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Bay Area Teens Share the Love of Coding (Part 1)

Tech Soup

It was recently recognized by the City of San Jose for raising awareness of computer science among teens. " Fortunately, she kept at it and ended up joining a summer immersion program with Girls Who Code , a New York-based nonprofit that runs summer programs throughout the U.S. spanhidden.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

I’m at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. 100 Years of the flagship library in New York. Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Great reads from around the web on February 11th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Social Citizens Blog | Immerse. Today's teens also plan to be generous when they get older.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

NTEN

I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library's resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Real Virtuality had two games that were on display that augmented reality.

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Live Blog Post from MacArthur Foundation: Virtual World Event on Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For context, see the event announcement and today's New York Times article. My Live Blog post with notes from the event. Nonprofits in Second Life Blog coverage. Virtual to Reality Blog. Mindblizzard Blog - a good screencapture showing attendance. Mindblizzard Blog - a good screencapture showing attendance.

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New on SSIR: First and Foremost Know Your Community

Amy Sample Ward

You can read the post and participation in the conversation on the SSIR blog here! As profiled in the New York Observer , Danah talked to the data uncovered in her four years of research on new media use in a presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum. My newest post is now up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While as of this writing, his organization is in the bottom 25% of the leaderboard he shares a few points below about why contests like this can be helpful for small, new nonprofits. As a fairly new nonprofit, this online contest gave us the ability to gain exposure and compete with some more established organizations.

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