Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Opera San Jose Case Study. Opera San Jose gave a presentation on its #operaplot hashtag contest where participants has to tweet the plots of operas in 140 characters. View more presentations. Some of the presentations focused on the tactics. Here I saw a deepening of understanding and practice.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The Foundation also supports organizations that provide direct services to children and youth (ages 0-18) by addressing their basic human needs and safety through financial grants as well as Adobe employee volunteer support and software donations. Boynton High School in San Jose, CA uses stop-motion animation to tackle water conservation.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2015

TechSoup and its members have been central to the launch of BetterWorld Wireless and subsequently our ramping and scaling up of Mobile4All — a partnership with San Jose-based Community Technology Alliance, Downtown Streets, and a host of other corporate and nonprofit partners. and the Lake County Council on Aging in Mentor, Ohio.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

blogger fundraising education bloggerschoose philanthropy Photo of Children's Garden from spacecadet's Flickr stream. According to DonorsChoose: "low income" refers to the percentage of students at a given school who qualify for free lunch, which is considered a measure of economic need. This photo has an Attribution 2.0

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 21, 2010

Access is for everyone Keep in mind everyone's needs for example: be ADA compliant, think about if children visit your site, and what various backgrounds and cultures make up your audience Don’t forget about mobile - large screen vs. small screen 8.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2007

Flying into San Jose yesterday, I laughed out loud when I looked out the window and saw Clifford the Big Red Dog below me, a cheerful addition to the skyline (thanks to the Children's Discovery Museum). What museum hasn't benefited from a giant blow-up dinosaur on its front lawn? But there are gamers out there doing one better.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

The San Jose Mercury News just published my op-ed today entitled Build great companies, then help build a great world. We now realize that taking social action is in our direct interest and that of our children, whether it addresses human rights or the likely impacts of global warming.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

A few highlights: Cecelia Garibay talked about audience development at the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum. In the case of the Children's Discovery Museum, for example, one of the disconnects with the Vietnamese community came from a fundamental difference in how the staff and Vietnamese parents saw competition.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade. I worked with the Boston Children's Museum on a project called Our Green Trail (check it out!) There are some obvious positives to this strategy.

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