Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Our book tour starts at the end of January, so if you are in San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, NYC, or Washington, DC, please join us. But an effective leadership strategy is also dependent on a robust digital strategy that not only uses social media effectively, but incorporate mobile and new emerging digital technologies.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 18, 2006

PCs for poor students. I had a great meeting with Timothy Anderson, the head of the World Computer Exchange , on a recent visit to Boston. I have watched his project as it's grown over the past few years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

The ice bucket challenge has been going on for a while now among golfers and many others donating to the charity of their choice but did not really spread until Pete Frates , the former captain of Boston College’s baseball team, re-purposed the meme by challenging Steve Gleason to throw a bucket of ice over his head to raise awareness for ALS. (3)

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JUNE 16, 2009

Here's just a taste of the thousands of pages being leveraged in this fight: Mousavi's Flickrstream: Images on Boston's the Big Picture. YouTube: A student group posting videos on the Iranian election and aftermath. Tags: Communication Human Rights Technology. Facebook: Mousavi on Facebook (via rwanderman ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 1, 2004

I've been in Boston this week, and had the opportunity to visit WGBH/NCAM (nation's leading captioning group for the disabled), National Braille Press, as well as folks at BU, MIT and Harvard. Normally I like to talk to students, but the timing at the beginning of the academic year was not ideal.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Nonprofit technology, and more! The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. It will bring together the practitioners, scientists and creative minds of behavior change to discuss the science and technology of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

More at TechCrunch and Technology in the Arts Blog. Musematic is a group blog of museum technology professionals. The description: "Rants and raves on the latest trends in the world of museum informatics and technology. A couple of major symphony orchestras, like the Chicago Symphony with 1336 fans and the Boston Symphony.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

Screen time gets a bad rap, but if you use technology effectively, it can be part of the continuum of childcare that clubs provide even if they’re not serving on-site.”. Those are weekly calls with representatives from Massachusetts and Boston, and all the way to San Francisco and the University of Washington.”.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Nonprofit Technology, and more! Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. From communications to fundraising to technology to leadership skills, the conference offers something for everyone. Technology affects nearly every effort to achieve our missions. Technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. At Benetech he’s able to indulge in his passion to find market market-based solutions to social issues.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2020

This long-term embracing of technology has prepared both students and employees to work from home, and has also allowed the school to hire folks (like me) without requiring them to move to the Bay Area (which of course has an outrageous cost of living). My last trip was to Boston and I returned home on March 12.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2012

provides a 12-week afterschool program and 4-month paid apprenticeship wellness program for low-income high school students. Marquis Landon Cabrera | Foster Skills | Boston, MA Foster Skills provides emotional development and practical, transferable life skills programs for children and youth in foster care. ( @MarquisCabrera ) 14.

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MARCH 16, 2011

4 Interro-bang Since the dawn of the YouTube and Twitter age, we've seen people do some amazing things with this technology. The most surprising group to create, share and promote original content is middle and high school students. Interro-Bang challenges young players with tasks that are centered on making a difference in the world.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

In 1990, four months after being released from prison, Mandela visited Madison Park High School in Boston to address the community , and he expressed his deep concern about school dropouts both in South Africa and the U.S. After all, as Nelson Mandela said, education is the greatest weapon that we have to improve the state of the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2005

But, found this interesting example of using this new technology to make art more accessible. Makes me wish we lived in New York or that it could be done for MFA in Boston. ??? is a project designed by students in Dr. David Gilbert???sOrganizational Art Mobs ??? For Spring Semester, Gilbert???s s campus in Manhattan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Consulted with some peer social entrepreneurs about whether we could help them with specific technology for their nonprofits. Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. Student privacy. And much more… Washington, D.C.

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