Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 26, 2009

I'm going to be heading to Washington DC this week to give a talk at the National Press Club on Bookshare and our new partnerships with universities and publishers. Tags: print disabled students disability AAP Bookshare Adler. Should be very interesting. On my last trip to DC, I was very happy to be showing off the above graph.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Her students at Rice University have been busy inventing new tools and equipment for global health. Many universities do similar things, but Rice goes a key step further. Their students actually go into the field, work with local medical professionals, and learn their real problems, their real pain points.

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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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2010

They also have an extensive list of free or low-cost services for nonprofits and universities through their “Technology-Driven Philanthropy&# campaigns. Tags: Facebook Google LinkedIn MySpace Social Media Twitter YouTube. They also offer a tech-centric Facebook Fellowship Program for Ph.D. 2) Google/YouTube.

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Everyaction

APRIL 25, 2018

In this blog series, we'll be focusing on how Higher Educational Institutions use technology to communicate with and engage their students and alumni. First up, we're covering the Student Activities office - stay tuned to hear about Admissions, Alumni Engagement, and more! Track and manage students, groups, and activities effectively.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

The campus, that feels like a holiday resort and an university at the same time houses the International Institute of Social Entrepreneurs. Tags: social entrepreneurs Sabriye Kerala Thiruvananthapuram IISE Braille. Sabriye and Paul never cease to amaze me with their innovative ideas and high energy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

After all, that's the whole point of universal design ! I ran into a Stanford MBA student at TED, Joy Sun. But, all the students had cell phones. Tags: RtF TED2009 Raising the Floor Bookaccess Bookshare. She had been working in public health in Africa before heading to Stanford. Thanks, Joy!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Seelig is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering. Connect and combine things in unusual ways Example: She gave her students an assignment to combine two household items and create something with a new function.

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Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

You know better than anyone that planning a university fundraising campaign can feel a bit overwhelming. 360MatchPro by Double the Donation , the leading provider of matching gift automation software, integrates with the best school and university fundraising platforms. Check out the Salesforce + 360MatchPro integration guide.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2009

One of the board members from the Y, Gunilla Hastrup, heard me waxing eloquent about why I loved the Y as a student and why I still do. It doesn't have a pool or a gym, but it does provide Caltech students, staff and faculty with a vibrant link to the outside world. Tags: MLK Shair Castro SASS Caltech social activism Y.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I just got back form the Economic Self-Reliance Conference at Brigham Young University in Utah. His projection was that students were going to save more money on textbooks after three semesters of Flat World operations than investors had put into it. This practice was especially awarded at the ESR conference.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In fact, people are much more likely to remember a story (63%) than a statistic (5%) according to research from Stanford University. Relatable to the general audience — If your supporters are mostly working-class people, having your main character be a college student might not be the right course. Starting a Facebook Challenge .

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 30, 2022

In fact, people are much more likely to remember a story (63%) than a statistic (5%) according to research from Stanford University. Relatable to the general audience — If your supporters are mostly working-class people, having your main character be a college student might not be the right course. Starting a Facebook Challenge .

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

The goal is to get professors — and, in turn, their students — involved in producing more articles on public policy and improving the quality of the articles that already exist." Here are five tips from some of the best in the non-profit business." These are some of the common refrains I hear from nonprofits.

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Achieve

JUNE 11, 2020

major impact they have on over 122,000 students. In light of COVID-19, the School District of Palm Beach County shifted to distance learning for the safety of students and staff. One tactic I observed being particularly effective was individual fundraisers tagging their friends who had donated thanking them for their support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As I discovered when I did an online chat with this community , this field includes a mix of educators, nonprofits, government agencies, and universities – and I learned so much from the people in the workshop. Tags: Conferences summer. As I discovered when I did an online [.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2011

There is also a hashtag dialog on Twitter under the tag #iswabbedforamit. Meanwhile, a team at Stanford University is running a bone marrow event with cheek swabbing for Amit today and next week (@100KCheeks) and helping universities across the country run similar simple events through DoSomething.org. ’ The goal?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2019

How do you engage with former students beyond asking them for money? Alumni engagement is particularly important right now as advancement offices accommodate the effects student debt has on alumni philanthropic capacity. Everyone is talking about alumni engagement. For many institutions, the topic raises more questions than answers.

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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

APRIL 2, 2009

I landed on the syllabus for a course in data visualization at Harvard University. The goal of this course is to expose students to visualization methods and techniques that increase the understanding of complex data. Tags: visual thinking.

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NTEN

AUGUST 18, 2009

Here are some examples: William Reynolds of the University of Virginia is going to teach his student council how to use social media to better communicate with students. Tags: mozilla mozilla service week NPTech Volunteers. First up is an “ Internet Health Check” with easy steps on how to keep people safe on the Web.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

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. The DMCA workaround.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

Harvard University did an experiment with having students use it to explore the campus. Tags: location. There are certainly some wonderful possibilities - like putting out volunteer requests and for organizations where they want their audience or stakeholders to explore the physical space. What was it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2008

In honor of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Create tags and encourage users to adopt them: If you're creating a class tag, for example, make sure that the students in that class know how to use them. For 15 years, WITNESS has harnessed the power of video to advance human rights.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I consider myself a teacher: I take a few days off a year to teach at American University, and I do a lot of public speaking and training. 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. Psychoanalyzing how to have fun and do good 2.

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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. Carl , an assistant professor of communications studies at Northeastern University and researcher to find out what was underneath this. ???You

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Nancy White tagged me to participate in an interesting meme. Johnson School of Public Affairs of the University of Texas at Austin. It is a great starting point for information about service learning and to find out what colleges and universities in your area have service learning programs. It is a win-win situation all around.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 25, 2014

Did your donation dollars allow schools to bring students to your educational programming for free last year? Tag your targets in your CRM so you send them specialized messaging or, if you don’t have that information, send mission focused messaging to targeted zip codes or to attendees of programming that attracted a younger audience.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 25, 2014

Did your donation dollars allow schools to bring students to your educational programming for free last year? Tag your targets in your CRM so you send them specialized messaging or, if you don’t have that information, send mission focused messaging to targeted zip codes or to attendees of programming that attracted a younger audience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

PinkHeels of Pink Heels uses Moodle with her university students. Tags: askbritt. **More Twitter suggestions since I published this post @helenrf of Reach Further teaches writing online with Moodle, but also suggests WordPress blogs and forums. Title your email, "Ask Britt: your question topic."

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2009

According to a report (451 KB PDF) from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Microsoft had originally approached Encyclopædia Britannica with the concept, but Britannica felt that a CD-ROM version would diminish the demand for the much-more-expensive print version. Photo: Bright Tal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

On the Vlogging list, there is an interesting thread on Citizen Journalism as part of a class at Temple University Film and Media Arts. She assigned students to watch some Citizen Journalism vlogs and post their criticism. Technorati Tags: vlog , community_arts Department on Multimedia Production. The class is taught by Jen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

Quentin Young describes an early movement he was involved in: In 1937-39, I was a member of the American Student Union – a national organization of high school youth protesting    fascism, racism.   The proximity of Hyde Park High School to the University of Chicago played a role in the way our   “movement” grew.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

You can participate in this experiment from anywhere in the world (I’ll be in Seattle at the zoo with a group of grad students). We’ll be tackling tough questions around how to design elegant, physical substantiations of virtual functions like tagging and personalization. Tags: Quick Hits professional development.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Tags: NPTwitter NPtech NPHaitiEarthquake.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Ben works on Blackbaud’s Corporate Communications Team, is a Graduate Student at University of Texas School of Advertising (Hook ‘Em) and a Mississippi native. By encouraging the hashtag in emails and ads leading up to your nonprofit event, people will be prepared to use that tag and use it often. Everybody wants to be a VIP.

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