Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

I’m always amazed when my colleagues tell me that the biggest barrier they face to “opening up” the content at their museums is from registrars—the people who care for collection objects. are well versed in new ideas for audience engagement and committed to opening up their institutions to increase public access. Followers of Museum 2.0

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 19, 2009

Joe Medina of Colby College asked members of the FUNDSVCS listserve about their favorite free software programs. PHP and MySQL -– Really good open source code for building dynamic web sites: [link] and [link]. Here are mine, minus obvious ones like Gmail and Firefox (note that many are only free for home use).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 15, 2008

Reading our volunteer email listserv this morning, I came across lyrics to a song about our volunteer community. Booksharian Heroes He opens up his scanner In the hours before dawn So he can finish up this book Before the day is gone. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did, and recognize the heroic nature of volunteer service!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos. I then modeled this support on the online community — and we quickly had a village of practitioners supporting one of another.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Note From Beth: I remember back when Hurricane Katrina struck, I saw a post to the Museum ListServ that said “ Chuck Patch Is Not Dead.” Flickr Photo by Rob Howells. Close the loop. Keep your supporters and donors updated on the progress you’re making in real time via email and on social media.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

3) Find resources to build your skills, and give them time every week: webinars, listservs, online classes, books, etc. One which they may not is LS-TECH, the tech listserv for legal services, which is quite a large slice of the national nonprofit sector. Attend conferences. Build this into your time and budget plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I'm finding it very annoying to having to open an attached document from email, save it to my hard drive, and work with track changes or comments though. It's the same kind of impatience I feel reading email from listservs -- only because my RSS reader makes scanning and reading a lot of information very eficient.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I was grateful the other half were consultants or Convio employees who also positively participated in the discussion, which was more of an open exchange than a lecture. I find it's much easier to open an object file.csv in Excel and figure out/remind myself what requires a Salesforce ID, what's a checkbox, etc.

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NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

Technology is the unintuitive phone system, the frustrating donor management system, the computer that blue screens every time it has more than three windows open. Ask on listservs ( ProgEx , NTEN Affinity Groups , ISF Yahoo group , etc.) In many organizations, technology is viewed as separate from the work the organization is doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. -Didn’t expect the network nodes to last forever – they could come and go. While this might have fueled the organic growth, they are unable to track some of the impact.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

There are grassroots groups on social media, listservs, and informal peer groups for users of various Blackbaud products. It means that you are open to the importance of the role data plays in your organization. Check out the Blackbaud Community to get started connecting with other data-focused friends. How do I harness my data?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Creates more open and transparent conversations about thought-provoking issues. Then in the 90’s people had some of these conversations via online forums and listservs. Helps to better brand organizations with supporters and potential supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

There has been some discussion in nonprofit forums, blogs, and listservs about the pros and cons of Facebook Pages versus Groups for nonprofits. Successful communities on Facebook offer an attitude of openness, transparency and enthusiasm - not a technology platform for advertising. Well, she just posted something and it rocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2007

Laura Quinn provides a summary of the concerns expressed on different nptech listservs: As these two software companies are two of the ???big The listserves are hopping with this news. This big news and it rocked the nonprofit technology world yesterday. Blog reactions here , here , here , here , here and here. big three???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

The resulting discussion thread on the progressive exchange listserv prompted some reflections on how nonprofits can effectively use Facebook. If the door of political discourse is opened, then it is important that all voices have the opportunity to be heard. to open its profiles to Google search. Nonprofits can use groups).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

As reported by the Executive Director of N-TEN, Katrin Verclas earlier this week, The Antonio Pizzigati Prize was awarded to George Hotelling , an open source software developer who built CitizenSpeak. I posted a message on a CivicSpace listserv about my plans to make CitizenSpeak into an open source module on Drupal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Arts NpTech The Goat at Large shouts about Open Source CMS for arts organizations from the Center for Arts Management and Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Ning, which lets you set up your own custom social network, has attracted attention for its ability to create communities that are more functional than those created through competing services from Google and Yahoo listservs. Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2005

Then it was opened up for additonal comments and questions. It was very similar to the way the blogher opening plenary was facilitated. There are various channels for post-conference follow up discussion, including the listserv, IRC channel, and wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I'll explain why in a minute) Someone posted the url to a listserv. I put on a wiki for easy maintenance and for whoever stumbles upon it and might find it useful as I believe in open content and open thinking. I slapped a list of blogs in my wiki for me. There's not even a description of what the blogs do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

It is like sending a personal email to the entire listserv by mistake. After the panelist intros, it was opened up for audience discussions facilitated by Anslee Berkman (who is a she). Also, at the end when I thought I was having a private IM with a colleague to set up a play date with my kids, it was broadcast to the entire group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She also asked some really good questions about blogging for ngos on the listserv. " AVIF plans to open an online shop to sell items to raise money for its program. She caught my attention because she founded an organization that works with orphaned and disabled children in Kenya.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

It can also open up topics of discussion to broader audiences rather than being restricted to a geographical region. . An association usually hosts the event and will market it on their website, through academic and social forums, through listservs, word-of-mouth, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. That's where that the open source thinking or the connected conversations start to happen. Opening the Kimono. What have I learned about the topic?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. If we're thinking of Facebook groups (or listservs for that matter) as online communities, what personalities do you see in the communities you are managing? You'll also need some video editing software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2007

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. I'm a great fan of simpy bookmarking , like delicious but as an open source app you can run the code internally in an organisation for group bookmarking.(Not I have one blog post here. All by next week!

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

They are open to NTEN members and non-members alike and center on themes that reflect both a specific programmatic focus and an ongoing opportunity for growth. No, CoP’s are open to both NTEN members and non-members alike. NTEN is open to various configurations of group leadership. How will the CoP members interact?

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. But they were open to sharing a person. Here are ten practical things you can do, starting tomorrow: 1) Join a list-serve or social media group. Pick one that fits your size and mission, and addresses technology. NTEN and TechSoup list a few.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. Well, I think the nonprofits that open their blogs up to tell the stories of their constituency -- the March of Dimes blog for example -- are inherently dramatic. Paying attention and contributing to listservs is a part of my job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Open ended conversation – conversations that continue to rise and fall over time without a specific goal (i.e. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.). Content – a focus on capturing and publishing what the community learns and knows (i.e. a newsletter, publishing an article, etc.).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Those familiar with Michelle's work in the nptech sphere understand that this non-open-source tool review is rare, so go take a gander and join the discussion in the comments! I'm also picking up on the buzz I hear on listservs, Twitter, and directly from you! The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

GetActive GetsAcquired - By Convio This is big news and it bounced around the nonprofit and progressive blogs, listservs, IM, and emails. " (See David Weinberger's write up " Cool Democracy Tools " and his question - Why are the tools for open democracy coming from the left?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

That geek has been sleeping for at least 15 years and when it opened it eyes it found a whole new world. the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh? Yet another paradigm shift, emerging field, and something else to research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. A quick review of the results of Isovera Survey of Open Source Content Management Satisfaction in Nonprofit Organizations. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? And you have until March 11th at midnight to enter.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Openness - ????A You can open an account on flickr for free (although if you get a professional account you can upload more photos) and start using it in minutes. Tagging is an open and informal method of categorizing that allows users to describe web resources with keywords. Resource Collection off a listserv: [link].

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Open-ended: allowing insight into a candidate's thought processes without "leading" the candidate into providing the answers you want or giving the candidate the opportunity to provide a yes or no response. Screening Candidates.

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