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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Babycastles is New York’s first independent video arcade. One man came in that was 82 years old and said he’d never played a video game before – he was given a controller and taught how to navigate.

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4 Times Churches Should Use Waivers

sgEngage

One of the easiest ways to foster a culture of safety at your church is to implement online waivers to protect your congregation during events. It’s important to obtain a photo release from the congregants you’ve captured on camera before using their image in any of these formats: Church videos. Website imagery. Social media.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

In our data culture , we suggest your nonprofit takes the time to put one together as a means of showing your organization’s transparency — and bragging about your success in the past year. A unique element to this report that we don’t see very often: video. The annual report from 350.org We think that’s a win-win! Power Poetry.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

NTEN

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Babycastles is New York's first independent video arcade. One man came in that was 82 years old and said he'd never played a video game before - he was given a controller and taught how to navigate.

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SXSW 2013: Measurement and Making Sense of Your Data

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” I had opportunity to write up a case study about how VolunteerMatch’s calculates social return on investment as a prelude for a facilitated session at Media Impact Funders , so it was a delight to hear more examples from Robert about VolunteerMatch’s measurement culture. million views and asking was that success?

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Pokemon Go and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pokemon Go , the latest installment in the best-selling Pokémon video game series, launched as a smartphone app using augmented reality. It became an overnight viral sensation and cultural phenomena. Perhaps its appeal is an escape from all the bad things that are happening the world right now. A Few Concerns.

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Is Your Nonprofit Too Old To Barf Rainbows on Snapchat?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Snapcha t is a mobile app that lets users exchange text messages, photos and videos that disappear in 24 hours. Taylor Swift released a new video…again.) This is called disposable media. As this Snap Chat 101 for business people in the Wall Street Journal points out, “Facebook is for major life updates.