Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Some have fewer features, but all have some basic qualities: Ability to handle multiple courses (or activities) and enroll individual students Courses can be done either with specific deadlines, or at any pace Course calendars Messaging (between teacher and students and between students) Group discussions Document repositories Assignments and grading (..)

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

" Its purpose was to train students to experiment with, understand, and share art using social media and face-to-face interaction. Using Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, Facebook, and WordPress, she cross-promoted The Nutcracker by offering special seats to contest winners.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

1] Scheme is an obscure programming language that most Computer Science students learn, but almost no one else does, and almost no one produces production code in scheme. { I’ll describe what you’ll give up with these tools (if anything) compared to their popular proprietary counterparts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

at 2:51 pm There’s a great free Firefox plugin for students & researchers who need to manage citations and bibliographies, not to mention organize all those PDFs…Zotero is wonderful, and works perfectly with Word (for those of us still hooked on some Microsoft programs).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

So, if students and Grandma can use Linux, can nonprofits? If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Many platforms, including Drupal and WordPress have responsive design themes available. For example, The Reach School educates children on the autism spectrum, and they use iPads to show videos, provide students with hands-on learning games, and as a reward for good behavior. Creating a simple mobile app. Support services and programs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

This got me thinking that all people, not just scientists and students could use this method. Recently when searching for peer-reviewed science communication journals I came across Using a self reflective journal to enhance science communication.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

**More Twitter suggestions since I published this post @helenrf of Reach Further teaches writing online with Moodle, but also suggests WordPress blogs and forums. PinkHeels of Pink Heels uses Moodle with her university students.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Most people you work with, from students to volunteers to Board members, will already know how to use them. WordPress is a global giant and the go-to platform for organization leaders who want a lot of flexibility through themes and plugins. Google products are widely used in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

They describe a process where 99% of the people involved get close to nothing for their efforts, the authors gives away right and the publishers just get to sit on their pot’ogold of academic knowlege and get student to pay inflated prices to use these works in school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. Have Money Will Vlog is a group of media makers, creators, and advocates from the vlogger community who help raise money for projects via their blog and vlog posts as well as a wordpress plugin ). I did a campaign video.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. It’s funny, and appropriate. I think some nonprofits should read it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

Currently, my day job is a graduate student at the University of Missouri's School of Journalism where I will graduate this month. Lorelle on Wordpress by Lorelle VanFossen I am a social marketing believer, blogger, researcher, practitioner and enthusiast in the concept of Social marketing for good. Trendspotting by Dr. Taly Weiss 2.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2020

She’s that one person who is the “gatekeeper,” that reliable one who connects everyone, remembers the email chain where you discussed that fundraising idea last year, and knows that Joe is organizing student volunteers for the next event. That’s a lot of responsibility for one person. Benefit #2: Fewer Logins and Less Maintenance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Wordpress, which Edublogs uses, provides Heading Styles. Because he gets students upload their papers and illustrations, and Scribd immediately also converts it into audio so, in addition to seeing their story, they and others can hear it, too. Make the first sentence of each paragraph make me want to read the rest of the paragraph! #2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. I have found that first-timer find social media confusing because of two reasons.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I promise (!) more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. I promise (!) more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Another free blogging platform is wordpress hosted. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Photography students use Flickr to post, organize, share, and critique their colleagues?????? Hiring people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

But I soon realized WordPress was the better option for what I wanted to create. ve noticed many of these youngsters are music students and proudly so (there are many that have profile photos with their instruments). I was looking for jobs at that time, having just graduated, and I wanted to create some kind of portfolio.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

Forum One worked with the Pacific Science Center to redesign and develop their website in WordPress to highlight the museum’s post-pandemic reopening and connect audiences with their expanded slate of digital events and exhibits.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Forum One worked with the Pacific Science Center to redesign and develop their website in WordPress to highlight the museum’s post-pandemic reopening and connect audiences with their expanded slate of digital events and exhibits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. So what is it about a teacher-student relationship that we can learn from to provide really good technical support? Second, Empowerment. Fourth, Solution.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We use Wordpress to power our blogs. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest. We get so much spam on MySpace, whereas on Flickr and Facebook and the blog we never get spam. One thing that can make it more manageable is the use of third party systems. You don’t know it’s a blog.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Education program, assesses students around the country on educational outcomes and reports the results to a wide set of stakeholders, including policymakers, education officials, and the media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

But I have yet to find a school that has *any* idea how to spend money on technology to actually educate students. The best I’ve seen is schools that can reasonably provide technology support for staff and students’ work: “productivity&# applications and web access, basically. 2 Michelle Murrain 04.09.07

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Education program, assesses students around the country on educational outcomes and reports the results to a wide set of stakeholders, including policymakers, education officials, and the media.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Interlochen Center for the Arts (ICA) is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to empowering students of all ages through high-quality arts and cultural programs. Photos of students engaging with iThrive programming anchor every page of their site. Top Nonprofit Website: Interlochen Center for the Arts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2010

We also have lots of younger volunteers all the way down to older teenagers, 17-18 years old, and then college students. We're working on a new website that's going to be WordPress based, so it's going to be much more interactive. So, for a lot of people, it feeds their need to be in a community and contributing in a meaningful way.

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