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The Horizon Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The role of the Journalist Panel is: These journalists will be given priority access to the teachers and on a permission basis will be allowed to interview students with teachers present. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years: User-Created Content. Social Networking. Mobile Phones.

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NpTech Summary: VTvigils Online, Netsquared Announces 21 Featured Projects, and Happiness Hacking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems. Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. The media here IS the service. So how do we propose to pay for it?

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. I have found that first-timer find social media confusing because of two reasons.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest. That’s why we’re not in Second Life. #1, We look at the equation and say maybe Second Life isn’t the right fit for us.

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

Museum 2.0

Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." I don't entirely trust these reports. Would you trust a survey report about consumer confidence in meat safety commissioned by the beef industry? But here's the problem.

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Online Video: An Interview Revealing Best Practices and Trends - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Sometimes, its worth contacting a local university or technical college to see if your video would fit as a student project. They can get a donated or subsidized videographer and/or editor. Q: How can nonprofits define and measure success with an online video?

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I resisted using the title of “report card”. We managed to get a medium quality Quicktime stream that we put into Second Life, and higher quality Flash video stream , that we made available on the web. Still later in the conference we saw numbers of about 30-60 viewers in Second Life and over 100 on the live Flash stream.