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And the Recipients Are... Announcing Our New Cohort of Educators!
September 07, 2011
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We are thrilled to announce our first cohort for the Darim Social Media Boot Camp for Educators, chosen from among over 50 applicants. Included among them are national educational organizations, congregations, and a day school. We were excited to receive over 50 applications for this cohort, and it was very difficult to make these decisions! We weighed organizational readiness, innovation in institutional design and/or project design, team formation and creativity in thinking and culture, among other attributes. We appreciate all of the work put into the process, and we look forward to continuing conversations with all applicants in one way or another. And now, announcing the 2011-12 cohort! Drumroll please...
The Discomfort of Learning
September 07, 2011
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My 7 year old son has been learning how to ride a 2 wheel bike. Over the past several weeks his attitude has shifted from excitement to intimidation to frustration to despondence and back again. He got in a bad mood when we suggested practicing, blamed the bike for malfunctioning, and claimed a slightly skinned knee prevented him from any further effort. At one point he screamed, "I quit!", which prompted our older neighbor (rocking on her porch swing) to call out, "No, Eli, never give up! You'll get it!".
Linkedin for Nonprofits
September 07, 2011
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Guest post by Debra Askanase, Community Organizer 2.0

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DigitalJLearning Network: Online Learning and Jewish Day High Schools
September 07, 2011
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Is your day school high school/ yeshiva integrating online learning in general studies as part of its formal course catalogue? Is your school gearing up to launch such a program during the 2011-2012 academic year?
The Value of a Social Media Policy
September 07, 2011
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Consider the following tale: Gloria works for a large and respected nonprofit organization. She tweets occasionally for the organization, but also has a personal account. One day, in an innocent slip of the fingers, she tweets about drinking at a party from her work account instead of her personal one. Not registering the error, she finishes her day as usual. June’s colleague suddenly starts fielding messages from the organization’s constituents about the, ahem, unexpected tweet. How should he react? Or perhaps this little story will capture your fancy: Tom recently Googled his organization and found that there were several blogs discussing a project his team was implementing.
Last Call For Applications: Darim's Boot Camp for Educators
September 06, 2011
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Last call for applications - the deadline for the new Darim Online Social Media Boot Camp for Educators is Monday, May 2, 11:59pm: Learn more… and apply - now!! The short of it: The program will support innovative Jewish educators in using social media effectively in their work, and assist their organizations in evolving models for success in the digital age. A Little More About the Program Darim is seeking to mentor up to 10 Jewish educational organizations, represented by 3-5 person teams, that are engaged in innovation and risk taking and which serve North American Jews.
“The Four Children” as Developmental Stages of Technology Leadership: Reflections from the Avi Chai Technology Academy
September 06, 2011
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(Cross posted from a guest post on the Avi Chai Foundation blog) And… They’re off! As you may have heard, the Avi Chai Foundation has gathered a diverse cohort of New York and New Jersey Day Schools to learn about social media tools and strategies, and to support them in developing their own “experiments” to develop their networks, engage with parents and alumni, and ramp up development efforts over the next several months.
Joining the Darim Team
April 15, 2011
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Hey everyone! This is Miriam Brosseau, a newly inaugurated Darim Online team member, and I'm so excited to be on board. I'll be blogging and conversing and generally getting my hands into all kinds of things around here, so I'd like to take a moment and introduce myself.
AVI CHAI Social Media Academy
April 15, 2011
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We are so excited about Darim's partnership with the AVI CHAI Foundation on their Social Media Academy! The Academy was created to help Jewish day schools integrate social media into their strategies for home-school communications, student recruitment, alumni outreach, and fundraising.

Ten high schools are taking part in a series of 3 face to face full-day meetings, an offering of over 20 webinars, an ongoing Facebook Group discussion, and coaching sessions to help them develop and implement strategic social-media enhanced communications plans for their schools.
Avi Chai Foundation Gets Social
April 15, 2011
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Cross posted from Allison Fine's blog, A Fine Blog In partnership with my friends at Personal Democracy Forum, I have had the great pleasure of working with the Avi Chai Foundation since last May. Our engagement has two sides; working with the foundation staff to help them use social media, and developing efforts to strengthen the ability of their grantees and community, particularly Jewish day schools, to become more adept at using social media to build and strengthen their own networks. The foundation has been very courageous and forward thinking about using social media.
#11NTCJEWS - The Jewish Community at the Nonprofit Technology Network Conference
March 21, 2011
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Thanks to the 70+ people who came out this morning to learn, share, problem solve and mature the Jewish community's use of technology, new models of leadership and creative thinking. Due to the overloaded wifi network (a problem when you bring 2000 techo-philes into one hotel network), the live evaluation and feedbacks were slow to post today. Thus, I've embedded them here, both for the participants and others who may be interested. We used Poll Everywhere to enable everyone to text in their questions and see what others were thinking. You can also find the slides and other related links below.
Applications Now Open! Darim Online Social Media Boot Camp for Educators
March 21, 2011
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We are delighted to announce that applications for the new Darim Online Social Media Boot Camp for Educators (2011-2012) are open! Learn more... and apply!!

  • Are you a creative, curious, risk-taking educator in a Jewish educational setting?
  • Do you have a really great idea for using new media / educational technology that you’ve wanted to test out?
  • Do you want Darim to be your personal coach and mentor as you plan and launch your project?
  • Is your organization ready to think about what it means to achieve your mission in a digital age?
  • Are you interested in joining a community of like-minded educators for 9 months of intensive professional development and collaborative learning?
Jewish New Media Innovation Fund Winners Go Beyond Those Awarded Funds
March 21, 2011
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Today the Jewish New Media Innovation Fund announced the winners of the exciting process that help catalyze our community to focus on new media, our missions, and our strategy for the digital age. It was a fascinating experience to read the applications of the final 30, think deeply about the criteria of the fund, collaborate with an extraordinary team of advisors, and work with three visionary foundations. I am honored to have been part of this pilot year, and I hope that this initiative, and others like it, will continue.
What's that .@ ?
March 21, 2011
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No, I'm not trying to swear in the headline of this post, though the three symbols in a row might have led you to question my professional judgment. More and more, I'm seeing people drop a period before the @ when starting a tweet with a username, such as "@estherk I wish I could be at #tribefest". You might, as I did, wonder why some tweets appear like this ".@eJphil reports on #tribefest". (By the way, I'm making up these tweets as examples).
LAST CALL: Join the Schusterman Foundation and Darim Online at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference!
March 21, 2011
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We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: the Schusterman Family Foundation and Darim Online will be at NTEN’s annual Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington, D.C., March 17-19, and we think you should us join there.
While we won’t repeat all of our Top 10 Reasons to Go to the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we do want to highlight the three exciting Jewish-themed gatherings we’ve got planned just for you.

1) The State of the Jewish Digital Nation. Thursday, March 17 • 8-11 am • Washington Hilton
Playing Like Lion Cubs
March 21, 2011
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I'm recently back from 2 Jewish education conferences -- #JEA59 (Conservative Jewish educators) and #NATEseattle (Reform Jewish educators). Both conferences shared a theme about technology, and I fully enjoyed the opportunity to both teach and learn. In Seattle, Charlie Schwartz and Russel Neiss of Media Midrash did a session on mobile technologies, which I loved. They demanded that we all bring our phones and ipads fully charged and ready to go. They reminded us of the educational power of the tools students bring with them into the classroom, and guided us to the productive and creative ways to use them.
DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards
March 21, 2011
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Video has increasingly become the most powerful medium for communicating your mission and programs, and engaging supporters in sharing your content through their social media channels like Facebook. Nonprofits are learning to take advantage of this medium in creative and powerful ways, with creative approaches, great storytelling, and fun graphics. Each year, See3 Communications, in partnership with YouTube, hosts the DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards.
Top 10 Reasons to Go to the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference!
February 07, 2011
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On March 17-19, NTEN will host its annual Nonprofit Technology Conference in Washington, DC. The Schusterman Family Foundation and Darim Online will be there, and we think you should join us. NTC_vert_rgbWhy? Thought you’d never ask … 10) You’ll get to learn from experts in the nonprofit sector in person and learn from their practical experience.
Networked Nonprofit Book Club
February 07, 2011
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I pre-ordered The Networked Nonprofit and cracked it open the day I received it last summer. Authors Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are gurus of nonprofit social media and the implications for organizations, and I was eager to continue to learn from them. What I didn't realize is that the book would provide both conceptual and tactical frameworks for advancing any organization's work, regardless of where you are starting from.
Hanukkah Entertainment That Educates?
December 07, 2010
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in collaboration with guest blogger Rick Recht The ultimate form of ‘cool’ in the Jewish world is when your non-Jewish friends also think it, whatever IT is, is cool. Well, cool just happened – twice. [If you've seen the videos, feel free to skip below them to the bottom of this post. Unless, of course, you can't help yourself but watch them again.] On December 4, the CNN.com top headline picture was a snapshot from a viral video by the Maccabeats, male a capella group from Yeshiva University.