Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2019

This post will teach you how. This is a major risk for the nonprofit sector where collaboration on projects is critical. Someone might need an answer right away regarding a specific project, and if they have to wait for hours for an answer, then it affects productivity and worsens team morale. Absolutely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Program Design. Peer Learning Exchange: Theory of Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

The rest of the line up includes the installation of a wireless network project at the Community Center of St. Participants are asked to bring their laptop computer and video camera so that they can learn on their own equipment. Disclosure: This is a paid gig I do to coordinate the event and have done for the past 7 years).

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

Founded just four years ago, C3 has used the power of art to touch the lives of more than 250,000 people, while also teaching about the importance of getting creative about the issue of waste in America. To learn more about C3 and fun, easy upcycling projects, visit the organization's Facebook page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. That’s the theory at least.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Since 2003, the nonprofit has saved more than 6,000 animals, and the project is growing fast. It's undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. The organization's project on Last Polar Bear reached 26.5 HART for Animals. He came to TechSoup and requested donations of Norton Security.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 27, 2017

Fundly’s user-friendly platform enables anyone to set up a fundraising page to raise money for projects or causes they’re passionate about. GoGetFunding is a good option for crowdfunding personal causes, projects and events. Price Point. It’s absolutely free to launch a Fundly campaign. Fundly charges a straightforward 4.9%

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" At NetHope we have a project underway to create a technology catalogue of useful apps. What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration?

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” With this in mind, and my trusty laptop timer working as a moderator, I will now begin. This projection is set to grow throughout at least the next two presidential terms, and I for one would like to help educate potential users on all of the great features of which they can be getting out of their learning environments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. Opened in 2006, the school offers computer classes every morning utilizing ten donated laptops and a few older desk tops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I would bring the laptop and plug into the phone line and do demos in small groups. I would bring along transparencies or overlays for the overhead project that would show a screenshot and a tape cassette player with a recording of a modem handshake (remember those?). I am teaching two more sessions. This was circa 1997.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. And…they know technology, so they’re also an asset to help teach other volunteers. and Canada about their technology use.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

My weeks are all about writing, communicating with clients, staying in touch with project teams, being able to touch lightly many things, bear down and provide assistance on a few, all while keeping tons of things secure and backed-up. Now an entire team can enjoy continuous synchronization of a folder (and sub-folders) for a project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I had the pleasure of sharing the podium with Susan Chun who spoke about the Steve project. Since we shared my laptop, she kindly gave me permission to upload her slides). For 12 years, I worked on arts and technology projects with the New York Foundation for the Arts , beginning with its Arts Wire program in 1992.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

Computer classes are held every morning utilizing donated laptops and desktops (that are hand-carried over by Dr. Hendrie on her quarterly trips) Students, picked by lottery, come daily for six weeks to learn word processing, spread sheets, and Internet use, on our one, slow connection, acquiring a useful skill for future employment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. Interesting projects that are not the historical type.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. James was able to search Twitter and show them a conversation happening online with other choruses about fundraising. (We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

" He used the example of Harry Potter books - not just reading them, but young people working on collaborative writing projects via the Web -- writing and getting feedback from peers around the world. It can't just teach them to think about media, but making it on your own terms." They document their learning."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

So, my first steps into social media were logging onto a BBS for disability rights and support groups called Project Enable back in 1989 via Fidonet. I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages. just in time???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects. He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. Phil Agre's How To Help Someone Use A Computer, circa 1996, is still relevant to anyone who is teaching someone how to master a new piece of software or Internet service.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

If there’s an idea that the community is behind, and a project or plan that’s adopted (whether it’s a new way of operating or a new tool), then it moves forward, regardless of “who” thought it up or campaigned for it. I only have my laptop and my notebook with me, so all I need is an outlet and the wifi password to get to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

When it comes to selecting service providers and partners for projects and collaborations, make sure they are just as committed to privacy as you are. At Common Sense Media , we believe that treating others’ information carefully, and teaching others to do the same, is a key factor in building and maintaining trust. A YouTube channel?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 31, 2011

He is currently making time for what really matters while keeping an eye out for new projects to plug into, or initiate.You can follow him on Twitter at @peterdeitz Time management is one of the toughest skills to hone as aspiring social entrepreneurs, activists, and creative professionals. Yes, airline protocol has something to teach us all.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The reality is that not everybody has a device, such as a phone or laptop, which connects to Wi-Fi. This project is a great resource for libraries to share with patrons. The developers ensured that the locations weren't just providing free Wi-Fi access, but actual computers as well.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. And for all of us who are parents who had privilege of teaching these children, just be glad you’re still like those little people. You get yourself some kind of together and you kind of meander and find your way to your laptop. And Paris, you are so right.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2007

The guides pull you, teach you, challenge you, and entertain you. A few years ago at ASTC, Eddie Goldstein from the Denver Museum of Natural Science spoke about a very simple, highly effective element they added to their in-gallery offerings; a roving staff person with a laptop computer connected to the internet. Because of the guides.

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