Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. It isn't entertainment.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 24, 2010

Small groups of students also need an environment where they can feel at home, distinct from the other classrooms that they are sitting in throughout the day. It’s important to keep this in mind when designing campaigns to acquire new supporters or raise awareness for a cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Important to the corporation is the degree to which our striving for personal awareness and self-discover overlaps with business goals. This is why companies allow employees to make personal phone calls, why they underwrite education and training, and invest to create pleasant environments. These costs are real, but accepted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

David is thinking about this role in the context of using wikis, blogs, flickr and other tools for capturing knowledge for conferences, a thread we obsessed on collectively last month. what real benefit will tech-supported collaboration bring - and aware of the prevailing culture which may not be receptive. Let's catch up.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Oxfam has used Flickr petitions successfully in several campaigns. Two of their staff members recently returned from Darfur and are putting together a video to raise awareness about it. National Resource Defense Council asked supporters to upload their photo and post about why they care about the environment. *

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them. Contests are good for raising awareness and focusing behavior, but not good for building sustainable communities or work in a flexible environment. Trust is essential, especially in a changing environment.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

A large number of the collaborative projects of which I'm aware (in which staff partner with community members to co-develop exhibits or programs) are initiated with teens. Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

but still, a programming environment. In this way, like on YouTube, my actions as a viewer still affect the creator community, because creators are aware of the number of views on their projects. But you can also join galleries (like Flickr pools) for specific affinities. ScratchR provides four tools for collectors and critics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Source: Dollar Bin, Flickr In February, I'll be co-teaching the " WeAreMedia Live " intensive two-day workshop in San Francisco from NTEN. Build Relationships and Issues Awareness: You’re interacting with key audiences on the social media channel in order to build awareness for your organization's brand.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

How much do we value brand awareness outside of local markets? How important is it that some of the students at participating schools gain heightened awareness of the museum and physically show up one day? Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

The next level is to produce your own talk, via profiles on social networking sites, a twitter feed, flickr group, blogs, podcasts, or online video. After the parade, she posted pictures on Flickr and wrote a thank you blog post that includes a roundup of other discussion about the event on the web. video series.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I guess I got involved in coworking originally because I was working out of cafes and wanted a more collaborative, productive environment to go to and work around other people in. The broad general idea is to no longer work all alone and so that you can be in a much more productive environment around other people.

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