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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings. His definition: A style in which the trainer acts as a peer to the student, physically sitting with the student and explaining technical concepts simply.

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If This Then That for Non-Profits

Connection Cafe

Ben works on Blackbaud’s Corporate Communications Team, is a Graduate Student at University of Texas School of Advertising (Hook ‘Em) and a Mississippi native. If This Then That (IFTTT) , offers a creative, unique, free and practical alternative to keeping up with your multiple social media initiatives.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. This includes some of the most basic student essentials. Note from Beth: I hope you are enjoying summer break as much as I am!

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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

org, and five Unity College students embarked on a bio-diesel powered road trip to encourage President Obama to restore solar paneling to the White House roof. They shared updates on the tour blog , Flickr , and YouTube. In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, Boaz ran his trip as a free agent story teller.

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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Embracing these alternative perspectives is a significant departure for museums, reflecting a growing understanding of museums??? Tagging projects could help foster and maintain links with specialized groups like volunteers and docents, or support the work of teachers and students. tools (like flickr Tag Fight.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

Tech Soup

Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago. Images: Courtesy of Roger Smith and /tiian via Creative Commons on Flickr. Nor are those rumors anything new.

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Game Friday: The Aftermath of the ARG World Without Oil

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blogs, YouTube, Flickr, and more--to share content. I can't wait to see the curriculum guides they release in September to get students playing the game. Alternate reality can encourage players to take action in their real lives. No need to create an alternate reality in which it's happening." You can still get involved.

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