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Nonprofit Technology Rockstars: Jason Shim

Tech Soup

After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him. He is the first Canadian to win the award, and it turns out he's a pretty great choice. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God.

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Nonprofit Technology Rockstars: Jason Shim

Tech Soup

After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him. He is the first Canadian to win the award, and it turns out he's a pretty great choice. He is a contributing author to the book, Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God.

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Vote for the Best Social Change and Technology Projects at Netsquared!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Starting this week, you can vote for the best NetSquared Innovation Fund Award nominated projects until Saturday, April 14th at Noon PDT. It's really hard to narrow it down to 5-10 projects, but here's a sampling of the diversity of projects and causes represented. Avatar Action Center. Fair Trade Language Tutoring Via WebCam.

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

And so what they did was they created an avatar and every kid that came through their program got a teddy bear so they would not feel like they were alone. You have to give board members scripts, you have to give them social media posts, you have to give them sample letters and emails. That was fun for my boy. You have to make it easy.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

I think there are people who say “yes, there are people who have said I’ve changed my avatar green…&# One of the things with Dean’s campaign initially was that they had huge amounts of online activism but had problems turning that into real life work. It can be broad but shallow.

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