Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

I first started reading “Cog Dog Blog&# by Alan Levine since his first post in 2003, &# I Blog Therefore I Am.&# Although he was blogging about how to integrate social media into education and the classroom, his ideas have always been transferable to nonprofits. He writes in a humorous, authentic style, about geeky topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. and Classroom 2.0 ) Here's an interview Robert Scoble did with the Gina Bianchini where she demos how to set up your own social network. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

It could be teacher training, classrooms, a feeding programme, sanitation and clean water, books, school fees or teacher’s accommodation. Tags: community digital learning africa education. No impractical solutions. Whatever the need we’ll give the community a way to tell you. This will certainly be an interesting project to follow!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 29, 2009

He’s been a grassroots publisher/distributor (with a unique operational model) for decades and has spent years riding buses to obscure corners of his state to read works of literature to people in living rooms, classrooms and various public spaces…I think his humility, dedication and generosity touched all of us who were a part of his visit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Tagged with a footnote Marnie Webb notes "What do you think of the survey O'Reilly points to? Found via this post tagged nptech by Meghan. " I agree.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2012

As adopting such complicated and constantly changing knowledge takes time, the range of caliber between virtual seminars and in-class certifications can vary—just like their price tags. Within a single course structure, It would be impossible to address the myriad technologies available today, across diverse verticals.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Reframe the Problem Example: If you were asked to design a new version of a name tag (like the ones you wear at conferences) you'd probably get versions that were different, but ultimately similar. But if you asked, "Why do we use name tags?" Desks in rows during the rest of our schooling do not : ( 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

This year they hope to spread gratitude further and raise enough to help build an additional classroom, orphanage/boarding facility, cafeteria and library at Epic Change’s partner school in Tanzania, and to finding and funding future Epic Fellows like the school’s founder, Mama Lucy. Tags: twitter. And there are a lot more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign. He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With

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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. Tags: events interview africa epic change fundraising philanthropy tweetsgiving twitter. Find out more in the interview below! What is Epic Change?

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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. Tags: events interview africa epic change fundraising philanthropy tweetsgiving twitter. Find out more in the interview below! What is Epic Change?

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

This is a test to see if I've made onto the wireless network in the classroom at the iLaw conference. Technorati Tags: ilaw We're waiting for the first session to begin, Intellectual Property Protection for Code. The speakers are William Fisher and Jonathan Zittrain. I'm noticing that many laptops here have bumper stickers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2005

Nancy White has a great post about "Blog as Classroom, Playground, Mind Trip" I went directly to the playground, a place to experiment and learn how to incorporate web 2.0 Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , inventiveness. technologies into teaching practice. into their organization's missions?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

The price tag weighed on him, and he knew he wanted to broaden access to education in the future. The rise of iPads and tablets in classrooms gave permission to founders who believed the future of education was on the internet. After attending Duke as an undergrad, von Ahn was an enterprising first-year computer science Ph.D.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 9, 2013

Help from Home’s tag line is “Change the world in just your pyjamas!”, but they also encourage volunteers to change the world from their classroom, work, and more. I am relatively new to the Sparked community, having only been an active member for a couple of months, but it’s the microvolunteering site that I am most familiar with.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening. Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. This year, they're also enabling people to participate by tagging blog posts, Flickr photos, YouTube videos, and blip.fm So far, they've had more than 13,000 thank you notes tagged with #tweetsgiving and they've raised more than $16,000.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Valuable Classroom Resources. Tags: Influence Government. • Hundreds of photos and videos, some of which were not previously published/publically available, depicting the history of African-Americans in the U.S. military from the Revolution to the present. • Resources to help educators locate their local U.S.

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See3

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, Tweetsgiving raised $10,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania. All you have to do is upload it to YouTube, tag it with “Tweetsgiving&# , and include the tweetsgiving.org URL in your video description. Tags: Video fundraising youtube storytelling social media web 2.0 Any questions? Write in the comments below.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Windows MultiPoint Server is a fairly new product and was originally intended for use in school classrooms. It's a new operating system that allows multiple users to simultaneously share one computer, with each user running an independent Windows 7–like desktop environment. Here's the official Windows MultiPoint Server website.

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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. Last week, I did a workshop for a board of a secondary school interested in taking the first steps into social media. But, none used RSS readers or knew what they were.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2021

Many minority language streamers lack an official language tag for their streams, and these creators see their content lost in the miscellany of the “Other” tag, making it hard for other speakers to find, connect with, and enjoy gaming in their own language. Two groups who missed out were Basque and Galician streamers.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Putting XO Laptops Under Christmas Trees—and into Classrooms—via Amazon | Xconomy: "Under the Give One, Get One (G1G1) program, consumers can buy two laptops for $399. Tags: NPtech NPHolidayGiving NPOLPC. One will be shipped to a school of OLPC’s choice, and the other to any recipient of the buyer’s choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2006

" My colleague, Vicky Davis , is leading a session at the K-12 Online Conference on wikis in the classroom. Amy Gahran's wiki for blogher posts - to organize them from the huge tag stream that came out of the conference. The k-12 wiki she set up has some excellent resources in it. Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. possibly related classroom projects??? It probably isn't too early to start thinking about that busy year-end online fundraising season.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

During a panel on fundraising, Donors Choose raised enough money to fund a music classroom project in Austin. Tags: sxsw. For example, through a Twitter campaign during the conference, Mark Horwath raised $50,000 for his organization InvisiblePeople.tv to help promote awareness of homelessness in America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The purpose is to promote wider scale discussion and pursuit of collaborative projects among the K12 classrooms. Let look at the tagging standards for the project. So, rather than once tag to capture everything, we have some differentiation here. How were the tagging standards developed? Who had input?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2005

Coolcat Teacher wrote an excellent post reflecting on the use of backchannels in the classroom. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 , backchannel , learning. Technorati Tags: lesblogs Some more things to read on backchannel Backchannel = Blogosphere Liz Lawley on Backchannels and here. Update: September, 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

While this advice is more appropriate for the classroom, Vicky Davis shares how she manages the back channel. Tags: backchannel. Spend some time at the beginning of your presentation explaining to your audience how you will respond to the twitter stream and audience members are more likely to use it responsibly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. The holy grail metrics is missing?

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2009

"We gave the kids a forum to tell their stories, show off their writings, display their artwork, and let their peers in classrooms around America know that even though they had HIV, they were no different than any other kid," said their submission essay. Tags: Marketing Multimedia & Graphics Running Your Organization.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2010

They were Pat Furr of Computers for Classrooms (CFC) and Bruce Buckelew of Oakland Technology Exchange West (OTX West). Tags: GreenTech Hardware Recycled & Refurbished Computers.

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2020

What we’re asking for is that Teams be separated from the Office suite and be sold separately with a fair commercial price tag associated with it so it competes on the merit with our product,” explained David Schellhase, Slack’s legal chief, in a call with reporters yesterday. “It It really is as simple and straightforward as that.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We talked about Cambodia and one of the questions was (an excellent one), what do teachers need to think about if they are doing an over the web collaborative project with a classroom in the developing world. I had mentioned the NpTech Tag Summary - and how practicing that every week makes you better at it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

His post about how he discovered the photo and how he planned to use it (or not): I was preparing for tomorrow's virtual session with Alan, D'Arcy, and Jim , doing a search on CC-licensed stuff in Flickr tagged with "mashup," when I came across the image above. It wasn't quite right for the page I ended up assembling.

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