Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The exercise teaches empathy. This can happen even if your organization is using video conferencing. Recently, I read about an exercise that you can do to intentionally improve the experience for all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Both language and what you’re teaching. 4) Mary had a “laptops down&# rule and only allowed participants to be online during breaks. Simplify, simplify, simplify. Localize and make it relevant. Even if you have a video with sub-titles, the speakers might be speaking too fast. It is important to add this framing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Citing a lack of trained teachers, TCS had built a PC-based curriculum for teaching reading in 40 hours. The program focuses on mainly teaching a core vocabulary of sight words in the the desired language, so that adults are able read the local newspaper. As we pulled into the outsourcing zone, my laptop was registered at the gate.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2011

Last weekend, from sundown, March 4th to sundown, March 5th, I turned off my cell phone, laptop, and TV as part of the National Day of Unplugging. Conference , I have to ask myself, as a social media coach and heavy user: Should I be using, and teaching people to use, social media more, or less? It was awesome. My head was clearer.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

And they're doing this using the programming language Java on their laptops. Students bring their own laptops to a public library, and receive instruction from high school-aged instructors. The Power of Kids Teaching Kids. There's no real money involved, nor is it a real lemonade stand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Since we are trying to build a network of learners, it is very important to encourage participants to be the leaders and teachers. In some of the debriefs, I have a participant lead the debrief or instruction. Once the “teacher” steps aside, the participants are often very capable to teaching each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2008

Last August, I was invited organizers of the Cambodian Bloggers Summit to give a keynote and teach Web2.0 I launched a personal fundraising campaign so I could help be a sponsor for the conference and get over there with video cameras, shwag (t-shirts and stickers donated by nonprofits and tech companies) and teaching resources.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2012

Pacific time, called E-Readers for Everyone: Teaching Tips from Trainers. People now read digitized books on laptops, e-readers (like the Kindle or Nook), smartphones, and tablets. Be that as it may, e-reader devices and e-books are here to stay. Sales of e-books doubled from 10 percent to 20 percent of the publishing market in 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

Participants are asked to bring their laptop computer and video camera so that they can learn on their own equipment. I decided to donate my Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD2 digital video camera because I wasn't using it as much as I thought.

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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. Betsy Dassau, C3's founder and executive director, believes in the power of art. About the Success Stories Contest.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Many of your visitors will find you on their mobile phone, not their laptop. A WordPress consultant specializing in nonprofits can advise you on options, build your site , and teach you to keep your site updated while offering troubleshooting services. Make sure your site is optimized for mobile. Make sure pages load quickly.

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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?" 7) Partner with a corporation to get their laptops and other equipment coming off lease. What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2019

This post will teach you how. Get your employees set up with an encrypted laptop and make sure they sign into a secure VPN to help protect extremely sensitive IPs. Worse, it’s a significant security threat when your nonprofit deals with confidential and vital material. Absolutely. Consider high-level security.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He did this by teaching himself to be selfish and not respond. Chris Sacca quipped that he usually attends technology conference where most people in the audience are buried in their smart phones or laptops and that this conference was the one where felt the mostly everyone was paying attention to him. Don't live that way."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur’s laptop. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. That’s the theory at least.

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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. And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. But, you can't teach the way you feel comfortable teaching all the time. ? I am teaching two more sessions.

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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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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

And…they know technology, so they’re also an asset to help teach other volunteers. A participant from Virginia working in education explained: Because of COVID and the lockdown, our population of 18-to-24-year-olds exploded in the last six months… We’ve never had this many young adults in our program before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

If you look at the photo closely, you'll notice that Alex replicated her Mac sticker cover for her laptop. Father and daughter have been co-teaching a Harvard Law School course in Second Life this past semester, called CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opnion. Over fifty avatars attended. I learned a lot.

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APRIL 23, 2009

Teach your staff that the power button on the front of their monitor can be pressed at anytime. With the new laptop you have go ahead, take it to your meetings and take down notes directly to a Word document. (3) Getting Started. (1) 1) Turn off your monitors. 2) Move toward a paperless office. 3) Recycle!

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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. Gamification is a real thing now, you can play games that teach you everything you need to know, effectively measure said games and embed them directly within your learning platform. Implementations are getting easier and easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

On Day 3, when it was time to focus on more time on teaching the tools, we started with an opening exercise designed to help identify those in the room who had knowledge. Using this visual techniques , allows participants to give each other feedback and also see points of connection. The power of peer knowledge at work!

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2019

Peters, principal of Beverly Hills High School, announced today that the entire school faculty will travel to Sacramento next Thursday for a colloquium in new teaching methods. In this case, students care far more about getting a day off school than a teaching conference. He then proceeded to give the class these facts: Kenneth L.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 27, 2017

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

I remember this from my time in Cambodia where I was an hour's drive from the nearest Internet cafe while teaching ESL in the Roteang Village School english program. I usually left my laptop back in the hotel and packed all my paper resources. But that isn't the case for an ngo working a developing country or extremely rural area.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Lane is planning to do a game design class and is excited about using the MultiPoint Server system as a teaching tool. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Lane is planning to do a game design class and is excited about using the MultiPoint Server system as a teaching tool. Like most libraries, La Conner Library provides public access computers to patrons to use however they wish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2005

I used it while I was searching for lesson plans for the cluster workshop on Cambodian Culture I'm teaching for K-2 and it turned up resources that I hadn't seen before. I'm putting here because my laptop is broken.). The search engine uses a structured funnel approach. Step 1: Keyword search - poetry -- over 500 results.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2015

She says that most patrons also prefer the comfort and privacy of being able to use a laptop anywhere in the library. " Patrons can make appointments with Amy for one-on-one coaching, where she teaches them basic computer skills. QuickBooks to the Rescue.

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

No one would expect to have to protect terminally ill children from hackers, but co-founder Brian Westerman discovered that some of the kids the foundation was helping were being spied on through their laptop cameras. Founder and executive director Pamela Clark says, "Without GoToMeeting, there would have been no way to teach these kids."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

After all, teaching others improves retention and helps consolidates one's own knowledge. I was able to find some research and pieces about laptops in the classroom. Then, I encourage beginners to ask their questions and acknowledge that the content may feel fast-paced - and that's why I've included tutorials on the wiki. Know of any?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Since we shared my laptop, she kindly gave me permission to upload her slides). I was a circuit rider for their Rurals Program where I drove all over New York state working with Rural Arts administrators - teaching them anything and everything from how to set up an excel spreadsheet to using email to powerpoint - to plugging in modems. (I

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

You teach people how to relate to you. And then you can say, here’s a follow-up question if you’re really brave, which is what I teach my clients to do, “What would it take for us to become your top priority in your philanthropy? ” This is what I teach my clients. Yep, Sam, I see you. ” Boom.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

I also need to be able to work on the move: I need my "virtual desk" in front of me quickly, whether from my laptop or some other desk or smart device. Steve enjoys speaking and teaching about the creative use of technology to clients and at conferences.

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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. Working on a series of research studies on the benefits of games.

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