Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. Foundation Review (Vol 5:3) Makes the case that most foundation strategies are unfolding in complex and dynamic environments, and foundations need a more committed approach to learning and strategic adaptation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I think it is really important to have a sand box where you can practice using the tools or techniques of working in a networked way in a low risk, safe environment. She says that you can't define actually what will happen, but you need to set up an environment and processes that facilitate serendipity happen.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2017

Like all people, they may love the arts, animals, and the environment; enjoy beautiful parks and fun outdoor activities; and support education and helping those in need. More advanced techniques can make it fully accessible. Register for webinar to learn more. A user can navigate the website or online feature without using a mouse.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Look for mobile providers to combine these ideas to enable a virtual meeting environment with video, audio, whiteboard, and presentations from multiple attendees. Through their use of "Second Life," TechSoup has been at the forefront of virtual meeting and collaboration environments for several years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The economic crisis has changed the external environment. Are you using the social media tools most efficiently and effectively given the environment , the changes in the tools, and your goals? Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

They have reached senior decision-making and leadership levels with the help of models that preceded today’s digital hyper-linked and networked environment with its wide, deep and rapid access to large numbers of people and vast amounts of information. Tags: crowdsourcing. Jon Husbands is a Listener, watcher and facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

In all fairness, in the contest guidelines , it doesn't say that this technique is a violation of the contest rules. The piece describes our view how cause marketing initiatives in social environments can be effective. . Tags: contest. Each Application Period is followed by a Voting Period. What would look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? I realized that this would be the perfect environment for us to solicit the public’s help in filling some of our long-standing gaps. Tags: crowdsourcing. Are there special cautions related to crowdsourcing for nonprofits? at the Smithsonian 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. This descriptive analysis suggests the following strategy: 1) Put the environment on the back burner for the moment, since economic-social issues are more dominant; . Tags: scholar. A lot of the ideas resonate with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

NTEN's September Newsletter has tons of excellent content, in particular check out these articles about new fundraising techniques using tools like mobile phones and Facebook. Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Fundraising 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

For example, they know from their survey research, real-time monitoring, and content analysis of comments on their posts that a lot of people care deeply about environment issues, but don’t self-identify as “environmentalists.” The idea is that biking to work is not only is good for the environment but can also help local economies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation. The "live tweeting" use the had tag #netfunders and I was not the only person in the room contributing tweeting from the convening. Tags: network effectiveness scholar. This is why the session started with a discussion defining confidentiality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . What he was saying that you have to integrate periods of time where you can step way from the computer and distraction and reconnect with yourself and the environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Danielle Brigida, NWF Social Media Outreach Coordinator ( @starfocus on Twitter) Note from Beth: In the coming weeks, we're peeking over the shoulder of nonprofit social media practitioners to learn about their work flow and techniques. Tags: change management guest blogging relationships.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur. What design techniques do you use to create successful visitor dialogue experiences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? Tags: Conferences Free Agent. Kanter will bring together a group of highly visible free agents working on important social change causes and representatives from different nonprofits for a lively discussion with the audience.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. Tags: children's museums design business models. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

As much as I loved spending time in the Museum, drawing the sculptures, chatting with the docents, giving my friends informal tours, and enjoying bluegrass music in the painting gallery, I knew that not everyone felt so free in the museum environment. Tags: design guestpost comfort. To them, the Nature Lab was much more accessible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

The moderator, Patrick O'Heffernan, shared his thoughts based on his experience with The People Choose which is connected to Link TV and the first non-profit site to launch user-generated video as a community building process in a non profit environment. They make it somewhat difficult to incorporate storytelling techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

It means creating a meeting environment where people feel valued and heard. Consider what tools and techniques, digital or otherwise, can be used to maximize their interaction with the in-room attendees. In some cases, you may also need to have people in the room wear name tags. Center Inclusion.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Use the terms in high-quality, relevant, and valuable content (more on that in tip #2 below) and make that content easy to find by incorporating selected keywords into titles, headings, and meta tags. “On-page It’s an SEO best practice to include any important keywords from the page in the title tag.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

I believe that focusing specifically on the social capacity of an object, rather than its content or interpretation, yields new design techniques for museum exhibits and other participatory spaces. You have to actually design something—a sign, an incident, an object, an environment. Tags: Talking to Strangers design.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Some of the signage pointed out “firsts” happening at the preserve—new techniques for introducing species into new habitats, creating a completely mammal pest-free environment, and inviting people to visit the project while underway. Tags: storytelling marketing design Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Teens are perceived as an audience that is particularly disaffected and hard to reach, and institutions are continually seeking new techniques that might connect them to core content experiences. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 The first of these reasons is practical. The other three are cultural, and I'm not sure how accurate they are.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2007

There, we combined the constraints of highly themed, intimate environments, timed challenges, and specific missions with a sense that “you control the experience.” What other games or non-gaming techniques could be used to usher museum “newbies” across the museum threshold? Tags: game.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2009

I learned more new techniques that I can apply directly to my work. And we got to do it all in a beautiful natural environment. Tags: professional development. I met more new people with whom I have a genuine interest in keeping in touch. I never had awkward forced interactions with people.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Let's examine the case for each of Karen's techniques. Sure, it might be nice to broadcast your blog feed to a screen in the museum somewhere, but the real value is for readers who can visit again and again from the flexibility of their own environment. may be best suited to a web-only environment, where visitors can surf unrestrained.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Food for me is something that impacts all of our lives, and it was a place where I could focus the most of my energy and really impact community, environment, health, soil, air, social equity issues, community building, and how we do, or do not interact with each other. The environment didn't look good. What brought you here?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Nutrition or fill in your Extension topic/subject area in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory. It's messy.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

If an environment is built for first-time users, how will anyone ever build up a meaningful sustained community? The stop-motion example lets visitors go more deeply into their own experiences, a technique I’ll call “ layering in ”. Instead of the exhibition or project evolving, individuals within the environment evolve.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 It had a lot of interesting, sometimes esoteric information.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

But incorporating good environmental storytelling techniques from the game world doesn't mean you have to put on mouse ears (or a trenchcoat). Carson argues that environments have to answer two user questions immediately: “Where am I?” Reinforce and Uphold the Story and "Rules" of the Environment. The City Museum of St.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Her goal while at Benetech: to learn more about the data processing techniques and quantitative analysis methods that HRDAG uses to investigate large-scale human rights violations. Tags: Benetech internships human rights Miradi fellowships MBA environment Bookshare.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This is a long post focused on strategic uses of listening rather than specific techniques. For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. What does it mean to listen to the groundswell?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I loved the session presented by Josh Gutwill (Exploratorium), Julie Charles (SFMOMA), and Tsivia Cohen (Chicago Children's Museum) on research-based mediation techniques. Tags: professional development. I bought her book, Evocative Objects, and we're likely to have a Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

This chapter is perhaps the most surprising in the book, because it focuses on tools and techniques that predate Web 2.0 Which of these tools work well for you, and how could you imagine inviting visitors into those environments? Tags: Book Discussion: Groundswell marketing usercontent. by years: customer support forums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

They're encouraging folks to submit proposals. (I'll be delivering the keynote, my first in a virtual 3d environment.). It has explained social network analysis and techniques in a way that is easy to understand for those who are not experts. Tags: nptechtagsummary. I'll be participating in one at the end of the month).

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