Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. see for example the post about blogging policy ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

We hope that this will spur development for more social applications and mashups as well as better distribution of these applications worldwide. Katrin over at MobileActive.org weighs in , and I agree: So what does this mean for the ‘mobile for good’ field?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. services, like del.icio.us, google, flickr, and many, many others, and use and manipulate this data to their own ends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

There are a few examples of SaaS that are based on open source projects, although most SaaS are proprietary – the code is never meant to be released. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. But the real story is much more complicated. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Royal Opera House is crowdsourcing the storyline for an opera on Twitter in a month's time. (Hat 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. is a great example. Take for example, Ideablob.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

Consider, for example, the Sony Wonder Technology Lab in New York City. When you enter, you start the visit by "logging in" at a kiosk that records your name, your voice, your photo, and your favorite color and music genre. When you make an audio mashup, your voice is part of the mix.

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