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Arts Suffering

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you read, in succession, headlines about how the harsh economy is impacting the arts around the country, it is extremely depressing news. The best quote comes from the Adam Gottlieb of the California Arts Council (a budget that has been cut 60% over the past two years. The arts have become a victim of the sour economy.

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Don’t Set and Forget Technology–Regular Assessments Deliver Peak Performance

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Unfortunately, the head-spinning pace of innovations means that state-of-the-art becomes obsolete in a New York minute. Stories like this are frequent headlines. If you have a data governance strategy in place, an assessment is also an opportunity to ensure that policies and procedures are up-to-date.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Crowds create original works of knowledge or art. The Royal Opera used Twitter to crowdsource a new opera. The opera staff collected the suggestions and summarized them on their blog. Opera is not the only art form, there’s been crowdsourced choreography – Dance Theatre Workshop. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Changing the World: TechSoup's Newest Global Partner

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The country has been making global headlines in recent years, both for cross-border craziness as well as serious domestic concerns, including 2014 attempts by the Prime Minister to shut down Twitter prior to the election (in a country where nearly 20 percent of the population — equaling nearly 10 million users — has Twitter accounts).

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