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This is an example of just how easy it is to keep a client base or target population informed of what your organization is doing. When a news story about Friends of Transit aired on the local Fox station, they simply had to go the Fox website, embed the link to the video onto their own website, and now the actual video is available for viewing on the campaign's website.

This website lets you create videos with different characters, voices, backgrounds,and your own scripts. Any company, person, or nonprofit can make them. These videos are useful to get information out quickly, and can add humor to information that might not normally gain attention

This video was brought to us by The American Red Cross. This shows us that some nonprofits have before very advanced with the technology being used.

Video of Susannah's talk is available above and at the Transform Symposium's website. Plus, a commentary based on her prepared remarks continues is on the website below the video of her talk. Prepared for "Mayo Transform 2010 : Thinking Differently About Health Care"

Courts are starting to warm to the idea of having video conferencing between jails and courts in order to cut down on the transporting of prisoners back and forth.

I think this is a really good incentive for nonprofits to get out there and use the technology available to them.

good explanation of web 2.0 video. Social media is one of three central parts of web 2.0

If you want to know what web 2.0 is then watch this video

This video and the two that follow discusses the issue further. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2011/01/29/levs.protest.technology.cnn

YouTube is teaming up with non-profits for the Dogooder awards to award non-profits for their work. Cool way to get your organization's name out there

An article about how youtube gives grant money the most creative non profits making use of their videos

Excellent examples of the power of data visualization. 

Connecticut nonprofits are reinventing the game by using videos to influence lawmakers

Social media tools, such as twitter and facebook, played a significant part of the overthrowing of Mubarak. With two-thirds of Egypt's population under the age of 30, it's no surprise that internet-savvy, educated, young Egyptians used such tools to break barriers in a country that has been ruled under unjust dictatorship throughout their lives. These tools helped organize and gather the millions of protestors that have sparked revolution in Egypt. Social media and sharing information online has played an almost unimaginable role in this process and certainly poses a threat to governments around the world with dictatorships and a significant proportion of the population who is educated and able to use these tools.

After seeing the tragedy that has hit Japan, I found this story to be useful as a great example of how tech can really affect people's lives. Google has provided a system where you can search the name of a person in Japan and find out about their status in the country after the earthquake. This tool is so important for government to use during a national disaster because it allows families, no matter where they are across the globe, to better find out what has happened to their loved ones after such a tragedy. Governments or non profits such as the American Red Cross can use this technology in all types of different relief effort circumstances when a number of people somewhere in the world have been the victim of such a disaster.

young hacker is holed up alone in his apartment. His face is lit by a laptop screen, monitor split between a live video stream and a text editor filled with code. Fueled by Ramen Noodles and caffeine, he codes away through the night, monitoring the latest hashtags on Twitter, never a few seconds behind the newest exploding meme, instantly transmitting the latest news to others in his social graph. ((This is a scene that is played out in the rooms of countless hackers and their "lean startups" around the world. Only for the past few weeks, it could have just as easily described an entirely new, organic, philanthropic phenomenon: Hacktivism. Hacktivism is the use of hacking and the startup mentality to tackle and support social good causes.

Ustream allows online video streaming for the nonprofit RRP, who's mission is to protect threatened birds. What better way than to have a live feed showing all of the intimacies of endangered birds?

One very revealing panel (in a web-streamed Advocacy Live event in March) included Eric Jones, the top technology person for Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, who provided tips and advice about ways that online organizers might boost their campaigns' impact on members of Congress and their staffers. Recorded  video event posted by Blackbaud on this webpage.

The Apple iPad, one of apple's hottest sellers, is seeing frequent use by those in the government sector. With the seemingly endless amount of apps available for use with the iPad, many help government workers to become more efficient. The apps that are seeing the most use include twitter, quick office, evernote and flipboard. Twitter is helpful to disperse quick messages to others in the work place, and obviously has social networking benefits as well. Quick Office is seeing a lot of use as a microsoft office productivity tool. Evernote allows the user to take notes, record sound bytes, add pictures and video, and other helpful pieces of information into one "note" that is easily dispersed to others in one piece, together. Flipboard is presented almost as a "personal magazine", where feeds from social networking sites and other sites the user selects appear directly on the iPad's interface.

The Coachella music festival was broadcasted live through youtube last weekend, representing a momentous change in the collaboration of music and online tools. With few glitches and little advertising, the concert was broadcasted over three days through youtube where people got the chance to pick between the three stages to watch their favorite artists. Free and easy to access is becoming more and more prevalent everyday with online tools. The streaming video was viewed over four million times. Nonprofits that are concentrated on promoting and advocating the arts and music can look at this as an innovative way to connect to an audience.