NTEN

MAY 1, 2013

nap and dusted the snow off, we want to share the huge outpouring of blog posts, videos, pictures, and other media from the NTEN community. Blog posts. How Do Activists & Nonprofits Use Content Curation , Curation Empire. Building Content Strategy , Laura Girardin. What is Content Curation? Whew, what an NTC!

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2013

nap and dusted the snow off, we want to share the huge outpouring of blog posts, videos, pictures, and other media from the NTEN community. Blog posts. How Do Activists & Nonprofits Use Content Curation , Curation Empire. Building Content Strategy , Laura Girardin. What is Content Curation? Whew, what an NTC!

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2015

One noteworthy campaign he was involved in was former Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe’s. While writing blogs to engage NBA fans in the digital platform, he began to imagine what it would look like for him to combine his skills in writing with his interest in sports for social good.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2007

Nik inquired as to how I feel about museum blogs. what's your take on museums that keep blogs? In general, yes, I think that museums maintaining blogs is an effective, cheap way to get changing content out to the public frequently. However, there are many different approaches to take--as there are with blogs in general.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2008

For some truly great coverage of the Museums and the Web conference currently taking place in Montreal, check out the New Media Initiatives blog from the Walker. And next week, come here for a guest post by Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota reflecting on his experiences at the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Giving Days have been a proven technique to raise millions of dollars and generate attention for the local nonprofit community. The grandfather of all Giving Days – Give the Max Day in Minnesota has helped raise $46 million for nonprofit organizations across the state of Minnesota since launching in November 2009.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2012

All that they need to move from potential to actual is 1) they need to know your organization exists and 2) they need content about your organization to share with the world and let everyone know how great your organization is. Which leads me to point #2 – online super users are always looking for content to share with their followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard." " They are using tags to aggregate voter-generated content about Minnesota's 2006 election and politics. and then aggregating tagged content on their site.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

I was starting to hear more and more about the service (from bloggers and early adopters like Beth Kanter and others), and simultaneously was launching a new website for Wellstone Action that we wanted to be more interactive, and which included a blog. Some days are more on one end than others, but overall that is our goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

I'm trying to get some links assembled in one place for the Berkman Thursday evening bloggers meetings where we will discuss nonprofit blogging. There is no official organized nonprofit blog census, npo blogroll or a bridge blog like Global s. Omidyar Thread on Nonprofit Blogging. Omidyar Thread on Nonprofit Blogging.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

When David explained that each of the Holocaust Museum’s myriad comment boards, blogs, and online forums is moderated by a staff member, the audience turned a little green. It may take you only a few minutes to create a blog, but doing so means (hopefully) a commitment to frequent content posts. Start a blog.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you say, “we need a blog,” others in your organization won’t know how to contextualize that within the programs and mission of the institution. I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The following blog post is by Shana Masterson and Jonathan Cass. He currents works at Animal Humane Society in Minnesota's Twin Cities as the e-Communications Manager. We need to go beyond the greeting and personalize the content of our websites and emails. Author: Guest Blogger. Find her on Twitter: @npshana.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

What the Videos Reveal I'm hooked on these videos, but I feel mixed about the content. It's great that you'll blog for the museum and have fun learning with kids. I wish I had time to watch all the videos and code them for their content and style, but I don't (graduate research project, anyone?). I've watched a couple hundred.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

And when I think back on the last year and how it compared to year one of blogging, the shining difference is you--your interest, your comments, and most of all, your extraordinary example. blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 static content delivery machines) to 2.0

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe get interrupted or you just want to review the awesome content you’re about to hear, don’t worry. Well, in 1990, I got a chance to work for the governor of Minnesota and I realized I didn’t want that job. So Free Arts Minnesota, I gave them $100 gift. So use that chat box.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Liza Pryor, from the Science Museum of Minnesota, offers a list of arguments why museums should be engaging with social technologies—worth co-opting for any tough chats with marketing or executives about the value of blogging, public comment-sharing, and the like. high quality visitor content) related to others (e.g.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I spoke about the importance of designing intentional frameworks for asking visitors questions, based on this blog post. The researchers don't judge the content of the cues (i.e. The educators weren't doing a better job communicating content in the "after" videos; in fact, many of them offered less content in these videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Halloween offers a great hook for your nonprofit’s content strategy, a campaign theme , or special fundraiser. The Minnesota Zoo provided a candy shopping guide to keep the rainforest safe for all the animals that call it home. Some are using Halloween as the wrapper to frame their advocacy messages.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. The photos above were provided by Paul Martin of the Science Museum of Minnesota from their award-winning exhibition RACE. When he speaks about these photos, Paul spends little time on the content of the exhibits.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. If you want the quick and dirty look at the conference, check out the ephemera tagged #mw2008 (twitter posts, flickr images, a blog entires). Sharing Authority.or

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

All the content is provided for free, and the result is far fewer frustrated customers sitting on hold. There are three key factors— volume of participation, implementation of reputation indices, and content framing --that keep forum conversations on-topic and appropriate. Let's look at each in greater detail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

He did and gave me permission to blog! Our mantra has been (and will continue to be) that each page of content. We also keep hammering that content needs to be content -. not solely navigation -- just related links that are directly related to the content. Unique Blog Readers (content consumption ???

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content? They are meant to teach ways of learning and processing information, not to solicit specific content. the September 11th Memorial and Museum is a very tricky beast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding. And, you can use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, to support engaging crowds to participate in the activity.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Autism Society of Minnesota launched a peer-to-peer fundraiser, the Toast to AuSM , on CauseVox and raised more than $25,000. While some people will want to customize their personal fundraising pages and emails, others will not have the time or desire to create their own content. Supporters may work alone or form teams.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2022

The Autism Society of Minnesota launched a peer-to-peer fundraiser, the Toast to AuSM , on CauseVox and raised more than $25,000. While some people will want to customize their personal fundraising pages and emails, others will not have the time or desire to create their own content. Supporters may work alone or form teams.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2022

The Autism Society of Minnesota launched a peer-to-peer fundraiser, the Toast to AuSM , on CauseVox and raised more than $25,000. While some people will want to customize their personal fundraising pages and emails, others will not have the time or desire to create their own content. Supporters may work alone or form teams.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Yesterday, I had the huge honor and pleasure to present the keynote at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits ‘ NPTech Conference, eStrategy in an iWorld. The tactics are created based on those limited moving parts – overall strategy and goal, the audience and the content. What are we doing there? Social Strategies.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

The rules are clear: anyone who lives in Minnesota and considers her/himself an artist can contribute one piece. By limiting artworks by size alone, Foot in the Door is open to a huge range of content and media. The diversity of content promotes comfortable dialogue about preferences.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Crowd favorites included thinglink , which helps you create and discover rich images and bring them to life with music, video, and text; and Vine, which we covered recently on the TechSoup blog. Read the full notes from the session and check out Katya's blog , where she writes all about her fascinating research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The how do you write meme is swirling through the edtech community and now Vicky Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog , has tagged me. Vicky has written a brilliant post answering the question "How do you write for your blog?" Vicky says that writing a blog, like music, is more than a single solitary note, but a composition.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

This is true whether you are talking about marketing text or exhibit content. The simplest way is to be a commenter—to follow blogs and sites related to your institution and share your own observations and helpful tips. Many museums have jumped into the middle level—producing their own content—without starting with commenting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

Since last summer, I’ve been working with a cohort of Knight Foundation grantees who are hosting giving days to facilitate a peer learning group, so I have been curating content related to crowd funding and social fundraising. The most recent addition to the collection is this awesome infographic from Craig Newmark describing the potential (..)

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

And it's brought me back to a blog post I wrote a year ago about the Science Museum of Minnesota's Race: Are We So Different? But the content was so remarkable that visitors felt the need to just to consume it but to point it out to others. exhibition. What affects how likely a visitor is to point things out in an exhibit?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

We’ve collaborated on some content. Mary’s University of Minnesota. The Veritas Group, if you don’t subscribe to their blog, you should because their blog is all about major gifts. And they put together an awesome blog. Subscribe to their blog or their newsletter. Robin: Hey, all right.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Or is it worth more because the museum content is reaching people in distant lands who would otherwise never have engaged with the institution? Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content. 9, 2005.

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