Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2005

There is a history of the award, past recipients, and how it all got started: The Dirk Award dates back to the RoundUp meeting in Kansas City, USA in 2000. " It was awarded in Kansas City to the staff person or volunteer who worked the hardest on making the conference a success. There, a small group of U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2006

McBride will make their long-anticipated move to Matfield Green, a town of 70 people in the heart of Flint Hills of Kansas. In March 2006 Julia and her husband, architect William A. Technorati Tags: arts , artsadministration , artsmanagement

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2010

This annual event started over a decade ago in Kansas City as a way for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community by volunteering their expertise for a day. My colleague, Cheryl Hanback , has been involved since the beginning and I'm lucky every year to host the Day of Service with her.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

After some more research, I did uncover an experiment from the Kansas Repertory Theatre with FourSquare and the coveted Swarm badge. ."      Other ideas include a special Museum badge. In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2003

Kansas City Symphony has been experimenting on how to use these devices to enrich the experience of concert goers. The museum world has been experimenting with how handheld devices might enrich the visitor's experience. The CIMI Handscape - White Site includes a list of links to articles and studies on this topic. Very cool

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

But at least they were preserved) An early video from the Riders Conference in Kansas City in 2000 was discovered on Blip.TV. He notes they were all taken with a Sony Picturebook mini-laptop with built-in camera. Hence, they're pretty lousy photos. Maybe we need an NPtech History Archive ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

Lana Kraus is the youth engagement specialist for the Kansas Family Partnership who is using social media to build out their online resources library for substance abuse prevention. She has been using blogs in the computer walk-in center since 2005 (through a technical assistance grant with the CNET, I worked with them back in 2005 ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

The other most compelling presentation of the conference was by Michael Wesch , from Kansas State, who talked about how YouTube and online video is shaping our notions of self and identity, allowing for new possibilities of connection and community. He’s most known for his YouTube video: The Machine is Us/ing Us viewed 10 million times).

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