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How to Host a Benefit Concert for Your Nonprofit

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You can also leverage your personal network to find artists to participate in your concert. Social media can help broadcast your event and find more supporters to attend your event. Ask one of your musicians to provide a lunch meetup as an auction prize for supporters to get up close and personal with their favorite artist.

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Free Report on Nonprofits and Copyright

Tech Soup

All three companies piloted programs in which they broadcast performances live over the Internet or, in the Met's case, in movie theatres. Since Misnomer performs original works with non-union performers, there was very little red tape involved with starting the broadcasts. I find the three companies' stories interesting.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Tools Artists Need Geeks To Create Join us to discuss the digital tools being used and abused by theatre makers, dancers, musicians, crafters, wordsmiths, cinematographers, photographers, painters, and other multimedia artists. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork? What’s new? What works? Think again.

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A Revolution in Documentary Film

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Every Memory Matters is expected to go live in January, 2012, when Granito is broadcast nationally on the PBS series POV. Note From Beth: Yesterday, I attended a convening called “ Beyond Dynamic Adaptability ” for arts organizations about cultural participation in the arts.

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First Reflections on Jumo

Amy Sample Ward

For comparison’s sake — Apple’s Ping had 2,000 artists two months out of the gate.)&# I’ve been playing around with the new social platform this morning and wanted to share some of my early reactions. (So Not just to broadcast, but to have a conversation, share ideas, and provide context. Isn’t that the point?

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Guest Post by Stacey Monk: Dogooders Won’t Change the World (Alone)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. The 140 Characters conference is being re-broadcast in its entirety Monday, 6/29 and Tuesday, 6/30. And I think it’s good that we’re building such a fun, vibrant community…but not good enough. Doing good isn’t our job, it’s everyone’s.

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An Open Letter to Museums on Twitter

Museum 2.0

Twitter is like a big radio party--everyone can broadcast and everyone can listen. If radio was a brand new media format and you had the opportunity to host a show or run a station, you'd probably listen to some other stations before deciding whether and what to broadcast. It's okay if you start by just following. What would fit there?

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