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Embrace the Data, Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m in Boston with Katie Paine as part of our book tour for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” where we jointly delivered a keynote at the e-metrics conference yesterday. At e-metrics, I shared a story about DoSomething.Org’s recent “Text Pregnancy Campaign ” for teens and how they used measurement.

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Generational Giving at Arts & Cultural Organizations – A Donor Story

Connection Cafe

Anyone reading this blog that lives in the New England area may know that the symphony I was raised around is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. My youth was flooded by a series of Wednesday night rehearsals, regular BSO concerts, and multiple summer weekends spent at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony in Lenox, Massachusetts.

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4 bbcon Takeaways for Philanthropic Organizations to Power 2019 Planning

Connection Cafe

Think carefully about what questions could result in data points that can help guide funding decisions, smart partnerships, and stronger board relationships. The program relies on multiple partners including the city of Boston, Boston University, local nonprofits, EVERFI , Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment , and others.

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Museums and Relevance: What I Learned from Michael Jackson

Museum 2.0

The question is what happens after the news cycle is over, after the urgency diminishes. I ask these questions amidst recent calls for museums to become more responsive, demand-driven institutions. It is apropos that the EMPSFM workshop was focused on how the museum can deepen relationships with teen audiences. This Matters."

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The Next Generation of Major Donors to Museums: Interview with David Gelles

Museum 2.0

By the time my mom was at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, I was in my late teens/twenties, and I started to know the board socially, including Bob Fisher, who is now very involved with SFMOMA. The ICA in Boston probably did a pretty good job of that. It''s one of the big questions where I am, near Silicon Valley.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

The question you have to ask is: who are the people who have issues with what they are doing? 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’s a very good question. How can institutional change happen?

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