Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2006

I came across a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics that argues for the essential role of play in the healthy mental, physical, and social/emotional development of a child referred to in a recent editorial in the Boston Globe titled "The Hidden Power of Play" and elsewhere. The above example came from Museumr.

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JUNE 15, 2011

Finally, we’ll do our best to answer your questions, including: Online donors? Prior to her work at UCS, Karla worked for nine years at Boston-based Corporate Accountability International. We’ll share the facts and fallacies about online giving. So what and who cares? Where should I invest my limited budget?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

As a culture, we value answers over questions because answers allow us to take action faster, while asking questions makes us think. But even better, this question posted on my Fan Page wall generated 14 insightful comments with useful advice, including one from the Facebook developer who worked on some Facebook translation tools!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

I have seen Steve Garfield do this at Boston Podcamp and it is reallly powerful way to demonstrate to folks how easy it is to get started. Some questions: What kind of camera should I use? There were questions about signing a release form. For that last question, use the NpTech tag. We modeled that in our demonstration.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

The first wave of critique focused on the very valid question of why Schimmel was fired in this manner. These are reasonable questions. The question is whether this attendance gain is partnered by a loss for the institution--a loss of artistic or intellectual rigor, a loss of pursuit of excellence.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The following are a few of my favorite sites with great research to get you started: Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship. Remember your role is to influence company culture, be a change agent, create a movement – bigger than you, the program, and the CSR department. Cone Research. Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. An excellent question posed by Beth Dunn of Small Dots. A couple of major symphony orchestras, like the Chicago Symphony with 1336 fans and the Boston Symphony. s Blog about?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

This year, the Yale Philanthropy Conference will explore the evolving role of philanthropy within this ecosystem of change. AFP / Boston, MA / Price varies. EverTrue / Boston, MA / $300. Yale Philanthropy Conference 2016. Yale Philanthropy Conference 2016. Yale Philanthropy Conference / New Haven, CT / $110. Nonprofit FundCon.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

And they tend to be talking about preservation first, audience second, or now, equal roles. The question you have to ask is: who are the people who have issues with what they are doing? It’s a very good question. And that what’s happened with the revolution at Boston—everyone else thought we were cute and inconsequential.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

We have a lot of content, and we know that you’ll have questions. And we’re not using the chat feature with you; we’re using the Q&A box to be in dialogue with you, so please feel welcome to use that at any time as questions arise. And as I said, there’ll be formal breaks in the content where we review some of those questions.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I went to two science centers, one huge (Museum of Science Boston) and one tiny (Acton Science Discovery Museum), and told them: "I'll work for you for free for three months, and then let's talk about whether you are going to pay me." By the spring of 2003 I felt I'd learned what I could in Boston and tried to figure out where to go next.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. There is no question that these are robust learning environments."

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 12, 2010

I want to introduce you to thrivability by answering some of the questions you have. I am guessing that they might be questions like – what is thrivability and who are these people contributing to it? Perhaps they reframe a perspective or engage in a critical role. Jean Russell, Thrivable.org – Chicago, IL, USA.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

To take a new twist on the role of narrative (especially fictional narrative) in the interpretation of artifacts. questions as in "What if we wanted to accession these artifacts?" Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

We’ll save some time for questions but, most importantly, we would love to hear from you. But do reach out because we’ll have some time for your questions at the end. So start by asking the question, who must you engage with to achieve your mission? We’ll see them. We’d love for these to be interactive.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

At noon Friday with the annual conference over and done till next fall’s event (slated for Los Angeles, BTW), someone from the Boston-based Barr Foundation who participated in the Communications Network. social media game tracked me down–to return the cards his group used during the game. “No, We played with 6 groups of about 7 people each.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 23, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments you have along the way. We’ve got Dominique Calixte joining us from beautiful Boston, Massachusetts. Her day job, she’s over at the YW Boston. You know I’m over at the YW Boston. And well, you guys heard I’m from Boston.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

We recently held the fifth annual Blackbaud Target Analytics donorCentrics Sustainer Summit, hosted by WGBH in Boston on March 23 and 24, 2019, the question on everyone’s mind was simple: following significant gains in donors in FY2017, were we able to retain these surge donors in FY2018? The answer, in short, was yes.

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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. Most of Elaine's worries in 1991 came in the form of questions: how can we, what will happen when we, how will people.?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

But the way I like to work is just put your stuff in the chat, put your questions in there or the Q&A, that’s even better, because it doesn’t get kind of lost and then everyone can vote things up. So if you do have questions, try to put them in the Q&A. And a question that I always get is it disappears in 24 hours.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

We share an abiding interest in exploring the community-enhancing roles of libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs), especially in terms of the practice of hospitality and service within the institution. Suzanne: I like the Storefront Library in Boston. Alternatives?

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