Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

We all have a story. We want to help inspire and educate you to be able to tell your own story with confidence and with success. We want to help inspire and educate you to be able to tell your own story with confidence and with success. Watch their story. Without further ado. First Place Video. Cisco Flip camera.

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Storytelling Award Digital Challenge 64

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

World leaders and technology firms should be paying attention to their solutions—and backing them up. A host of cultural, economic, social and infrastructural barriers keep women locked out from the empowerment potential of Internet access. But for every horror story, there is a story of hope and a story of creative solution building.

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Digital Empowerment Argentina Literacy 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. They used Twitter to draw attention to a free concert happening on the Washington, Mall which resulted in 60,000 people attending. Image by Codilicious from Flickr.

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Washington Training Train Giving 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

He said that the heart wants to know the stories, not the statistics and jargon. The only time we reach out to them is when we ask them for money.&# His advice was to schedule “heart time.&# – That is meet with your donors and engage with them — share a story that isn’t linked to an ask.

Social Media 101

Social Media Mobile Professional Conference 101

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

If you give them tools for taking more control of their lives, they will pay you back in attention, support and even hard cash. Empowerment is unconditional. Design to support conversations, relationships, stories - not to organise documents. Getting people’s attention means offering them something valuable.

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Social Empowerment Conversation Skills 147

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

This is more of a transcript than a recap, more of what I hope can be a refresher or stimulator for follow up blogs than simply the whole story itself. annanten : social media is here to help you empower your followers with a story to create powerful activists for your cause. realize_ink : Q3: empowerment & ownership.

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Campaign Org Social Media Measure 108

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

As time has gone on, my attention has shifted from the tactic of participation to the outcome of building community. HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment. Bridging is another story.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. I’ve also use this for keynotes, but it requires doing a survey before to gather up the stories.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Considering the documentary style approach of data gathering for the game, the jury suggested using the game engine more as a story telling device rather than a game play tool. Documentary footage and stories told through game present images of strong women of color. JURY FEEDBACK. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Game Change Classroom Machinima 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Rather than crossing your fingers that a reporter will cover a story about your work, blogs can help you create your own coverage. CUAV's blog eventually drew media attention to the trial when the blog was covered by the news. How has having a blog been beneficial, or not beneficial to your organization?

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Benefit Stumbleupon Newsletter Digg 50

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

The photo and story of the entrepreneur help the donor to visualize how their loan will make a difference, and the updates written by the person receiving the loan make the lenders feel like they are having a direct impact. Keeping campaigns simple, social, personal, creative and tangible might transform feeling overwhelmed into empowerment.

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Darfur Kiva Mobile Donor 40

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

They decide with their feet, attention, dollars, and participation. The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing. I look forward to your examples, amplifications, and disagreements shaping the story ahead. My answer: neither.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" Then, he establishes credibility with stories from real kids about the program. They are not afraid to turn off their attention if something doesn’t seem to apply to them. Hanging out.

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Teen Arts Classroom Student 25

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. We have the opportunity to fail.

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This piece examines seven familiar challenges, shares suggested solutions, and highlights the stories of nonprofits who are using Salesforce to tackle many of these challenges. But how do you effectively capture the attention of potential participants when there’s so much noise online?

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Program Impact Africa Ireland 52

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

In that work, I met dozens and dozens of people, sat at tables with people over lunch and dinner and heard the work that they were doing, the stories and the fights and the victories. Britt: Can you tell us one collaboration success story? Many of those meetings were with women. I found that trend to just be more and more.

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Green Global Action Network 40

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

A lot of attention on team, it's probably the hardest thing because you have to keep getting out of your own way. We trained them in how to use their cell phones for rapid response, and how to write Op-eds, feature stories, and front line journals. We had the BBC pick up some of those stories, the UN Wire, and The Huffington Post.

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Voice Global Saudi Arabia Journal 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In the book, the authors tell the story of Sameer Bhatia, a young Silicon Valley entrepreneur who diagnosed with leukemia. Tell your story. Employ empowerment marketing. If you want to win this copy, leave a comment that answers any of the following: The Dragonfly Model is: Focus, Grab Attention, Take Action, and Engage.

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Comment Effective Classes Student 103

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Connection: Building long-term loyalty and trust means paying attention to the ways your institution and your doctors, nurses, and other staff members establish relationships with both patients and their caregivers. i] [link]. [ii] ii] [link]. iii] [link]. [iv] iv] [link]. [v] v] [link]. [vi] vi] [link]. vii] [link]. viii] [link].

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Strategy Empowerment Utah Measure 22

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. I'll tell you a story about one instance in which the women were using poetry, actually. I'll tell you a story about one instance in which the women were using poetry, actually. They are making progress.

Photography 40

Photography Interview Zimbabwe Change 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

I realized I had a platform where, for whatever reason, people would pay attention to me. CCF works directly in the dump to get the children out of this environment and bring them into one of five orphanages where they live, get educated, and get medical attention. I raised a lot of money. I targeted the yoga community.

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Interview Cambodia Children Uganda 46

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

A truly remarkably story of very every day mothers and daughters in Liberia who were just so sick of the civil war between Charles Taylor, and then the rebels in Liberia, being funded with Sierra Leone diamonds essentially, that they mobilized an entire community of women around peace.

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Global Fund Interview United States 44