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Five Tips for Nonprofits to Avoid Virtual Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Experts point to several reasons why we are feeling a loss of vitality, productivity, and wellbeing in our virtual workplaces: Online-mediated interaction and communications deprive us a full sensory experience as we are only limited to audio and visual experiences (when using video conferences) or just text. Here’s a list of dance music.

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6 Ways to Keep Corporate Partners Engaged During COVID-19

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These could include helping run your social media pages, assisting with data entry, or facilitating research projects. Little Kids Rock is a nonprofit dedicated to restoring, expanding, and innovating music education in schools. Together, Little Kids Rock and JBL distributed free headphones to kids in schools across eight cities.

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What is in the Treaty of Marrakesh?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. So, this means books, periodicals and other similar textual works, including audio versions of those titles. It doesn’t cover movies. Article 2(c).

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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

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Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

With a press of a virtual button, an ebook can be printed, displayed in large print (on a page or on a display), made into braille (on a page or on an electronic braille display), or read aloud as audio. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. Turns out that Chris’ mom was the acting CEO of a new software company, “Napster.”

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The importance of Sandboxes and Play in online learning spaces!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During the Full Circle training on online facilitation that I took this last month, we had a sandbox. It allowed us to play and get comfortable with the discussion software, faciliplay exercises, and other areas that participants wanted to explore like the audio as online conversation. I used MovieMaker in Windows.

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Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. The pitches included costumes, music, video filmed on-site, mock-ups, and social media demos. In fact, just last month, I took it to India. They spent the next 24 hours refining the pitch.