Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

I announced in this blog last month that judges in Guatemala had found two former police officers guilty in the 1984 forced disappearance of Guatemalan student and union leader Edgar Fernando García. Tags: HRP Guzmán impunity HRDAG human rights Guatemala. You can read more about the verdict here.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Tuition for ten students in an after-school program? Maybe your organization’s vehicle needs new tires, or maybe your students need headphones for school. Maybe you need to replenish your food pantry’s supply of toiletries, or maybe you need to buy subscriptions to an online math program for students in your after-school program.

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Facebook Game Fundraising Campaign 124

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

All told, they raised over $275,000 for classroom projects reaching 67,000 students in low-income neighborhoods around the country. DonorsChoose.org grew out of a high school in the Bronx where teachers saw their students going without the materials needed to learn. About DonorsChoose.org.

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Social Media Challenge Classroom Media 129

NTEN

MAY 19, 2010

You provide access to your data and a few hours of time, and a student-mentor team will analyze aspects of your site's performance in just a few weeks. Amy Sample, Director of Web Analytics at PBS Interactive, says: "What I love about the Analysis Exchange is the learning is reciprocal. And you should. It's a great model.

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Analytics Web Consultant Free 60

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject , we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media. The students of Class Five at the school are now on Twitter and Tumblr and you can follow them all by clicking their pictures in this blog post. Read the rest of the interview here.).

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Tanzania Change Africa Classroom 129

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Last year, bloggers big and small raised $270,000 to provide 65,000 students with the resources needed to learn. At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. Tags: challenge fundraising donorschoose interview social media socialbrite video.

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Social Media Interview Challenge Classroom 120

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

Don’t get the idea that these are the only conversations that I’ve been having: but they were just a sampling of the kind of discussions I’m having every day here at the WEF. Tags: WEF Skoll Brilliant social enterprise Waste Concern. What a great kick-off for a day! A veritable intellectual and social smorgasbord!

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Conversation Bangladesh Iraq Mentoring 100

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development." " Tags: roundup bookmarks. These are some links I wanted to share from May 6th. Find me on Delicious for more!

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Web Open Source Bookmarking Student 100

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject , we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media.

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Interview Tanzania Change Africa 108

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject , we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media.

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Interview Tanzania Change Africa 108

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Pacific is First to Integrate Facebook and Twitter into e2Campus Emergency Notification System - Pacific University, in Forest Grove, OR, USA, is the first university in the US to integrate Facebook and Twitter into the emergency response system for alerting staff and students in times of emergency. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Stumbleupon Bookmarking University Linkedin 120

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 18, 2010

THON is the largest student run philanthropic organization and is run by students at PSU. As my tag line says, for which I believe, “Power of the People, through Twitter, to help @abolishcancer “ If you want to learn more or get involved, connect on Twitter at [link]. Not bad, but nothing fantastic.

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Case Study Studies Cancer Free 152

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

While I was there, I got a tour, visited some classrooms, and talked to a few students. In one classroom, I queried the students about their social media use. Now, admittedly the sample size is small, so this doesn't necessarily project to all digital natives, but I was surprised about a few things.

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RSS Twitter Digital Classroom 50

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

You also have a volunteer program for middle and high school students to work with the children in after-school time in lieu of child care, but find that the current partners you have in the community don’t work for attracting new volunteers to participate. The benefits? These are both tangible and intangible.

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ROI Case Study Metrics Student 135

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

DPDO supports the operation of fifteen elementary schools in North Darfur and they are responsible for teacher salaries and providing classroom supplies (Total Enrollment: 8300 students; Teachers: 160 plus 56 support staff). Tags: sports train for humanity socialchange organization otherblogs darfur. Meet the Train for Humanity team.

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Darfur Training Train Phase 100

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 17, 2010

10 Questions for Camfed — Camfed International – Jordan Ridge and Kristy Green will be traveling to northern Zambia this week to meet students, filmakers, and young entrepreneurs in the communities where Camfed works – and you can go with them! Her round up includes the slides we used in the session as well.

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Zambia Jordan Web Bookmarking 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

A lot of NPTECH folks raved about the beautifully simple “ friend management &# features that Google + offers through circles. Much easier to figure out how not to share everything with everyone or spend than Facebook as Amy Sample Ward writes about in her early thoughts on the platform.

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Google Community Social Stumbleupon 121

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I strive to be a perpetual student: I try to stay in a state of intellectual curiosity. Tags: Have Fun Do Good Guest Posts guest. Vain, because if you teach, you believe you have something important to say. Humbling, because when you teach, you realize how much you don’t know. This brings me to… 3.

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Fun Network Teach Blogher 56

NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Even better, nonprofits are giving back to the web analytics community because our experienced analysts work directly with “student learners” so that they can gain valuable “hands on” interaction with web data. . Amy Sample, Director of Web Analytics, PBS Interactive). “I That's exactly what I needed.

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Analysis Los Angeles Mentoring Student 40

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 16, 2010

We all know that teachers and other educators use tools and supplies out of their pocket because they are determined to provide the best experience for their students and peers. Tags: campaigns community community management free ning tools. Educators : This is not a new issue for this group.

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Ning Free Network Phase 158

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2009

To do this, they’ve hired a team of career advisors who will each be writing a daily blog to provide advice and guidance to a different demographic of job seekers – from College Students to Sector Switchers. Tags: resources socialchange change.org jobs. Do you go anywhere else online to get career advice?

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Job Change Yahoo Advice 100

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

At the end of every presentation, they put up a slide where students can either 1) join their cause on Facebook or 2) text them to sign up. Tags: Monthly Chats 4change commbuild community community building monthly chat. The Alliance for Climate Education makes presentations about climate change to high schools around the US.

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Offline Community Ethiopia Org 117

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

" AGC Coversational Case Studies: Students for a Free Tibet: A mindful social media strategy for campaigns or contests – Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are evaluating the second America's Giving Challenge and are sharing case studies from the winners. Here are my top trends in sustainable social media (hat tip to Reuters)."

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Web Bookmarking Contest Case Study 114

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Heather with some of her students at Hipline What I have noticed in this process is that the more that I allow myself permission to let go, to take up space, to be strong, to be authentically me; the more that others give themselves permission to do the same. Tags: Have Fun Do Good Guest Posts guest.

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Fun Work Classes Blogher 55

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2009

Well, imagine that your organization said you wanted to have a public education system in your state that provided opportunities for all students to learn, fair pay for both teachers and staff, opportunities for growth for students, teachers and staff, and an entry point for all students to enter the “real world” prepared.

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Review San Francisco Student Issue 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., Tags: friendfeed guest blogging.

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Technology Taxonomy Nptech Synchronous 54

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude." " Tags: roundup bookmarks. I’m SO EXCITED to write you because I couldn’t wait to share: on Saturday, in the Moivaro village of Arusha, Tanzania, in the shadow of Mt.

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Tanzania Web San Jose Government 105

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The students sent their first tweets from the TweetsGiving classroom built from your gratitude." " Tags: roundup bookmarks. I’m SO EXCITED to write you because I couldn’t wait to share: on Saturday, in the Moivaro village of Arusha, Tanzania, in the shadow of Mt.

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Tanzania Web San Jose Government 105

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise). Tags: challenge marketing awards competition taglines. Here, The United Methodist Church delivers a tagline trinity that supports its applied faith mission and is warm, enthusiastic and embracing. Other: A head for business. A heart for the world.

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Attention Award Montana Cleveland 129

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Elizabeth) Unfortunately, we don’t have any museum telecommuting policies in the Alliance sample documents library, but now that you’ve asked, we are on the hunt. And for evidence linking self-care to a reduction in burnout, see this study on US medical students and this thesis on mental health professionals.

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Museum Culture Professional Training 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I asked the students what else does that? Amy Sample Ward and Stacey Monk did plan and execute one hell of a surprise party! Amy Sample Ward wrote a reflection on crowdsourcing a surprise party ! The class blog features posts by the students. My challenge was to get into a reflective mindset. Measure the Whole Funnel.

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Classes Learning Fundraising Reflection 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

For example, Amy Sample Ward implemented a birthday campaign for Free Geek , but unless she, as a member of the organization's Cause, tracked down the Cause administrators, there would be no way for the organization to support and build on her efforts. Tags: fundraising2.0 What do you think? freeagent facebook birthday.

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Campaign Reflection Free Fundraising 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

The panelists were Holly Ross , Amy Sample Ward , David Neff , and Kari Dunn Saratovsky. Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross came up with the " Social Media for Social Good Case Study Contest " and did all the heavy lifting to make it happen. Amy Sample Ward shared her thoughts in a blog post along with her presentation.

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Reflection Sample Script Map 98

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 6, 2022

Maybe your food bank is working on a special program to send meals home with students over a holiday break, for children who might not have any other way to get food when school is closed. You can make your list in a spreadsheet or if you already have a donor tracking software, you can tag or group names so you can easily find them later.

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Donor Gift Nonprofit Relationship 72

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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Ideas Fundraising Fun Money 98

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

His learnings come from experiences that span an education in electronics and telecommunications, multi-cultural professional engagements in software development and communications, a business administration student life in pretty Paris and experiments in implementing technological solutions for social challenges.

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Interview UAE Measure Application 123

Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The Department of State should develop a Young Diplomats Program which would provide students with the opportunity to advance their understanding of the core topics and issues relevant to the foreign service. The program would run for the entire academic school year and rely on long-term engagement with students. Vote for this Idea].

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