuity. In fact, now is an ideal time to assess your association’s tools and approaches for virtual work. Here are three tips for preparing your association for virtual work: 1. Making the transition to a remote workforce can be challenging in normal times.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2021

When Amazon previously opened a 35,000 square foot Amazon Fresh store last year using its high-tech Dash Carts, it prompted speculation that the company’s Just Walk Out technology wasn’t suitable for larger stores. Amazon declined to say whether it would be bringing Just Walk Out tech to its pre-existing Amazon Fresh stores in the US.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook , held a presentation today where it announced its rebranding and showed off what it imagines the future of computing will look like — but amid all the fluff, it actually had some interesting tech demos. According to Meta, this is both a virtual avatar and a virtual environment.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

.” Melamedov founded Zesty with Alexey Baikov in 2019, after the pair observed that cloud infrastructure wasn’t keeping up with the pace of change in business environments. Prior to co-launching Zesty, Melamedov was the VP of customer success at Gimmonix, a travel tech company. ” Those are lofty promises to be sure.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google , Amazon , Microsoft , Yahoo and Zoom. Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. If you have a tip on a layoff, contact us here. of its workforce.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Employers have responded in kind, more or less, with tech companies in particular offering generous work from home and hybrid work options. “ When COVID-19 hit, we scrambled like everyone else to go virtual. ” One of Kumospace’s virtual office spaces. Image Credits: Kumospace.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Dear Tech Workers,   Careers are defined by moments. I was then able to take that understanding and build out a federated security program at a large tech company, where I helped lead Log4j shell response efforts. Service was always a part of my life, and I searched for opportunities to apply my tech skills to make a difference.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people. The protagonist is a master hacker who gets in katana fights at a virtual nightclub. But wait, now Ready Player One isn’t a metaverse and virtual worlds don’t have to be 3D?

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