Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

I'll mention now, Kate Livingston, listed Museum Twitter as one of the best things, and I definitely thought this as I read people's responses. Fewer white boxes, more immersive experiences, multi-sensory, interactive elements (even in art museums), willingness not to take oneself too seriously.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

Nonprofits that host many events or are related to the arts, animals, nature, or international development should definitely be using Flickr. Many people today are overwhelmed by text, and photos and slide shows can often do better at communicating your message than text-heavy articles or blog posts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Odds and Sods July 27, 2007 (That’s Brit/Canadian for odds and ends, if you were wondering.) I am glad some people are enjoying themselves.

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JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. This broken, very imperfect, very problematic, and quite capitalist world.

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APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal, Joomla and Plone! April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla.

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AUGUST 18, 2005

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology IP Tidbits August 18, 2005 Here are a few tidbits I’ve come across in the Intellectual Property arena in the past few days. It’s definitely a thing to watch. This is very cool.

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AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn? Facebook (and LinkedIn) are what people are calling “walled gardens&#. The content centered ones, like flickr, del.icio.us 6 Joe 09.01.07

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OCTOBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Book Reviews October 21, 2007 I read three books recently that I thought would be worth reviewing here. A very different context than I, or most people reading this work in, for sure.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

I know a lot of the free site tools, wikis like wetpaint.com, keep trying to move to become more social, and let the audience/membership interact more – that is definitely related. It’s definitely been a lot of work for both the developers and us as a client, but we’re pretty happy with the result so far.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) Which, of course, is why most people buy Red Hat, instead of installing Fedora or Debian, etc.

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OCTOBER 10, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Metaphors October 10, 2006 I’m a fan of metaphors. I don’t know how many people have raised this issue, but I think it’s one worth raising. { Katrin 3 Michelle Murrain 10.11.06

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 But what about sites people who do the same kinds of work that you do, or like the same kinds of things that you do? Does it really connect me to people? to Ma.gnolia.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds. For one thing, feeding people is not what NTEN does.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. The "Fall Festival" advertised on their homepage is for 2008, and the "events" link opens up to a May 2009 calendar. Long overdue, the IRS finally pulled the trigger.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, March 18, 2011 Research Friday: "Really, How Many People Volunteer?" The data were collected in the summer of 2009 by asking people to reflect on their volunteering during all of 2008. The number seems high to some people and low to others. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D. One in three. But is it right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

That post was one of my top ten posts for 2008 ! I'm simply amazed that people don't do that. Definitive Guide to Social Media Releases by Brian Solis. Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship. Are Bloggers Media? by Todd Defren.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

On September 10, the Whitney Museum of American Art started offering a new membership called "Curate Your Own," in which members select one of five specialized "buckets" of benefits in addition to core admission and discount benefits. People want to experience art in quite individual ways. And we confirmed that hypothesis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Streamline: The literal definition is to design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow. I hope to learn the art of sentence combining. I want to do a better job of connecting people in my network to one another, the art of network weaving and building social capital. So, I've decided to use it.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Yesterday over on Twitter ( @care2frogloop ) we asked our followers what was their personal definition of “viral?” – Matt Stempeck, Americans for Campaign Reform @annedougherty : Viral=something people pass on of their own accord; its content+timing+luck; marketing helps but push too hard+thud!

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APRIL 16, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:36PM | by Eric Rardin How to Measure the Value of an Online Supporter Over here at Care2 we get this question a lot.

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MARCH 25, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:36PM | by Eric Rardin How to Measure the Value of an Online Supporter Over here at Care2 we get this question a lot.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

If people are already on Facebook, have gone to your Causes donation page, become a "member" to your Cause, and still havent donated - they arent going to, no matter how many times you message them. You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. And now to the interview.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

If people are already on Facebook, have gone to your Causes donation page, become a "member" to your Cause, and still havent donated - they arent going to, no matter how many times you message them. You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. And now to the interview.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2009

30% have built one or more in-house social networks, with 86% hosting communities of 10,000 people. Reader Comments (3) I definitely agree. People think that by creating their own social media site that everyone will just flock to them. By joining already established groups you can target a lot more people fairly quickly.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

in the Spring of 2008 at an Innovations in Journalism conference, I thought, this is going to be big. was a 2008 Knight News Challenge Winner. is trying to pioneer this concept of community-funded reporting which is the act of distributing the cost of hiring a reporter across a lot of different people.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

If you dont measure results strictly by fundraising -- maybe your results are based on advocacy or branding only -- you can just look at the "cost per friend" or "cost per email name" to compare with the costs of recruiting people elsewhere. ROI = (gain from investment - cost of investment)/(cost of investment).

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

If you dont measure results strictly by fundraising -- maybe your results are based on advocacy or branding only -- you can just look at the "cost per friend" or "cost per email name" to compare with the costs of recruiting people elsewhere. ROI = (gain from investment - cost of investment)/(cost of investment).

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2009

“These are the people who only want to know about our work on healthcare.”) But going into lengthy, technical, inside baseball detail about an urgent issue is not the way to win friends and influence people. People are interested in stories – stories that offer drama, emotion, and human connection.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 13, 2011

Numbers from more recent studies, like the 2008 Report on Charitable Confidence by the Brookings Institution, show that public confidence in the sector has risen somewhat since then, but is still disturbingly low—and projected to stay that way. Making Philanthropy a Lifestyle, 365 Days a Year Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

If you dont measure results strictly by fundraising -- maybe your results are based on advocacy or branding only -- you can just look at the "cost per friend" or "cost per email name" to compare with the costs of recruiting people elsewhere. ROI = (gain from investment - cost of investment)/(cost of investment).

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

Marlow looked at how often people clicked on their friends news or photos, how often they communicated, etc. The BusinessWeek article goes onto say that “by focusing campaigns on people who interact with each other (aka behavioral targeting), theyll likely get better results.” Guess what the results were? ” Agreed!

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

Ramya Raghavan: I would definitely encourage any 501c3 U.S.-based This Is Why Im Hot" instead of "Global Warming is Serious") or interesting tags can increase the number of people who click on your video. The more viewcounts your videos receive the more people you are exposing to your cause and message.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

Ramya Raghavan: I would definitely encourage any 501c3 U.S.-based This Is Why Im Hot" instead of "Global Warming is Serious") or interesting tags can increase the number of people who click on your video. The more viewcounts your videos receive the more people you are exposing to your cause and message.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

Point readers back to your website: Definitely provide a link, but also provide a reason. And as with all marketing ploys, at the end of the day, people buy from people, not companies. April 30, 2006 | Neal Gorenflo Ive heard that a SHORT survey, to engage people may also be effective (rather than an action)?

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

The developers hope to revolutionize the way people give money, using the principles of group fundraising and social networking. The Data What kind of results are people seeing to date? Advertise it on your website as a cool, new way for people to donate and assist your organization. " or "Fight Hate."

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

But what about all the other people who love your museum? 1stfans builds benefits onto two programs that were already successful at connecting people to the Brooklyn Museum: free Target First Saturdays and online social media outreach. There are different benefits to 1stfans for different people.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Making the Most of the News Cycle In September 2008, NWLC launched a voter education microsite that included a register-to-vote widget, and we started running Google ads on keywords like “register to vote.” 60) Search « Why Every Nonprofit Should Embrace the Web 2.0 However, our Google ads offer us a way around that.

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