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How To Unleash Your Full Potential

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Act on the lightning, don’t wait for thunder : A flash of opportunity is first glimpsed long before the unmistakable tipping point of evidence; if you wait to act until others validate your vision, it’s too late. Question: You tell your students to think about who they want to be, not what they want to be.

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The Old and The New: It’s Always Our Challenge

Connection Cafe

I learned computer programming in a chilly room filled with massive equipment, flashing lights and mysterious noises. To meet the challenge of this personal goal for my education, I had to add to what I knew about succeeding as a student. Strategies I had used through college and graduate school had to be discarded or reshaped.

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Cloggers Awards Ceremony

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As many of you may have already read, part of my project budget was to include video blogging camera kits to give as prizes or awards to encourage video bloggers. We announced the day before that prizes would be awarded and to apply, they had to leave a comment on the conference blog with how they would use the camera or record.

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Lisa Canter Brings Sharing Foundation Campaign to 50% Mark!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I enjoy reading Lisa's blog. Britt Bravo on her personal blog. Mongkol, a Cambodian college student who is studying in the US on a Fullbright Scholarship and knows the importance of a college education had this to say. Carnet Williams at the ChipIn blog has kept a record of links and dollars here. I played flute.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How about Flash Back Friday ? This example from Teach for America is a photograph of handwritten thank you note from a student to an TFA alumni thanking them for making a difference. Make up your own nostalgia meme. Engage Alumni in Professional Conversations Related To Their Careers.

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Tell me a Story: Narrated Online Collections with VoiceThread

Museum 2.0

I try not to focus too heavily on web tools on this blog, but this application is too lovely to pass up. It's called VoiceThread , and it's a program that allows you to create an elegant slideshow of images with audio (and text, and scribbles) to go along. They are committed to making this technology accessible (and free!)

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. More at TechCrunch and Technology in the Arts Blog. Lindsay Patross runs the blog, and people get hold of her, too. s Blog about? Artist Blogs. For individual artists, a blog can also help sell or promote their work.

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