Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. 100 Years of the flagship library in New York. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

I was an early adopter of using the Internet in 1992 where I had a virtual job working online for a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts called ArtsWire. I’ve found that it lights up different parts of my brain and helps think more creatively than starring at a screen or typing. Zentangle Pens and Pencils.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

As you probably know, the Pope is visiting the United States this week in Washington, DC; Philadelphia; and New York City. While the crowds will gather on the ground for a change to touch the hand of Pontiff, there will be a lot of crowds online to celebrate his visit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2013

Unpacking the Relationship Between Volunteering, the Brain and the Body ” on June 20th. I first head of this book after reading this article in the New York Times back in March, 2013. Best Selling Author Adam Grant, “ Give and Take ” will be doing a big session called “ It’s About Science!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

He is an expert in the cognitive neuroscience field of ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. When the letter flashes that the user wants to type, the software registers the jump in brain activity and types the corresponding letter. How Stuff Works: How Brain-computer Interfaces Work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City. Social Impact Through Digital Games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Erika Atkins, Director of Operations at Opening Act , a theatre program that teaches theatre skills to students from New York City’s most underserved schools to help them succeed in life. Then we had the whole staff brain storm together. Each employee created their own plan.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2010

For the most part, I agree, especially when it comes to tax law, brain surgery, changing diapers, and other endeavors where one or more parties might get hurt somehow. One thread has an alarming subject line taken from a recent New York Times article: One-Fourth of Nonprofits Are to Lose Tax Breaks.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats. Storytelling engages our sensory cortex in the brain , allowing the listener to feel, hear, taste, and even smell the story. Watch below.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky's claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus' - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not. Their Envisioning Development project helps people understand “What is Affordable Housing” in New York City.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2012

I racked my brain searching for the solution, and, before I knew it, my head was spinning. Garret has been featured on ESPN, WFAN, FOX, and NPR; and in The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , Forbes and Sports Illustrated. Yet, in my opinion, they are working way harder than they should. Even me, at times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

But it’s during the walk around the block or staring out the window of the Acela to New York when we can thaw out the brain freeze and go for the breakthrough. Too often when problem-solving, we try to focus, focus, focus while staring at the computer screen.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Moreover, we recently held a two-day workshop in New York City, bringing together a wide range of activists and funders, developing a model we plan to replicate around the world. Bookshare is helping Kevin— who had suffered a brain injury—to keep up with his school work. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

. (#11NTCbrand) Social Media and Contact Relationship Management – the New Mix (1:30-3 pm Friday) - Ironic that I'm writing about this session as I'm watching the live feed o f Salesforce making social media announcements in New York City. It's the new shiny. I love it.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

You can connect with her at feedmedarling.com and on Twitter @megworden. ** During a nutrition summit last year in New York, I was listening to Deepak Chopra speak (which was awesome), and he was talking about different kinds of happiness. Some choices give you pleasure in the short term and some choices give you long term fulfillment.

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See3

MAY 29, 2018

The New York Times’ account opens with the line, “Tens of thousands of feet above the earth, the passengers clasped hands with strangers, prayed together and got ready to die.” Our brains are wired for story. Immediately. Tell a story.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Social Media and Contact Relationship Management – the New Mix (1:30-3 pm Friday) – Ironic that I'm writing about this session as I'm watching the live feed o f Salesforce making social media announcements in New York City. It's the new shiny. Tight integration between database and social media.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky’s claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus’ - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not. Let’s look at another example of this in practice.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky’s claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus’ - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not. Let’s look at another example of this in practice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2012

Jocelyn has a bachelor's degree in literature from New York University and a master’s degree in sociology from University of Washington. You can read her writing in Fundraising Success magazine and her personal blog, Marketing for Nonprofits. Finally, she serves on the board of directors for NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Along with RealClearPolitics , it keeps political junkies better fed than a zombie in WalMart's brains aisle. The New York Times has a cool visualization of how people around the world spend their money. Pumpkin cookies ! Play2Cures , from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The mini-golf game nearly derailed this newsletter.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2014

And then we stopped talking and our brains exploded with new information and connections. We talked to survivors and individuals who ran programs in Kentucky and New York City. For us, the opportunity to quickly learn, have access to engaged coaches, and ask questions was phenomenal. What We Learned.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2016

If you’re a philanthropy geek like me who loves to monitor what data tell us about engagement and investment in what I consider a part of our collective moral fabric, you’ll be even more thrilled to hear that some states in the US are even surpassing $23.56 (kudos to Massachusetts, California and New York for setting the pace we all need to run).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2009

Yes it can spark criticism, but also lead to insights. Take for example, Brian Reich's " Brain Dump " post which he lays his take on how Facebook Causes can be a game changer in the future and what needs to change. And in my experience, most of the news media doesn’t ‘get it.’

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

We are also including "wellness activities" including preparing meals to eat together, and cognitive impairment therapy for traumatic brain injury. Svea Morane: Other projects being developed include a virtual world international hospice, which would educate about hospice services as well as foster therapeutic interactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

And with traffic that often rivals the New York Times Website, Digg lets users vote their favorite stories to the top of the site. Can our brain handle it? NetVibes lets users pepper a personal dashboard with widgets. StumbledUpon is social search that lets users unearth sites that might be interesting to them. And if you???re

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

In my new series Designing for Good , we’ll chat with these innovators about their inspirations, challenges, and favorite tools. In this episode, we’re talking with Josh Tabb and Pratima Mani of Malaria No More in New York City. WHAT DO BOTH OF YOU DO AT MALARIA NO MORE? . Pratima: I’m the Graphic Designer.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

This " Demo Spotlight " highlighted six upcoming games to present their work in front of a stellar jury: Frank Lantz of Zynga New York and NYU, Ken Perlin of the Games for Learning Institute , and Connie Yowell from the MacArthur Foundation. This style of game play connects the brain and body to the game’s experience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

David is a journalist turned entrepreneur who has written for Wired , Seed , Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. Now, it's almost not even breaking news to say that newspapers are facing, to be quite frank, an economic death spiral. The New York Times has agreed to run it if it's "up to their standards."

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

I met one of these data artists last year while visiting a friend/journalist at the New York Times. His name is Mark Hansen, a UCLA statistician, and he was working on the finishing touches of the installation of Moveable Type in the lobby of the new Times building (shown above).

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OneCause

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This doesn’t mean that you should talk down to your donors or that they’re unintelligent: it just means that they’re probably using their brain power for other things and quickly skimming emails and mailers. Donors are more likely to read your messages and act on them if they’re straightforward and easy to understand.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

To go even further out on the technology frontier there is ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. The nonprofit Wadsworth Center in New York is on the cutting edge of this technology and is developing an in-home brain computer interface system for use by severely paralyzed people.

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Care2

JULY 31, 2013

Why do our brains crave images over text? What Old School Hip Hop Teaches us About Content Marketing Generation Y was born and raised on Hip Hop culture—which began in the 1970s in New York City and has flourished from the 1980s through today. The session will begin by setting the stage: What is dataviz?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Joining us from the beautiful Hudson Valley in New York, Sarah Olivieri is here. . But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine. You can really imagine eight weeks well in your human brain. . Sarah, how’s it going? You doing okay? . Sarah: Oh, I am great. Yay, Leslie is our winner.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . They’re based in Buffalo, New York, and they allow nonprofits to create stories, a testimonial about why they love your organization right on their phone. . I’ve made a ton of mistakes. It’s a favor to me. They’re very small.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 16, 2017

For this edition of the Hubcast, we’re talking with Tony Martignetti, a New York-based nonprofit consultant. That’s who I have in mind as I pick the brains of experts every single week and planned giving has certainly been among the topics we’ve talked about.

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