Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

Why do people put stickers on their laptops? So I only saw six examples of this - bumper stickers on laptops. So you can easily figure out which laptop is yours. Why do you put stickers on your laptop? Stickers Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. I was only here for the last day. Here's the set.

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JANUARY 10, 2007

I have this plug for my laptop which can handle 240 V. So, my question is whether or not my laptop will play nice with UK LCD projector or what they area called "digital slide projector." Just thinking outloud, thinking allowed. MUST GET TO WORK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2005

WSIS 2005: $100 laptop Originally uploaded by BillT. Here are some links from various listserv discussions and blog posts when the laptop was announced here in Boston last month. Here's a photo from WSIS flickr stream. Andy Carvin, who is doing an incredible job of reporting from WSIS, made a 8 minute documentary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

If you want to look better on camera, you can raise the level of the laptop or use a light close to you! And it can be exhausting staring at a screen most of the day. But it can also help you feel closer to your colleagues when attending a meeting. Use Zoom backgrounds if you want to hide your messy house.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2021

I also have a winding down ritual – I set the alarm, make my next day to-do list, and put away my laptop and phone. For me, I have a making coffee ritual that signals the beginning of the workday. Make it a no screen zone. Don’t take your phone on your walk or put it into airplane mode if you are using the camera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2007

Just arrived in the mail along with the new copy of Daniel Park's Definitive Guide Camtasia Studio 4! Just in time to help me with the screencasts I'm working now about SalesForce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2013

For example, my children’s school work is all online and to check homework and assignments, we have to boot up and log on, we do banking online, we shop online, and many other day-to-day activities. Not only do I have several devices (computer, tablet, mobile and laptop), but everyone in our family does. Life is as Randi Zuckerberg says (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The Buffer Blog recently published a post, “ Nine Science-Backed Methods for Happier, Productive Meetings ,” that summarized new research and actionable tips for better meetings, including some tips that were new and different – and very useful: Don’t Take Notes with Your Laptop. A Table Stack for Cell Phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Broke and living in community housing, I came home one evening to find my room burgled, my laptop and cash savings gone. Dan was the sole anonymous donor for the program, which brushed off my indignity and furnished me with a new laptop, a mentor, and monthly checks for books, food and travel.

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JUNE 25, 2012

Since participants were from organizations working on similar content areas, this helped everyone. The Importance of Energizers Throughout. This keeps the training active and helps people attend to the learning. Since we are trying to build a network of learners, it is very important to encourage participants to be the leaders and teachers.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

I will sometimes take notes on my laptop during a conference session or webinar if I am planning to do a write up. For example, I like digital note taking tools when I’m capturing the “to dos” from meetings to make decisions and when I’m doing research online for a blog post or prepare curriculum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

We brought our remote partners into the room via Skype. We had assigned a bridge moderator, but we also made sure that we positioned the laptop so the remote person could see our faces. The bridge moderator moved the laptop with the camera to focus on the person speaking, so the remote person could see them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes peer learning. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

I thought we could use the chat back channel but since there was only laptop in the room we needed another system for backchannel communication. For the audio, we use a phone line that was fed into the AV system and wireless mic. The other challenge is the lack of feedback from the audience.

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MAY 1, 2014

The walking at work trend is being more broadly adopted by senior managers, in part because leaders want to get some distance from their always on work styles, with all of the demands of smartphones and laptops. Even in the nonprofit sector.

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APRIL 11, 2010

Armed with her flip camera and her laptop she, asked people to mimic short clips from the movie. As part of the thank you to donors and the community, she created a remake of Bohemian Rhapsody by the muppets movie using members of the community in cameo roles. What a great way to make people feel part of something!

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MARCH 1, 2011

Lina Aleryani , Team Leader from Yemen, offered this reflection on her workshop blog during “laptop time.&#. The principles that resonated most: Changing Fortress NGOs to be more transparent and working with free agents. How can we identify “ free agents” and involve them in our work?

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APRIL 13, 2017

Slido allows you to crowd source questions from the audience who can use the web site from their mobile phones or laptops in real time. Colleague Jeremiah Owyang mentioned a tool called “ Slido ” he was using in Paris at the Leade.rs Conference. The questions appear in a cue and participants can vote them up or down.

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MAY 7, 2013

Test, Test, Test: When the hosts arrived at the conference location for set up, we tested the connection and Google Hangout on location. The site had great wireless and Tharum was able to test on his laptop and give me a tour of the facility, including a walk outside. kanter we have wifi connection interuption here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Each push pin (that looks like a MacBook Pro) is a page from a travel diary written by his new laptop. View MacBookPro Travelogue in a larger map This map show the route that a new MacBook Pro made from a factory in China to Arizona. Colleague Alan Levine customized a google map. It's worth a few minutes to get a good laugh.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

There are lots of ways to hack an inexpensive standing desk , personally I use this inexpensive adjustable laptop stand. Exercise or moving around is one of the basic pillars of good health, sleep is another. How can these practices become part of your nonprofit’s work culture? So, you could combine the two with a nap desk.

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AUGUST 21, 2012

In other words, copy the file onto a USB stick and then walk over to the other computer where the printer is hooked up and print it. In addition, there are many times when I’m working on my laptop in another area of the house and would love to be able to send a document to print.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

One man I supervise planned on taking his laptop on his honeymoon. You are usually provided with vacation time. Use these days. Non-profit fundraisers are notorious for working on their days off. Just don’t do that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

HP is giving away laptop and printer bundles as part of its HP’s Create Change program which is an example of " embedded giving." That's a buzz word coined by Lucy Bernholz to describe the common practice of building a philanthropic gift into another, unrelated, financial transaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

One of my favorites is Ommwriter which turns your laptop into an old fashion word processor. However, if you have to do “work” on Facebook, here’s some work flow tips for avoiding distraction. They can also automate turning off alerts and other distractions. Freedom and Concentrate (for the MAC) are two examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

” His work is focused on this question: What if there were a way to use the internet – and all our web-connected phones and tablets and laptops and games consoles – to foster rather than erode our attention spans, and to replace that sense of edgy distractedness with calm? ” (Note: I created a list.ly

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2008

We got off the plane, I opened up my laptop with wifi and she donated. Yesterday after flying for four hours and having serious anxiety about not seeing the numbers, I pitched the young lady sitting next to me, a Harvard student. I said thank you and then found this awesome post from Chris Brogan. Thank you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

I am so hoping that my 22 hour flight from Los Angeles to Singapore has electrical outlet in the seat so I can use my laptop and fool with this technique. Sketchcasting! Check this out! I wonder what type of adapater I need or if Singapore Airways offer that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2007

The Khmer Angels were at the Khmer Broadcasting Network booth and signing their CD's and giving away Cambodian flag stickers (finally got one for my laptop). This weekend is the Lowell Water Festival, the Cambodian American version of the Bong Um Tok. I also got a signed poster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Stephen Downes points to his post with the following commentary: This would be pretty funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on our media, not merely for using a photo of Brian Lamb and his laptop out of context, but in pandering to a resurgent anti-computer and anti-networking sentiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it dampens interaction. The flexible classroom is a large open space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

. “Every spare dollar needs to go into our mission, not our technology and we get stuck.&# She went on to tell the story about how several biotechnology firms are moving their employees to mobile – the iPhone and the laptop. These companies have more iPhone apps than the iStore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2008

" Well, it seems that some people Twitter from the toilet with their cell phones and others, if the Internet connection is good, take their laptops with them too. The question "Is the only time you're offline when you're sleeping or going to the bathroom?" So, that question was revised!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

She went on to tell the story about how several biotechnology firms are moving their employees to mobile – the iPhone and the laptop. . “Every spare dollar needs to go into our mission, not our technology and we get stuck.&# These companies have more iPhone apps than the iStore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

but left my laptop power source in Massachusetts. luckily Santa Clara has stores that sell universal power adaptors that fit my laptop. It could have been worse, could have left my laptop home. I'm famous for forgetting to pack something important on every trip. Usually it is something cheap to acquire like a toothbrush.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

I was lucky enough to have a front row seat in the reserved section with laptop and digital camera in hand to cover the opening ceremonies on Twitter. . Lighting of the lamp is a traditional way to begin a conference here in India. I'm still very jet-lagged and adjusting to both the time zone and culture in Mumbai.

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