Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Army for the opportunity to participate in this important project and to build their official web site at ForLoveofLiberty.net. 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.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, June 15, 2011 Making the Play: Successfully Engaging Youth Within the Nonprofit Sector posted by David "DJ" Heyward , American Humanics Student / Team MPhasis Coach Many of us in the nonprofit sector work specifically with children and young adults. How does your nonprofit organization engage youth? Central Ave.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Let’s consider the list of most used forms: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ (assuming all continues to go well), LinkedIn, FourSquare, Gowalla, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, and your own site. This is a big issue for teachers who don’t want to friend their students for obvious reasons. This means choices will be made.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

A recent example of this was web site accessibility. 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. The advocates will sue the schools for choosing Kindle textbooks and violating the civil rights of disabled students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2009

Those schools that monitor online activity as it relates to them tend to be schools with higher tuition, private rather than public. These schools are also more likely to research students online via social networking sites. Tags: listening. I've been discovering this myself as I explore using Radian 6. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Read our blog about it, check out our literacy micro-site , and tweet with the cool widget we made. The story of what happened after that trip has been told in other publications. A group of graduate students from Berkeley were coming to Kenya. Some weeks later, we got an email from one of the students, freshly in Kenya.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

I immediately recalled a phenomenon I witnessed as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). The Rhode Island School of Design was established in 1877 alongside its Museum of Art, an important resource for RISD students. The Edna Lawrence Nature Lab was established in 1937, also as a resource for students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2006

Here's the project description from the site: Recruited from current FLEX. students, the young women will be trained in personal citizen journalism to be published on a weblog (a WWW publishing tool, available for public consumption.) The students will post a minimum of once a week on an assigned topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

tags: ngo socialmedia ) Next, Iulian Comanescu - Training coordinator for the program is explaining the program. He covered the following platforms: Blogs: It is more than a web site, built by one person or a small community or group of bloggers. Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Nancy White tagged me to participate in an interesting meme. If you have a question about nonprofit volunteer management, Jayne has probably covered it on her site or blog. Johnson School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin. I love placing college students in service learning positions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

She assigned students to watch some Citizen Journalism vlogs and post their criticism. A link on the side, lead me to Liz Lerman's article about " Critical Response Feedback " on the Community Arts Web site. Another resource to check out: Weblogs: Learning in Public by Jill Walker. Department on Multimedia Production.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

The site was developed by Democracy in Action. Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. Where's the conference tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Have a question: I want to publically acknowledge the names of the donors here on this blog and what I don't know is whether donors opted to be anonymous or not? Thank Yous So far, other bloggers have added the badge to their site or linked to the campaign and I want say a big thanks and in Khmer too ! The campaign tag is: sopharath.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. Elsewhere engages artists in residence who reinterpret elements of the thrift store into new works, which are then shared with the public. Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences. What non-traditional arts venues inspire you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Found via the NpTech Tag at blip.tv. tools and nonprofits, be sure to tag 'em with 2ndwave (And, if you're wondering how Nancy embedded her powerpoint, she did it with SlideShare (more here ). Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites. Click To Play.

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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

JUNE 8, 2010

Our visitors range from local church families, Schwenkfelder descendants, homeschoolers, charter and private school students, local historians, special interest groups such as the Questers, lifelong learning groups, and more. These young students submitted illustrated storybooks to a student art exhibit at the SLHC last year.

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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. The site doesn't link them with foundations or grant applications; instead, it makes it easy to reach out to regular people for donations of as little as $1. Currently, the site supports US-based projects only. Tags: marketing fundraising business models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The exhibition will coincide with programs about art theory, online communities, and crowd theory, providing a forum for public evaluation and discussion about the process. o is Transparency - and the best example of that is what the Indianapolis Art Museum has done with its pubic metrics on its web site. Another theme of web2.o

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2013

For the most impact, take steps now to make holiday giving easy for site visitors. For example, a $10 donation might “buy” a seedling for your new playground, a $25 donation might “buy” a mature tree, and a $75 donation might “buy” a slew of trees for your students to enjoy. After all, ‘tis the season!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

worked with the city of Bellevue, WA, to incorporate geocaching and user-generated content into their public sculpture exhibition to put a new spin on the concept of “public art.” explains: The city of Bellevue, Washington holds a public art sculpture exhibition every couple of years. Traveling public art!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. We were finding that so many people were coming to the exhibition just to tag the wall. The Flickr site became this vital thing to get that information about the changes back out to them.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. In short, it limits museums from being places that are trusted as institutions of public engagement and interaction--the places many museums claim they want to be. Tags: inclusion comfort. In the Web 2.0 Be personal.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

There are college students who cannot make it through the day without checking Facebook multiple times. I want a college student to feel like her week is not complete if she didn’t make it to the museum. This is what online dating is all about, but it’s also what sites like Meetup are for. I want museums to be like the Web.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, and CNET News are among the many sites that now deliver updated online content via RSS. Why not ask your supporters how many of them have a blog or web site where they would be willing to promote your fundraising campaign? Tags: blog nonprofit. weeks using her food blog and an online auction.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Some rural areas, like the Missouri county mentioned by Kelvin Simmons, Commissioner of the Office of Administration, have "absolutely no broadband access," which keeps students from doing homework assignments that are placed on school websites. Simmons claimed it was "almost impossible to build a community" today without broadband access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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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).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium is a place high school/junior high students go on field trips and make snarky videos at their teachers' behest (source: YouTube ). I watched many entertaining shorts featuring students explaining exhibits to the beat of popular and illegally uploaded music. sites form my understanding of what the Exploratorium is.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

We see this as a potential future for transportation, or at least an immediate step to having ultra-efficient choices in vehicles for the public. We don't want this to become a niche market. BB: How can people who are listening get involved? BB: How did you get involved in this kind of work?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

But what about equally important intangibles, such as increasing your organization's influence or shifting the public debate on your key issues? There are millions of blogs online, from those hosted by highly influential media personalities to high school students communicating with their friends.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This idea can also be paired with a number of other fundraising event possibilities like movie nights, lock-ins (for older students), and other childcare activities. Workers (they don’t have to be students!) Consider having a low-key gathering the night before the rummage sale to tag items and set up tables. Hold a work-a-thon.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

If anyone out there is considering creating an industry catch-all site for museum-related content, I highly recommend Gamasutra as a model. Little kids are excellent at coming up with these kinds of open-ended, non-linear story spaces ("I'm the teacher, you're the student," "we're in the circus," etc.) I eat dots and avoid monsters."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year. YES students defy expectations. Tags: youth comfort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I formed Community Networking Technologies (CNT) with another law student (Rachel Ogdie, now my wife Yeh!) We taught our NetCorps students skills such as running meetings, performing needs assessments, project management, etc. Many of our students ended up staying in the sector after they graduated. and a bunch of volunteers.

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