Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Recently, several subscribers to the RCAAM (Registrar’sCommittee of AAM) listserv posted concerns about professional photographers and museum visitors taking photographs of objects on exhibition. I encountered strong push-back on the listserv, with one subscriber calling my fitness for my job title, “collections care trainer,” into question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

It's the same kind of impatience I feel reading email from listservs -- only because my RSS reader makes scanning and reading a lot of information very eficient. I'm not going to ditch email or listservs anytime soon.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

And when we get the chance we also advocate for charities and libraries in other high places – like the U.S. We administrate the Refurbisher Listserv. We engage any and all high-tech companies that may be interested in donating or discounting their software, hardware, tech support, or cloud services.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text. Of the school, TechSoup special programs administrator Stephen Brown says, "The whole place is physically and educationally a laboratory.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 8, 2010

We have a couple of email listservs on Google Groups of our top-tier advocates that we've been interested in migrating to an online community. There are other updates that I highly regret that I posted anything in the first place. There are some updates from some people that I want to know in email if there's follow up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. -Didn’t expect the network nodes to last forever – they could come and go. While this might have fueled the organic growth, they are unable to track some of the impact.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Julie described the library's community as "economically depressed" and a place where the digital divide is real: most people only access the Internet from their phones. "This is not the place for your wildest dreams when you're running a small library. You might need to tweak your goals as you go.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2014

Second, don’t place too much value in Facebook “likes.” As nonprofit strategist Ted Fickes said on a nonprofit listserv, “the ice bucket challenge has been going on for a while now among golfers and many others donating to the charity of their choice, law enforcement groups raising money for police charities, etc.”

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Here is a compilation of responses to the same question from the APRA's listserve, PRSPCT-L : "I would consider any data valuable when it can be utilized for predictive analytics or to build a case for trends. All of these approaches have their downsides, of course, but they don't encourage data loss. Others Who Agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. ” Since the strategy has been in place, many HRW staff as a group engaging on Twitter has lead to impressive results.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Join NPSF Bit of a shameless plug as I've been co-moderator of the Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners listserv for a couple of years now. It's a great place learn about new apps or to figure out a new way to tackle an old problem that's still relevant to nonprofits but outside of the Common Ground application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

(Commentary here ) Maybe that's why we've heard rumblings in the blogosphere and on listservs that the YouTube Nonprofit Channel was backlogged on accepting applications. What are the 5 things should get into place while you are waiting for your YouTube Nonprofit Channel to be approved? They tire networks; call it competition fatigue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

If you haven't yet checked out Seond Life and want to experience a "serious" activity, there are celebration events taking place throughout the week on Information Island. This is one of many events taking place to mark the Island's Grand Opening organized by the tireless Lori Bell who must not sleep. Got that?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

Meanwhile, maybe Gavin might write up some more thoughts on social search or maybe all the stuff he posted some place on a listserv about RSS search techniques over at Digital Dinner. So, I'm going through my LinkedIn contacts and looking at sending this out as a question.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

They can also be a place for participants to post information as it comes to mind during the event. If the event is offline, conduct follow-up online discussion using a simple listserve or a group collaboration tool to keep the lively discussions going. The Center for Global Development does this a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Nonprofits, support groups, and nonprofit professionals have found their homes on Ning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

The event took place today. If you think that Seocond Life is just about buying virtual houses, be sure read this. See Allan's comment and read Ethan's post. This should be good fodder for debate. Last month, I was hoping to catch Mia Farrow in Second Life. Unfortunately, the event got cancelled due a fire. in Real Life & Second Life

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

But wanted to capture some quick thoughts related to a couple of recent awareness raising activities taking place in Second Life or recently launched. Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. I'm so behind!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. There is an interesting debate taking place about Facebook between Dana Boyd and Robert Scoble about Facebook's plan. Nonprofits can use groups). to open its profiles to Google search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. s a great place for us to post our most graphic videos in hopes that they go viral. We also used youtube because it???s If you don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

Out of habit, I started off doing the research in my usual ways - posts to listservs, search engine, private emails, and posts to forums. Someone else put the idea out there of placing the information on the nptech.info site. I would fill in the missing pieces and refine with chacha, serach engines, private email, or listserv queries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). How To Create Your Circle of the Wise from CoolCatTeacher - best place to start for beginners. You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news. Yahoo News Google News.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Graphing Social Patterns is a conference devoted to the business and technology of Facebook taking place next week in Silicon Valley. There's an unconference called OpenFaced taking place in tandem with the conference. NTEN blog summarizes the discussion thread about wiki software from the listserv on its blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2007

The whole of this activity should take place within Boracay, meet in the Piazza ( [link] ). You should take a picture of all your team gathered round the box in its hiding place. The places with more than a handful of avatars present always seem to increase the probability of trouble though. Personally I think I???ve If there???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

The interview took place during during Beyond Broadcast. Speaking of good audio, I raised this question on the video bloggers listserv and David Tames (who took the photo stills in the video) offered some great tricks here. Past subjects have included Nick Booth , Steve Garfield , and Robert Scoble. So, I like let them know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. This points to a larger issues of control - conversations are fragmenting and we have no control where they take place. " So, maybe it looks like this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). How To Create Your Circle of the Wise from CoolCatTeacher - best place to start for beginners. You can also use RSS to "listen" for mentions of your organization in the news. Yahoo News Google News.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. link to Wikimapia and locate the 'place' for Manor Garden Allotments then click. Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. I have one blog post here. All by next week!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2005

I think that Cambodians whether still in Cambodia or in other places in the world should express themselves ??? s why I started a listserv to help people from Cambodia to learn how to do it. t speak English and they don???t t have computers or Internet access or even electricity. What can vlogging do for Cambodians?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

While one might be tempted to discount the value of face-to-face gatherings when we have the Internet, some of my most valuable connections and learning experiences have taken place "in real life" at the NTC. We will also design a "Flickr Walk" to take place sometime during the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

The photo above is one of two places where you will find Marnie blogging. They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. What is the most important thing that has to be in place for a npo to be successful? Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job. Greg Beuthin, ext311.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

4) There isn't a place inside of the virtual world where you can easily post the agenda and I haven't found a virtual flip chart yet. Another thing that happens and I know there is probably a way to prevent this - is that our meeting are taking place in a busy place where visitors often come by who are not involved in the group.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Ensuring Your Place in a Competitive Market. What makes us a great place to work? Screening Candidates. Creating evaluation tools such as checklists or scales that directly relate to the required competencies can help you more clearly determine a candidate's fit with both the technical and non-technical requirements of the position.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. This is a new perspective for many; as one put it: "until taking this course, I have never thought of, or seen it as my place to foster a common vision."

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

Even if I WANT to learn from the exhibits that have come before and are coming up around the world, there's no obvious place to start studying. We're not under the illusion that some fields like "what went wrong" and "lessons learned" will be places where we get 100% honesty. But as an exhibit designer, I'm in the dark.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

We had just finished perusing an excellent exhibit, “Places and Spaces,” pouring over a complex map of 1.3 There was a recent post on the ASTC listserv from a museum planning to revamp their wayfinding system. This weekend, I visited the New York Hall of Science. million scientific papers grouped into scientific paradigms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

FLOSS Usability Sprint is taking place this weekend. David Wilcox shares an example of growing divided in the UK nonprofit sector between "traditional" online communities (listservs) and those who are adopting Web2.0 Events and Conferences: Live Blog Notes, Upcoming, and How-Tos.

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