NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Jacobwith Flickr: jenny8lee When it comes to building community and increasing brand awareness, some organizations hire communications, marketing, and engagement staff to handle these activities. By Jamie Millard and Lori L. And that makes sense -- someone needs to be charged with keeping a close eye on the organization’s community growth.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2012

Flickr: reid. The conference is held on March 16, in Minneapolis. Has your organization told an inspirational digital story? I’d like to start off this week’s member news by congratulating my colleague, Annaliese Hoehling. Or, are you planning to? You should enter TechSoup’s Digital Storytelling Challenge.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

When we launched the annual challenge four years ago, nonprofits and libraries were just picking up on the power of digital stories. Nowhere was this clearer than at the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2013 this April in snowy Minneapolis. If you want to make your story to pop with data, try infographics and maps.

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Storytelling Digital Conference Technology 61

Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

I spent last week working with staff at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) on ways to make this encyclopedic art museum more open to visitor participation across programs, exhibitions, and events. I also think it would be useful for the MIA to aggregate blog posts, Flickr photos, etc.

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