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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. As a fairly new nonprofit, this online contest gave us the ability to gain exposure and compete with some more established organizations.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

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When I read the New York Times online, each article's author's name is hotlinked and there is an easy and direct way to contact him/her. On the accuracy front, sites like Wikipedia have developed methods of community authoring and editing that make them more voluminous AND more accurate than traditional encyclopedic sources.

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ISO Understanding: Rethinking Art Museum Labels

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I don't usually fist-pump while reading the New York Times. But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. Also, the teen selections often featured teenagers interviewing visitors about their reactions to the pieces.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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During her lifetime, biochemist and pharmacologist Gertrude Elion worked to develop drugs to treat leukemia and prevent rejection in kidney transplant recipients, as well as revolutionary drug treatments and research methods for diseases like malaria and AIDS. She won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1988. Marie Curie. Marie Curie was a.)

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