Connection Cafe

APRIL 15, 2015

I love when my life and my work collide. As a corporate social responsibility professional working in philanthropy and volunteerism every day, nonprofits, their leaders and the work they do are a huge part of my life. photo of Catherine LaCour and Sean Sheridan courtesy of Silicon Harbor Mag. The people they help. And I love it.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

I planned to supplement with donations from restaurants, travel packages and other universally popular items. Once I had a few donations in hand, I had postcards printed with beautiful photos of the artists’ work. Someone else was assigned to take photos and write up enticing descriptions.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 8, 2012

Paul's School, Lori Redfearn at the California State University Chancellor’s Office, Stephen M. Rodriguez at Boston University, and Kristi Worden at Augustana College. He has an MBA from [major university] and a law degree from [another major university]. I’ve anonymized the tellers of the tales and the subjects.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2023

Include the sponsor’s name in certain event activities, such as a “Hole-in-One Contest Presented by Sponsor” or “Sponsor Photo Booth.” About the Author Logan Foote Logan Foote has been around the game of golf nearly his entire life. Offer memorable event experiences that leave a lasting impression on attendees.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Read real-life accounts of how technology is improving lives and communities with support from TechSoup, its global partners, and its generous donor partners. See and hear how technology is transforming communities by viewing accompanying photos and videos. Louis through sales of a street newspaper, What’s Up Magazine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Tan , University Service Learning /. Photo via Time. Reading about other social activists forces me to examine my own life. Tan is a Coordinator in ASU’s University Service Learning department, specializing in community partnerships and AmeriCorps programming. AmeriCorps Coordinator. ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

While that worked for decades, the Information Age has taken university giving online in a big way, with email, text to give, social media and general online giving quickly taking the place of mailers. The giving day isn’t exclusive to universities and colleges. Do they need photos and logos? But don’t be fooled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The photo above was taken at last night's TechSoup Mixed Reality Event. The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Second Life requires a significant time investment to appreciate the potential.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2012

Read real-life accounts of how technology is improving lives and communities with support from TechSoup, its global partners, and its generous donor partners. See and hear how technology is transforming communities by viewing accompanying photos and videos. Louis through sales of a street newspaper, What’s Up Magazine.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

A somber way to start Things We Like, but this article on “ How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life ” seems to really strike home at the crowd-sourceable bullying aspect of the Internet and how it impacts real people. Here are some more “melt your heart” photos: these dogs and cats could be (should be?

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2015

For those with visual impairments, a cane can be a useful tool for navigating sidewalks, busy spaces, and life in general. What Makes a Cane "Smart" Wired recently published a story about a prototype smart cane called the XploR , which is being built by a research team at Birmingham City University in the U.K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. on July 18th and subsequently had a chance to interview her at her fabulous virtual office in Second Life.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Joaquin was the founding director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet, which launched in 2005 from San Francisco State University. Joaquin currently serves on TechSoup Global's board of directors. , whose mission is to inspire women to live their life and earn their livelihood by following their true purpose.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

Toan Lam is a multimedia consultant, university professor, thought leader, and former TV reporter and host who is on the forefront of the changing landscape of multimedia. And presenting the Lytro Camera for best photo entry is Lisa Rose, executive director at PhotoPhilanthropy. Can't make the event in person?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8th.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. Here's a little more about this year's esteemed cohort of judges!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Adding additional life to computers saves 5 to 20 times more energy than recycling over the computer's life cycle. It's much better for the environment to extend the life of a computer for an extra two or three years than to buy a new one every three to four years. Photo courtesy of Flickr user lungstruck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

One recent study at Stanford University determined staff were more creative when they were walking versus sitting and encouraged walking meetings for more innovation. These may include: Organizational Meetings: A big part of work life, especially for those who are staff members of traditional nonprofits, are meetings.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Add real photos of people you are helping, volunteers and more. Putting a face and name to donations is highly effective in connecting donors, which is why organizations like World Vision will send a photo and information about a specific child to their contributors. DO use pictures of people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

So, I took a photo of her business card and am posting the questions here. What are some examples in other parts of the world where a university has used social media to connect with students around clubs and student life? Please leave a comment so I can share with her. What do we need to think about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It’s a complicated equation that brings together core human rights concerns about privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and the direct practicalities of real-life struggle with the ways in which engineering, policy, legal and design decisions are made by companies, or placed upon them by the jurisdictions in which they operate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In December, 2006, I launched my first personal online fundraising campaign using my blog to raise money to cover college tuition costs for Leng Sopharath , an orphan from the same orphanage in Cambodia where my daughter spent the first 18 months of her life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2007

She is the head of information systems at the University of Reading in the UK. We've participated in online collaboration experiments in Second Life and we are friends on Facebook. In her dorm room, she had photos of our family and my letters to her on the wall. Meet Shirley Williams. Her blog is called RedGloo.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to connect with Colin Rhinesmith , Community Media Coordinator at Cambridge Community Television (Cambridge, MA, USA) and Adjunct Lecturer for the Media and Culture Program at Bentley University. How did Cambridge Community Television get involved with social media and social media trainings?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 10, 2009

Being respectful of all people (even if they annoy you--tough one for me) Enjoying your life as it is, even it's not how you want it to be at the moment. It can also mean right , which is where it gets tricky, because we all have different versions of what we think is right. Using your gifts and talents to help others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Flickr Photo by Beth. Life slows down. That's my favorite photo of her. They are also running a contest : The Red Cross is also encouraging dog owners to cool off during these dog days by diving into the American Red Cross Pet Photo Pool. It is always a sad time of year for me.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2008

Creating website content for universities, non-profits, or artists? You'll find a version of it in her book Creating a Life Worth Living: A practical course in career design for artists, innovators, and others aspiring to a creative life. Full-time work as a counselor doesn't give me enough quiet time during the day.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

It’s an easy way to organize your nonprofit’s life. For example, if you always want to save photos that you take with Instagram to your Dropbox folder, IFTTT will automatically do that for you. Pinterest is a content sharing service that allows users to virtually “pin” photos, videos and other content onto virtual “boards.”

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Maybe you want to show supporters what life is like within your walls. Find out who is good with sharing photos, telling stories and sharing updates from within your organization. Sign up for our Social Media Boot Camp , an intensive video-course with actionable takeaways as part of the Nonprofit Hub University.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

She regards her life's work as leveling that playing field. Written narrative is best enriched with graphs, maps, photos, and other illustrations. She uses information from the University of Iowa College of Public Health's Rural Policy Research Institute. Insights on Government Funding.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Yaw Anokwa (2010), who, along with others from the University of Washington, created the Open Data Kit, enabling Android-powered smartphones to easily collect data in the field, like text, photos, video, audio, barcodes, and location.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Photo by Rob de la Cretaz "We're so busy. I decided to do a little anonymous act of kindness, take photos, call it a secret mission, put it up on a blog, and then I told her about it. I follow your blog, and you don't put up every photo that everyone sends you, do you? I try to post most of the photos that the agent sends to me.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Gretchen has donated her time to numerous causes including Relay for Life, Girls on the Run, Rebuilding Together and just recently became involved with the local land trust. Gretchen graduated from the University of Nevada with a degree in English literature. She currently serves as the Director of Marketing at NonProfitEasy.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The intruder was able to get names, addresses, genders, birth dates, and even photos of children — more than six million children. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted in June to expand the Universal Lifeline program to include broadband, following a public comment period. The privacy concerns are huge, though.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Photos that help tell your story. Great photos can help ensure your story gets picked up. The piece had started life as an announcement style press release that we rewrote to convert paragraphs about people into quotes by them. Original quotes make your story read like news. Variations went to other informal news outlets.

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