Archive for the 'Info Tech' Category
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Ahhh! I am very jealous of this cool new project done by our friends in the California Division. Check out the video today to learn more. I wonder what company they used to do this? Or did they build their own texting system?
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
The Austin Museum of Digital Art (AMODA) is Austin’s home for digital art. They help keep Austin weird by holding exhibiitons, performances and digital showcases devoted to this art form. And if your a digital artist in Austin please visit their Web Site to see their call for artists and art here in town. Check [...]
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
The kick-ass folks over at Facebook Causes have really pulled off something special this last week. In just under 5 days, 1,745,754 people sent out 4,919,071 status messages on Facebook. What does this mean you ask?
It means that on the social network Facebook people have the option to set their statuses. It could be anything [...]
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Now that this historic election is over with, let’s get back to some non-profit basics. This weeks rockstar question is “What is your non-profits email policy?”. And I’m not talking about internal (although feel free to share) I am talking about external. In your org what constitutes a “mass email“? Mailing over 500 people? When [...]
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Still debating whether to have an official presence on YouTube? Still wondering if you should take advantage of their non-profit program. Well you better hurry or you are going to miss the boat. Adage announced today that YouTube just beat yahoo in terms of people searching for information. That means the new ranking is
Google
YouTube
Yahoo
Who would [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Hey all if you didn’t make this today you can download the excellent presentations here:
http://www.leaderassociation.com/
How Nonprofits are Using Web 2.0 Tools
Recruiting, Educating and Engaging Constituents
DATE: Wedneday, September 24, 2008
LOCATION: Any! (Teleseminar)
TIME: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Eastern (12:30 PM Central; 11:30 AM Mountain; 10:30 AM Pacific)
How can nonprofits maximize the flurry of Web 2.0 applications [...]
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
You do know we have a sweet Video and Photo sharing site called SharingHope.TV right? But did you know that we now have a Blog that goes along with our Web Site? I bet you didn’t. So do me a favor. Go check it out and add it to your RSS feeds and bookmark it [...]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
This is something I talk about in a lot of my presentations. I am a firm believer in the slogan of “Be Your Own Media”. In fact I presented on this to 400+ college students just two weeks ago. This great article from Valleywag has me nodding my head in total agreement. They aren’t dead [...]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
So we just lost our Social Media/Web Dev Intern Nik but before he went he shared a cool app called Cha Cha. This lets you ask questions to a real person through cell phone txting. Simply ask a question in English and send to 242242. Then a real human being will google it and answer [...]
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Do you live in Austin? Do you work at a non-profit? Then you should join the 501 Tech Club and come to our free meetings once a month. The third Monday of every month. Here is some video from our last meeting.
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
So as you may of noticed the American Cancer Society has a few Web Site floating around. So what’s the difference between them? In this funny video Jeff Montegutt explains what’s what.
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Thanks to to the FIC, I attended a conference a couple of weeks ago titled the Future of Media Summit 2008. Here’s my report about it.
The Future of Media 2008 from David Collin on Vimeo.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
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