Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

" Roxana Gheorghe suggests the PSA Partnership and agrees, "It is an interesting subject because generosity is a characteristic typical to all cultures, ages, races and people. " Looking for an alternative gift to help a child? That was one of the best holidays traditions we had.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After over 20 years of fundraising, consulting, and teaching nonprofits across the U.S., No matter what size the organization or staff, building a culture of gratitude makes everyone feel more valued and connected to your cause. Consider hosting a thank-a-thon in January.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Now that researchers are seeing diminishing returns from this scaling strategy, OpenAI needed an alternative route toward its goal of creating AI models that are smarter than humans in most tasksin other words, models that can reach artificial general intelligence (AGI). The rest of the industry has followed its lead.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc. I think that the culture barrier is a really big deal, especially when it comes to dealing with very technical issues. But it needs addressing. {

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

If staff interact more with AI tools than with one another to complete tasks, it reduces the well-documented benefits of informal conversations of building an effective workplace culture, onboarding new staff, and improving staff retention. Putting humans first There is an alternative approach: a human-first AI adoption strategy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A true comparison : Now people in Europe can know the joy and wonder that is the Klarna price comparison tool, which Paul writes may just be a “credible alternative to Google and Amazon.”. Singapore, get your exotic taste buds ready : Vow, an Australian-based cultured meat company, gobbled up $49.2 Two more from the TC+ team: See, Mom?

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2022

When Arend Smith first learned about the “reborn doll” community, he was an investment banker doing fantasy sculptures on the side; after teaching himself to work with Super Sculpey, oven-bake clay, and wire armatures, he quickly became hooked. Then there are fantasy (or “alternative”) reborn dolls. You cut a hole in a body?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

One example is the Rotary Club, which was formed as a place for people of different backgrounds, cultures, and beliefs to come together and exchange valuable ideas, create friendships, and make a change. These opportunities teach students valuable skills while allowing them to contribute their time and energy to help worthy causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

This is crucial if we all believe in "A Book in Every Child's Hand" and consequently, it implies the need to create alternate channels of creating and reaching books to children. An important ingredient to our strategy was building a community around our mission.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Hofmann is best known as the co-creator of Vine, which helped to establish the short-form video format on mobile devices and became an incredible engine of meme culture along the way. In December, he began to teach himself Solidity, the programming language for creating smart contracts on Ethereum. That brings us to Dom Hofmann.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2012

Rather, here's a freeing alternative: Hold individuals accountable to acting from elevated states of mind and pulling back from deflated states of mind -- stop telling them which actions are, or are not, acceptable. Do not adhere to a specific team "culture." The past, like a culture, is simply a thought system carried through time.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

To do that, you need to value quality writing as much as you value quality programming, and you need to adopt a culture of quality writing as early in your lifecycle as possible to harness its power and influence. Another option is to pay your star writers small bonuses for editing copy or teaching staff how to edit and polish writing.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2011

roundup on building a culture of accessibility. Alternative keyboards, voice recognition, and touchscreens have opened up the ways you can interact with a computer. Mobile technologies have opened new doors and possibilities, such as apps for teaching braille or to locate handicapped parking spots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

Mike is writing some great stuff on remix culture and creative commons license. He goes to muse about the differences in CC licensings and impact on remix culture. Is teaching in a public school commercial activity? CreativeCommonsReadWriteCulture03.jpg jpg Originally uploaded by MikeBlogs. So here goes: 1. University?

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 29, 2021

While it is important to take into account an organization’s culture and what they have going on at the moment, as a consultant, the latter option can break your heart. With that said, if you have the capacity and the culture to make all the changes at one time, it does become easier in the long run.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

She has keynoted the Oprah conference, given a TED talk, and been invited to Google, Amazon, the World Bank, Union Square Ventures and Red Bull to teach about navigating change and founder and startup wellness. Ariane de Bonvoisin is an executive coach to top CEOs, startup founders and VCs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

“Let’s make sure our employees are motivated and engaged by building a culture that emphasizes purpose, teamwork, recognition, and achievement.” A few alternative bases can be the following: seniority, cost of living and market adjustments, training and education, additional job duties, and promotion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

I like this alternative to sticky dot voting! It’s also a sign that the employee and the manager are not setting a good culture of work life balance. ” It might suggest the need for professional development in teaching skills of up managing or being more assertive. Here’s a quick video.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

It teaches you a little bit about how coffee works in a more accessible way. After months of finding coffee grounds in my coffee, I decided to upgrade to this cheap alternative, and it absolutely changed my cold brew game. Also, it’s a pretty, elegant thing to have on your stove. I used to make cold brew in a not-so-efficient manner.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

Alternatively, you can arrive at an event site and realize you have more capacity to enhance the online tools or the way in which you're capturing information during the event. Help people use the tools you've chosen - don't do it for them, but teach them how to be successful on their own. If you shoot video, make a reel of outtakes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

It’s going to take intense collaboration, multiple inventions and products, as well as legal and cultural changes, to realize these next improvements. Some, at least, seem to be moving into supplemental part-time teaching. For example, somebody starting a small business today basically has to use a lot of software.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. In contrast, The Public School has a democratic framework--anyone can use their website to propose a class she'd like to take or teach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Source: Dollar Bin, Flickr In February, I'll be co-teaching the " WeAreMedia Live " intensive two-day workshop in San Francisco from NTEN. Culture Change. It is important to explore both positives and negatives perceptions and alternatives. Message in A Box : Search Engine Optimization. Message in A Box Email Marketing.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

" In other words, you can provide an endless amount of technology training to a young person, but that won't fully prepare them for so-called "corporate culture." Year Up isn't a replacement or cure-all for this issue, but it is an alternative source of talent. " Changing Corporate Culture.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2015

Here's what she recommended via Twitter: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman — This cultural critique, originally published in 1991, presciently describes a society in which technology uses us (as opposed to a society that uses technology).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I work in museums because I hate schools and see museums as a viable alternative. As John Holt wrote, "Learning is not the product of teaching. As museum professionals, or educators, or librarians, or humans who want to support learning, it's not our job to teach people everything. I don't work in museums because I love them.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The tool could have a corresponding curriculum for high school and college educators to use it as a teaching tool in the classroom. The department should leverage private and academic partners to innovate new ways to connect with foreign citizens on issues such as culture and science. Cultural Community to Build Bridges between U.S.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 3, 2019

Nonprofit executives should be seizing the opportunity to embrace alternative fundraising methods and designing the events to be both educational and entertaining for donors. Nonprofits, charities, foundations and religious organizations are an incredibly important part of the culture and economy in the United States. Conclusion.

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Gyrus

MARCH 4, 2024

Teachers use it to put all their teaching materials in one digital place, giving students the ability to access it remotely. Cons Limitations related to customization – when compared to open-source or proprietary alternatives. Cloud-Based LMS A Cloud-Based Learning Management System is an online tool for teachers and students.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I could practically teaching this class. That facilitator has to be able to manage many different personalities, the different cultures, different experiences. And there was a lot of cultural misunderstandings, something very basic. So I have a question for you, and feel free to put this in the chat box. Move aside, Julie.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 23, 2018

The Lean Startup method teaches you how to drive a startup: how to steer, when to turn, and when to persevere and grow a business with maximum acceleration. Many member-based organizations “are struggling to maintain membership, generate and increase participation, attract volunteers, and compete with alternative service offerings.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

And in terms of how I got involved with SOUL, I was actually teaching for a very brief period in the Oakland middle schools. For the first year and a half I was working as the coordinator of the educational alternative program that goes out into the high schools, and then was recruited to apply for the position of co-directorship here.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

If you have any amateur chefs in your organization’s network, reach out to them to see if they’d be willing to teach your donors how to cook a special dish. You can also get in contact with any chefs at beloved local restaurants to see if they’d be willing to teach as well.

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Gyrus

MARCH 4, 2024

Teachers use it to put all their teaching materials in one digital place, giving students the ability to access it remotely. Cons Limitations related to customization – when compared to open-source or proprietary alternatives. Cloud-Based LMS A Cloud-Based Learning Management System is an online tool for teachers and students.

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Gyrus

MARCH 4, 2024

Teachers use it to put all their teaching materials in one digital place, giving students the ability to access it remotely. Cons Limitations related to customization – when compared to open-source or proprietary alternatives. Cloud-Based LMS A Cloud-Based Learning Management System is an online tool for teachers and students.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

This recommendation is about remembering, always, to seek alternative points of view. Cultivate a culture of open sharing and learning , embracing what Brian Eno refers to as “scenius,” a sharing of genius. Think beyond nonprofit borders , ensuring you have all the people at the table who can really help you accomplish your objectives.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

While virtual fundraising events were simply a quick alternative, they actually proved to be a convenient and effective way to engage with donors. You can even center your questions around your specific mission or choose a theme like Pop Culture or Movie Trivia. Have a collection of board games for people to try out together.

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