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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. The results we were able to produce didn’t reflect the full contents of our database. They tended to reflect only the most recently-added actions, not the most relevant.

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Encouraging Generosity On Social Networks: Assessing America's Giving Challenge and Reflections from Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Of note, I wanted to let you know that the reflection paper about America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation has been published ( Allison Fine and I were the co-authors.) The experiment called the Giving Challenge was: A 50 day event from December 2007 through January 2008.

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How Can Nonprofits Increase Leadership and Staff Diversity?

ASU Lodestar Center

However, these same nonprofits rarely have leadership and workforces reflective of their mission and the communities the organizations serve. It is essential to many organizational missions to have a staff that is reflective of the community being served. Capstone CEO Interview [In-person interview]. Sources: Cecala, K.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. I'm drawing from my experience using Twitter drawing and those of others. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.

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The Dance Floor and The Balcony Social Media Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts. I used this metaphor to talk about the importance of having both the strategic view of social media as well as the hands-on experience of the tactical and tools.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

Part 2: It's How Aggressive You Are My first year in museums, I tried to get as much broad experience as possible. For the second interview, I even built a little lie detector and brought it in. The blog started with a conference experience. The Spy Museum was a dream place for me. Anna accepted my proposal.

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