Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2005

Since the workshop is essentiallly about designing more interactive face-to-face learning environments, I don't want to model a 85 minute lecture with 100 slide powerpoint, leaving 5 minutes for q&A at end. Update: September, 2007. Coolcat Teacher wrote an excellent post reflecting on the use of backchannels in the classroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

I attended a lecture on the use of technology in the legal classroom last month in Second Life, facilitated by Rebecca Nesson. There's still time to catch this opening happening tommorrow, January 10th: European Young Professionals (EYP) To Launch 2007 London Chapter Simultaneously. Unfortunately, the event got cancelled due a fire.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

For the past five years, the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati has honored Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthday by asking a writer to give the annual Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture about, "Writing to Change the World." It was co-founded by two literary agents, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2008

The World Question Center is a product of Edge.org , a group of self-described "digerati" providing a forum for scientists and other folks of interest to present lectures and symposia on topics loosely related to science and culture. 2007) And this year's question is: What have you changed your mind about?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

We have many clients who use the environment for guest lecturers and virtual field trips on a global level. Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization. Elluminate Live! can transform the teaching and learning experience. In other words, Elluminate Live!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

On Monday, I'm giving a guest lecture at the Power of Social Technology Class , a graduate course, at Stanford Business School. This class answers the question "How to leverage the power of new social technology to effectively create real social good." Beth 5.0 I hope you'll join the fun. I donated $50 to the winner's charity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

His first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , which he co-authored with Anna Lappe , won a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change. He is currently a Fellow in the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, which is a national project of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. He was also a co-host of the PBS series, Endless Feast.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

The anecdote behind the project was a lecture by Patty Limerick at CU—the Director for the Center of the American West—where she was explaining a project they had that related to natural quiet. So in summer 2007, we will have 30 volunteers from Boulder , from different social groups, use the technologies and we will evaluate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The Story of Electronics is part of a series of short films created and released by the Story of Stuff project since 2007. It wasn’t until she learned to let go of control and shift from lecturing people to inviting them in that conversation exploded. It turned up the volume on this important conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code. But it sucks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. What isn't clear or could be simplified?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

MN150 is a newish permanent exhibition (opened in Oct 2007) at the Minnesota History Center that marks the sesquicentennial of Minnesota with 150 of “the most influential forces in the state’s history.”

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