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Book Club Part 3: Museums Seeking Definition

Museum 2.0

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. This post is a summary of the essay; on Thursday, an interview with Elaine expanding on some of these concepts.) The growth of the Web and Web 2.0

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The Magic Tweet: Crowdsourcing Opera Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition to the summary, the music director is blogging about on how the story can combine with some music and acting and singing to become a finished piece. This isn't the first time a classical music organization has turned to social media and crowdsourcing. Here's Act 2. Anyone can contribute. Photo by Guillermo.

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09NTC Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters

Amy Sample Ward

Session Description: With portable music players, smart phones, and cheap bandwidth everywhere, more and more online marketers are turning to podcasting as a powerful way to extend the reach of their brands and engage supporters. Soundboards - definitely not necessary. So, bring your iPods and earbuds, and let’s podcast!

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Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There’s definitely room for an open source effort, but it needs to match the realities of the nonprofit world: most nonprofits don’t have the benefit of in-house techies, most don’t like their data out on the web, and most can’t afford thousands of dollars or hours. at 9:24 am Excellent summary.

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Screencast: Using Widgets to Build Community on Blogs Featured on NTEN Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What we're talking about are web widgets and the definition is: A Web Widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate html-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation. Act 5: Summary: -Widgets have the potential of extending the distribution and connection of a.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Steve Bridger

The ’six things every charity must do to stay relevant in the 21st century’ summary near the end of the slides sums up what organisations need to do perfectly! I agree regarding music. Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 8:21 am | Permalink Steve Bridger wrote: Thanks, Alex & Laura. Much appreciated.

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