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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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In fact, people are much more likely to remember a story (63%) than a statistic (5%) according to research from Stanford University. Face, name, and voice — People care about other people, so putting a face and name to this individual is critical if you want to connect with supporters. .

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 30, 2022

In fact, people are much more likely to remember a story (63%) than a statistic (5%) according to research from Stanford University. Face, name, and voice — People care about other people, so putting a face and name to this individual is critical if you want to connect with supporters. .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

org is an international movement of people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all. org’s Climate Justice Action map , which connects people with local groups and other activists. This focus on partnerships across social justice and climate justice movements resulted in 350.org’s

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Organization Mission: The California State Parks Foundation delivers innovative solutions for an excellent park system by facilitating park improvements, inspiring stewardship, supporting partners, advocating for sound policies, and connecting people to 280 state parks to enjoy now and for generations to come. Podcast: Broken Ground.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Office 365 is easy to use, and many of the people you’ll work with will already know how to use these tools. Most people you work with, from students to volunteers to Board members, will already know how to use them. Google Voice is a great place to start for as low as $10 a month. Paid plans start at about $10 per month.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2020

Many people remember receiving valentines at school. Each student and often the teachers would buy or make a valentine for every student in the class. Because of our priority to keep our patients safe and respect their privacy, we are limited in the amount of direct contact many people can have. It was a great day!

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

In fact, online, people don’t “read” so much as skim, hunt, browse, and scan. And the further above 8th grade your copy reaches, the exponentially more people you’re leaving behind. I’m going to give you all the same facts, and I want each of you to write the ‘lede’ of the story if it was going to appear in the student paper.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 22, 2007

Hadley School , the main distance education school for blind people in the U.S. In 2005 the principal of Hadley-China, Rongqiang Xia, contacted Hadley students and staff who spoke native English to see if they would like to teach Chinese Hadley students English over the internet. Students ask questions about English usage.

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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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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

If you were one of the many people who attended our webinar Training an Invisible Audience: Delivering Effective Webinars , I'd like to thank you for being such an eager and inquisitive audience. But don't walk away – it's a good idea to stay on the line in case people have questions. Interactivity in Webinars.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Issues of class and economic status haunt the museum internship. But now, as I counsel my university students, I feel it unethical to recommend the same path I took. Are the worst offenders larger museums who know they can get away with asking people to work for free? I have taken a firm stand. Absolutely.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Hopefully, you can connect with other people who are in the chat and get a mentor. And, look, the biggest thing that I see in terms of people regularly raising major gifts is not that we aren’t willing to work hard. Try to build relationships and just connect with people. Start with the people you’ve got.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

Combat information overload — and accomplish more in less time and with less effort and stress — with this donated three-part webinar series from People-OnTheGo. Host training sessions, teach online classes, and give presentations with GoToTraining. Accomplish More with Less. Teach Typing Skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

That was the reason for the eating chocolate exercise I did in PoST class on Monday. I asked the students what else does that? This post harvests what I learned and what I still don't know about the birthday campaign strategy and measurement as well as guest teaching a graduate school class. Setting the Right Dollar Goal.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

I was an electrical engineering student (1% women), then worked at NASA (10% women), and then slowly slid from science museums (about 50% women) to history and art museums (60-80%, depending on who you ask). It's not quite as bad as my 99% male electrical engineering class, but it's getting there. At TEDx, the mix was 50/50.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Or, how about this one: "Make sure these kids stay busy and have fun; but what we really need is for them to be successful in school, contribute at home, and work effectively with people from different cultures towards a better world." And those of you who are nonprofit CEOs are sure to find some kindred voices there!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

Through its Education and Community Outreach programs, the Symphony helps bring music into the lives of over 14,000 school children each year - students who may not otherwise have access to a symphony. But these days, most people never actually see this music being made live.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 17, 2022

If it’s been a while since American history class, listen to the whole speech today. The speech was given in 1963 at the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, where 250,000 people showed up to protest racial injustice. A career exposure panel with Lehman and Bronx Community College students. Diversify Your Reading List.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I see four main reasons: Most participatory experimentation in museums starts in educational departments, and many educators primarily engage (and are funded to work with) students. Teens are certainly not the only people who like to express themselves and engage socially through technology.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 16, 2023

If it’s been a while since American history class, listen to the whole speech today. The speech was given in 1963 at the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, where 250,000 people showed up to protest racial injustice. A career exposure panel with Lehman and Bronx Community College students 3.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

And so we're going to have people like Rachel Naomi Remen speak. She's the author of Kitchen Table Wisdom and she's going to tell how to use story to change people's ideas and get your idea across. Starhawk is going to talk about how her books on, basically, Wicca, but they also changed how people looked at women.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

posted by Rachelle Wayne 2018 Alumna, ASU BS in Nonprofit Leadership & Management and Class 12 Public Ally. Public Allies is more about boots-on-the-ground leadership, while the degree program prepares students for more administrative work consisting of leadership with a given title. Public Allies’ motto is “Everyone Leads.”

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So it’s for the people, by the people, is kind of the mantra here. . How do we do it in a way that feels inclusive, that people are heard, and that we can make decisions and not be overwhelmed by the process? I could practically teaching this class. How do we do this well? Move aside, Julie.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

Now, philanthropic psychology, in its simplest form, is the study of how people love humankind, or sometimes I say how people love people. People shouldn’t only be loving people. People should be loving animals and the planet too.” ” And I absolutely 100% wholeheartedly agree with you.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Each week, I’ve been ceding the blog to others as a chance to hear many voices share their thoughts about our field, where we are, and where we are going. This field is varied, and each voice adds to our collective understanding of the situation. For this week, I’m re-posting Andrea Montiel de Shuman’s Medium post with permission.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2009

This guest post was written by Nicole Robert, a graduate student in the course I’m teaching at the University of Washington on social technology. As a graduate student in a museum studies program, I have learned how to develop an exhibit based on a collection of objects or a specific story. What’s the content? What’s the message?”

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

It's very simple to calculate: you take the total operating expenses for your public-facing efforts and divide by the number of people who walk through the door. Or is it worth more because the museum content is reaching people in distant lands who would otherwise never have engaged with the institution?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

For people who are unfamiliar with your work, how do you describe your work? Whether it's my posters in the street, or books that I'm publishing that are getting out to bookstores, or workshops, or my speaking in different universities with different young people, I really see art as a way of changing our communities. They're outdated.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 7, 2024

When people first started SMS texting, they were mainly using it successfully just to attract one-time donors,” Dinn said. “We A lot of new people are coming in the pipeline. People are engaging with it — clicking to watch.” People are getting too many [traditional] emails,” Wijangco said.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2008

It's easy for people in any industry to get siloed in our own knowledge prejudices, even though research has shown that innovation happens when we strike out and try something outside of our comfort or knowledge zone. Reading the stories, I flashed back to the writing exercises I used to give students in poetry classes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

"I think a lot of people perhaps have gotten a one-sided understanding of this issue of trafficking. CA: I think a lot of people perhaps have gotten a one-sided understanding of this issue of trafficking. They see it as coercive prostitution, or just see prostitution as synonymous with trafficking, which is really not the case.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

After advising the students of trying as much as possible to remain in school, he explained his reasoning: “Because education is the most powerful weapon which we can use in order to prepare our youth for their role as leaders of tomorrow.”. It also comes from a love for the people and communities in my home country.

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VisionLink

OCTOBER 5, 2011

My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents'' savings were being spent on my college tuition. Even people who want to go to heaven don''t want to die to get there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

.” Next we had a brief overview from Mary Patton Davis who works on communications for the Akilah Institute and who I had the pleasure of meeting when I was in Rwanda. Mary shared an overview of their program and their first class will graduate this June with 100% job placement.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

And the way in which that developmental trajectory moves ahead is when lots of other people get involved, lots of other adults in the lives of a teenager, to steer them in a better direction rather than a worse direction, to install some guardrails so that the worst possible outcomes don’t happen. And the answer was “human beings,” okay?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

This week's Solutionary Woman is 24-year-old Heddy Nam, the Associate to the Chief Operating Officer of Amnesty International USA and co-founder of Never Again , an international network of young people working for peace. The outcome will hopefully improve Amnesty’s effectiveness, helping more people in the long run.

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