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Nonprofit CEOs and the Network Mindset

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” This could have created a public relations nightmare (It’s happened in the orchestra world when the Detroit Symphony musicians went on strike and used social media to air their concerns. Instead, these Goodwill employees went to their CEO.

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Instead of Selling Objects, Build Public Trust

Museum 2.0

When Detroit was going bankrupt in 2013, the city's emergency manager fought to sell off some of the prized artworks in the Detroit Institute of Art. But I think there's a much more insidious impact of these actions: it encourages the continued slide of museums away from the public trust and into the market economy.

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An Interview with Jeska Linden about Nonprofits in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I grew up just outside of Detroit Michigan, daughter of a police officer and nurse. I went to the University of Detroit-Mercy where I got a dual BA in English and Communications. We were hired by a startup outside of Detroit, a build-your-own computer company, sort of like Gateway. How did you end up working in a virtual world?