Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

If you're just starting out, paying close attention to the aforementioned tools on the rise section is key to informing the direction of your visual strategy. Start by downloading an app like Instagram to your phone, and start experimenting without feeling the pressure to publish amazing art. It doesn't have to be scary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

I've known of Darren Barefoot's work, but he really caught my attention in flickr with his " social media starfish." She also pointed to my facebook cause recruitment video. Darren Barefoot also write a post about our America's Giving Challenge efforts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

" which was about someone using one of my photos in flickr, but not asking permission (let alone offering payment). the current term of art for this altruistic approach. service in return for their data and attention. ???What That I even know of Kropotkin comes courtesy of the Wikipedia entry for the ???gift open???, ???free???,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." " Here's the wiki , blog , and flickr compilations. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Fighting for the Arts With Social Media. Microblogging Reports Worth Your Attention. How Nonprofits Can Get The Most Out of Flickr. Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Thinking Strategically About Social Media. Twitter Demographics. Social Change Behind the Firewall. The Cute Dog Theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2007

" Judi recommends the following nonprofit technology blogs: Emily's World Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Studio 501c Here are a few nonprofit technology posts from Judi's blog Nonprofit blogging: keep your eyes on the road 9Charities Nonprofit technology: The next frontier Logic Puzzles and Democracy.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We have a robust social media presence on all the sites you'd expect: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and our blog. Using new media allowed Eliott and others to get people food, water, and critical medical attention after the earthquake. The American Red Cross is mentioned more than 1,000 times per day on the social web.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

1stfans is a new kind of membership launched on January 3, 2009 that combines in-person meetups, private groups on Facebook and Flickr, and a private Twitter feed featuring work by original artists (for more background, check out Will and Shelley's blog posts and videos ). T he Twitter Art Feed features a new artist every month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

That's my metaphor for embracing a topic that grabs my attention and is related to my work (nonprofits and technology) but I have no prior knowledge or experience. At the TechSoup Offices, I met a kind avitar named Frank and noticed he was a member of the Arts Council. The TechSoup Virtual Office at Second Life take by Jeska Linden.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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. I''ve never heard people say they don''t care about visitors, but I''ve seen it in how they pay attention to visitors'' needs and contributions. The animal keepers run their blog.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2009

Flickr Photo: Tech Writer Boy Here at NTEN World Headquarters, we simply could not live without Cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). I've been talking about the cloud a lot lately as I roam the country, forcing audiences to pay attention to me. To your credit, most of you are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. I will also try, for the first time in my life, to have a blogging schedule for topics and to give more attention to proofing or at least reading my posts out loud before publishing. I hope to learn the art of sentence combining. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2014

As our attention fragments and more and more of us are reading content on mobile devices, content creators are finding that the best way to engage audiences is with shorter, bite-sized chunks of content known as “Micro Content.” Flickr Image by theamarand. What is micro content anyway? You can download the e-book here.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've never heard people say they don't care about visitors, but I've seen it in how they pay attention to visitors' needs and contributions. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

The blog also kept people informed during the second trial, when media coverage had diminished, and eventually drew attention to the trial when the blog got news coverage. Provide bloggers, and your supporters, with an RSS feed of news related to your organization so that they can spread the word for you. blog nonprofit net2 nptech.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Being an effective social media manager is both an art and a skill. They are attentive to their communities on an almost daily basis. Despite all the buzz about social media, the reality is that your social media campaigns are only as good as the human being(s) behind them. Please get training!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

User-Generated Flickr Birthday Card Contest: For my 50th birthday, held a contest where friends got to remix embarrassing photos of me into a 50th Birthday Card on Flickr. But they must write the tweet in their own words in a way they think will get attention from their network. I donated $50 to the winner's charity.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

An iPhone app called Memento compiles the data from your various disparate personal information repositories such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr, and brings them back into a diary format, of all things. They’ve had enough years to refine their art. They bring your attention to what they deem important. Typeface sizes matter.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

This summer, I wrote about situations that bring strangers together in conversation by focusing their attention on a third party (the dog, the stuck elevator, the surprising event). Flickr has photos. On Flickr, some users post photos and others view them. YouTube has videos. Upcoming.com has events.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

They’ve done a lot of studies about bad breath and people’s attention. Or something you know about them that you maybe you just saw them at an art gallery or something like that. And then once in a while, we put together a Flickr album, and we send it to them with music behind it and a thank-you.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 12, 2006

There have been two good posts on the O'Reilly Radar recently that I wanted to bring to attention of these folks, both on the definition and use of "Web 2.0". There are some interesting comments out there from people who are pissed off about not being able to take photographs in art museums.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Attitudes of executive directors towards the Internet – ED’s have gone from “why should I pay attention to the web” to spending a significant amount of time worrying if their web site is interactive, if they are doing all they can to effectively engage donors, and how they can raise more dollars online.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Attitudes of executive directors towards the Internet – ED’s have gone from “why should I pay attention to the web” to spending a significant amount of time worrying if their web site is interactive, if they are doing all they can to effectively engage donors, and how they can raise more dollars online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail Note from Beth: In 1993, I worked as the "network weaver" for an online network for individual artists called "Arts Wire" where I facilitated online conversations, provided technology support and training. In the last few years, the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It’s written in my performance plan!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

That can save you a lot of wasted effort, and you’ll avoid wasting your audience’s time and attention. Or if you want to draw attention to a word or phrase, write it in big letters on a blackboard or a lined flip chart, or draw it on a napkin — whatever context makes sense for the underlying idea. Most of us actually can.

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