Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. The next day, a big order of diapers came in from Amazon – and they thought it must be her that donor that left the comment.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Mississauga, Ontario: Hustle Hour — Bring Your Work! Mississauga, Ontario: Hustle Hour — Bring Your Work! Saint Paul, Minnesota. Social Media: What's Working Vs. What's Distracting | MCN (Free).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

But did you know that our work is global? Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Paul, Minnesota: QuickBooks Made Easy. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Usability Day of Events at U of M | World Usability Day. The link need to be like so: Africa. Tuesday, November 1, 2016.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

Not content to simply focus on "shiny tech," we'll explore what the true potential for social change is in each case, where community organizing work can be made more effective, and where it will have to push technology forward. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2015

Christian Mingle and FarmersOnly for example.) For more details on how each of these categories break down, take a look at the Minnesota Council on Foundation’s Common Types of Grants article. Understand That Most First Attempts at Grant Writing Don’t Work Out. Let me know in the comments section below.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Shana has been working in event fundraising for national health nonprofits for the past ten years. Jonathan has been working in the nonprofit sector for the past ten years but has been a lover of all things tech (aka geek) his entire life. Example: Use discounts at the beginning of your event cycle. How do they.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Communications Networking Lunch. Victoria, British Columbia: Collaborate Effectively and Develop Your Work Flow. HTML EXAMPLE Image: Social Media Surgery : Tannis Sullivan / CC BY-NC 2.0. --> spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Burlington, Vermont: Working Board Lunch: Embrace the Future — Transition Planning. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Communications Networking Lunch: "You're a Wizard, __!" The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2005

But, before I could even begin to play with that idea, I need to blog some examples of nonprofit blogging. " I found this entry " Nonprofit Successfully Using Blogs " The post describes the American Lung Association of Minnesota's new blog written by staff member Bob Moffitt. If not, please comment here).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Gearing Up for Give to the Max Day. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. The link need to be like so: Africa. Thursday, September 7, 2017.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

In my role as Communications Director, it is in my job description to promote our work and grow our network while building our brand, so I didnt ask permission to start tweeting and I didnt have to prove to my ED or Board the value in terms of results or ROI. Also, are there any specific examples of a "Twitter success" that you can share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2008

In the comments, Christine Martell (who writes an awesome blog called) mentions a list of women edtech bloggers put together by Janet Clarey. Instead, I'm just continuing to do these one-on-one interviews with incredible women bloggers that people who work in nonprofits (and others) should definitely read. I blog at Marketing 2.0 &

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Wow Worthy: Creative Online Campaigns | MCN Communications Roundtable (Free). Burlington, Vermont: Work Life Balance — Integrate Renewal into Your Busy Day. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Many nonprofit bloggers feel like Robert Moffit, blogger with the American Lung Assocation of Minnesota, who said as a nonprofit blogger, he felt like an. Examples are few: ItConversations , Gregory Heller???s s experiment and examples in Brian Russell from Audio Activism's recent presentation. Some examples: 1.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

When they leave their offices to grab a coffee or unthaw themselves after working in freezing offices, they might notice galleries filled with seniors, school children, and people pushing strollers. Thinking about museum hours, we are most open when other people work. The interactive was about piece work.

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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. As one woman put it, “spending time on this means time staff isn’t spending on other work.” It must be working for them--they have over 2000 virtual "friends."

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The end of a conference is often a time of great enthusiasm quickly followed by a gaping maw of inability to act on that enthusiasm back at work. I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” It’s nice to have both. That’s fine.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

However, political activism at work is a minefield for HR executives and leadership. While most employees can maintain and express their beliefs without impacting the workplace, other employees’ conduct may interfere with work productivity, civil rights, morale and even safety. Is it still taboo to talk about politics at work?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

So, Lori, let me stop sharing my slides here and you can bring up your beautiful slides and see if it works. Thank you for what you grow and the communities you build and all that you do and the work that is seen and unseen. Well, in 1990, I got a chance to work for the governor of Minnesota and I realized I didn’t want that job.

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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. at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By Today, Museum 2.0 I started the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. There was no initial design, no graphics, and no idea of where the teen' work would fit into an overall structure.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I shared examples of question frameworks designed for specific types of visitor experiences: personal framing of exhibits (as in Facing Mars), private sharing (like the Storycorps booths), public dialogue (as in the Advice exhibit), and so on. are fairly meaningless to all involved. Download our slides here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Why Community?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects. This spanned all the projects.

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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. In the analog way of working, we have some really beautiful pieces. We sought out case studies or examples that reinforced much of how we already operated. Analog Paradigm.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

Her useful comment is archived and can be accessed by hundreds of other people with the same problem. You need lots of active users to make a support forum work. Support forums that work well work quickly--you post a question and get a relevant response within a few hours. Let's look at each in greater detail.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So if you have to leave early, no worries, if you get interrupted, maybe a kid barges into your room while you’re working from home, no problem, maybe your boss bothers you, don’t worry, we’re going to get all that good stuff in your hands. So I want you to be able to do that as I share examples, as I bring up tools today.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

What happens to the surprises designers encountered, the interactive that visitors loved, the bits that never seemed to work quite right? As a poet, I know how a wide range of poets over a few hundred years have influenced my work. The way real people work online is much broader. There's no sharing of that information.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

To write the book, Light selected and studied 26 innovative non-profits and government agencies across Minnesota during the mid-90s. Of the 26, two are museumish: the Minnesota Zoo and the Walker Art Center, and three are arts organizations: Artspace, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater and Theatre de la Jeune Lune.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. " I asked him if would share a screen shot of the report and reflect a little further on his comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

(calling me a pro -- but honestly in comparison to Vicky's work, I feel like more a Sunday afternoon painter.). In yet another example of the connectedness of the Web2.0, I've never met Doug face-to-face, but I sure know and admire his work. I think I gushed about how much I learned from his work. published in 1999.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

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. In this post, a discussion about the art of conversation in the groundswell.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

I've spent the last two weeks working on the third chapter of my book about network effects of social participation. 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? As Paul commented, "you don't point at things when you're alone." exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Last week, we looked at the first section of Visitor Voices , on Talk-backs, and came to the conclusion that comment boards and the like are functionally conversations, and that their design, therefore, should focus on encouraging positive, lively, thoughtful, engaged discussion. What better example of this distinction than the Love Tapes?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

First, their efforts are not fully integrated into the overall work and focus of other staff, which can lead to conflicts between institutional and community needs. On Buzz, for example, every author is part of the same overall blog, so it is not hard to conceptually manage the idea of multiple institutional authors. This is a problem.

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