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Has Your Nonprofit Considered Race and Class in Your Social Media Strategy?

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In its heyday in 2006 and 2007, Myspace was an incredibly vibrant community of artists, musicians, and impassioned activists and do-gooders. Then late in 2007 and throughout 2008, the spam on Myspace started to become overwhelming, while at the same time the naysayers and fearmongers were growing larger and louder.

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We Got Issues: A New Collection of Young Women's Voices

Have Fun - Do Good

Oakland-based performance artist, Aya De León , shared her secrets for a healthy relationship: Being in a relationship, particularly as a black woman with a black man, just means that we are each bringing our own land mines to the relationship. My teeth ground in frustration as I reminded her that I am Javier's other mom. For more info.,

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Art and Activism: Olivia Greer and Women Center Stage

Have Fun - Do Good

From the perspective of our work, it really means that the more we amplify different voices, the more we are doing our job. Joan of the Stockyards", by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Lear DeBessonet, the founder and Artistic Director of Stillpoint Productions. Greer recently returned from the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi.

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Hello, Washington Post: Dolllars Per Facebook Donor Is Not the Right Metric for Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

blog has been going for almost five years now, and I''ve seen people''s concerns and questions evolve over that time in the following way: For the first couple of years--2006-2007--most of the questions were about the "why" of participation. The Museum 2.0 Why should institutions engage with people in this way? why not museums?

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. By summer of 2007, when I left the Spy Museum to move to California, the blog was a big deal. I'll never forget when Elaine Heumann Gurian cold-emailed me in 2007 to ask if I would consider reviewing a new paper she was writing.

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Dear Jack, Dear Snoopy: Using Letter-Writing for Visitor Response

Museum 2.0

As Kathy McLean noted in Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , while staff were afraid that typing on the typewriter would be too hard for some young children, "kids lined up to carefully and slowly type their letters." Also in 2007, the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh opened a new exhibition on the John Murray Archive.

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