ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Most researchers agree that low-income earners volunteer less (Wilson, 2012) and Pho (2008) extended this finding to include medium-wage earners. As part of a. highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2009

This is the first time I ran it for people all from the same organization, with a limited amount of time, and mix of experience. Using it an internal training, it is important to have someone with hands-on experience in each group and this spreads the organizational learning. . It was from April, 2008!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. at 1:27 am From my personal experience after using both: Sitemeter scripts are slow and increase your page load time, whereas the Google Analytics script is fast!

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

Students explore their city’s roots reviewing historic documents. performance would lag, leading to frustrating experiences for visitors. installation of Windows Server 2008 and Exchange Server 2010 improved. installation of Windows Server 2008 and Exchange Server 2010 improved. and the next big thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I started the social culture discussion with a story describing an Twitter and board meeting experiment I did back in 2008. Part of the meeting featured the students themselves sharing how they used these tools. I dreamed up some scenarios of boards and social media in practice based on my experience in 2008.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

If you don’t talk the talk used in the nonprofit sector, I might question your experience with it. Some of my students are going to use the hyphen. Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. If you signal to me that you don’t really know the culture of the sector, I’m more likely to overlook your manuscript. It’s a shibboleth.

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Care2

JUNE 22, 2010

When fear of technology makes us hesitate, or holds us back altogether, the conversations about social change continue on without us--without the benefit of our experiences, values, and knowledge. Remember that social networks generally provide a safe space in which to share our experiences. Should this stop you? Absolutely not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. A PostgreSQL database can, like MySQL, be accessed via APIs written for just about all programming languages, JDBC, and ODBC (which I have quite a bit of experience with.)

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Forum One

JUNE 16, 2009

In 2008 TwitterVoteReport attempted to provide real-time election monitoring as US citizens posted voting experiences to their Twitter feeds. YouTube: A student group posting videos on the Iranian election and aftermath. The very openness and flexibility of purpose is exactly what's powering this type of engagement. Ahmadinejad.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Our campaign managers in the field have been experimenting with using SMS to reach target audiences to spread news and information, campaign messages, and news about campaign activities. Brooke Sadowsky, Program Manager, RARE Conservation. and regional offices.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2023

It’s never been more expensive to be an American, with certain measures of consumer prices having gone up around 400% over the past 40 years, while real wages have increased only 4% during the same inflation-adjusted interval–that’s not to mention the cost of student loans, housing, and other major purchases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

I was asked to participate on a panel proposal at SXSW 2008 with several nonprofit colleagues. Michaela is now working as the Online Manager for a nonprofit focused on International Student programs , called World Learning and had attended SXSW where she felt that there needed to be more nonprofit panels. I wrote it in advance).

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. It’s a great attractor for learning experiences at conferences and multi-day live courses. If implemented, that will make a big difference.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

One of their many charitable projects is to be part of the 20 years | 20 ways campaign, a year-long effort by Microsoft to build better careers and better lives for aspiring IT professionals and students around the world. It became a commercial company in 2008. PCRR is now providing enhanced tech support to our program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. My Barack Obama leverage some aspects of Collective Intelligence during the 2008 presidential campaign. What About You?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

In 2008, when this group was assembled, they had political backing, financial support, and an energetic approach to their work. One Minutes - a film competition in which students and young filmmakers made one minute films on the theme of "where history begins." How would you navigate the political minefields of such an endeavor?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. After exhibiting the vending machine in our entrance building, we found it was used by a cross-section of our audience: families, day-trippers, pupils and students.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

Hopefully others will chime in on this point with their own experiences from adventures in social networks. April 25, 2008 | Lisa Neal I need help getting training on how to calculate ROI -- more for our client services and training programs. December 17, 2008 | social networking software Thanks for creating this.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

Hopefully others will chime in on this point with their own experiences from adventures in social networks. April 25, 2008 | Lisa Neal I need help getting training on how to calculate ROI -- more for our client services and training programs. December 17, 2008 | social networking software Thanks for creating this.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Hopefully others will chime in on this point with their own experiences from adventures in social networks. April 25, 2008 | Lisa Neal I need help getting training on how to calculate ROI -- more for our client services and training programs. December 17, 2008 | social networking software Thanks for creating this.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Please share your own experiences with alternative strategic planning processes in the comments! The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process. In this situation I was hired during the last quarter of 2008 to get the process moving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

re at the unproven starting point, the opportunity is promising, companies wanting to extend their online presence should consider the distributed web (OpenSocial) into their 2008 web strategy planning. Start with a small, low risk experiment on a social networking site. Give your experiment enough time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Part of it is being prompted by my own technology support experiences with my satellite “broadband&# provider (which have been largely frustrating). I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo. The Net Impact Conference is the premier gathering of students and professionals who are committed to making a lasting social and environmental impact now and for a lifetime. General / #fcny / @FastCompany. 2016 MNN Annual Conference. 2016 MNN Annual Conference.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

If you are a college student, or someone in career transition, who wants to find work that fulfills your big vision for a better world, I have a few words of advice, and some books to recommend. Looking for a job can be a lonely, frustrating experience. My advice: 1. . Research classes/workshops in a skill I want to learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This class answers the question "How to leverage the power of new social technology to effectively create real social good." The theoretical framework, " Dragonfly Effect: Mindset and Method " is geared towards helping students create a project with a clear single, focused goal to cultivate social good. Metric: Content created.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

That said, even if you are the resident marketing guru, your number of Facebook friends is far more important than your number of years of experience. While the exact demographic numbers are somewhat disputed , without a doubt the typical user is a young student. Mobilize your current assets Credit to the Beaconfire Wire for this one.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I spent a lot of research time learning how designers in related fields solve the problems we had developing Operation Spy: how screenwriters craft plot twists, how game designers build instructions into the game, how theme park designers deliver consistent, high-impact multi-sensory experiences. I want museums to be like the Web.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

That said, even if you are the resident marketing guru, your number of Facebook friends is far more important than your number of years of experience. While the exact demographic numbers are somewhat disputed , without a doubt the typical user is a young student. Mobilize your current assets Credit to the Beaconfire Wire for this one.

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Causes Facebook Social Media Advocacy 48

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing. Our proto-users are artists, architects, university professors, mathematicians, engineers who have already been experimenting with creating interactive environments and objects within the virtual world. It's playful.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

He has 20 years of management, public relations and media-development experience, including the production of TV and radio commercials and award-winning rich media websites. Sometimes, its worth contacting a local university or technical college to see if your video would fit as a student project. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

On April 15, 2008 I talked with Janessa Goldbeck, the Director of Membership at the Genocide Intervention Network, about what we can all do about genocide. My friend and colleague, Adam Sterling, was a 21-year-old student at UCLA when he first heard about the genocide in Darfur, and then he was outraged and decided he had to act.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

As one example, you can view the building where Daum is located now, under construction in 2008. Usahidi , an interactive map-based information collection tool was born out of a need to capture and report post-election violence during Kenya’s 2008 presidential elections. The Whale Hunt: A Storytelling Experiment by Jonathan Harris.

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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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Altruism, the experiment suggested, was not a superior moral faculty that suppresses basic selfish urges but rather was basic to the brain, hard-wired and pleasurable." The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation has named February 11-17, 2008 Random Acts of Kindness Week. Volunteer to read to students or at a nursing home.

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