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10 Essential Tools for the Nonprofit New Media Manager on the Go

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A smartphone or tablet will be their primary tool. Foursquare is essential for nonprofits that are location-based (such as museums, food banks, and libraries ). Related Links: [STATS] New Study Shows the Mobile Web Will Rule by 2015. Some nonprofits have begun to lay a foundation for their mobile communications strategies.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites.

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What Hocus Pocus Can Teach You About Major Gift Fundraising

Bloomerang

If you’re short on time, this tool can be very helpful in narrowing down a list of major donor prospects who are both interested in and capable of making large gifts. Are you asking them to contribute to something specific that they have already indicated interest in, like the Sanderson Sisters Museum? Make the ask. . “In

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Better Blog Museum Metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am also prepping a panel on the topic for NTC (more about that later) Seb Chan is focusing specifically on blog metrics for museums. the multidirectional communication, that most museums set up blogs to encourage and explore. He thinks that Avanish Kaushik's model is particularly well-suited for museum blogs. interactivity???,

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Who Is Your Mayor? Guest Post by Farra Trompeter, Big Duck

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I so happy to sneak into last night’s 501Tech Club New York City gathering last night to hear Shelley Bernstein, Brooklyn Museum, and Naveen Selvadurai talk about Nonprofits and Foursquare. And other sites and tools like Yelp and Twitter have added check-in and geolocation functionalities as well. But I digress….

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Why Museums Need Nike+: Tracking, Gaming, and Architecture of Participation

Museum 2.0

I'm talking about a product that uses the tools of tracking, gaming, and me-to-we design to give a fabulous experience: Nike+. This means you receive real-time audio data while running about your progress (updates each mile), and later, can review your run stats online. Let's take a closer look at how this all comes together.

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How Useful is the "Audience vs. Expert" Dichotomy?

Museum 2.0

at the Brooklyn Museum, where you could track how people of various levels of art expertise rated crowd-contributed photographs. What tools do we use? I've been thinking about this as I prep some interactive prototypes for the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum, a Seattle-based museum of pop culture.