Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

One of the first schools was launched in Bangalore, catering to working parents in its technology industry who are seeking high quality pre-school. The profits from the daycare support the school. There are computers and large monitors in each classroom, Internet access, and of course, the software development. www.enteef.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Mayer’s research is from the 1990s, but the finders were recently validated again in a study from Carl Wieman that college students learn more, attend class at higher rates and are more engaged in their education when teachers take a more interactive approach in the classroom. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

This was one of numerous examples and stories Tina Seelig shared during her fantastic talk last night, Unlocking Your Creativity Quotient , hosted by UpStart Bay Area. Connect and combine things in unusual ways Example: She gave her students an assignment to combine two household items and create something with a new function.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Today, TechCrunch wrote about a new mobile application called CauseWorld Here's how it works: CauseWorld app users earn “karma points” when they walk into stores and check in with their cell phone. are examples of the causes. And it gets you way from your computer - you can get exercise! Big brands like Kraft Foods and Citi.

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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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AUGUST 29, 2022

For example, if a participant has a pledge from a family member that they’ll donate $10 for every 50 pages that they read, the participant will log how many pages they read at the conclusion of the fundraiser and collect their donations based on that amount. Reading boasts a wide range of benefits for both children and adults alike.

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JULY 8, 2021

Through that work, we’ve seen firsthand the various types of assessments that can be included in an eLearning course. These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. For example, you could ask learners to: Create a timeline. Sequencing. Matching, Labeling, and Sorting.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

I think about innovation and the work about innovation in education in two ways: first, if you have something that is significantly better than the status quo and you are doing it with a few kids, that’s an invention. If you have something that everyone is doing but it isn’t really working, that isn’t great either.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It's 8am in the classroom; 5am in my body. At the training, we saw examples of small visions--like a restaurant barback who had a vision for a better way to make juice--and big ones--like the 10-year vision for the 700-person Zingerman's community of businesses. What's different about your life, your work? HOW DO YOU WRITE IT?

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JUNE 21, 2011

I think about innovation and the work about innovation in education in two ways: first, if you have something that is significantly better than the status quo and you are doing it with a few kids, that's an invention. If you have something that everyone is doing but it isn't really working, that isn't great either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Example - Urban Science -- example of game that teaches hwo to do urban planning. For example, we look at how community organizers are successful in what they do? Audience exercise: Asked us to think about a shameful experience in the last 3-5 years and get in touch with the that feeling. If it doesn't work, revise it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

For example, you may hold online raffles, silent auctions, and giveaways to keep your guests entertained after check-in. Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons. 5) Online classes. 10) Hybrid concerts. 16) Hybrid costume party.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

one of my favorite things about our guests is she’s been in her shoes, right, she’s been an ED, she’s been not just a consultant but also has worked for and with nonprofits directly, which is great, over two decades. We have been working together for over 20 years, and love traveling across the country.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So if you have to leave early, no worries, if you get interrupted, maybe a kid barges into your room while you’re working from home, no problem, maybe your boss bothers you, don’t worry, we’re going to get all that good stuff in your hands. So I want you to be able to do that as I share examples, as I bring up tools today.

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Gyrus

APRIL 3, 2018

It appears that the work of a learning professional is never done. Outside of E-Learnings as a newer platform to maximize user buy-in, a variety of efforts are starting to be included in a well-blended mix, such as Social Learning, Gamification, and Micro Learning exercise. Aligning Learning Needs with Business Process.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content. It might be worth going through an exercise where your team says, "Making a PBS half hour program would cost X. Let's look at these one by one.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Rob Reich: Big philanthropy is an exercise of power, and wherever there is concentrated power in a democratic society, the civic attitude toward it should be scrutiny, not gratitude. Today, computer science-types who are solely interested in bettering humanity are certainly around and working hard on a range of initiatives.

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