Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

Silvia Tolisano, Langwitches Blog Tell me about your background? The past five years I have been teaching Spanish at an Elementary School and serve as the school???s I wanted to combine my two passions in teaching: Foreign Languages and Technology. s webmaster. Why did you start Langwitches blog? This Blog is an experiment.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. The Kosch-Westerman Foundation connects terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Here are the ones we especially liked from the past year! HART for Animals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. He suggests developing a dialogue with your child about media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

For the past five years, the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati has honored Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthday by asking a writer to give the annual Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture about, "Writing to Change the World." Anya Achtenberg will be teaching an online workshop, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World, later this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. " There was an acknowledgment from a panelist about the tensions between the need to look at results and the need for experimentation and pressures of timing. Talked about the openness to games and the need for research.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

Here is a partial transcript from my interview with Viet-Ly: Viet-Ly: Streetside Stories is a nonprofit literacy arts program based in San Francisco and we work with the middle schools -- the public middle schools -- of the San Francisco Unified School District. So, I decided that I want to be a classroom teacher, and I've applied to school.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Just an FYI for folks thinking about using it. Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. You can hear the orginal podcast on Gcast , Odeo or iTunes.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

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. While the five events on this list speak are all about physical activity, hosting a themed trivia night makes for a slightly brainier night out.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. We’re going to try to save a little bit of time for Q&A at the end, but don’t be shy about that. But don’t do that right now because I’m excited about this one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

Note from Beth: My colleague, Taryn Degnan, from CommonSense Media, shared this wonderful poster about privacy for elementary school kids. We got into a little side conversation about privacy and nonprofits and she offered to write up this post that includes some tips for nonprofits. Photo by Sean MacEntee. User control.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

We had a similar experience recently here at Microsoft when we heard a story about a student who participates in our Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program. A TEALS teaching assistant for a classroom in rural Kentucky noticed the transformation of a young man involved in the program.

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