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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The art of storytelling though, and documenting an event or a slice of time is, of course, not restricted to bound pages. Social media has become an important tool for me in storytelling and, in particular, helping to finance my work. When I got on the ground in Madison, I checked in to my hotel and headed straight for the capital.

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Guest Post: Infusing “Social” into Social Justice Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its 2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s social and political events. Chalk up my vote for 2011’s “Best Debut Artist” and “Best Supporting Actor.”. Finally, substantiating impact and success to risk-averse board members may be vexing.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Not only does a hand-written thank you note make a strong impression upon the receiver, but it also makes you a better social media manager because it’s a practice in creative arts – and as all we know, the best social media managers are creative artists. 4) Read more books. Reading books does that.

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How We Doubled Attendance in a Year: One More Post about How Events Changed Our Attendance

Museum 2.0

The busiest day in both 2011 and 2012 is our longtime community program, Free First Friday. And finally, and perhaps most interestingly, here's a comparison of Jan-June 2011 vs Jan-June 2012. I'd like to show you the data for the full fiscal year, but we only have this daily data beginning in the winter of 2011.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Inside the Design of an Amazing Museum Project to Capture People's Stories

Museum 2.0

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We partnered with the Northwest Film Center to conduct workshops with community organizations around personal object storytelling. Projects participatory museum storytelling usercontent'

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Things We Like (October 2010)

NTEN

Effective data visualization is the future of nonprofit storytelling. " Artist Jenny Odell used digital cutouts from Google Maps to create some striking images. The 2011 NTC is only 5 months away, but if you really can't wait, you can feed your conference fix by watching speakers from this year's PopTech.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

As of Febuary 2011 however, they have added a feature that goes a step beyond: streetview history. Interactive artist, Jonathan Harris is an amazing story teller. " The Whale Hunt: A Storytelling Experiment by Jonathan Harris. Our Collective Stories. What kind of story would that tell?