Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2010

As we have seen in natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Chile Earthquake, people are using social media to reach out for help. with government agencies, emergency management professionals, disaster response organizations, tech companies and concerned citizens. .

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Andrew Noyes, manager of public policy communications at Facebook, noted Facebook's involvement after the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, as well as after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, explaining how the platform is educating the public and letting them know how they can help. Frequently, they are simply bystanders.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

Most museum conferences are focused on professional learning and networking. Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science. Tags: professional development. And these conversations weren't exclusive to the program events. Who's leading that charge?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2013

It aims to share principles and resources for governments and societies on how to best maximize open government data opportunities. Through identifying successes, it will provide a roadmap of policies and institutions that governments can use to create meaningful new open data initiatives.

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