Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Donors Choose ([link] for example, allows people to pool small donations to help enterprising teachers get funding for classroom projects. A woman in Kenya (replete with name and photo) who could use your $50 to start a corner store. A specific classroom in rural Ohio that needs $200 for a science project.

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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. I expect the parties to be lively gatherings and for people to form new relationships and to come with open hearts ready to share. What is Epic Change?

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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. I expect the parties to be lively gatherings and for people to form new relationships and to come with open hearts ready to share. What is Epic Change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I have learned the feng shui of how classroom setup impacts interaction and learning. For webinars, the platform is your classroom setup, so it important to understand how the Q/A and chat features, whether everyone can see everyone else’s chats or just the presenter. You also need to design good openers and closers !

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

The application allows any user to send information—including photos, videos, audio, or text—simply and securely to a Martus account. Photo credit: Katy Steinmetz, TIME Magazine. I invite you to join us as we open new frontiers at the intersection of technology and social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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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. I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. site that has photos, etc.,

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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

When Christmas card season rolls around, it always seems like a last-minute mad dash to find those family photos that you can send out to family and friends. You can also raffle off lunches, an afternoon of board games, or craft sessions so students and teachers can enjoy some fun activities together outside of the classroom!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The never-quite-opened National History Museum of the Netherlands created an innovative vending machine for historic objects, which traveled to festivals and urban centers for people to add their memories. Look at photos of Michelle's pop-up museums, and you'll see a bunch of plastic tables with objects lined up on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. I also had a web browser window open so I could watch the videocast of event. The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. local time).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

Today, there are thirty kids fidgeting in a classroom, talking to their friends, messing with their phones. He shows a big board of photos of FoodWhat youth at work. He gets them to want to open the door. After offering up these four keys, Doron energizes the classroom with a challenge. And they turn their lives around.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

I was a graduate student at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) when the school opened a satellite building in Middle East Baltimore, an under-resourced neighborhood, with the hopes of it serving as a hub for community arts. From there, people asked to hire us for event photos, so we started selling those services too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook. Why did you choose Ning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

For every online social network training we do, we actually present the ning site and demonstrate ways participants can create and customize profiles, syndicate RSS feeds, post blogs, photos and videos and more. Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook. Why did you select ning?

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Food pantry partners with local pet rescue to open pet food pantry. 5K will raise money for school’s outdoor classroom and track . Include 1 – 3 photos and a short video, if you have one. Provide cutlines with the first and last names of everyone in the photo as well as the photographer. Avoid exclamation points.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons. Make sure you promote them in a way that is both effective and appealing, with clear descriptions and attractive photos. 5) Online classes. 9) Movie screenings. 28) Virtual Dog-walk-a-thons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Photo by Rikomatic. Talked about the openness to games and the need for research. Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. There is more open dialog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Openness - ????A A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. You don't need to open your wallet because each install generates a small amount of revenue to Save the Rain Forest. And, yes they did ! But it doesn' t always have to be you asking people to donate.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

This can show you who might be most interested in attending and contributing to your auction or open to expanding their overall support, such as by becoming a monthly donor. Showcase each item with clear, detailed photos that highlight the quality and unique features, making them more desirable to bidders. Giving habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

Photos of the slides. Or the more elegant opening questions posed by Nesson: " Is there some magic in the Internet space that can help fight crime? He described the curriculum where inmates learn both computer skills and the recording/audio production skills and the classroom space (with "walls made of radio signals").

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Having to rely on virtual fundraising to get through some difficult times opened many people’s eyes to the convenience, ease, and accessibility of online events and fundraisers. You should also be able to list fund-a-need items and open a regular online store so your auction participants can buy special items they’re interested in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

Photo by Sean MacEntee. Transparency – that buzzword we have all come to know so well – is as important in the nonprofit world as it is in the corporate world, and it means as much today as financial accountability and maintaining open lines of communication with constituents.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2008

Instead of classrooms or mission statements, first time visitors enter 826 Valencia through the storefront Pirate Supply Store. There is a trapdoor in the ceiling that staff can open to drop a mop head on unsuspecting browsers. There are mysterious objects in drawers with evocative names like "illumination" (candles).

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

So they might be ghosting you because they open up your damn email, and it is just 17 pages long, and they’re like, “Oh, my word. Include photos of people if you want to stand out. Pick the people who open the most emails. ” One question. ” That is literally the question. I don’t have time for this.”

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.) We collaborated with two local organizations--the Rebele Homeless Family Shelter and Dominican Oaks retirement community--to conduct oral histories and produce a small audio and photo-based exhibit on maintaining love in tough situations. Some are conceptual (i.e.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. We've just launched Miradi.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Showing a lawmaker a photo slideshow, short video, animation, or visualization will feel more natural on a panel than on a laptop. The platform lends itself to investments in high-definition movies, high-resolution photos, and audio-clips — stories that help reveal "what your support is accomplishing.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 2, 2009

Last week, I had my first serious experience with useful back channels at a conference ( WebWise ), and it taught me some lessons about how back channels might be used effectively as a learning tool in museums and other experiential venues (like conferences and classrooms). The back channel isn’t just a social space.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Photo by Frederik Trovatten.com on Unsplash. For instance, the Drivers Cooperative in New York started in an educational classroom among Uber and Lyft drivers, after workers became tired of paying high commission fees to these platform companies while also being required to pay for their own job expenses such as insurance and repairs.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

[Photo credit: Idea Accelerator contestants high five after practicing their pitches at the Microsoft evening reception, Sept. Impact Circles - Birgit Pauli-Haack Executive Directors meet to open the Pandora''s Box of technology and take the beast to serve their organization''s mission and save time and money. Want to learn more?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Photo by Borman818. Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate. Good fundraisers (and marketers ) know that tugging at the heart strings can open the wallet. . More than $550,000 was raised last March. .

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Reich: So, the book opens with a short account of a person named Aaron Swartz, who was a kind of coding genius from an early age, helped to develop the protocols now known as Creative Commons. Photo Credits: Rob Reich (left, Christine Baker), Jeremy Weinstein (center, Christine Baker), Mehran Sahami (right, Amanda Law).

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