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Museums and Flickr

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" So, I thought I'd use a screen capture of the photo inside flickr instead, but wasn't sure whether I could. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. In this post, I???m

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Organizational Social Relationship Models and Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. These points also make me think about an organizational listening/learning model.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. If people can take their own photos, they won't buy them in the gift shop. Aesthetics of Experience: Photo-taking is distracting for other visitors.

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Nature Conservancy Instagram Contest and Other Examples

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s how it works, according to their recent Facebook and Tumblr posts: The Nature Conservancy has used photo contests to crowdsource photos from its network through social media in the post, as far back as 2008 when it ran a contest on Flickr. There are some obvious benefits: Engaging its network beyond the like on Facebook.

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New Research: 4 Case Studies of Nonprofit Shared Back-Offices in the Cloud

NTEN

We identified three possible models for sharing back-office functions, as explained in our summary findings. > Flickr photo: torkildr. If parts of that infrastructure could be consolidated, could they streamline their efficiency and shore up infrastructure while freeing up resources for mission-related activities and staff?

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Collaborative Models for Capturing and Sharing Conference Notes at Nonprofit Gatherings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This model can also be scaled to an entire blog community platform. With this model, there is a "wiki moderator" who has posted notes for participants who have never used a wiki before. If others in attendance are also blogging, they are encouraged to comment, link or trackback to the posts.

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New on SSIR: Innovating at the Speed of Communities

Amy Sample Ward

“Innovating at the speed of communities&# is a big goal, but something organizations and civic institutions can learn a lot from as a model. Communities As A Model. What’s the community-driven model that supports innovating at the speed of communities? Photo credit: Flickr Rhys’s Piece Is ).

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