NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

By Wendy Harman, Social Media Director, American Red Cross. " Macon Phillips, special assistant to the President and director of new media for the White House, was a volunteer during Hurricane Katrina. Using new media allowed Eliott and others to get people food, water, and critical medical attention after the earthquake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2008

Katya Andresen, Nonprofit Marketing Blog, pointed me to this site focused on getting the political candidates to pay more attention to the needs of the nonprofit sector. She writes: All of us nonprofit folks, standing together, are a force to be reckoned with???bigger

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Connection Cafe

MAY 25, 2017

I saw first-hand how constituents could press their case face-to-face with their Member of Congress, which strategies got our attention, and which arguments led the congressman to say in the car ride home, “we have to look into that person’s issue tomorrow.”. Surveys of congressional staff confirm town hall meetings’ value. Leave Paper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. Everyone attended a 90-minute presentation by Eric Schwartzman on what social media is and why we should pay attention. In fact, just last month, I took it to India.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The BoardSource Leadership Forum (BLF) is a global conference focused on nonprofit leadership at the highest level – the board of directors. Independent Sector / Washington, DC / $1,625. ARNOVA / Washington, DC / $380. Wellstone Action / Washington, DC / $140. Oct 19 - 20. BoardSource / Seattle, WA / $950. 11/11/2016.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2009

Well, in a nutshell Facebook users dont pay much attention to most of their online friends. I think that in todays society of completely shortened attention spans, it would be unrealistic to expect someone to keep up with 500 people - or even 50 people. Those with smaller networks follow even fewer,” the article mentioned.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

We first met in Washington DC through a mix of social and professional circles. He is the son of Bonnie Pitman , an extraordinary museum leader and educator who has served as director of the Dallas Museum of Art, the Bay Area Discovery Museum, and as a board member for AAM. Fortunately, I had an outlet for my curiosity.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

Let’s say there's someone—a reader of this blog—an educator or designer or director or whoever—who wants to and is ready to change their museum. Do you have to be a director to do it? And the other way is when you have a director who has so much guts and can charm the pants off the trees and is willing to lose their job.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator. In 2004, Anna was the Director of Exhibitions and Programs at the International Spy Museum. So I packed up and moved down the East Coast. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

It means seeking out people in their "natural habitat" of the social Web and paying attention to what they are blogging, writing, and saying about your institution. The experience, the director commented, was so painful that they would never repeat it. Last week, I stayed at a hotel with lousy hospitality in DC.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

She said it can happen in one of two ways—either the organization is small enough that no one will notice, or has a director with such strong vision they can charm and fund the pants off of a new idea. Jennifer Stancil, director of the Girls Math and Science Partnership (GMSP), has both. We don’t think science is nerdy.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

By Nam-ho Park, Director, Mobile Service, Forum One. They bring your attention to what they deem important. Recently, overcoming a freak October snowstorm in Washington DC, I went to the National Museum of the American Indian , and then to the National Museum of American History. Newspapers know how to present information.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We lead off with Amy Sample Ward who is the executive director of NTEN , the big membership organization of nonprofit technology professionals. MOOCs or massive online open courses are one of Marnie’s technologies to pay attention to this coming year. This past year the nonprofit Raspberry Pi caught some attention.

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