Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2014

Best friends Ariana and Marc want to celebrate their bat and bar mitzvah by building a playground in Chicago's South Side. The project is part of a larger relationship between their synagogue, Anshe Emet, and the members of an African American church called Bright Star. Log in and tell us in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

KONY2012 has prompted countless reporters, bloggers, and talking heads to comment on the changing ways in which we are becoming aware of social problems and the organizations that are tackling them. In many ways, however, the KONY2012 episode is an old story about the power of social capital and strong narratives.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Last week, as part of my museum's year-long Loyalty Lab project , we hosted a workshop for Bay Area museum professionals with special guests Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne of the game design firm Situate. Ian and Sam asked us to design three seemingly-simple things: a challenge to overcome, rules to master, and a win condition to celebrate.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

When someone leaves a comment, makes a sculpture, or writes a poem at your institution, is that the end of their participation? There are great examples of this kind of thing focusing solely on the participant--for example, the Chicago Children's Museum practice of inviting kids to write postcards home to themselves from the museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2012

They wrote a comment about their experience that got turned into a bird by other visitors in the public sculpture hanging in the middle of the museum. Visitors become volunteers and take the lead on new projects and activities. We've created a little blog that we will use to track our project openly.

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Care2

OCTOBER 13, 2008

5 Comments | by Share Article in Crowdsourcing , Misc. Reader Comments (5) Congratulations to Google on its anniversary and its charitably ambitious endeavor. Google is celebrating its 10th birthday. Please visit YouTube, give some good comment and rate it. Many good program ideas will be submitted. Thank You ;).

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

If a capital campaign is on the horizon for your organization, Aaron Bishop and Brian O’Neil will share strategies and resources available to confidently predict your project costs and resources needed. But most importantly, I want to recommend and encourage all of you to chat in your questions and comments throughout the next hour or so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Last week, we had the final session of the “ Social Media Lab ,&# a social media peer group training with a small group of grantees from the Children, Families, Communities Program , that was launched a few months ago. Celebrating Learning. And, that it didn’t required a huge amount of extra work.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. To get lots of participation, always celebrate the human quality of the work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Harry's last green tip introduced the Charity Contest that allowed readers to submit a comment that included a suggestion about how to save energy or be green and the name of a charity. We used a Network for Good good card to donate to Joan's charity, SOS Children's Villages. Here's the screencast. You have until March 15th!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

What about a gift in their honor to celebrate the special day. April: We celebrate Earth Day this month. If you're a blogger, you can run a comment for a donation contest. For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter. It's your choice.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

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. Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. My focus is on how children learn science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I'm a fan of Room To Read, so I asked Dharmesh for a copy of the book to give away to nonprofits, and he agreed - so if you want a chance to win, leave a comment on how your nonprofit could benefit from in-bound marketing. Participation from some celebrities and notables. x (Total Retweets).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content. You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. You see the overall value of the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. Leave a comment and I'll summarize in the next NpTech Summary. The 2007 Crunchies is its first annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

The broad mandate to "open it up" was backed up by a lot of activity on multiple fronts--comment boards, participation-specific internships, program formats that allow us to slot in enthusiastic volunteers easily, more flexible uses of some museum spaces, and a range of options and opportunities for collaborators.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content. You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. You see the overall value of the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. Miles Maier is blogging at the London ICT Champion and he left a comment. Virtual Village???including

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Laura was anonymous with her project for a year until she held a reveal party and fundraiser in July of 2010. Since then, her project has been featured on CNN, Glamour.com, Fox News, and The Huffington Post. Our conversation began with Laura explaining how the Secret Agent L project works. I have one in Mongolia.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Rather than simply saying their Cause was "helping orphans in China," LWB specifically picked 10 children dying of heart disease to offer help. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Rather than simply saying their Cause was "helping orphans in China," LWB specifically picked 10 children dying of heart disease to offer help. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. Their Causes page garnered over $94,000 from 6,268 members in 50 days. How did they do it?

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Causes Facebook Challenge Social Media 38

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

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. Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. My focus is on how children learn science.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. ” And I felt like, you know, I’ve committed my entire life to this project, social justice. So these three, and Steven and I were just talking about and celebrating Mallory Erickson. This is with Shanti Brien.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

The Odditoreum is a temporary gallery for the summer school holiday in which the Powerhouse is displaying eighteen very odd objects alongside fanciful (and fictitious) labels written by children's book author Shaun Tan, schoolchildren, and visitors. Projects design visitors. They model the requested visitor contributions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? If the experience of those children is not positive, then is it really a celebration? You know, how many people are impacted by that?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

In the spirit of gratitude and giving and in celebration of the American holiday of Thanksgiving , below is a list of 50 nonprofits that serve American society. If you would like to add a nonprofit, please do so with a “Because…” statement in a comment below. It Gets Better Project. Polaris Project.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Everyone has heard of the Make-A-Wish Foundation —the romantic nature of granting sick children their wishes can touch even the coldest of hearts. You’ll find plenty of pictures of children whose dreams have come true thanks to this nonprofit. Project Aware. 83% of Pinterest users would rather follow a brand than a celebrity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

So I like to document a projected revenue gap between expenses and income over a 10-year period. Here’s a simple little chart where all you do is you just look at the next 10 years and you project what your revenue is going to be, all things being equal, based on how you’re fundraising and how your sales, etc.,

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

In either case, both Wello and the The Hippo Water Roller Project are searching for creative ways to make these devices affordable to the people who need them now that the technology is ready. People are comparing this venture to Google’s Project Loon. of charities or NGOs that are doing important digital inclusion projects.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

They were highly exposed to risk, and when one project failed, it took down the whole organization. These managers, directors, and leaders spend their time encouraging internal collaboration rather than furthering their own pet projects. They shepherd the mission, make clear decisions, attend to outside forces.

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Neon CRM

JULY 27, 2023

Increase email click through rates by 5% and social media engagement from comments, shares and likes by 10%. Sarah Patel Sarah is a 36-year-old biologist who is married with two young children. He is widowed with grown children and grandchildren. She has attended several family focused events but never any black-tie affairs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

She is a co-founder of the award-winning SheSource.org , an online brain trust of women experts designed to close the gender gap among commentators in the news media. The Innocence Project , again, very different, not an online organization at all. As a supporter of the Innocence Project, that makes me feel part of something bigger.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Arts and Healing Network " Arts and Healing Network is an on-line resource celebrating the connection between art and healing. Artivist Film Festival "'ARTIVIST' is the first international film festival and awards dedicated to addressing Human Rights, Children's Advocacy, Environmental Preservation, and Animal Rights.

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See3

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Here are some of the comments people made this year about it: KOL NIDRE COMMENTS. We are watching from San Antonio with 2 of our children having the Swine Flu. After being recently divorced, my family, two grown beautiful children, with their wonderful mother, were in shul this evening in NYC. September, 2009.

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