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Going Viral: Creative Social Media Campaigns to Inspire Museums

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This figure represents a massive adoption of this connective tech with only 5% of American adults using social media in 2005 and 50% in 2011. [1]. Moving visuals paired with compelling audio are inherently more interesting than a stagnant image and text and worse, just simply text. Art Fund “See Everything”. Followers and 21.1M

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Curating Valentine’s Day From Nonprofits, Geeks, and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Valentine’s Day is a big day for florists, jewelers, restaurants, candy makers, and nonprofit techies too! Here’s a few curated examples. It’s first Valentine’s Day logo appeared in 2000, looks quite primitive compared to today’s this American Life style animated and audio doodle. Strategy'

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Betsy Beaumon on Benetech's Literacy Program

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, if you haven’t looked since December 31, you are SO 2012. And more than 20,000 of our users now use Read2Go , our reading app for iOS introduced in 2011. and a new audio option for Spanish titles. Time flies when you’re having fun…and apparently so do books. We’ve added over 1800 books since then.

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Losing Mobile Users? Easy Mobile-Website Builder Can Help You: New TechSoup Program

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Also consider the mobile upswing in global audiences worldwide and in developing countries (more than one billion mobile-broadband subscriptions worldwide in 2011 according to the International Telecommunication Union). Multimedia, Maps, Social : Upload and share multimedia content like video, audio, text, and images on your mobile website.

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Reflecting on NTEN Publications Accomplishments in 2011: We Launched a Digital Journal for Nonprofit Leaders!

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The Change journal is one of our tactics to address these needs: to develop inspiring and educational content focused on examples and big-picture thinking about how technology can help organizations achieve their missions while delivering it in a magazine format that can be read online or printed for off-line reading. The content?

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Inside the Design of an Amazing Museum Project to Capture People's Stories

Museum 2.0

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. First, the screen asks if you want to watch an example story.

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Data Are Not Information

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This process produces data broadly defined, whether numeric, textual, or audio-visual, structured or unstructured. See, for example, Lucy Bernholz's "What Kind of Data are we Talking About?" Although we are early in this revolution, there are some examples of data being communicated in phenomenal ways.

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