Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2008

"[Y]ou don't necessarily have to solve a problem. I just have to do what I can. " -- Jerry Fowler, Executive Director of the Save Darfur Coalition , during an interview on the Voices on Genocide Prevention Podcast. I don't have to solve the problem. You just have to take the steps that are available to you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork? Trust me.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Another problem in theory is fraud, and another problem is that many sites only included last and first names which in a mass of several hundred thousand displaced persons obviously included many duplicates.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. why not museums? and staff.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. why not museums? and staff.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

These realities make it more evident that each nonprofit needs a unified voice, powerful enough to withstand the process of making policy. Once everyone is sending the same message, quantifying your voice by the number of actions advocates send as messages to the decision maker’s office is much easier. What are you waiting for?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

We also shine the light on the potential security problems of smart toys, predict the end of the digital divide, and discuss a health-related wearable that can't get here fast enough and some intriguing 10 year-old predictions that just happened to come true. This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. This past year, U.S.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

NIH does this to allow teens a way to get credible information from a trusted third party - and NIH gets some great intelligence about what is on the minds of teens (eg in 2009 twice as many marijuana questions as in 2008.). Electronic Petitions: to allow people to voice views on specific issues. Drinking from the Firehose?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

There was almost universal frustration voiced about using outside technology consultants. There is a chicken and the egg problem. 2008: How do I do it right? Most of the attendees were at a loss as to where and how to get help for selecting and using new social media tools. ???We to Web 2.0 in terms of personal learning.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

The problem is that the same challenges apply in any medium -- you need to cut through the noise, develop a list of supporters, get those supporters to pay attention, and encourage those supporters to do something. Maybe thats OK if you can get 250,000 twenty-somethings to donate a $1 or $2. Crowd-sourcing. It can take a lot of time.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

The problem is that the same challenges apply in any medium -- you need to cut through the noise, develop a list of supporters, get those supporters to pay attention, and encourage those supporters to do something. Maybe thats OK if you can get 250,000 twenty-somethings to donate a $1 or $2. Crowd-sourcing. It can take a lot of time.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I'd always joked that my dream job was to design pinball machines--a technical problem wrapped in creativity and pleasure. It took blogging and developing a specific interest for me to gain the confidence and voice to know what I wanted to ask. I expected the museum blogosphere to explode in 2007 or 2008. Share your ideas.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Scientists state a problem, make a hypothesis, develop a test regimen to test the hypothesis, gather data, analyze the results, and make conclusions, which may include stating new problems or hypotheses. This table from the report shows how the different models correlate with participation in different steps of the process.

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

How do you avoid the “echo chamber&# problem of seeing the same people talking about the same things? I throw out voices that get repetitive or too self focused. Instead I seek out newer voices on the edge, as well as a few international blogs. You are what you eat goes the old adage. That means find new food.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. BB: When I hear that I think, wow, that is a huge, depressing, systemic problem. Desai came to the Women of Color Resource Center from a Deputy Director role at United for a Fair Economy. That's one key piece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

We work to empower the millions of people and organizations that use Facebook to create high-impact solutions to problems big and small, all over the world. I joined Facebook in 2008 as a member of our inside sales team. The top five “tips and tricks” that I always share for Facebook Pages are: Find your voice. Push & pull.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo. New voices energizing conversations. The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. General / #fcny / @FastCompany.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

What is Women's Earth Alliance, and what problem you're trying to solve? The problem that we are addressing is a great one. How do they help to address some of the challenges and problems that you just spoke about? The problems haven't lessened, but there is a lightness. billion people are without clean water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Elevating Advocacy Voices for Children Through Social Media – Guest Post by Barbara Munoz. In 2008, the Packard Foundation invited Voices for Utah Children to participate in the Narrative Project , which was designed to change the conversation around children’s. Life Elevated.” It’s also hard to change the. better way.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

But what can you do about a problem that seems so overwhelming? On April 15, 2008 I talked with Janessa Goldbeck, the Director of Membership at the Genocide Intervention Network, about what we can all do about genocide. The first book that I would recommend reading is called, A Problem from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

" --Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. As someone who's kind of an activist, an anti-war activist, I really had a problem with that. We really want you to come."

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 at 9:32 pm | Permalink Beth Kanter wrote: BTW, did you share any of your presentation materials or curriculum online anyplace? link] Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 8:48 pm | Permalink Alex wrote: Great, great, great – it’s always good to know you’re pointing your resources in the right direction.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

There's a long fight ahead, but for issues that stir you, one simple, positive thing you can do today is give - your time, money, voice, or attention - because so many organizations need your urgent support. The last few days have been equal parts terrifying, challenging, and complicated. Donate | Volunteer | Advocate | Twitter | Facebook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

The Engage Network and Julia Butterfly Hill and Marianne Manilov and Alissa Hauser, they came to me with the solution to my problem. We wanted to encourage them to find their voice, and to become leaders in their own right in their own local community. For example, we put together the 2008 Seva Challenge. Who is the note taker?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

18 In this world of management by algorithm, many workers feel that they have lost dignity and voice. Compounding the normal difficulties of raising capital, platform cooperatives face additional problem of larger start-up costs. 9</sup). 39 This is a tiny share of the U.S. trillion in assets.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Democracy Lab : DemocracyLab is an experiment in direct democracy, powered by open source software, and built on the idea that technology can empower us to harness freedom of speech and the power of the vote to solve today’s most challenging problems. Open Forum Foundation : Giving you a voice in the decisions that shape your world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

I'm not making a value judgment against fundraising here (had they titled the panel "Social Media for Fundraising," I would have had less of a problem with the focus-- though I will continue to argue the prevailing system of fundraising needs a major overhaul ). As my colleague David J.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

Their questions made me think about a blog post I wrote in 2008, The Future of Authority. Our collective understanding and savviness about the power online platforms wield--for good and ill--has greatly increased since 2008. In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" Me: "Sort of."

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

There is something powerful about hearing Barack Obama's voice or the children's voices from the UNICEF podcasts or Nelson Mandela's voice from the recent ONE campaign podcast , inside your head. We need to immediately recognize and address this problem. You feel close to them and their cause.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think what makes us unique is that we are really investing in women's leadership and women's creativity in developing local solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems. This year, 2008, is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I am always a big believer in that. No more "women's issues."

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