Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

There is a long history of charity balls, in the early years organized by the "Ladies Auxiliary" and chronicled in the society pages of major newspapers. So, here's a few tips for nonprofits and free agents a like: Organizing live events takes a lot of coordination, planning, systems, and time.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2016

I've been thinking recently about distributed content experiences--ways for people to interact with museum content (art, history, science, etc.) It's a system for creating signs, zip-tied to existing traffic/lightpoles, that direct people to points of interest, special experiences, and surprising encounters. but none of them are great.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

They were a rich collection museum with some local history—they had many dolls, a famous toy collection. The cookie-cutter phenomenon started in the 70s because people have seen Boston [Children’s Museum] and seen the Exploratorium and they want one in their neighborhood. It did that more than once.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

While slavery may have ended on this day many years ago, we at Media Cause are aware that its lasting impacts stay with us in the form of systemic racism. Boston Juneteenth Events. The holiday has been celebrated since 1865 and was officially made a federal holiday in 2021. Atlanta Juneteenth events. DC Juneteenth. Speaking of Racism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. "It is important to recongize that these are complex learning environments and information systems. Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. local time).

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2021

On social media, algorithms dictate which posts show up on a user’s feed in which order, and which videos to play, based on viewing history and likelihood to watch the next video, and so on. Greater Boston Food Bank drives gifts through their Facebook post. To help educate the public on issues of unfairness in the U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 12, 2010

Using whole systems approach, we evolve our way of being together, of collaborating, so that our collective wisdom and action bring forth a flourishing world and thriving life. Thrivability is our path out of unsustainable practices toward a world where all people have a high quality of life, a voice, and a nurturing earth supporting them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. She also loves the fact that Benetech is based in California’s naturally beautiful Bay Area.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Given all of the time commitment we were asked to put into the tag system onsite, I assumed that when we got home, we'd get some kind of personal profile that showed what we'd done, how it mapped to our profiles and our behavior relative to each other or other visitors to date. system, your image becomes part of a Flickr stream.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And a little shout out to our colleague Tina Cincotti who’s a lovely consultant based in Boston, Tina created this. And I want to say this, the money we spend on administrative costs is our financial accounting system. Or perhaps, you know, you have some history here that I don’t. Next slide, please, Kevin. .

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

As Elaine puts it in the essay, When I was last involved in such an endeavor, it was when the Boston Children's Museum was small, insignificant, and unselfconscious. I have always wanted to get a group of Indigenous people together with the most inventive designers in the world and have them design new museum systems together.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

We're ignorant and don't understand the history of these oppressions and how they undermine our work as activists, and as allies, and undermines our solidarity with each other. And because for centuries and centuries and centuries, men have written history, we don't even know about all of the women changemakers out there. anything.

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