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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many of us are familiar with local businesses sponsoring local sports teams. Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. Do you have something similar to offer possibly through a partnership with a local art collective or other nonprofit? Is there something like this you can try? It was super cool.

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

I was fascinated by the project’s innovative approach to collecting, sharing, and connecting people through locally-produced media. We have neighborhood newspapers, internationally-renowned magazines of political commentary, and three View-Master reels of Chicago hot dog stands, neon signs, and motor inns, respectively.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. They have a magazine called Race, Poverty and Environment Magazin e.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

local time). " This was a rich conversation and was not able to capture all the details as my audio faded in and out and was multi-tasking in a major way, so here is what I as able to capture. Change magazine that tries to get at it. I also had a web browser window open so I could watch the videocast of event.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

We collaborated with two local organizations--the Rebele Homeless Family Shelter and Dominican Oaks retirement community--to conduct oral histories and produce a small audio and photo-based exhibit on maintaining love in tough situations. Some are conceptual (i.e. making a special gift). We spent a long time prototyping this one.

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What I Learned From @Sree Sreenivasan Chief Digital Officer of @MetMuseum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I asked for a photo of him with the Fast Company magazine that includes the profile of him , he modestly posed behind the magazine cover. Sree struck up a conversation and learned that they had missed their chance to try out for labanda, a local American idol like show. rauldemolina : These kids didn’t make @labanda

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