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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

NTEN

A close read of the lyrics provides a good framework for thinking about communicating horizontally (across departments or silos) and vertically (with everyone from senior management to interns) in your organization about technology. In many organizations, technology is viewed as separate from the work the organization is doing.

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How Nonprofits Get Significant Value from Content Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” Content curation is sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network. While I have been doing content curation for the past twenty years that I’ve worked as a technology trainer, in July, 2011 I discovered the Scoop.It

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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed. Not Data Driven.”

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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? Where do you see the biggest resistance to incorporating participatory techniques?

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Measuring Your Social Media Success

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Though each tool is a little different, they all create opportunities for your organization to start conversations and to show the personal side of, and the personalities behind, your work. Now apply that to social media.

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Guest Post: Creativity – Why do some places have it and others don’t?

Museum 2.0

Julie is one of my true heroes--a creative systems thinker who has the intelligence, patience, and guts to make big shifts possible at large informal science organizations. Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. institutional change design guestpost'

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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.