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November Cause Awareness: National Native American Heritage Month

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In the following years, New York adopted the Congress’s plan, designating the second Saturday in May as American Indian Day. National Native American Heritage Month was created with the intention to provide a platform for American Indians to share and honor their culture, traditions, music, art, dance, beliefs, and ways of life.

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Accessibility on Social Media

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Open captions are on by default and include every spoken word as well as any auditory cues like music, background noise that is integral to the message, etc. Additionally, you may see special characters used to create artistic typefaces for profiles on Twitter and Instagram. Audio Descriptions .

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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They hired me and it turned into a decade of learning and teaching others (artists, arts organizations, and arts educators) how to integrate this technology into their work and organizations. I had a chance to collaborate with every type of art form, arts management programs, arts education, and individual artists.

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Guest Post by Stacey Monk: Dogooders Won’t Change the World (Alone)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. ANN CURRY | Today Show News Anchor | @AnnCurry. WEINGARTEN | Rolling Stone Music Critic| @1000TimesYes. People have awful taste…it’s all this music that rises to the middle, this boring, bland, white-people guitar music.

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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

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In addition to being the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, he is the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. Since moving to Santa Fe, he has developed New Mexico Creates , an economic development initiative that creates market links for New Mexico artists and artisans.

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A Tour of Free Geek in Portland

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Creative Commons Licensed Music from CCmixter. Free Geek looks at two problems: e-waste and access to technology and throws them at each other in a way that saves the earth and gets computers into the hands of people who would not otherwise have them I had a field day with my camera and made the above music video on the plane home.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. s Blog about?

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