Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This is the second installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. As I was reading The Great Good Place I identified with Oldenburg’s description of Main Street USA, small town America, and rural life. How can a local history museum connect with third places in the community?

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Place Museum Discussion Pennsylvania 27

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

An NFC chip -- that's near-field communications -- is placed on your existing cell phone, or is built into new phones. Paying by mobile is already a done deal in Japan and Europe. Tags: cell phone dan macsai fast company Mobile NPTech NTEN payments Fundraising. The concept is simple. Will s/he even remember donating?

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2009

The British take teleworking seriously because apparently English workers have the longest work commutes in Europe. There's plenty of need, it seems, to continue to raise awareness on the value of travel reduction in our work places. Tags: Green Office GreenTech. May 14 was also Bike to Work Day in many U.S. and Canadian cities.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In cities across America, Canada, Europe, the UK and South America, local networks of techies, marketers, project managers, storytellers, and others got together, identified problems and projects, shared those ideas across the network with other camps, assigned teams, built prototypes, shared and tested and launched several applications.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In cities across America, Canada, Europe, the UK and South America, local networks of techies, marketers, project managers, storytellers, and others got together, identified problems and projects, shared those ideas across the network with other camps, assigned teams, built prototypes, shared and tested and launched several applications.

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Social South America Disaster Mobile 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2006

So, of course I go to the computer because I can always count on my colleagues from Europe, Africa, Asia, or Southeast Asia to be up and around and distract me from my insomnia. My colleague, David Wilcox , let me know about a new event/community blog for a London meeting about social networking and nonprofits taking place tommorrow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, in some places of the world there is lower adoption rates of social — for example in very rural areas of the developing world – where this data would not be useful for informing a funding strategy. They also tag and analyze responses.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

There is still a tremendous amount of giving taking place, but there are a few things worth noting already. While mobile fundraising has been widely used in the UK and Europe, it has struggled to take off in North America. Tags: CMS CRM International Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

Karin Pritikin, who I met in Chicago in June and works for  Health & Medicine Policy Research Group , reached out to me to share some of the "hallway conversations" taking place in her organization about movements and social media.   Hitler was gaining in Europe. " Tags: movement building.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

There is still a tremendous amount of giving taking place, but there are a few things worth noting already. While mobile fundraising has been widely used in the UK and Europe, it has struggled to take off in North America. Tags: CMS CRM International Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Fundraising.

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Haiti Trend Online Giving 68

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Spending time in Europe, I'm reminded how complicated it gets when you have to interpret exhibits for a multi-lingual audience. I'm now imagining a card with a place for "Your Comment (English)," "(Spanish)," and so on down the side. Tags: design usercontent inclusion. What have you tried? What have you seen work?

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Museum Work North America Language 38

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A way to bring people on opposite sides of an issue to a fruitful, positive meeting place? The Council of Europe youth sector has made the Living Library tool available via this 36-page pdf booklet about organizing a Living Library. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. What is the Living Library?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

I had a very good friend from my village who was a driver for tourists and immigrated to Europe. I think that Cambodians whether still in Cambodia or in other places in the world should express themselves ??? Technorati Tags: cambodia nptech They are inspired that I grew up in a small village in Cambodia and live in Manhattan.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

We always walk into these places and wonder: how is it that museums get designed without worrying about what it’s like to be a visitor walking in the door and wanting a bathroom, or a cup of coffee, or a seat? There are very few places to sit, and visitors are clinging to the few benches that are there. Places to eat and drink.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

They are either from other countries, or they are embedded in communities of color or of other places, or they've traveled and worked extensively with communities. You can oftentimes buy food now directly from wholesale places, which is something that most people don't know. What brought you here? I went to France. I do radio.

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Interview Authoring Change Oakland 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2007

But others elsewhere in the country, Europe or even further!), Are you aware of all the places that link to your site and why? Each of the links to the downloads all have extra analytics tags attached, so we can easily monitor how many of which one is downloaded. Link to larger image. That's useful.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

In both places, the majority of cards received were "not relevant" to the exhibition. Several authors commented on the utility of visitor comment boards as a place for visitors to vent--about the exhibition or the institution. Tags: Book Discussion: Visitor Voices inclusion visitors. In the OSC study, only 1.4%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Note from Beth: Ashoka's Twitter account was placed on the Twitter Suggested List about the same time as my account. Tom Dawkins, who is responsible for Ashoka Tweets, offered to write a guest post reflecting on some best practices for using Twitter. Tags: twitter.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

There are 500 volunteers working for PresenTense each year, mainly from North America and Israel, but also from other places around the globe. PT currently has fellowships in Boston, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem -- and will be expanding next year to Europe and other cities in North America. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I got involved in green coworking, being here in Citizen Space and trying to bring some of the green values that I promote on my Internet sites into actual practice here in the work place. It is simply a matter of getting people together, maybe of similar character and working in the same place.

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Green Interview San Francisco Environment 40

Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

At Open Society Foundations, we are interested in the potential for digital tools to encourage meaningful participation, and as such we supported the establishment of FundAction, a digital fund and platform in Europe. But while an ever-expanding list may offer a fuller picture, it will never be exhaustive.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

I guess a good place to start is looking back at forecasts from January 2012. My TechSoup Global colleague in Warsaw, Anka Kuliberda, reports that the biggest nonprofit tech story in Europe this past year were the anti-ACTA riots in several countries and also the Open Knowledge Festival. The Forecasts for 2012.

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