Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

There are many ways to do this, but try to avoid the “Q/A of the Expert at the End,” and facilitate discussion that is more reflective. One participant told me that that only two people from their organization could participate and wanted to get feedback from other staff. Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

I have shelter, which has been a luxury for people throughout history, and still is for millions of people around the world today. But being grateful means more than reflecting on the good parts of our lives. Salesforce.org focuses on delivering world-class technology to nonprofits and higher education customers.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, I stepped into my first marketing class excited to learn and meet some new people in my still-smells-like-new home base in New Jersey. I discovered there were rich lessons in the "white space" of class. It's a class about marketing, right? Unintended) Lesson #2: Say less, people will remember more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Magic happens when social entrepreneurs, nonprofits leaders, technologists, and young people are brought together for a high energy, creative, and interactive event that exposes everyone to new ideas and stories. I loved hearing Isadora Faber, a pre-teen girl who lives in Florianópolis and creator of page Daily Class on Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

There are bound to be many, many versions of this blog post as people from around the world start investigating the tool and sharing their impressions. As always, when it’s just the first trickling of people joining up, the way the tool is used, the depth of some functionality, and the technical issues are all a bit out of proportion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. The practices are intended to balance the energies of any given space to assure health and good fortune for people inhabiting it. I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers.

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Bonterra

AUGUST 15, 2022

Bonterra Homepage bonterra_admin Mon, 08/15/2022 - 16:44 The Bonterra Difference We enable social good organizations with the best-in-class software they need to drive impact. Innovative Technology We invest in intuitive technology to make your work easier, more efficient, and more effective.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Tutor students so they can reach their potential in school? Feed people? If you want to increase capacity, open another shelter so more people in need of shelter will be able to find a bed, work closely with existing shelters to understand demand. Get an idea of how many people will need the service you are offering.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

But the one similarity across all kinds of messaging is that they need to be relevant to and reflect your audience. From talking with many of my Master Class students, where they run into problems is establishing urgency. It is never okay or ethical to embellish the urgency to manipulate people to donate.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful. How can people get involved? Find out more in the interview below!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. People donate to a shared cause in honor of that for which they are most grateful. How can people get involved? Find out more in the interview below!

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

The event gives passionate supporters a way to breathe and reflect. The organization’s unique approach fights against illegal wildlife trade by reducing demand for wildlife products with world-class communications campaigns. CELI also hosts an annual 5K Run for Clean Energy every spring to support their mission. Podcast: Broken Ground.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Cyclists sign up for the ride and seek out people in their network to sponsor their participation. One of the reasons that challenge events work so well is something called the “martyrdom effect” which finds people feel better about a thing if they have to undergo adversity to achieve it. Use that to your advantage! Yes, they are!

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

The funds you raise provide better outcomes to students and can have far-reaching impacts in the community. Chances are, your school group has people appointed to leadership positions. Loganville Christian Academy used Qgiv’s fundraising pages to make it easy to give to the right people during their annual fundraiser.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

This is a guest blog from Anna Reid, an Amherst student who interned with Bookshare.org International this past summer. I received a copy of her reflections and asked if I could share it with more people. Today, millions of people are denied this basic human right because they are not literate.

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2011

There are bound to be many, many versions of this blog post as people from around the world start investigating the tool and sharing their impressions. As always, when it's just the first trickling of people joining up, the way the tool is used, the depth of some functionality, and the technical issues are all a bit out of proportion.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

This post is written based on my personal understanding and could reflect deficiencies experienced in my own personal learning process. But even then, I often felt my mind drifting off in class, doodled on notes, or encountered moments where I was not motivated enough to attempt to process the course content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. But as we all know, changing personal habits isn’t easy for a lot of people. How about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. Present a concept for 15 minutes, break people into small groups with a particular exercise to apply the material, and then come back as a full group for a report out. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

" He said that policy gives people a sense of freedom. He also pointed me to this reflection. Dave Cormier has been my critical friend as I write personal reflections on the community as curriculum process we're using to develop the content through the WeAreMedia Project. between students evaporated. the sense of ???competition???

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program. In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

If you're in the Bay Area, you can join her classes at Hipline and Inside Outside Fitness. These thoughts changed how I moved, and dance became a self-conscious, self-critical experience, which was a bigger reflection on how I lived life and viewed myself within it. I taught my classes by mixing kickboxing with dance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. That was the reason for the eating chocolate exercise I did in PoST class on Monday. I asked the students what else does that? I did not eat chocolate.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. The Conference itself includes philanthropy classes ranging from individual donors, planned giving, and marketing/social media subjects. Alliance Management Institute (AMI). Feb 21 - 24.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

On the Vlogging list, there is an interesting thread on Citizen Journalism as part of a class at Temple University Film and Media Arts. The class is taught by Jen. She assigned students to watch some Citizen Journalism vlogs and post their criticism. Department on Multimedia Production.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Okay, they don't eat people's brains. Heck, many of them are intelligent, sincere, interesting people. Following a standardized curriculum to prepare for work in the museum field homogenizes the perspectives and skills people bring to museum jobs. The students designed and fabricated prototype pieces of an upcoming exhibition.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Create categories that reflect what users are looking for. Pin pictures of people in their costumes at your holiday party carnival. Hold a Santa-Con celebration to get in the Christmas spirit, get pictures of people's paint-smeared faces at Holi, take advantage of when neighborhood kids show up to trick-or-treat at your door.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Even though there aren’t as many people today reading actual newspapers or watching the 6 o’clock news these days, your local media still reaches a large audience of people in your community who need to know about your nonprofit’s work. People think that if you’re in the news, you must be doing important work. .

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. With robots in warehouses, bots on social media, and algorithms thinking for us - it's sometimes hard to figure out the place for people. Alliance Management Institute (AMI). Leading Forward 2018.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Do you talk to people sitting next to you on planes? A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

The trainer sharing with students, the consultant sharing with clients, beyond face interaction. Note from Andy - 3 people on his team are starting to use it because they got sick of getting emails w/url or resource links. See also Marc's post w/more reflections. The class story is the nptech community and Never Again.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The questions we ask inside or outside our organizations have the potential to bring people together in shared meaning making to envision and enact change. Homeownership served as proxy for class status and for commitment to country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

In reflection, after watching both Preetam's video and Thomas Wanoff's video of the game in process, I guess I should be so hard on myself. People were given two angkuns and asked to vote for the project and to sign up if they wanted to help with the project. She was a teacher. That made my day! During the Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. Now that Clay??? D) is to going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Step 1: Find People. Collaboration on student projects or other ways.

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