Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

to come out of 2008's SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it in real time. To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting. One of the reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

In June, I will start full-time at the social marketing firm based in Washington, DC where I've been completing a fellowship, working on the client team representing the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Is it CNN broadcasting live, yahoo news feeds, a blog, your next door neighbor, or a guest lecturer? What shapes how you feel?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

At the time, I was Master Teacher of Modern and Contemporary Art at the museum. Museum folks wave this research in the face of anyone who will listen each time budgets get cut. Finally, a museum that does MORE than its retail neighbors, offering burlesque performances, tag team lectures, and art fitness training.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Second, in 2008 and 2009, when the economy dipped and membership renewal rates started to soften, we started to think more seriously about the emotional factor of supporting the arts in the community. One person expressed a desire to spend alone time with a work of art in a kind of member contemplation room.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

I am acutely aware, however, that most museum staff don’t have time to go looking in other sectors for good ideas that might shake up their thinking, especially stretched as thin as they are by the national financial crisis. Dr. McGonigal’s CFM lecture on “Gaming the Future of Museums” (given at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

Beth's 51st Birthday : This was part of an overall campaign for the America's Giving Challenge in 2008 for the Sharing Foundation that raised over $50,000. It also ties right into the lecture/presentation and class exercise of learning the technique of learning loops or real time tracking and reflection. Metric: Click thrus.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

This was for all the good reasons: computers are cheap, support is expensive, and it would cost more time and money to diagnose and fix a computer than replace it – so replacing computers on a regular schedule would actually decrease IT costs. First-time users can go to [link] for an online orientation. Well, all of that is true.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

I chatted with Bryant in early February about his new cookbook, food justice, how to eat cheaply in tough economic times, and course, the yumminess of food! I spent a lot of time with them when I was growing up. At the end of 2008, I initiated a new project called the Grow. You have a new book coming out, Vegan Soul Kitchen.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 12, 2011

How many times have we heard a pronouncement starting with, "Never before have we needed _ more?" It reports on a 2008 study of the American public by the National Conference on Citizenship that found that almost one third of the respondents did not know what the term "civic engagement" meant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Heck, i t’s time to start thinking about 2010. it was the NMC’s 15th anniversary) that got rolled into a NMC@15 video , and a chance to sign up for 15 minutes of studio time on the John Lennon Bus to create a package of sharable music loops. This can be proverbial low hanging fruit (and why is that always a good thing??

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