Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

TechSoup Global has an upcoming Digital Story Telling contest, getting orgs to put together 60 second vid’s about what they do/who they are. Second Life and IRL at TechSoup HQ in SF. You can look at #sfaddis to see what they did recently from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. It works really well.

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Offline Community Ethiopia Org 117

Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

The Ordyslexie program, in combination with Les Ateliers du Bocage, has helped more than 1,500 dyslexic French students become more independent and confident in school. This program has improved academic performance and is loved by both students and parents. The copies are submitted on a USB flash drive or directly."

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Experiment Learning France Giving 36

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

One of the biggest trends in mobile giving right now is gamification: the integration of game dynamics, like points, badges, or levels, into a fundraising or social good campaign. Created by local NYC students, this game is designed to be played in and around city libraries and teaches players how to use library resources.

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San Francisco Change Badge Library 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. The media here IS the service. And some background reading.

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Netsquared Nptech Summary Project 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Three out of four of these were on Second Life. We created an Island in Second Life to forward this agenda. College students have led the fight on issues. We announced a contest to create a game to address issue in Sudan. How does it work for social change. We identified four finalists.

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Game International Darfur Sudan 50

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. They just finished a YouTube video contest. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest.

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Museum Interview Flickr YouTube 27