Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

During interviews being presents means even allowing silence so your subject can move at a pace that is comfortable for them. Help your subjects be their best natural selves by filming them in their natural environments and treating interviews like conversations. Bonus tip) Teach a lesson. Give structure to your story.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. We were also teaching business students, leading innovation and entrepreneurship workshops, and it suddenly hit us that this was something extraordinary, a larger story. Ultimately, we uncovered 10 iconic archetypes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Sharing memories from Seminar 2013 at the #icnola reunion! RamahSeminar (@RamahSeminar) December 24, 2013. This example from Teach for America is a photograph of handwritten thank you note from a student to an TFA alumni thanking them for making a difference. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ. Games are even more engaging.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

TechSoup kicked off its 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge with the webinar Creating a Culture of Storytelling. and Pop Up Podcasts teach library users to operate audio and visual equipment to record, edit, and produce content. User-generated content includes how-tos, interviews, and life stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Why DonorsChoose.org is a Fundraising Game Changer: Charles Best started Donorschoose.org in 2000 out of his own frustrations of being a teacher in the Bronx who didn’t have the supplies he needed to teach effectively. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2013. T-shirt giant CustomInk backed and launched Booster in 2013.

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Association TV

JANUARY 25, 2022

Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s 2013 tearjerker circles around an orca named Tilikum, who was captured at two years old and held captive in various aquatic zoos until his death 25 years later. They make us laugh, cry or inspire us to make a change in ourselves. But a great documentary changes the course of our culture, economies and public policy.

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Association TV

JANUARY 25, 2022

Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s 2013 tearjerker circles around an orca named Tilikum, who was captured at two years old and held captive in various aquatic zoos until his death 25 years later. They make us laugh, cry or inspire us to make a change in ourselves. But a great documentary changes the course of our culture, economies and public policy.

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Association TV

JANUARY 25, 2022

Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s 2013 tearjerker circles around an orca named Tilikum, who was captured at two years old and held captive in various aquatic zoos until his death 25 years later. They make us laugh, cry or inspire us to make a change in ourselves. But a great documentary changes the course of our culture, economies and public policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

As many of you know, I’ve just finished writing a book with measurement guru, KD Paine, called “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” that teaches nonprofits how to embrace the data and use it to improve decisions and get better results as a networked nonprofit. It’s a must read for data nerds. His answer: 1.)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

We saw the potential in this story and dispatched a reporter and photojournalist to interview the town's residents, write up a feature for our online newspaper, and create a photo essay. A TEALS teaching assistant for a classroom in rural Kentucky noticed the transformation of a young man involved in the program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Social channels continued to show strong growth over the past 12 months, with top social networks adding more than 135 million new users in the course of 2013.

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