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Design for Community is Design for Strangers

Museum 2.0

These are the questions on my mind as I start working more intently on an outdoor plaza project. I''ve been reflecting a lot recently on our museum''s work on " social bridging "--bringing people together across cultural, ethnic, geographic, generational, and socio-economic differences--and how to take it outside.

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Community Matters, Even at SxSW

Forum One

Reflections on community at SxSW. But beyond all of the hype and noise, the most dominant theme I keep coming back to is that community is and always will be King. South by Southwest reinforced the true value of connecting like-minded groups in person — particularly in our field. Some may exist solely online.

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Social Media Adoption: The Line Between Individual/Personal and Organizational

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is only the most narrow-mind and short-sighted of management that actively ignores the primary motivations of human aspiration. Technology providers also try to avoid getting seduced by the hype cycles. How short was the hype cycle of MySpace? tool after Web 2.0 Of YouTube? Of Facebook? Of Second Life? And I think that???s

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9 Tips for Planning a Nonprofit Giving Day

Qgiv

Here are a few strategies that can help: Reflect on past performance: Use data from previous fundraising campaigns, such as Giving Tuesday, to establish benchmarks and inform your goals for the giving day. Remind donors that the day is coming and build hype. Third, you need to promote your giving day. We’ll talk about that more soon!)

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. been through the cycle a few times, hype and burn. His reflection " When do online/computer simulations add the most value ? D) is to going.

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Top 11 Tips for Hosting a Virtual Conference

AccelEvents

This proactive approach will be positively reflected in audience satisfaction. . While that might seem like it brings less hype and excitement, it might be a more powerful option. Send regular reminders to registered attendees so your event stays top of mind. Early on, send updates.

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Artificial Intelligence for Nonprofits: Your List of AI Tools to Use for Good

CauseVox

A Different Kind of Chatbot: ChatGPT Lately, there’s been a lot of hype around ChatGPT. If the data used to train an AI algorithm contains biases, the resulting output can reflect these biases. To avoid this, nonprofits need to be mindful about the data used to train AI algorithms and whether it’s representative and unbiased.

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