ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

In 2008, Vermont became the first state to permit the creation of the L3C (Powell, Jackson-Zapata, & Kammerling, 2014), an entity that allows companies to achieve modest profits while operating under a business model that emphasizes impact over profits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Amy Sample Ward shares her first reflections and critique of the platform and wonders what’s the point? But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. She brings experience from working in and around the nonprofit sector.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Free Agent Social Fundraising: I am very interested in seeing how people can take action on their own, outside of an organizational context, because of the connectedness that social media has facilitated.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. This focus on buying the object was also reflected in the fact that none of the registered participants responded to the objects online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Doug concluded his welcoming remarks with posing some important questions for the future for participants to reflect over the next few days: How do we keep a balance between the emerging and traditional technology so we keep in touch with digital natives and those who have limited connectivity? Mike Seyfang responded. Need time and patience.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent. The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing. Now, on to the lessons thus far. First, let's talk process. It's playful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I think I was the person to coin the term Free Agent back in 2008 when I first wrote about Shawn Admed’s work. Council on Foundations. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Free Agents and Foundations. How has your nonprofit or foundation avoiding having your organization’s culture eat your social media strategy?

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. How many of us had the experience at some point during the pandemonium, as my daughter says, that folks were like, “Oh, I’m just home resting. You want that ability to have different opinions, and backgrounds, and lived experiences. Oh, my gosh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Note from Beth: Ashoka's Twitter account was placed on the Twitter Suggested List about the same time as my account. Tom Dawkins, who is responsible for Ashoka Tweets, offered to write a guest post reflecting on some best practices for using Twitter. We wanted to continue to play this role on Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

When I wrote about this in 2008, I focused on the question of how to design exhibits to be optimized for "pointiness." And then it requires an output mechanism that helps visitors physically connect to the people and experiences with which they have network affinity. The Simplicity of Pointing And this brings us back to Race.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This spring, I was a member of the advisory board for the New Media Consortium's 2008 Horizon Report on emerging technologies in museums. I don't know if that was their original plan or a reaction to our poor use of the wiki, but it certainly didn't reflect our supposed digital chops. Do these examples mean you should never use wikis?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 17, 2008

The short, dark, last days of the year are a great time to reflect on your 2008 Activist Resolutions , and your favorite "social actions" of 2008. It took a while for her to write back, but she did eventually, and told me about her experiences in the program. What was your favorite social action of 2008?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

James Young talked about how nonprofits are using these tools for campaigns , Randi Zuckerberg gave an overview of Facebook and nonprofit activity and Scott Goodstein shared his experience from the Obama Campaign. I've experimented with this approach to raise money for the Sharing Foundation where I am a board member.

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