Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. and Classroom 2.0 ) Here's an interview Robert Scoble did with the Gina Bianchini where she demos how to set up your own social network. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

DPDO supports the operation of fifteen elementary schools in North Darfur and they are responsible for teacher salaries and providing classroom supplies (Total Enrollment: 8300 students; Teachers: 160 plus 56 support staff). Tags: sports train for humanity socialchange organization otherblogs darfur. Meet the Train for Humanity team.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Last year, funds from TweetsGiving helped build a classroom in Tanzania. Tags: events fundraising africa epic change tweetsgiving. In honor of the people and things that make them grateful, guests will be invited to give to a common cause at events held across the globe. Why TweetsGiving? Read the rest of the interview here.).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

During the US Thanksgiving holiday, Tweetsgiving asked people around the world to use Twitter to share something they were grateful for and include the link to the Tweetsgiving site (where people could donate to help build a library, classroom and more for the benefiting school in Tanzania).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign. He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

It could be teacher training, classrooms, a feeding programme, sanitation and clean water, books, school fees or teacher’s accommodation. Tags: community digital learning africa education. No impractical solutions. Whatever the need we’ll give the community a way to tell you. This will certainly be an interesting project to follow!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 29, 2009

He’s been a grassroots publisher/distributor (with a unique operational model) for decades and has spent years riding buses to obscure corners of his state to read works of literature to people in living rooms, classrooms and various public spaces…I think his humility, dedication and generosity touched all of us who were a part of his visit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Reframe the Problem Example: If you were asked to design a new version of a name tag (like the ones you wear at conferences) you'd probably get versions that were different, but ultimately similar. But if you asked, "Why do we use name tags?" Desks in rows during the rest of our schooling do not : ( 6.

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See3

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, Tweetsgiving raised $10,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania. All you have to do is upload it to YouTube, tag it with “Tweetsgiving&# , and include the tweetsgiving.org URL in your video description. Tags: Video fundraising youtube storytelling social media web 2.0 Any questions? Write in the comments below.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. This year, they're also enabling people to participate by tagging blog posts, Flickr photos, YouTube videos, and blip.fm So far, they've had more than 13,000 thank you notes tagged with #tweetsgiving and they've raised more than $16,000.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Windows MultiPoint Server is a fairly new product and was originally intended for use in school classrooms. It's a new operating system that allows multiple users to simultaneously share one computer, with each user running an independent Windows 7–like desktop environment. Here's the official Windows MultiPoint Server website.

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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. Tags: events interview africa epic change fundraising philanthropy tweetsgiving twitter. Find out more in the interview below! 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. Tags: events interview africa epic change fundraising philanthropy tweetsgiving twitter. Find out more in the interview below! What is Epic Change?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 9, 2013

Help from Home’s tag line is “Change the world in just your pyjamas!”, but they also encourage volunteers to change the world from their classroom, work, and more. I am relatively new to the Sparked community, having only been an active member for a couple of months, but it’s the microvolunteering site that I am most familiar with.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude." " Tags: roundup bookmarks. I’m SO EXCITED to write you because I couldn’t wait to share: on Saturday, in the Moivaro village of Arusha, Tanzania, in the shadow of Mt.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude." " Tags: roundup bookmarks. I’m SO EXCITED to write you because I couldn’t wait to share: on Saturday, in the Moivaro village of Arusha, Tanzania, in the shadow of Mt.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

I’m inviting people to share their definitions, here and on social (and tag me); I’ll summarize your thoughts next week. We often think of our teachers as being less than classroom teachers and our gallery staff as “just” teaching little kids. We need new #MuseumVerbs. Let me suggest one to start us off: Let go. There must be others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

While I was there, I got a tour, visited some classrooms, and talked to a few students. In one classroom, I queried the students about their social media use. Last week, I did a workshop for a board of a secondary school interested in taking the first steps into social media. But, none used RSS readers or knew what they were.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Valuable Classroom Resources. Tags: Influence Government. • Hundreds of photos and videos, some of which were not previously published/publically available, depicting the history of African-Americans in the U.S. military from the Revolution to the present. • Resources to help educators locate their local U.S.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2010

They were Pat Furr of Computers for Classrooms (CFC) and Bruce Buckelew of Oakland Technology Exchange West (OTX West). Tags: GreenTech Hardware Recycled & Refurbished Computers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. possibly related classroom projects??? It probably isn't too early to start thinking about that busy year-end online fundraising season.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2009

"We gave the kids a forum to tell their stories, show off their writings, display their artwork, and let their peers in classrooms around America know that even though they had HIV, they were no different than any other kid," said their submission essay. Tags: Marketing Multimedia & Graphics Running Your Organization.

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Everyaction

APRIL 25, 2018

Monitoring student group membership is made easy with the ability to tag students' database records with an a custom code, enabling staff to easily pull reports on the population of each club and overall student group participation levels. Use mobile optimized, social media integrated communication.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2010

We wanted to give our kids a forum to tell their stories, show off their writings, display their artwork, and let their peers in classrooms around America know that even though they had HIV, they were no different than any other kid." Tags: Event Fundraising Marketing Multimedia & Graphics Software. Enter Show Your Impact today !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

So, before we did the icebreaker, I had everyone put dots on their name tags. While we did have simultaneous interpretation, it would not be useful for rapid share pair discussions that this opener requires. We passed a ball (it was ball with crochet cover with Mayan designs) to the next person whose turn it was to speak going clockwise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. The holy grail metrics is missing?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Learn more about our flipped classroom model, what you can look forward to learning when you''re there, and register! This intensive, in-person, nonprofit leadership workshop will highlight change management issues and methodologies to align your strategic plan with enterprise-wise technology initiatives and business processes development.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 2, 2010

After Frustrations in Second Life, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education: "Some colleges that have built virtual classrooms in Second Life—the online environment where people walk around as avatars in a cartoonlike world—have started looking for an exit strategy.".

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Learn more about our flipped classroom model, what you can look forward to learning when you''re there, and register! This intensive, in-person, nonprofit leadership workshop will highlight change management issues and methodologies to align your strategic plan with enterprise-wise technology initiatives and business processes development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2005

Nancy White has a great post about "Blog as Classroom, Playground, Mind Trip" I went directly to the playground, a place to experiment and learn how to incorporate web 2.0 Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , inventiveness. technologies into teaching practice. into their organization's missions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

This is a test to see if I've made onto the wireless network in the classroom at the iLaw conference. Technorati Tags: ilaw We're waiting for the first session to begin, Intellectual Property Protection for Code. The speakers are William Fisher and Jonathan Zittrain. I'm noticing that many laptops here have bumper stickers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2006

" My colleague, Vicky Davis , is leading a session at the K-12 Online Conference on wikis in the classroom. Amy Gahran's wiki for blogher posts - to organize them from the huge tag stream that came out of the conference. The k-12 wiki she set up has some excellent resources in it. Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

While this advice is more appropriate for the classroom, Vicky Davis shares how she manages the back channel. Tags: backchannel. Spend some time at the beginning of your presentation explaining to your audience how you will respond to the twitter stream and audience members are more likely to use it responsibly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2006

On Friday, I'm doing Chinese New Year lessons at Harry's and Sara's respective classrooms on Friday. At Harry's school, there is an Internet-connected computer, MAC. I didn't want to mess with installing (and unstalling) SKYPE on the computer so I could call Nick in Hong Kong as we view his flickr photo set and he could answer questions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

askbritt online classroom learning education career advice. Tags: askbritt. I won't post your name, but I will post your question with my answer, so keep that in mind as you write if you don't want details in your question to identify you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin. Tags: sxsw. For example, through a Twitter campaign during the conference, Mark Horwath raised $50,000 for his organization InvisiblePeople.tv to help promote awareness of homelessness in America.

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