Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This past summer, I was an instructor at GivingTuesday’s Summer School where I made a video with some encouragement and tips for using GivingTuesday to experiment with new techniques, donor segments, or practices. ” This generation is loosely defined as those born after 1995 and who are now 18 and under. The Giving 2.0

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Qgiv

JULY 25, 2022

With video and photo galleries, you can add engaging visuals to showcase your organization’s mission for anyone that visits your donation form and wants to make a gift. For schools and classrooms, DonorsChoose is the best crowdfunding option. DonorsChoose. Best Donor Management Software.

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Salesforce.org recently highlighted both Cloud for Good and CARE, a nonprofit organization seeking to save lives, defeat poverty, achieve social justice, and fight for women and girls, as part of the Changemakers video series. Internationally, women have built up over $12 million in shared savings with the goal of $50 million by 2030.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

Check out this video for tips on writing the best opening sentence you can. Photo or video of how their gift is being used. The right photo or video can really hit the donor squarely in the heart. You answered our call for donations so students could move off our waiting list and into classrooms. It’s just too dull.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2005

One area we're looking at is digital video, so have been madly reviewing educational resources and options. I'm working with a newly established community technology center that is housed in an after-school program on an instructional technology plan for lab.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Whenever possible, include photos or video content to show supporters, or suggest recipients share their photos from the day using a dedicated hashtag on their social media. For example, elementary school fundraisers might share how total funds raised impacted technology updates or furthered classroom improvements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

Stephen Downes points me to a post from the brilliant Vicky Davis: The Frontier of 3D Education. She gives the context of 3d Web, the standards, describes the drawbacks to second life for education and provides some examples of the possibilities, including videos from YouTube for those whose computers can't handle the Second Life client.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

Before they head home, they will train the local community and the NGO partner how to use a Flip video and digital camera so update can continue. Just listening to the communities real educational needs and helping to provide the funds and training so they can meet them themselves. Follow along and connect with the community!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. In Education. Its strategic partnership with Electronic Arts has enabled GlassLab to develop SimCityEDU, a game-based classroom tool that uses the beloved SimCity franchise to engage students in real-world challenges.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. But what about everybody else?

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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. Mobile learning. Gamification. Who does not like to play games?

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

If you will have a larger online audience, then your virtual event will need to be rigged with gamification features, awards and badges, giveaways, polls, and enjoyable videos. Also, prepare educational materials depending on the event needs. Think of the ways that attendees will be interacting with your event and try to improve them.

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AccelEvents

APRIL 23, 2021

If you will have a larger online audience, then your virtual event will need to be rigged with gamification features, awards and badges, giveaways, polls, and enjoyable videos. Also, prepare educational materials depending on the event needs. Think of the ways that attendees will be interacting with your event and try to improve them.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

required for jobs, but our collective approach to educating and. than ever have access to education, but too many drop out of school or. In Brazil, approximately 40% of firms have difficulty finding qualified staff to fill vacancies due to low quality education. It means empowering youth by transforming education and.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

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. Ludwig is a game aimed at educators and students alike. JURY FEEDBACK. JURY FEEDBACK. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

As more tablets and smartphones are making their way into the classroom, it makes sense that there are a number of apps aimed at helping young people with their education and job preparedness. Khan Academy (Windows Phone, iPad) is a nonprofit on a mission to change education. School and Job Preparedness. iStudiez Pro.

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MARCH 26, 2020

SIFMA Foundation – InvestWrite : This is o ne of the easiest ways to support financial education from the comfort of your home or office, completely online, and credited with 2.5 Using this platform enables organizations to create engaging, multi-perspective videos with their employees. hours of community service.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

StoryCorps provides a free, downloadable Do-It-Yourself Instruction Guide , as well as an Education Toolkit to use in a classroom or library, and a Community Service Toolkit to use in, "veteran’s hospitals, senior centers, homeless shelters, and other community centers." I also like their Great Question List.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. My ultimate dream would be to send Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging over to the Sharing Foundation's fledging computer school.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Designed specifically for students, educators, and veterans, the site and its content enable users to experience the history of African-American soldiers in an extremely personal manner. Valuable Classroom Resources. • Resources to help educators locate their local U.S. We are grateful to the U.S.

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We love doing them, bring on great guest, speakers, totally free, totally educational. And all kinds of information on our website, you can watch videos, get a really good sense of what we have to offer. But if not, this is a great way for us to connect in a safe and educational space. You know, are you doing videos?

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, on one hand, involuntary reliance on video platforms and social media paid new dividends in accessibility for volunteers and clients. This was part of the national conversation when schools pivoted to online classrooms, which catered to families with reliable internet, ample supply of modern devices, and space to use them.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Whether you’re fundraising for your church’s youth group, your school, or your kid’s sports team, investing in the education and wellbeing of your kids is priceless. With a youth-oriented fundraiser, you can raise money for educational trips, sports equipment, classroom supplies, art supplies, musical instruments, or any other cause.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2012

Despite all that had been written about high-quality education, schools struggled to make an impact," explains Bambrick-Santoyo.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

(Please visit the site to view this video). One teacher expressed how the tablet PCs facilitate learning in the classroom: "We work with a lot of photocopies; luckily the child can scan the page and then work at the same pace as their friends. " Improving the Education Experience. Video: Microsoft Ideas.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

The Semester of Service Act would allow high school juniors and seniors to spend more than a third of a semester outside of the classroom serving their community. You can watch a short video with Senator Dodd, and view videos with other presenters at bethechangeinc.org/servicenation/live ns08 Service Nation Chris Dodd Semester of Service Act.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. There is so much I'm learning from educators about this, including some of the comments I culled from the Chat from yesterday's Extension webinar: In our 4H Youth Development work, copyright has been a big issue, but this step 8 opens up some things.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Kristiansen captured the drama on this video clip of Mena Trott's Keynote calling for more civility in blog commenting. While this advice is more appropriate for the classroom, Vicky Davis shares how she manages the back channel. At this conference in 2005, the backchannel was projected on the screen behind the speaker.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2016

The problem is that we can only get so far by teaching ourselves through YouTube videos and endlessly searching Google. Lectures are left for the classroom. We do everything we can to save money, achieve our mission and learn as much as possible at home or from our office. This year we’ll be diving into: Nonprofit Marketing.

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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. Virtual education is a great tool and can be used to teach a wide range of skills. For added suspense, you may send out a mystery box with a variety of beverages to sample.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So if that is of interest to you, maybe you’re thinking of switching software or you’re just kind of curious about us, check out our website, all kinds of videos and stuff you can watch and, you know, we’d love for you to learn more. Let me know if my audio becomes unclear and I can turn off my video, okay? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

possibly related classroom projects??? from DonorsChoose.org at the bottom of posts, so that readers can find opportunities to take action to help classrooms around the world. Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???possibly

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

I rounded up some other resources here and the Shaping Youth Blog did a roundup post with huge pile of green geek, recyclying, and youth education links. Vicky Davis, CoolCatTeacher Blog, writes about how it might be used in a classroom. Good summary of videos and nonprofits found on the mobile voter blog. Global NpTech.

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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. music , arts education , symphony , Nova Scotia But these days, most people never actually see this music being made live.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With video conferencing, broadband, and Second Life, well, we can all safely stay ensconced in our own virtual-reality-sensory-deprivation-tanks and just digitally dance the salsa at the next NTEN gathering.??? Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign. He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With

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