Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Cautions against it not being a popularity contest, but the number grows because people get some value from part of an active, informative, and value-driven community. Mentions an alternative tool to Feedburner - Pheedo. Tags: metrics ROI. Relationships: Defined as the number of friends or followers or community members.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2007

At the basic level, these are little more than an alternative mouthpiece for the museum's calendar of events. Hold a contest and select several bloggers from across the institution. Tags: web2.0 Approach #1: Institutional Info Blog (star example: Eye Level from SAAM ) These are blogs that distribute news about the museum.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Or a baking contest? If your town is famous for its strawberries, for example, you could consider having a contest where cooks’ recipes must feature that ingredient. Contestants in the cook-off can make a donation as an “entry fee,” and people who want to sample the entries can buy tasters’ tickets. A 50/50 raffle.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

No one would contest the idea that most museum exhibitions, art shows, films, books, in short, most content experiences, have value both for the new and return user. But I’ve argued that for many people, judging, sorting, tagging, and commenting on content are just as valuable—if not more compelling—activities as making the content itself.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

They aren't commissioned to create exhibits; they're invited to take part in a contest. Holding virtual meetings and prototyping things in Second Life can be a useful alternative to endless conference calls and drawings that mean different things to different people. But that's just a start. It's as practical as it is philosophical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. Our Flickr photo contest. is a good example of this philosophy in action; we could have held the contest behind closed doors and made people sign up in order to submit and view photos.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2008

Instead, it uses hundreds of tags, signifiers assigned to each song by a team of musicians, to find correlated songs that may be of interest. Pandora is a model for an alternative. The extraordinary thing about Pandora is the complexity of its filtering. It doesn’t just group artists together and play music by similar musicians.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The students would prepare for the contest using a series of online practice modules and mobile phone based applications that would test the students on sample questions. Tags: Influence Government. Students would complete an online competition that would serve as qualification for a local competition. Vote for this Idea].

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