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Guest Post by Nina Simon: Design Techniques for Developing Questions for Visitor Participation
This question is right because it is easy to answer yet induces grappling. It's personal but not consequential. It frames and personalizes the exhibit experience. And looking at other people's responses (via the number displays) is quick, easy, informative, and somewhat surprising.
The Denver Art Museum's Side Trip poses many specific questions about visitors' experiences with psychedelic rock music, concerts, and drugs.... It is somewhat personal but doesn't ask the respondent to be an authority in describing the book, just in sharing why he would recommend it.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
- Friday, July 3, 2009
2009 Online Giving Trends - Q2
The first half of 2009 is now over and we have some updated information about online giving trends from Blackbaud clients to share. This is a follow-up to the Q1 2009 Online Giving Trends information that was released in April. This information comes from approximately 2,000 nonprofit organizations using Blackbaud's Internet solutions and represents the largest sample size studied in the nonprofit sector.
Connections
- Thursday, July 2, 2009
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My New Year's Resolution: Use Social Media Efficiently - 52 Tips
It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable.
Take a hiatus from using a particular tool (a Twitter Hiatus can be good for your resetting goals or understanding any bad habits.)
Understand how information overload might be effecting you and take a break to assess and rethink
Get a memory upgrade
Create Good Social Media Habits
If you are just beginning a social media plan, use the Power of Less Challenge to establish good habits form the get go....
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The Information Overload Calculator
Photo by Breakmould
Steve Rubel has a post pointing to an " Information Overload Calculator " from the research firm Basex that is estimating that information overload costs the U.S. economy $900
billion per year in "lowered employee productivity and reduced
innovation." The reason? People are spending up to half their day managing and
searching for information.
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Pew Internet and American Life Project: Future of the Internet
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has issued its annual forecast of “ The Future of the Internet .” It offers predictions for the Internet in 2020. Here's the high points:
The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the Internet for most people in the world in 2020.
The transparency of people and organizations will increase, but that will not necessarily yield more personal integrity, social tolerance, or forgiveness.
Voice recognition and touch user-interfaces with the Internet will be more prevalent and accepted by 2020.
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Intersting Post: Information Overload and the FOOD IS THOUGHT Metaphor
I love this riff. For a long time people in the nonprofit sector that I work with have complained about information overload. In this following post, the author spells out information overload like a Vegas buffet. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to overeat. It is not a bad thing that all the information is there.
Network-Centric Advocacy
- Wednesday, December 31, 2008
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The Unbearable Stickiness of Information
A few days ago Susan Richardson raised the issue of Sticky Information in her "Joining Dots" blog. On the one hand, we can be very lazy about acquiring information (Google trumps the local library for starters), spectacularly avoiding it when we don't like what it tells us. But on the other hand, when we find information that fits our expectations, it becomes very sticky and we are reluctant to let it go.
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Is Twitter "information overload and interaction underload"?
Her conclusion: "Twitter is starting to become information overload and interaction underload." I know exactly how she feels... namely that in some respects the more immersed you get into Twitter, the lonelier it feels.
Socialfishing
- Thursday, June 11, 2009
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Information Coping Skills: Turn Off the Damn Email Software and Get Some Work Done (Or go for a walk)!
are banding together to fight information email overload - by doing research on information coping skills - one of my favorite topics for the past ten years. The article describes a new nonprofit organization called " Information Overload Research Group...???t live at the
post office #3:
Delete or save and
file aggressively #4:
Your inbox is not a ???to do???
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Tool Tip: How To Share Information Easily on Twitter
See this review from Mashable ). It makes it easy to post to Twitter or bookmark finds from over the 1000 blogs that monitor. I figure why hoard the good stuff I find? What's your routine for sharing information on Twitter? What tool do you use?
...Tags: rssreaders.
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Information Coping Skills for Memory Loss? Writing it down ...
There's not even a description of what the blogs do. The taxonomy is
rudimentary and not very informative. There are many such lists on
del.icio.us and elsewhere, and on these social networking sites there
is at least the basic evaluation of how many others link to the sites.... So, I thought this list might be an easy to point newcomers to blogs when I'm having a senior moment. It's part of helping people to easily adopt RSS readers as an information coping skill
About those memory lapses.
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RSS As Information Coping Tool
Drawing from my " Information Coping Skills for Humans " workshop circa 1999
I've been doing Internet skills training workshops since 1995 and way back when I used to do one called "Digital Literacy" which was all about how to use email, listservs, and Internet search functions.... I'd also cover stretching and RSI and how to avoid it ..(in the UK, I made a Freudian slip and called RSI - RSS by mistake ..)
I'm finding that some people's initial reactions to RSS is "OMG, information overload!
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