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09 October 2009

America's Giving Challenge for Facebook Causes

The Case Foundation, Facebook Causes and PARADE Publications just launched the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge, a competition designed to raise both awareness and funds for charitable causes. From now through November 6, they’ll be giving away a total... (read more)
Posted Friday, 09 October 2009 at 6:41 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 1 comments
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19 September 2009

Fundraiser vs Donor

The relationship between a fundraiser and a donor is a tricky kind of courtship, as Network for Good shows us — with a smile — in Fundraiser vs Donor . This 2-minute video is a tongue-in-cheek look at the “break up” that’s bound to happen when a fundraiser gets his communications strategy wrong. Very badly wrong... (read more)
Posted Saturday, 19 September 2009 at 3:41 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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26 August 2009

Topic-Based RSS Search LazyFeed Opens to the Public

LazyFeed is a new RSS feed engine based on topics, not sources or individuals, that offers a new way to find information online blogs, news services, podcasts, social media updates, and so on — content from any site that publishes an RSS feed. The... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 26 August 2009 at 9:36 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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- Web 2.0,
- Video,
- RSS,
- search
31 July 2009

Digital Storytelling with VoiceThread: Create a Collaborative Multi-Media Presentation

VoiceThread, named one of Webware's top 100 web apps for 2008, is an online media album tool that lets a group of people easily add their comments to a collection of images, videos, and documents. Gayle Thorsen has some great ideas for how non-profits can use VoiceThread to engage their supporters in a compelling, collaborative online story — and you’ll have plenty of your own ideas, when you see what VoiceThread can do! (read more)
Posted Friday, 31 July 2009 at 4:25 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 1 comments
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16 July 2009

Yahoo Search Pad for Automatic Notes

If Yahoo Search is your search engine of choice, you may have noticed a new feature recently. Yahoo Search Pad kicks in automatically when the engine detects a pattern of search that suggests you're researching a specific topic, and unobtrusively tracks... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 16 July 2009 at 6:25 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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- search,
- research,
- Video,
- Yahoo
20 May 2009

Member Management Magic: Wild Apricot Launches Version 3

Who says membership management can’t be fun? As a company, Wild Apricot believes in making the web as easy and fun as possible — so when it came time to launch Version 3.0, a major upgrade to its website and membership management software for associations... (read more)
Posted Wednesday, 20 May 2009 at 6:39 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 5 comments
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10 May 2009

Animoto Gives Free Pro Accounts to Non-Profits and Causes

Animoto is quite possibly the easiest way to turn your photos and music into a dynamic, DVD-quality video without special skills or expensive technology. Last year, the video creation platform gave free pro accounts to educators - now, "Animoto for a Cause" offers free all-access pro accounts to "organizations and people who are working toward improving their community and the world at large." (read more)
Posted Sunday, 10 May 2009 at 2:20 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 4 comments
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- media,
- images,
- Video,
- Web 2.0,
- Non-profit
27 October 2008

Show, Don't Tell: Google Earth Outreach for Nonprofits

Since the earliest days of world exploration, maps have told compelling stories to people who may never see the places depicted. Topographical lines on paper only go a small way to recreate the traveller's experience, however, and the rest depends... (read more)
Posted Monday, 27 October 2008 at 3:36 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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- collaboration,
- case studies,
- Video,
- Google,
- Web 2.0,
- maps,
- media,
- Non-profit,
- s,
- Wild Apricot Reviews
09 June 2008

Social Media in Plain English: Video

It turns out that ice cream and social media have a lot in common -- at least, according to the latest video by Lee Lefever of Common Craft, Social Media in Plain English. Using a deceptively simple paper and whiteboard technique, Common Craft specializes in short, amusing, and easy-to-understand videos that explain complex ideas. This latest video focuses on basics of Social Media: "new technology that makes everyone a producer and tools that give everyone a chance to have a say." (read more)
Posted Monday, 09 June 2008 at 8:30 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 0 comments
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31 May 2008

Free All-Access Animoto for Educators

Imagine a Web 2.0 tool that combines your images and music to create a flashy video presentation. It's quick and easy to use, and the results can make the standard digital slideshow look like something from the last decade. That's Animoto. (read more)
Posted Saturday, 31 May 2008 at 4:37 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 2 comments
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12 April 2008

NonProfits on Video: Using YouTube to Promote Your Cause

Conventional wisdom says that it is the small nonprofit organizations who stand most to benefit from Web 2.0 opportunities, where so much can be accomplished for such a small investment of time and resources. Online video, for example, puts multimedia... (read more)
Posted Saturday, 12 April 2008 at 11:54 AM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 7 comments
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01 February 2008

Seesmic: where YouTube meets Twitter

A new video-based social media startup has appeared on the Web 2.0 horizon, and some heavy-hitters in the web tech world are wagering their investments that Seesmic could be the Next Big Thing. Seesmic is best described as a sort of "video Twitter"... (read more)
Posted Friday, 01 February 2008 at 6:36 PM by Rebecca Leaman [Curious Apricot] | 7 comments
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17 January 2008

Create a video for your nonprofit, and win a trip to San Francisco -- 2nd Annual DoGooderTV Awards

Here's another great reason to put your video skills to use! See3 Communications and the Nonprofit Technology Network ( NTEN ) invite you to submit your videos to the contest, hosted on DoGooderTV . The theme of this year's contest is From the Ground... (read more)
Posted Thursday, 17 January 2008 at 4:39 PM by Lenna Titizian [Dancing Apricot] | 2 comments
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