Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program has long supported projects to help Foundation grantees improve management, governance, and leadership. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. However, the local culture was to cover your body up.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Given the difficulty in unpacking all of the socio-economic, cultural, political, educational, and other mutually-reinforcing components of digital inequality, simple metaphors can't carry the weight. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? In the end, though, it's more money that he's after. What Can We Do, Then?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Here's the definition from wikipedia: A gift economy is a social theory in which goods and services are given without any explicit agreement for immediate or future expectations. I sent a coffee gift card to Alex Steed to help ower his Millennials Changing America project.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The other three are cultural, and I'm not sure how accurate they are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

You may need to begin with a small, low-risk listening project and share the feedback with others in your organization. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. This is how the American Red Cross started. There are different readers that offer diffferent features and almost all are free.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

I was particularly interested in the ECHO project and Bryan's comments about the lack of in-house technical staff in museums and how that affects ability to innovate. It was refreshing to see a wide array of projects and presentations that put sharing authority at the center of the visitor experience. Sharing Authority.or

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. Step 8: Understand The Power Remix Culture and User-Generated Content. You may be wondering whether copyright laws and remix culture are at odds with one another.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Since the 1970s, children's museums of this experiential, open-ended type have exploded, out-pacing other types of museums in new construction projects and venues. All of these have gone through a series of movements in the last 30 years reflecting cultural shifts and expectations.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Ask about security: are they PCI Compliant (you can look this up on Wikipedia), and if so what level? He grew up in Tennessee, got a history degree from Harvard, worked in Manhattan for the Edison Project, then bought a home in Toronto where he rests and plays with his wife and their two sons ages 11 and 7.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Craig is a summer associate exploring new applications for Miradi, Benetech’s user-friendly conservation project planning and monitoring software. She hopes to use the tools she learned at Benetech – including new programming languages, codes and statistics – to work on human rights projects around the world.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Cognitive Bias: The Invisible Elephant in the Room There are big reasons why organizations struggle to avoid driving strategy with instinct, so to create a culture that encourages data-based decisions, leaders must first recognize the cognitive biases that influence decisions. We charged ahead, investing months in the integration.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 16, 2006

Internet Culture An interesting debate has raged around the blogosphere in the last couple weeks in response to a polemical piece posted by Jason Lanier: Digital Maosim - Hazards of the New Online Collectivism. The problem is in the way the Wikipedia has come to be regarded and used; how it's been elevated to such importance so quickly.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

There are two things that worry me about this: Museum executives are often fascinated by the social/cultural outcomes of social media but may not understand the specific characteristics of the platforms (and are too busy to spend their time learning them). For example, the concept that "time is money" is a culturally-specific metaphor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

The offline wikipedia, Moulin. Speaking of nonprofits, food, and eating, Deborah Finn grabs a great quote " Organizational culture eats strategy for breakfast." Unthinkingly points us to the last mile wikipedia , a 400,000+ article no-images version of the wikipedia that fits snugly into a CD and launched by Geekcorps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

I wonder which one is more effective or appropriate for MySpace culture - visual design or social design ? Britt Bravo asks us to encourage people we know working on a social impact technology project to nominate their project for Netsquared Innovation Fund Award. of Internet visits.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2007

Most of the things that I know about Wikipedia are from watching The Colbert Report. The Museum Remixed panelists presented projects and concepts that invited visitors to participate in interpreting collections. Paul’s Chapel project. In fact, his small presentation of the project made me well up with tears.

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