Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

One of my favorite articles was "The American Family Grows Up" by Neil Pollack which describes how, "middle-class American families are being forced to live, almost entirely, without a net", which he exemplifies with a story about his son putting a rock up his nose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Danah Boyd has posted a provocative essay on the class divisions she sees in users of MySpace vs Facebook. For an added bonus, read Allan Benamer's terrific coverage of Facebook and Project Agape and Micah Sifry's piece on the political and social implications of Project Agape. Michele Martin has some reactions.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0 Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence. It has become a great resource and many people are flocking to it on a daily basis.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0 Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. and social networking experts emerge and offer their services as these new tools gain prominence. It has become a great resource and many people are flocking to it on a daily basis.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

Our goal is to make four critical supporting points: • The term “Social enterprise” is descriptive. • “Social enterprise” is generic. • “Social enterprise” is in wide use in Trademark classes covering computer software and services to business and society. • Social enterprise is wide use in classes covering computer software and services.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

New questions are raised as classes can rapidly access information relevant to lessons, and students no longer look to the teacher to have every answer. Teachers don’t have to pretend that Wikipedia, YouTube, and other online tools don’t exist, or aren’t used by their students.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older. This means that teens are not necessarily more savvy or more interested than other groups in engaging in communities of practice around content experiences.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

For example, if your organization provides rent and utilities assistance and you have had a steep rise in requests for help, you could pitch a story about the crisis of middle class people falling into poverty. Online sources like Wikipedia can help you find additional publications if you have a broad area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

As a heterosexual, middle class white man in the USA, it took me a long time to have it driven into my skull that not everyone relates to situations the same way I do.or Then I show them Wikipedia, and I used to demonstrate Wikalong, but the page history of that service is broken and thus so is the wiki as far as I'm concerned.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Ryan Fan Before Ryan Fan, a high school senior, came to Benetech for his school’s career day, he consulted Wikipedia to understand this concept called “social entrepreneurship.” Alas, Fan, a high-school senior, had to depart in July to attend summer classes at Stanford.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The professor provides feedback on the site to each student for each assignment, and an in-class critique brings the discussion into the classroom. Here's an example from a class project the New School. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. work for each assignment.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2007

sites that revolve around content, like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Flickr, behave this way. Network these profiles at the contributor’s discretion (note: doesn’t have to be totally public… think about how cool it could be if these sites were only networked within a small community, like your class or your family).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Libraries’ direct service programs, from voter registration to computer classes, are focused on supporting citizens’ needs broadly, whereas museums’ direct services (programs, outreach) are focused on spreading museum content. Museums provide the information that we deem useful or interesting.

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