Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online.

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Comment Social Media Jordan Cancer 95

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. This is the cocktail party, the hallway conversation, a structured time to meet and talk. Why are they doing this?

Studies 20

Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2009

The imaginative context of the workshops allowed us to get past petty sticking points and tackle big questions like how to balance creativity into your work, how to feel good about creating without evaluating the product, and how to deal with the tensions of working in teams. Tags: professional development. We had fun. We got inspired.

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Conference Professional PowerPoint Evaluation 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online.

Social Media 79

Social Media Cancer Jordan Kiva 79

NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Tags: beth kanter NPTech sxsw. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis. What is it? How does it work?

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Social Media Nonprofit Jordan Cancer 67

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2007

In this alternative, the museum takes a stand on an issue (in USHMM's case, genocide), and breathes life into that side of the issue, helping visitors engage with and experience that side of the story. We aren't well-versed in conversational questioning. Tags: design. Why question? How do people understand it? Why do you care?"

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Issue Design Question Museum 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Social Media Media Social Flickr 81

NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

ROI -- or Return on Investment -- is a pre- and/or post-evaluation process and analysis of three factors: benefits, costs, and value of a specific technology purchase over time. What is the cost of alternatives or not investing? It also consists of an organizational conversation, storytelling, and a written report.

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Measure ROI Technology Metrics 76

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation. The engagement in this part of the exhibit was very high.

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Advice Museum Student Facilitation 31

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When evaluating your nonprofit website’s effectiveness , an important question to ask yourself is whether all possible users can access the content on your site. Some aspects of content flow to examine include: Heading tag order. Each of your pages should have just one H1 tag denoting its title. Text formatting.

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Accessibility Design Websites Practice 64

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

The “Ghosts of a Chance” alternate reality game (ARG) ran from July 18 until October 25, 2008 and was a collaboration between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and CityMystery. The Online Story Development The online story development is the trickiest part to evaluate. For a complete report on this project, please download this PDF.

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Museum Game Evaluation PDF 20

Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

USAID contractors collect enormous amounts of valuable data as part of research, project implementation, and monitoring and evaluation activities. The community should enable students to engage in conversations related to functional areas and regions of interest. Tags: Influence Government. Vote for this Idea]. All Agencies.

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Ideas Share Disaster Government 46

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 1, 2007

I have friends who refuse to ask, others who come up with clever alternatives ("What keeps you busy?"), and then the rare people who have some other attribute that trumps that question ("How old is your baby?" "Is I like this analogy of the party conversation as a fresh way to evaluate exhibits. How do you meet exhibits?

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Museum Storytelling Alternative Language 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Some leaders are more conservative than I feared, and these people are alternately smug and desperate about maintaining their power. They are seen as “add-ons” rather than alternatives, and in many cases are increasingly conforming to K-12 standards to justify their utility as sites for field trips and educational funding.

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Library Museum Reflection Alternative 20