We liked this 3-minute intro to Songbird, Firefox, Audacity, OpenOffice, Gaim, Gimp, Inkscape and Ubuntu. Programs powered by coders’ collective brainpower & generosity Target audience: Nonprofits, social change organizations, educators, foundations, businesses, individuals. This is part of Creating Media, our ongoing series designed to help nonprofits and other organizations learn how to use and make […]
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A quick guide to multimedia software
An overview of software for multimedia editing, video hosting & podcasting Target audience: Nonprofits, social change organizations, educators, NGOs, citizen journalists, media makers. This is part of Creating Media, our ongoing series designed to help nonprofits and other organizations learn how to use and make media. By Kaitlin LaCasse and Laura S. Quinn Idealware […]
Why Wikipedia insists on open video
Why Wikipedia supports open video from JD Lasica on Vimeo. From time to time, Socialbrite explores the use of open source tools by change-makers and social benefit organizations — see below for our past coverage of open video and how open standards can benefit nonprofit tech. The second annual Open Video conference returns to New […]
Change-makers share 10 of their favorite tools
Ayelet Noff of the Traveling Geeks holds the Flip Ultra HD in London. (Photo by JD Lasica) Launching our summer series on making media for social good Target audience: Nonprofits, social change organizations, educators, NGOs, citizen journalists, media makers We’re kicking off a summer series on making media for nonprofits and social change organizations. And, […]
How to mash up a visual story for your nonprofit
Stupeflix. Stupeflix & Animoto offer new ways to tell a story Updated to remove RockYou, which has switched its business model to focus on games, and Slide, which closed up shop in March 2012. By Kim Bale Socialbrite staff In a world where we’re bombarded with 3,000 messages a day, it’s hard for nonprofits and […]