Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Envision San Jose 2040 (There's even a platform to support the virtual charrette called " wiki planning ". Tags: crowdsourcing. Nitrogen Wiki . Next Stop Design Process. Do you know of an example of crowdsourcing from a nonprofit organization? Was that crowd trained, facilitated, or orchestrated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

Photo from San Jose Library. One recent project asked people to tag photos from Haiti in an effort to identify missing people. Tags: volunteering. This week (April 18th to 25th) is National Volunteer Week in the US. Chances are if you work or volunteer for a nonprofit you already know that.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

eBay's Green Team began with a group of San Jose employees. Tags: Influence Events Internet Strategy Online Community Social Media. And finally, Peggy Duvette of WiserEarth talked about how their free online community connects the non-profit world. Proceeds from the event were donated to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2009

It will be held in San Jose, California from May 26-27. Tags: Digital Divide Grants for Technology Multimedia & Graphics Online Activism Tech Planning Telecom Services Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 Limited tickets are still available, so get yee registered today !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Opera San Jose Case Study. Opera San Jose gave a presentation on its #operaplot hashtag contest where participants has to tweet the plots of operas in 140 characters. Tags: Experimentation Training Design arts arts community artslabsf. View more presentations. Some of the presentations focused on the tactics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. Examples: San Jose Opera use of #Operaplot Twitter Hashtag. I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2005

If you want to find out more about the conference, read the tagged blog posts from the conference here and the nonprofit technology spin here. (Be " When you just tag something for yourself to find. ( Technorati Tags: blogher Probably not quite as good as being there. Here's a live blog of what he said and here.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Those Featured Projects came together May 26-27, 2009 in San Jose, CA, at the N2Y4 Conference to pitch their ideas, find collaborators, and get valuable feedback. Tags: amy sample ward mobile devices netsquared Newsletter NPTech NTEN. There were many excellent ideas (check out the Project Gallery !)

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2007

Flying into San Jose yesterday, I laughed out loud when I looked out the window and saw Clifford the Big Red Dog below me, a cheerful addition to the skyline (thanks to the Children's Discovery Museum). Pac-Man tries to eat dots, and the Ghosts try to tag Pac-Man. Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences game.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

In the meantime, join us Wednesday in San Jose or at The Tech in Second Life (in virtual New Venture Hall ) for an afternoon of lively discussion. Tags: virtual worlds Tech Virtual. Later this week, a post-mortem on the summit.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). Tags: exhibition marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0 After all, as naysayers of participatory design often remind me, the museum is not a popularity contest. Projects.

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JULY 20, 2007

I read recently about an awesome project at the San Jose Museum of Art in 2001, Collecting Our Thoughts, in which visitors were invited to write the labels for an art exhibition (more another time). Tags: usercontent game. Which made my mind go to a far more irreverent destination: Mad Libs. Pick a plural noun. Then a number.

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DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. Tags: virtual worlds Tech Virtual professional development. My name in SL is Avi Marquez. I'll see you at The Tech!

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JULY 24, 2007

The San Jose Museum of Art has drastically changed its approach to security, replacing guards with visitor services staff who provide interpretation and monitor visitor actions in a less threatening manner. Tags: design Book Discussion: Civilizing the Museum.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2010

The occasion for getting to know Adobe better came with the launch of Adobe's new wind turbines at their headquarters building in San Jose. Tags: GreenTech. At last count TechSoup now has 41 donation or discounted product donors for nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This exhibition uses RFID tags to allow visitors to save their work throughout the space--something that many institutions have been experimenting with for almost ten years now. The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Witness this posting placed on craigslist yesterday: Lovely Blonde at The Tech Museum on Sunday - m4w - 46 (san jose downtown) Date: 2007-10-14, 9:05PM PDT We chatted briefly while attending the Body World exhibit at The Tech on Sunday in downtown San Jose. Tags: participatory museum inclusion visitors.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Not that I won’t still occasionally write about games, but they will no longer have a weekly presence on this blog ( though you can always find lots of them by clicking the "game" tag in the topic list to the right). Tags: Tech Virtual. Why the change? In this case, it has less to do with getting better than choosing a new direction.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

A few highlights: Cecelia Garibay talked about audience development at the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum. Tags: professional development. Other Stuff There were several other sessions and meetings that inspired and challenged me at the conference. What did you get out of AAM? What was most valuable for you?

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