Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Are they intended to inspire students? Some awards programs are around encouraging students and individual inventors: with the incentive being prestige or a minor amount of money ($5-10,000). These encourage students and professors to think about accessibility. The FCC has to think about what its biggest objectives are.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Designed specifically for students, educators, and veterans, the site and its content enable users to experience the history of African-American soldiers in an extremely personal manner. • Downloadable discussion guides to help high school and college teachers bring the story of African-American servicemen and women to their students.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Suse Anderson spoke about the drawbacks of professionalization: Moves to “professionalise” the sector that make an MA entry level + cost of grad school + systemic under compensation —> further embedding class stasis of who can work in museums, whilst making public arguments for DEAI that contradict institutional actions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

Recently Target settled out of court with the National Federation of the Blind about its accessible website after Target suffered a couple of reverses in the court case against them. But, the lousy quality of accessibility of the Kindle presents a civil rights problem: schools can't adopt Kindles and lock out their disabled students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

.   Her organization was formed 27 years ago by an activist group of clinicians, social scientists, health care executives and policy analysts to advocate for health equity and improved public health.   College students recruited youngsters, exploited our youthful zeal as they exposed us to the issues of the day.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

International, Foreign Affairs & National Security: Send a Net. SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise). For your free copy on publication, subscribe to the free Getting Attention e-update. Tags: challenge marketing awards competition taglines. An excellent example of a mission-driven tagline. Save a Life.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Nancy White tagged me to participate in an interesting meme. She helped to set up the United Nations Online Volunteering Program. Johnson School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin. I love placing college students in service learning positions. It has tons of information about volunteering.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. Very sophisticated for a student team. The FCC ruling opened a four-month public comment period, after which it will take a final vote on net neutrality. Find out more on this new service here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Speakers: Douglas Thomas, USC Center on Public Diplomacy Hardy Merriman, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict Stephen Friedman, MTV U Douglas Thomas: We're closet gamers. " Came to the idea that if people play together, they tend not to think of people as different nationalities. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c

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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. Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Where's the conference tag? " Have any to add?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The conference, according to Jason Schultz , Co-Director of the Samuelson Clinic for Law , Technology and Public Policy, was designed as “a chance to address the ramifications of what happens when people write permanently to a giant network.” Tags: policy. promoting post-abortion health and well-being.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. It's messy.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 21, 2009

When I moved across the country, a friend gave me a gift of a National Parks passport. This little booklet that lists all the US national parks and has a spot for a special stamp that you can obtain at any of them. In the years I have owned this passport, I have visited several national parks. It’s a membership.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia). Who's leading that charge?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

I talked with Jodie Van Horn, a campaigner for Rainforest Action Network 's Freedom From Oil campaign, and the coordinator for Plug-In Bay Area about the plug-in campaign in the Bay Area as well as the national Freedom from Oil Campaign. Below is a transcript from the interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

A one-minute video clip presents the issue (for example, whether students should be allowed to wear headscarves to school). Then, a screen pops up with a statement like “Students should be allowed to wear religious symbols in school.” There are many ways that the game could do this: Voting could be (more) public.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Calvin Osborne, an attorney with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), underscored the urgency in improving broadband -- essentially fast Internet access -- to keep the US from lagging behind other nations. He spoke about FCC's expansive efforts to increase "digital literacy" for both individuals and small businesses.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The new building of Naturalis, the Dutch National Natural History Museum, opened in 1998. Naturalis will give the public an active role. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 Please share your own experiences with alternative strategic planning processes in the comments! Naturalis will be a theater. Projects design guestpost.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. Tags: Benetech internships human rights Miradi fellowships MBA environment Bookshare.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

One of the requirements set forth in the OGD was for executive departments and agencies to create a public feedback mechanism to solicit citizen feedback during the development of each department's or agency's Open Government Plan. The program would run for the entire academic school year and rely on long-term engagement with students.

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Forum One

APRIL 27, 2009

Conference speakers were full of inspirational stories, such as a keynote by Al Sommer , MD, MHS, Professor and Dean Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, whose friend in the 1970s in India asked, ?Why National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

So some things you can do is NCOA, National Change of Address on your database. I don’t know what it is statistically nationally. How many of you feel like that, or cringe when your executive director goes, “Let’s just ask some of these high school students that come to after school?” So guess what?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

It's very simple to calculate: you take the total operating expenses for your public-facing efforts and divide by the number of people who walk through the door. Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

In the end, the campaign raised just over $1,000 in two days; donations will help open government data to citizens and promote transparency in public offices. In the end this was a quick-and-dirty campaign that raised some well-deserved money and got good visibility on a national scale. Tags: socialmediametrics.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

It helped increase name recognition nationwide with articles in ABC.com, the Smithsonian magazine, this blog , and the Learning Games Network, as well as mentions by the Washington Post, National Public Radio, and several local blogs and news sites. Tags: evaluation programs Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects game.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

And I started a young professionals board, the National Women’s Political Caucus of Metro St. Sarah is in a semi-public place, because she’s at a hotel for a conference. For example, in the National Women’s Political Caucus, this group hosted something like phone banks for candidates that we had endorsed.

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Forum One

MARCH 24, 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act includes $12 billion for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Federal law that governs special education, as well as other funds to "build robust data systems that allow districts to better track the growth of individual students. Tags: Strategy.

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