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2011 NTC Preview: Let's Talk About Tech, Baby

NTEN

For example, Simone works for an evaluation organization. Over the past couple of years, they have been dabbling, and then wading, in data visualization techniques. And for more fun nonprofit tech talk, check out our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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How Nonprofits Get Significant Value from Content Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I have been doing content curation for the past twenty years that I’ve worked as a technology trainer, in July, 2011 I discovered the Scoop.It Robin Good picked up on the theme of sense-making, and identified five more techniques to help sharpen your sense-making skills as part of your content curation skill set.

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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed. Not Data Driven.”

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Where do you see the biggest resistance to incorporating participatory techniques?

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Measuring Your Social Media Success

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the September 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement.

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Yes, Audience Participation Can Have Significant Value

Museum 2.0

I'd say that these techniques support audience development, repeat visitation, membership, maybe could even attract new kinds of donors. but I didn't have numbers to back it up. Or at least preliminary ones.

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Guest Post: Creativity – Why do some places have it and others don’t?

Museum 2.0

Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. The leadership environment Leaders (whether on a team, in a department or institution-wide) have to be open to taking risks, trying new things, evaluating and learning from failures.

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