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eBooks #2: So you want to e-publish? Mechanics…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If you want to put your book into formats that the widest variety of people will be able to read, think about these two important factors: Distribution avenues : Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google and Apple, would be the ones I’d focus on, as well as whatever other avenues you want to use to get your electronic files out there.

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10 Random, But Useful Online Communications Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

3) Never release an infographic as a PDF. A very common mistake made by nonprofits is releasing infographics for reports and campaigns in PDF format. PDFs are document files and therefore do not pull up thumbnails on social media which significantly decreases user-generated traffic and exposure.

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Reading pdf files without Acrobat

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

About a year ago we began creating all reports and other printer-friendly output from our Members Only applications as pdf files and opening them for viewing. Because the pdf file format has become a standard, any report can now be easily posted to a website or emailed to a colleague. And its free!

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Nonprofit Logo Design: A Simple 3 Step Process

NetWits

Once your nonprofits logo design has been finalized and approved you’ll want to get your awesome new logo in a variety of file formats. Most useful ones are: eps, jpg, png, and pdf. You should also ask for a set of files indifferent color modes just so you’re fully covered: PMS, CMYK, RGB, and Grayscale.

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ScreenSteps: Simple documentation

Judi Sohn

Rather than rehash what it does, here's their overview movie which explains it: You can export your lesson/manuals to HTML, Word or PDF and customize the template. After playing with all the options, I ultimately decided to export the files to HTML, upload online via FTP and serve in a Salesforce custom web tab aptly named "How Do I?"

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Great reads from around the web on June 29th

Amy Sample Ward

roundup bookmarks causemarketing emotions facebook files future google health impactinvesting list marketing pdf philanthrocapitalism philanthropy postalicious psychology reports research resources social media stats' ” Which Social Networks Are Growing Fastest Worldwide? – eMarketer -.

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Technological Protection Measures and the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Since almost all content for the last decade originates as a digital file, using OCR on the scanned page or the PDF image document is a painful reverse engineering process that delivers lower quality access at much greater cost than native full access.

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