Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

I think there’s huge potential for organizations to use multiple mediums, content, and locations to help document and advocate for the change they want in their communities and around the world. It’s a way of interacting with other people, other places, and other times from anywhere you are.

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Storytelling Digital Tools Classroom 201

Cloud 4 Good

MAY 31, 2022

The College opened for enrollment shortly before the pandemic began and offers a uniquely flexible and competency-based education model. Students move ahead by mastering content, not by spending a prescribed number of hours in a classroom. Creating Accessible Education for Working Adults.

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Student California Application Classroom 59

Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

In the process, these volunteers serve as role models helping positively shape young people’s perceptions about the importance of education, as well as critical life skills. Each post had a graphic attached to help spread the word about the event, boost engagement, and of course, get viewers excited for the event.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Instead, while your auction guests still have the event fresh on their minds, take time to send an engaging follow-up email to strengthen their relationship with your organization. Why should you take the time to send a follow-up email? Then, plan and draft them ahead of time to have on hand. Let’s get started!

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Qgiv

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the process, these volunteers serve as role models helping positively shape young people’s perceptions about the importance of education, as well as critical life skills. Each post had a graphic attached to help spread the word about the event, boost engagement, and of course, get viewers excited for the event.

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Social Media Media Help Ideas 52

Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Pierre, the Client Success Manager at Greater Giving, Matt Gibson, the Premier Accounts Manager, and John Chase, Senior Manager of Client Success discussed strategies for success in this educational webinar for anyone heading back to the classroom this fall. A mystery cooler or backpack where the contents are kept secret.

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Fundraising Sponsor Tips Classroom 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

10X: ten times the impact. How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. The time has never been better to think 10X bigger! Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine.

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Literacy eBook United Kingdom Accessibility 158

Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. However, their effectiveness is often debated in the educational software community, as not all eLearnings are made with the same attention to detail. Learning Styles. With new media comes challenges. Adaptability.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. Curiosity got the better of me, and that’s how I met Bob Whicker, a K-12 Education Development Executive for Apple.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Today’s tech-savvy, social and mobile learners are no longer interested in traditional classroom training and demand learning techniques that blends best with their current working style and outlook. Employees with busy schedules or the ones who are always on-move have the luxury to access training resources at any time, from any place.

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Online Learning Trend Learning Online 56

AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

The option to host live stream events or recording content behind a paywall. Whether you go with a theatre-style set-up, classroom, or perhaps a cabaret, you want to make sure that the venue will support it and that it makes sense for the event goals. Also, prepare educational materials depending on the event needs.

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Experiment Marketing Strategy Virtual 98

Gyrus

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Whether it be addressing the blended learning mix we provide, the content we promote directly, or the style in which our learners process information; there are countless decisions that we can make, and the answer that we provide today, may not be what is most effective weeks from now. Effectiveness of Content. Conclusion.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We like to think that most nonprofits are concerned about their reach toward individuals who might struggle to connect with their offerings, at least in the best of times. If the pandemic forced us onto new and unfamiliar ground, now is the time to assess and balance how technologies have affected our reach, for better and for worse.

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Accessibility Technology Language Oregon 100

AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

The option to host live stream events or recording content behind a paywall. Whether you go with a theatre-style set-up, classroom, or perhaps a cabaret, you want to make sure that the venue will support it and that it makes sense for the event goals. Also, prepare educational materials depending on the event needs.

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Experiment Marketing Strategy Virtual 90

Cloud 4 Good

JULY 27, 2021

Teach For America (TFA) is an education nonprofit operating in support of a vision that one day all children in the United States will have the opportunity to attain an equitable and excellent education. Changing the Technology Strategy. Creating a Constituent-First Marketing Strategy. open rate with their email communications, a 7.6%

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Teach America Education Marketing 116

NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

At the time, she’d never even been to the country. Her purpose would be discovered while visiting classrooms. While there, McDonald noticed that many classrooms had only a stack of books to share between hundreds of children. “It This was McDonald’s solution to the lack of educational resources.

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Haiti Library Classroom Literacy 28

Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Catchafire : Time-sensitive requests for short-term projects in our active, virtual volunteer pool can assist with items such as email marke ting setup to spread awareness about health and safety, consultation on remote best practices, and much more. Skills-Based Volunteering. hours of community service. There’s an app for that!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

We often use them to add in extra content we couldn’t get into the label or assess people’s learning. Both of these seem natural as we are in the business of ideas and we are adjacent to formal education systems. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways. People were transfixed by the space.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) / Fort Meyers, FL/ $445. USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / TBD. Nonprofit organizations have moved well past the time when technology and data were treated as standalone entities. Nonprofit Management / #AMI2019 / @NPL_Alliance. Mar 8 - 17.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Our group also visited Starfish Impact School , where we learned about their work to ensure indigenous girls have equal access to education and provided mentoring and training for young women graduates of Starfish. A good training begins with igniting the participants curiosity and passion for the content during the first 15-30 minutes.

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Open Guatemala Tips Training 70

NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. JURY FEEDBACK. CLIMBING SACRED MOUNTAIN.

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Game Change Classroom Machinima 81

Gyrus

APRIL 3, 2018

Whether it be addressing the blended learning mix we provide, the content we promote directly, or the style in which our learners process information; there are countless decisions that we can make, and the answer that we provide today, may not be what is most effective weeks from now. Effectiveness of Content. Conclusion.

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Process Business Learning Training 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. How about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

I think Adora Svitak, a 16 year-old education activist, whose 2012 Ted Talk, “ What Adults Can Learn from Kids , has almost 4 million views said it best when describing the impact that these “kids” will have and why we should pay attention to them: “New generations grow and develop and become better than the previous ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content. This approach means the instructor takes a “guide on the side&# approach versus “expert on the stage.&# And, of course, it takes more preparation time than slapping together a powerpoint.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

They hired me and it turned into a decade of learning and teaching others (artists, arts organizations, and arts educators) how to integrate this technology into their work and organizations. I had a chance to collaborate with every type of art form, arts management programs, arts education, and individual artists.

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Maslow Yemen Artist Arts 98

BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

No one likes a dull board meeting, or a long one, or one that doesn’t start on time. Chances are, they share these traits: Convenient, agreed-upon meeting time and location. Prompt start and end times. Consider including time estimates next to each subsequent item. Yet, it’s one worth investing some time.

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DC Government Nonprofit Classroom 40

Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Gateway to the Arts is a Pittsburgh-based organization that exposes young people to the arts through performances, classroom visits by professional artists, and integration of arts into school curriculum, all with a staff of six. Gateway spent some time researching various CMSes and decided that Joomla was the best alternative for them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content Delivery Is Not Learning. Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

Transmedia storytelling is storytelling by a number of decentralized authors who share and create content for distribution across multiple forms of media. It is a much a deeper engagement with the content and the influencers or those most passionate about the cause. It’s likely time to add storytelling to the task list.

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Storytelling Network Collaboration Classroom 63

NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

Co-Create – Shared Content: Mapping, Mosaic, Wiki, Links, Games. On the other end of the spectrum, there are uses of technology to create unique "co-create" opportunities, if not open opportunities, where content can be made available through APIs and syndication for others to use. Authenticate – FB Login, Twitter OAuth.

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Social Media Websites Integration Design 87

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2008

And so today we look at an educational facility (not a museum) that swabs the deck with these barriers. By doing so, it doesn't just widen the audience for a specific educational experience--it also offers a new model for how we might design and deliver interactive, varied content experiences. It makes them walk the plank.

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Education Museum Audience Design 21

NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

I think Adora Svitak, a 16 year-old education activist, whose 2012 Ted Talk, “ What Adults Can Learn from Kids , has almost 4 million views said it best when describing the impact that these “kids” will have and why we should pay attention to them: “New generations grow and develop and become better than the previous ones.

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Social Nigeria Student Cancer 28

NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Lectures are left for the classroom. Thanks to cutting-edge streaming capabilities, Cause Camp is able to deliver inspiration and education to anyone with an internet connection if they can’t be with us in-person in Lincoln. Topics covered include: Content marketing. This year we’ll be diving into: Nonprofit Marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

to come out of 2008's SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it in real time. It’s like a new set of antennae." If you’re courageous and know your content backwards, display the back channel on a screen that everyone (including you) can see.

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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. Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

" She asks: "As a web designer, I am very interested in the future of educational websites. However, I would not want to create an educational website unless I knew it would be helpful. I am curious what types of websites educators are interested in. At least for artists/arts educators.

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