Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. It’s $.24

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

And, for a museum that is presenting contemporary art -- anything that helps us demystify the artistic process and better understand the art is, in my opinion, a good thing. This Walker Blog let's us peer into the inner workings of the art institution. it allows the public to see what goes into making an art center.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 14, 2011

They're not comfortable tailoring to an audience and saying "we're a jazz kind of place," or "we're a punk kind of place" the way a retail establishment would. One person's favorite song makes another person want to stab themselves in the eye with a pencil. Most museums are trying to please everyone. Licensing fees.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. I finally finished the first edited version of the scifi novel I wrote last summer. That feels good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 25, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Power Up Your Content: Mastering the Art of Compelling Storytelling Discover the secrets of storytelling that make your nonprofit stand out! How does it make the world a better place? Prioritize high-quality visuals and audio: Invest in good equipment or work with a professional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

I've known Matthew Saunders, an arts tech colleague, for many years. He works for an arts agency and we've set on grant evaluation panels for arts and technology projects. The arts are all about sharing content. It makes sense for our art institutions to take advantage. From Mathew's flickr stream.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

While there are some kinds of participation that are not language-based like making art or voting, most participation is lingual. Many fabulous participatory projects--like the Johnny Cash Project or the Art Gallery of Ontario's " In Your Face "--don't require language. invite visitors to translate others' comments if willing to do so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides. Last night's event brought back memories for me - of what it was like 13 years ago doing demonstrations at nonprofit conferences about online communities for arts organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

It's a live chat during a workshop or presentation and these days, it mostly taking place on Twitter. What: The art of social instructional design. This online community, Engage365 , is a place to network and share knowledge about how to integrate the use of social media for events. Can you add audio with slideshare? (

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Participants may improve their painting abilities, try their hand at some knitting, or do whatever other sort of art they like without having to leave the comfort of their own home. Best yet, you could even offer some of the art produced in the class as auction items during your next fundraiser. 7) Shopping. 9) Movie screenings.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

I've listed all of the interviews below with links to the audio and the transcripts. Please note that because the interviews take place over three years, some people's work has changed. 2006 Alli Chagi-Starr, Co-Founder, Art in Action / Art & Media Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights’ Reclaim the Future Program.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants October 30, 2006 This Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has given me a chance to read some blogs I don’t usually get to read, since I’m so often focused in the tech field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

So look out for more formal reflections about process, particularly on the art of screencasting, along with reviews for some of the tools, both free and expensive. Next I'm going to try the free trial of Camtasia (Udell uses that one) and go back to fooling with Camstudio (the free open source tool). Categories: nptech , net2

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. I particularly like the MP3 experiments , events at which Improv Everywhere distribute an audio file to people for free as a podcast. For each of these, he says to point even if you can’t see the place – just point to where you think it is.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. I had been encouraged to look again at Yugma , because they said that Linux desktop sharing would happen before the end of last year. Well, it seems that it still is “coming soon.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2007

It looks like a good place to start if you want to find examples of nonprofits with a presence in MySpace and get ideas. I liked the audio welcome message at this site. Americans for the Arts. " An interesting article in the NY Times about arts organizations using MySpace. Here's a list culled from the portal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

It reminded of Gary Turner's Webmaster Traffic Art and his batman creation.) Does anyone know of any other audio or video programming that has mentioned philanthropy blogs? How To Create Your Circle of the Wise from CoolCatTeacher - best place to start for beginners. I've never been referred to as an comic strip character. (It

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Podcasts are simply audio blogs that were downloadable, and you could put on your favorite digital audio device (hence, "Pod"casting). Such is life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

My blog is partially a place for me to make sense of the rush of information coming at me. " Here's my interview with her: I am curious as to whether or not you work for a nonprofit organization? My blog is only a few months out the gate. I am still finding my way. For me to see where my own true interests lie.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. at 6:45 pm » SaaS vs. Open Source » Audio Books 10.07.08

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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. Arts Wire, a project of NYFA, was originally intended to be a place for artists from all over the country to meet, exchange ideas, and talk about their work via the Internet.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Flexible, modular support for distributed products: inviting people to plug-in their own creations, whether those be DIY audio tours, pop up events, or co-created exhibitions. We also had a vision to be a thriving, central gathering place for our community. When I started at the MAH last May, we had absolutely no money.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

So I felt lucky last week to learn not only about an innovative arts exhibition employing geocaching, but to discover that its exhibit developer, Seth! Thousands of people geocache for a variety of reasons: to explore new places, to have outdoor adventures, to search for surprises out in the world. Traveling public art!

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

They are accepting film, audio, images and text on these issues: War & Dialogue : Women's Perspectives Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2006 Let us take you beyond the headlines and show you how war is affecting the lives of young women around the world-both in conflict zones and outside them.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

Someday we want to collect audio and video, too, but we’d need a pretty serious operating budget to do that and at least one full-time employee. Fostering new connections is also why we prefer collaborative programming with other arts and education groups as opposed to developing everything internally. Geography is fluid, though.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Small dots is an advocate for technology in the arts. Graphing Social Patterns is a conference devoted to the business and technology of Facebook taking place next week in Silicon Valley. There's an unconference called OpenFaced taking place in tandem with the conference. Edge4Dev blog aims to help. " Nonprofits and Web2.0

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

The multi-faceted approach allows your fundraising to take place before and during the event with different appeals and even bidding competitions. For convenience, you can use Facebook or Instagram live as well, although the quality of both video and audio might be limited.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

We're taking the art of freelancing for writers, and making it much more transparent and much more public. You mentioned that local stories are one of the places where reporting is going to be lost, or is needed. Actually, the technology is in place, we're just trying to get our footing before we make a push. graphic, or a map.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The multi-faceted approach allows your fundraising to take place before and during the event with different appeals and even bidding competitions. For convenience, you can use Facebook or Instagram live as well, although the quality of both video and audio might be limited. TUTORING ART. GALA CAMPAIGN TEMPLATE.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2007

Inevitably, the answer involves irreverence, whether in the form of interpretation (the comedian’s tour of the museum), instruction (how to guides for not looking stupid while talking about art), or downright destruction (smashing valuable objects). Every time one of these ideas comes up, a guilty silence spreads around the team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

FLOSS Usability Sprint is taking place this weekend. Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. " Nancy White's slides from TALO and some audio from Nothern s about the new rules for online communities. Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos.

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JULY 6, 2005

I'm trying to get some links assembled in one place for the Berkman Thursday evening bloggers meetings where we will discuss nonprofit blogging. s experiment and examples in Brian Russell from Audio Activism's recent presentation. What does the nonprofit blogosphere look like? Examples are few: ItConversations , Gregory Heller???s

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NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Don't have your strategy and plans in place yet??? Michael Hoffman from See3 points us to the 1 Second Film , a collaborative art project, micro video blogging example, and micro fundraising campaign. Quick audio or video messages published to a trusted social community. No worries. " You read an excerpt here.

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Care2

AUGUST 12, 2007

With these kinds of numbers, it’s no wonder ABI’s VP is so convinced: "The rapid rise of online social communities - gathering places such as MySpace and Facebook - has done more than bring the pen pal concept into the 21st century. It has created a new paradigm for personal networking.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

While most conferences try to coordinate their programs based on a theme, they are essentially a series of seminars brought together in one place. In addition, live online instruction opens up greater opportunities because you don’t need to be near the place of presentation, cutting time and costs. . in one place. .

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