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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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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. Depending on your resources and budget, adding a gaming element to your organization's campaigns could be as simple as a social media contest or as elaborate as developing your own game-like app.

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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. We put out a call and got a number of responses from game programmers.

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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. Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. And here's a Web2.0

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

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. That’s why we’re not in Second Life. #1, We look at the equation and say maybe Second Life isn’t the right fit for us.

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