Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

Helping staff articulate their stories and developing them might require storytelling training. To encourage library patrons to continue making content, Escondido Public Library trains library patrons using mostly free and open source software. Why Tell Stories with Video? video storytelling webinars tsdigs tstellingyourstory'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

I've been away from making media for a little bit and so it is nice to come back to it with a little perspective on how cameras and video editing have gotten so much easier. You can combine clips, cut clips, add a title or music. It automatically uploads to Youtube or other service or emails the video. . Here's some resources.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2008

Check out the new images and videos of Android , the open source phone. And the video with the kids is very cute. Check out the book club , reading Media Rules! Mastering Today’s Technology to Connect with and Keep Your Audience , by Brian Reich and Dan Solomon. Wait for this, or buy an iPhone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

Here’s some of the advice that came through Facebook: It takes a while to motivate the musicians, because they are busy people and often on the road away from internet. Makala also noted that her job is about consulting and training people in the organization to use social media effectively. Outline it. Decks and Links here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

She’s got some great video blogging, including a short one on “ open source feminism.&# Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology. I think like a lot of Web 2.0

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

As of 2020, 95% of North Americans are internet users. If you want to optimize your modern fundraising strategy, you have to meet your supporters where they already are— on the internet. Take Advantage Of Video Conferencing And Streaming Tools. This can take place via live stream or with a video conferencing platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

It took me a couple of frustrating hours or so to configure samba (editing the samba.conf file and testing) so that I could share my home directory, with music and video, with my other computers, and share my printer. Plugged it in, and it just worked. Directories were shared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. He selected some definitions from the Internet. Each has a composite page that has biography, conversation, and music/media area. Internet is difficult to stop. There were five organizations participating.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. This is very cool. It’s definitely a thing to watch. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

It can be found at [link] They’re an online video telecom service that’s can have up to six people talking at once. at 3:56 pm Great America Networks Conferencing has a WebConferencing tool called QuickVisuals that lets you share your desktop, PowerPoint, video files, webcam from a PC/Mac/Linux platform easily.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form , you’ll probably never get to read the cleaned up version. That’s super depressing.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so I’ve been so grateful to be able to help thousands of folks through my classes, through my courses, through one-on-one work, through training, conferences. Rose, your face is permanently frozen that way because people will shock you on the internet. Then maybe there’s some staff training or staff. Oh, my gosh.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

I spent 3 hours struggling with the Nvidia drivers (that’s the on-board video that my motherboard has) and my xorg configurations still don’t work. (X I thought I’d be a pig in sh*t – I have been living with an ancient, ancient 15″ LCD with dying pixels for a while. But Nooooooooo. No happiness for me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Don’t forget to vote for the DoGooder TV Nonprofit Video Awards. Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) They released their Convio/Salesforce connector on Salesforce.com AppExchange. They also launched their blog. There will be penguins!!

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Gyrus

APRIL 28, 2016

There are more than bil lion users (almost one-third of all people on the Internet) on YouTube, who spend extensive hours watching YouTube videos for entertainment as well as for education on a daily basis. This is why organizations are trying to integrate video learning in to their training and development practices.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Here’s some other coverage: Podcast from the Nonprofit Tech Blog Post from Josiah Richie Video Interview of Randy McCabe { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matthew Edmondson 04.15.08 I’ll be following MPower closely over the next months and years. I have high hopes for it. at 1:00 pm This is indeed excellent news.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? Your pictures, videos and everything else is stranded in a walled garden, cut off from the rest of the web. Wired says : Therein lies the rub. When entering data into Facebook, you’re sending it on a one-way trip.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. 5 Wayne 08.19.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Or that a certain nonprofit Executive Director Dugg a post about starting a video game company? Given the widespread problem with phishing schemes, it’s disturbing that web apps are training users that it’s OK to give a new site your email username/password. What have I learned in all of this? 4 Ade 12.18.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Are you trained as lawyer? By letting other nonprofits use your words, pictures, music, innovations, and processes, you are creating resources to help those most in need! Revver places an ad at the end of a video, allows people to distribute the video freely, and then splits the proceeds from the ad with the creator of the video.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long. And, of course, there are some other situations where Linux also shines: kiosks, internet cafes, computer labs and email/web workstations. I migrated to making it my primary desktop about a year ago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Vlogging are video blogs – and they are as simple as a talking head in front of the camera, and as complex as including animation and other things. But without a doubt, YouTube made vlogging, and mass video creation mainstream. It could be argued that iTunes made podcasting mainstream. Good analysis.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

The current iteration of the AI boom, which went mainstream in 2020 and exploded toward the end of 2022, will revolutionize the internet, digital communication, and offline activities in ways we may not even realize. LLM models can be trained or coaxed into producing harmful content with prodding by humans. DO NOT ignore AI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

I was curious to observe the gender balance at Penguin Day and while I'm not as meticulous as Christine in counting and calculating the number of women and men in the room, I took a quick video to get a reading. The video captures those on the philsophical side. Sorry Janet , no videos too tired to multi-task.).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Plone’s version is here: [link] Please note that I’m not trying to stir up this issue, Plone has chosen to focus on security, which of course comes with its own tradeoffs — the “why can’t untrusted visitors embed a YouTube video in my site” being the most common complaint. 5 Steve McMahon 04.05.09

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

These things play music, control smart home devices, provide information, read the news, and set alarms. The latest scare this year is about how the Internet of Things could kill people. TechSoup's annual Storymaker s winner videos show the importance of telling your story well. The next frontier? In the U.S.,

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

These are: Event Registration Bidding Software Text Fundraising Livestreaming Platforms Volunteer and Staff Management Online Shop Video Editing Software Graphics Software Event Day Solution Liability Waivers. Livestreaming is the transmission of live video to a virtual audience through an online platform.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2019

The internet is and always has been a growing world of innovation and connectivity. These content creators are ever expanding – now into live interactive content such as video live streaming on platforms such as Twitch. You can watch art , music and fitness outside of gaming. CreatorCamp. How do Creators raise money?

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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. Showing a lawmaker a photo slideshow, short video, animation, or visualization will feel more natural on a panel than on a laptop. Tags: Influence Internet Strategy Tips & Trends.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Branding themselves as the “Play” button for the Web, Wibbitz automatically converts text-based posts and articles into engaging, interactive videos so your supporters “never have to read again.” Vine is Twitter’s mobile app that can be used to create and share 6-second videos on Twitter. Vine :: vine.co.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Bravo enables brands to capture user-generated videos directly from the Web. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Animoto :: animoto.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

You can’t play mpeg-4 videos except under extremely limited conditions, and if you upgrade your computer more than once, you’ll have to pay. Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) " What else is it that us geeks do?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. Bravo enables brands to capture user-generated videos directly from the Web. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Animoto :: animoto.com.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

It may not happen quickly at first, but make no mistake- Blackbaud has a proven history of acquiring products and forcing people to upgrade to more expensive support and services- here’s a funny video explaining their strategy. at 10:03 pm Jon, That is a funny video.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

She’s got a really cool training course called Social Media for Social Good, her academy there. My trusted sources, if you want to do a little bit more research anytime I cite a statistic, it’s always going to be from Pew Internet, M+R Benchmarks, Global Trends In Giving. I also loved the Pew Internet study that found.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

The basic idea is to bring together a combination of a green economy trade show with about four hundred green economy companies, and a conference on the green economy with about a hundred speakers, and then we have live music all day long, everything from hip hop to bluegrass. Our business plan is over 100 pages. I do this seven days a week.

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