Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Citizen journalists have repeatedly emerged as critical in crisis reporting and several citizen journalist platforms have emerged to harness their potential to report hyper-local news. eBay and Amazon assign ratings to sellers and reviewers respectively, based on whether other members in the community had a good experience with them.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

On the web, a jury of the masses (anyone) can evaluate the photographs in terms of aesthetic quality and relevance to the exhibition theme. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. You rate yourself from knowing "nothing" about art to being an "expert" on a 1 to 5 scale. It's very easy to sign up and judge.

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Museum Participatory Artist Arts 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. Think Nielsen Ratings ). I also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap. source: Chris Brogan). Avinash suggested Technorati.

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

How many educators scan program evaluations and cast off the suggestions for improvement as aberrant grumps who "just didn't get it?" How many exhibit evaluations happen after opening, with no significant money allotted to make changes that arise from research? Look at your standard program evaluation.

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Museum Participatory Evaluation Chapter 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. media: local and national. looked at incoming links and rate of growth. Evaluated them against our expected consequences. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". Doubting social media, `Nevermore.'. set audience.

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ROI Social Media Slides Media 76