Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

We worked with library director, Maggie Buckholz, and Janet Royer, the library system administrator and circulation supervisor. The library also offers free WiFi, a laptop checkout program, and 30 public access computers. They actually didn't use or need the instructions we provided at all and found the software easy to work with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences. What's also different is that more and more people are viewing the back channel as integrated with the conference networking and participant learning. What Twitter or other back channel does is that it leaves the guess work out it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. It is far less work to slap together a powerpoint presentation and prepare the content. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

One participant described this as the "strawberry jam" problem that if the training is trying to cover too much content and too many different levels, than it gets spread too thin. By having the whole group understand at the beginning that there are different levels and how they might react to the material. Know of any?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

That the old metrics aren't working. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. There was some push back from someone in the audience "How can we measure virtual worlds when we really haven't yet figured out what works and what doesn't. Two years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. Young people have access to computers in schools and libraries, but there is a difference in the quality of experience. "We know very little about the learning that is happening outside of classrooms."

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted by a co-worker or a toddler, if you’re working at home or something, don’t worry, we will get all those good things in your hands later on today. And now my clients who I work with regularly raise 10k, six figures and seven-figure gifts unrestricted from individuals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. Michael Stein (East Coast) tells us the difference between membership management software and crm. For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. NTC is just days away!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Peter Campbell equates Buying Software To Buying A House , a great metaphor, inbetween working on site redesign for the NPTech Community site. If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. The 9 Essential Posts That Every Blogger Should Know offers nine different genres of blog posts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work. Our work in Liberia, funded by the State Department in support of the Truth Commission (TRC) continues.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 2, 2009

Last week, I had my first serious experience with useful back channels at a conference ( WebWise ), and it taught me some lessons about how back channels might be used effectively as a learning tool in museums and other experiential venues (like conferences and classrooms). Different tools are best for different types of interaction.

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