Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

It's a busy time in Second Life , particularly for libraries, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. I got a little distracted with some IM networking because I ran into an avatar who I "know" from the SL Educator listserv - but hadn't met in-world yet. Got that?)

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

The online group includes a listserv email archive, a library, a wiki, a group blog, and a discussion thread platform. Each CoP has space in the NTEN groups platform ([link] You can search for current CoP’s by entering “CoP” in the search bar on the upper right hand corner of your browser window. How will the CoP members interact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

If you think that Seocond Life is just about buying virtual houses, be sure read this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. But for museums and public institutions like libraries and other nonprofits, it is so important to subscribe to their followers and take a look at what they are saying. She describes herself as having a "unhealthy obsession with Twitter."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. Nonprofit organizations, libraries, and educational institutions are experimenting with "user-generated" or community-powered campaigns.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

Consider what happened when the Library of Congress put some of their photo collections on Flickr. Many of us use listservs to get answers to our museum-related questions and find out what others are doing. However, there are at least two ways for museums to get volume. without any intervention by the institutional authority.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

there’s libraries and other nonprofit organizations where you can actually access the professional level of FDO. But I think that there’s always been the ability to use the Foundation Directory for prospect research. And you can do that not just within one of the Foundation Center offices, but actually within.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

There have been some fun semantic jousting matches recently on the ASTC listserv about the difference between science museums and science centers. A park or library, sure. YouTube is a Center for Media, the Apple Store is a Center for Media, Pearl Art Supply is a Center for Media, and so is the Public Library. But a center?

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