Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 21, 2007

We've been getting regular updates from our volunteer scanning crew, who have chopped, scanned, OCR'd, paginated and are now doing the final prep work to release the newest Harry Potter book to the Bookshare.org community. Of course, the great thing is when accessibility works but is just invisible, and that's the case.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Not only do your congregants want to come out to support you, but you can even introduce your church to others and build your community. Another great way to grow your fundraising and your community simultaneously is with a t-shirt fundraiser. Place the collection materials around your church and the community.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. There was no initial design, no graphics, and no idea of where the teen' work would fit into an overall structure.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

I have clients that have mobilized entire communities and Facebook groups around advocacy and around, especially for people that are in very niche communities, like, rare diseases or communities that have a lot of stigma where they need like a private group, so they can have a safe space to talk.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Despite the popular myth which asserts that email is dying, the truth is that email use is growing with all age groups worldwide. For example, secure five local community sponsors that will give $2,000 each and create a $10,000 matching gift campaign. See Hope Grow raised nearly $460,000 for TreeHouse teens.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. Of course, space-making works when you respect your colleagues and know they can do killer work. Naming fears, too.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2019

Children in this group are learning about values that will last a lifetime. Generation Z are the older children in your children’s ministry and youth groups. Youth in this group are starting to develop their personalities, finding their way around life’s curves, and even learning to deal with bullies at school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Jared Paul, the co-founder of a new nonprofit that has a focus on homeless youth and one of the winners of the $25,000 in the first phase of Chase's Giving Community Contest offered to share his thoughts. Thanks for reading and of course, you can vote for us. Well…sheer hustle, an inspiring video , and a supportive network.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

For example, you could take a picture of a gathering from the back of the room or just a part of the body (two hands petting a rescued dog or digging a community garden, for example). Teen Retreat. " IBME gets both the teen's and parent's signature. For pictures that you use for current news stories.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. So much of the project was really about convening social groups and we see it continuing. When we first started babycastles, we had no idea there was any kind of community in NY for it. but there wasn’t an offline space for that.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategic planning often starts with a retreat to set the initial course, but you will need to create an actual written plan after the retreat and then review the plan regularly and do any necessary course corrections to stay on track. Eradicating hunger in your community is not a goal. It’s a vision.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. Performances just for teens. The event was oversold, and participants raved about the experience. Late night mixers at museums for young adults.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

By the time my mom was at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, I was in my late teens/twenties, and I started to know the board socially, including Bob Fisher, who is now very involved with SFMOMA. He very intentionally choses that versus being one of 600 in the Met’s Young Patrons group. I’ve known Bob for 15 years now. DG: Absolutely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Of course things have changed a lot. “No, The American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) is currently selling a t-shirt with the names of 3,400 children and teens who have fought or are still fighting childhood cancer. A college grad researching a career in fundraising recently asked me what’s changed since I started in the field.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

Another quiet little secret is making sure you engage local Girl and Boy Scouts groups who are always looking for ways to engage in socially minded ways. Which group’s fundraising boxes come to mind? Cold temperatures triggered One Warm Coat to start their campaign in 1992 around the day to raise coats for community.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. So much of the project was really about convening social groups and we see it continuing. When we first started babycastles, we had no idea there was any kind of community in NY for it. but there wasn't an offline space for that.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The appeal is mostly for young people -- these communities are easy ways for offline friends to "gather" online, and to meet new people, either for entirely online encounters or to meet eventually face-to-face. These communities also feel exclusive and special, something young people find particularly appealing.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities. We collaborated with community members to source content and develop the show. This is an exhibition built from community members' stuff. As always, I welcome your questions and comments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. Heart disease is the number one killer in the community, and diabetes is number two, and if you combine all of the diet-related chronic diseases that are in the community, it makes up over half of the mortality rate.

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People Podcast Oakland Local 43

Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

As Wikipedia becomes more mainstream as a reference source, there might be substantial benefits from helping ensure it frames the debate in a truly balanced manner (and presents your organization’s critical information, of course). How about Digg ?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

As Wikipedia becomes more mainstream as a reference source, there might be substantial benefits from helping ensure it frames the debate in a truly balanced manner (and presents your organization’s critical information, of course). How about Digg ?

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Consultant Social Media Myspace Advocacy 31

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

This year''s inaugural Leading Change Summit brought together an amazing group of attendees: passionate people who know they aren’t alone in believing there’s another way to tackle a social issue, who see the world in a multichannel network, and who are looking to flip our cycle of adopting new technology on its head.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

It's like the difference between helping to paint a community mural and writing your own name on the wall. At the Exploratorium, people felt connected to the museum by their involvement in a group event; At AGO, they connected through personal expression. Of course not. Is one of these better than the other?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2010

BrdsNBz is Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina’s (APPCNC) acclaimed sexual health text line for North Carolina teenagers, where we provide safe and accurate answers to teens’ sexual health questions via text message. While Twitter use is growing among teens, it’s still a social medium dominated by adults.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

She’s got an awesome grant-writing course that she’s going to tell you about it at the end, which I hope you all sign up for because it’s really good. And that’s why I teach these courses. Everything you’re doing in your communities is too important to lose. And it’s been kind of a wild.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My house that I loved so much that I’m sure that I overpaid and was a fundraiser at Big Brothers Big Sisters at that time and really had to learn to navigate some really choppy waters around what it meant to help folks understand investing in their community in trying times, investing in young people, investing in our staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

And because you probably can't eat that much - unless, of course, you're Joey Chestnut - you put many small samples on your plate instead. Mozilla Week of Service Begins September 14th: Mark your calendars and sign up to offer your geek skills to your local community for a service project this week. Projects working in the U.S.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. There is a mix of artwork, historical artifacts, community stories, and labels about the psychology of love. We see it as a long-term investment for the museum.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Then, they encourage others in the Flickr community to post their own images of the same plant and tag them "flickrplantproject." You can see the museum's plants here and the aggregate community submissions here. For the same reason we do so with individual classes or constituency groups in the real museum.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 Do you want to become a community nexus? One of these was a general question that I thought might be of interest to you. into their repertoire? And my response. Pod or Vodcast.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2006

She's staying in a group home, let's say. And she knows that he'll come right to her group home and kick the front door in and drag her out of it. Then she went to the group home, and she's been there for a year now, and she's doing well. Because through the police department, they have units that work with the community.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

Our entire strategy at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is rooted in community participation. We invite diverse locals to share their creative and cultural talents with our greater community at the museum. Teens advocating for all-gender bathrooms. Does community participation work for big cultural destinations too?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

She’s got a really cool training course called Social Media for Social Good, her academy there. I love a group of sci-fi nerds, exterminate, Daleks. You can save them of course, your camera roll, and repurpose them in other ways if you want to. And of course, I could do a full three-hour session on TikTok.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

As I discovered, PDF is very much a gathering of the “digerati”: politicos, pundits, journalists, techies, bloggers, consultants, activists, and of course vendors and sponsors. We need to start connecting these dots. He’s most known for his YouTube video: The Machine is Us/ing Us viewed 10 million times).

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