Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

Photo by Aussiegal. Peeragogy comes from Howard Rheingold via his Social Media Classroom and he explains it here: When I participated in the Change: Education, Learning, and Technology MOOC , I grew even more interested in the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The photo was my classroom. We’ve had weather disasters, policy changes, protests, racism, missile testing, and more. This beautiful retreat center is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains and offers professional development on a wide range of leadership, wellness, and other topics.

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NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

Flickr photo: Toban Black. Things have changed – don't get me started, my daughter is in kindergarten – but the socialization part is still there. One of the most important social skills they work on in my daughter's classroom? Sharing the book or toy gives both children the common experience that forms the classroom culture.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine. I invite you to join us as we open new frontiers at the intersection of technology and social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning. For webinars, the platform is your classroom setup, so it important to understand how the Q/A and chat features, whether everyone can see everyone else’s chats or just the presenter. Your design is not just about content.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

To do that, you have to connect with them emotionally through a story, a photo, and hero language that makes them feel special and important, like they personally stepped in and made a difference through their gift. Your gift can get a child back into the classroom where they belong and on the road to a brighter future.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

For the past five years, the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati has honored Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthday by asking a writer to give the annual Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture about, "Writing to Change the World." Anya Achtenberg will be teaching an online workshop, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World, later this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Photo by Rikomatic. Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. Interested in games for learning and social change. How do you measure the change? We need metrics!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Here's a smidge from his post: If you haven't heard about it yet, be sure to check out TweetsGiving , a project of the nonprofit Epic Change. Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. Along the way, they're also compiling a log of what Twitter users are thankful for this year.

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Achieve

AUGUST 19, 2015

You helped her land the job, and that job changes everything for Sally and her family.”. It is comforting to know that 200 trees were planted, that 50 dogs found loving homes and that a classroom of 45 students went on a field trip – all thanks to donors like us. You made this photo possible.”. Here she is on her first day!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2011

They were planning a wall mural for our classroom. They planned to paint the outline of Santa Cruz County, print out photos of a series of important landmarks or icons throughout the county, and then paint those items onto the map. It turned into a pretty wild evening in the classroom, filled with, "Whoa! You drew that?!"s,

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2009

This week, we are featuring the winner of the Social Change category in print and photo: Project Kindle's Book, I Know: Kids from Camp Kindle Share Their Stories of Living with HIV/AIDS. You can see the first featured group in this earlier post. read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird.) I connected with her through her amazing photos of Cambodia on Flickr when I was covering the Cambodian blogosphere for Global Voices over five years ago. to help promote awareness of homelessness in America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

In the classroom, I got to hear a lot of theories as to why poverty exists - but that actually made things seem more confusing. Simple and small changes in our global, political, and personal priorities can make a huge difference. ???We Shawn's goal was to change the conversation about ending poverty. It doesn???t

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Connection Cafe

MAY 24, 2010

The project that I volunteered at with fifteen other Convio employees was a classroom makeover for a local Austin school, Gus Garcia Middle School. As students passed by our classroom throughout the day while we were working I came to understand how important Communities in Schools is to each of them.

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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

When Christmas card season rolls around, it always seems like a last-minute mad dash to find those family photos that you can send out to family and friends. You can also raffle off lunches, an afternoon of board games, or craft sessions so students and teachers can enjoy some fun activities together outside of the classroom!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

to Change The World. It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. site that has photos, etc., While browsing RSS reader today, I noticed someone had favorited my recursive mashup photo that I have on the cover the presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. MacArthur wants to know: How is digital media changing the way that children learn and develop and what are the implications? They document their learning."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. The tool of choice has changed from IRC or Meebo to Twitter and the use of hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Which one worked best?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world. From there, people asked to hire us for event photos, so we started selling those services too. Any secondary interests? Creatively engaging with the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

With a virtual format, you have the advantage of offering more variety since you can easily change the video source and even use pre-recorded video content. Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons. 5) Online classes. 9) Movie screenings.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Despite the shortcomings in Apple's v1 product, I believe that the iPad — and successors from other vendors — will change how people interact with online content. Showing a lawmaker a photo slideshow, short video, animation, or visualization will feel more natural on a panel than on a laptop.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice. Today, there are thirty kids fidgeting in a classroom, talking to their friends, messing with their phones. He shows a big board of photos of FoodWhat youth at work. After offering up these four keys, Doron energizes the classroom with a challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Momentary discomfort is worth the life change that, that gift will create, isn’t it? But what matters more is you want to inspire people to make a difference, right, to make life change possible. But everybody else, the reason that they’re giving is because they want to change the world. You are changing the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 4, 2006

When I was teaching young people for Streetside Stories , I worked in the classroom of this incredible teacher, Ms. I took the photo in this blog post of a hummingbird in a Ribes sanguineum. seeds gardening education youth change I love hummingbirds and hummingbirds love Ribes sanguineum. See the whirr of wings towards the top?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post about the continuum of change ranging from entitlement to enterprise. Check out scrapblog which lets you create a colleage of your photos online similar to a scrapbook page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. Why not give a small donation to help a school in Africa, like Epic Change's projects or find a project in a corner of the world that is meaningful to you. And, yes they did !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. I'm nervous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

Photos of the slides. This most inspiring case study on cyberstrategy was about how to change the culture of the prison from penal to rehabilitative using a network of computer labs linked to FM radio. If you could change the culture of prisons, you could change the culture of the country?

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Kindful

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

If you have photos or videos that tell your nonprofit’s story, this would be a great place to include them! There’s also the powerful message of “You belong here,” which is followed by photos and testimonials of other people who have joined The Spring. What we think they did well. Source: charity: water.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

When the pandemic first started, who could’ve guessed that it would change the way many nonprofits fundraise forever? To take school spirit into the classroom, consider selling branded notebooks and other stationery for students to use. Open an online shop and list all of your school’s spirit merchandise for sale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I realized that technology was a powerful agent of change, but it was not being integrated into grassroots socially progressive organizations. I must say I was often not found in a classroom during law school. BK Note: In the photo, you'll see a surf board, along with the technology tools, including Carnet's new treo.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Photo by Frederik Trovatten.com on Unsplash. Electronic transaction platforms like Amazon, Uber, Grubhub, and Airbnb have perhaps permanently changed the way that we live and work. Electronic transaction platforms like Amazon, Uber, Grubhub, and Airbnb have perhaps permanently changed the way that we live and work.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content. Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. Let's look at these one by one.

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