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Content Curation for Nonprofits – Notes from #13ntccur8

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. One of the points we emphasized was that the art and craft of content curation was not mindless, click sharing of content.

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How Nonprofits Can Navigate the New Media Landscape

NTEN

The Knight Foundation pushes experimentation [by funding] the tools and techniques.” When asked what nonprofit organizations can do to build relationships with media, the panelists provided sage advice. While both these submissions do not require many words, there is an art to creating successful submissions. Sherry questioned.

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Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So how can we put the interest in video to work for our organizations, specifically your year-end fundraising? Personalization is a technique that uses your donor data to automatically insert the supporter’s name in the video. Do they need a reintroduction to your organization or cause? Why is 2011 even more important?

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was organized by Ed Schipul. So, let’s get out the nonprofit vote for the nonprofit panels at SXSW 2011 ! But free agents are smashing headfirst into nonprofit fortresses—organizations with high walls and wide moats that work very hard to keep insiders in and outsiders out. They want to connect. They are in control.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Yes and no. It looks different in different types of institutions.

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Yes, Audience Participation Can Have Significant Value

Museum 2.0

I'd say that these techniques support audience development, repeat visitation, membership, maybe could even attract new kinds of donors. We try to design every new program with a partner organization with an audience for whom that kind of content or format is already appealing. but I didn't have numbers to back it up.

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What Does Audience-Centered Look Like? It Looks like Glasgow Museums.

Museum 2.0

One hundred years ago, John Cotton Dana, founder of the Newark Museum and godfather of modern museums, famously said: “A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established." All were given value. They offered genuinely interesting learning experiences.

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