Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

How does this change our connectedness on online social networks ? What interests me is if this is the next evolution of the social web - what is the culture shift that needs to happen within a nonprofit to embrace it? What are the implications for security and privacy? I don't think these are necessarily evil.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Putnam, who has written extensively about social capital in American society in his book, Bowling Alone. Putnam defines social capital as “connections among individuals-social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them.”

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

With so much information coming at us from social networks, web sites, emails, and other digital sources, we can no longer afford to just whine about it – content curation can empower us to win the battle over too much information. It isn’t mindless consumption of online information. I also like the metaphor of a sommelier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago. Go read it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. into gaining web social (networking) skills. " While many of the drawings were abstract, the showing connected people presages the social web.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao. So you weren't targeting "Brooklyn artists" or some other demographic group. Some people want the in-person events, some people want to connect on social networks, and some 1stfans do both.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The other three are cultural, and I'm not sure how accurate they are. Teens are certainly not the only people who like to express themselves and engage socially through technology. As researcher Danah Boyd has pointed out, teens spend time on Facebook, MySpace, and other social networks because that's where their friends are.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

Here’s what happened: an art critic named Jerry Saltz posted an incendiary note on Facebook about the very low representation of women artists on the 4th and 5th floors (painting and sculpture) of MoMA. When those spaces are factored in, there are more than 250 works by female artists on view now. Let’s start there.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

The popular option at this time is to try to beat the experiential competition and ignore the Web-based cultural shift. The good news is that there are hundreds of thousands of people debating the content of every book, scientific principle, and artistic movement on the Web right now.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

The little girls are part of a culture, the Shona culture in Zimbabwe, as maybe you know, uses poetry. PG: In these different cultures, the women seem to know, in ways that outsiders might not, what can be effective. The women are using those forms that are the most effective in their cultures.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Louis is a traditional artist and I was in the journalism field. I think that in terms of consciousness raising, in terms of pop culture adopting a lot of stuff that was maybe thought of as environmental fringe or as progressive, civil rights kind of fringe, I think it has penetrated pop culture a lot more.

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