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June Cause Awareness: LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

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QC Pride was founded in 2008, revived in 2017, and serves the Quad Cities area of Iowa and Illinois. It is a celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community in Madison and also exists to support artists within the community. Donate to support their cause here. QC Pride, Inc.

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SXSW 2013 – Social by Global: Failure Is Not An F-Word!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This week I was in Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive Festival where I presented or facilitated at several social good sessions or events. The failure bow is what trapeze artists, acrobats, and other athletics do after a fall so they let got the fear of making a mistake. Do the failure bow.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork? Trust me.

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. In 2008, I raised money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. At that time I made a blog and raised $2,000 using Chipin.

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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

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Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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Making Museum Tours Participatory: A Model from the Wing Luke Asian Museum

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I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. I avoid them.

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Tori Tuncan, Guest Post -- The Lend4Health Journey: Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started using Twitter on September 24, 2008, and my first tweet was, "Working on two new loan requests on Lend4Health." For anybody who might fear that the loan recipients were scam artists or would run off with the money, this Lend4Health group on Facebook demonstrated that these people were real people.