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While the flood of new technology products and social networking sites can overwhelm, now more than ever is the right time to maximize the benefits of the technological revolution and learn how to effectively engage audiences in a Web 2.0 world. The readings and resources below will help you better understand the new technologies being used today, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to begin installing and using them.
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The HRC thanks Tammi Flynn, Director of Marketing for the Florence Griswold Museum, in Old Lyme, CT, for serving as guest author for the following entry.The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change (2010) made we wish I had an iPad. It offered so many examples, resources, and references that I wanted to link to them while I was reading. Nevertheless I did go back and look up many of my underlined...
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The HRC thanks Eloise Scroggins for serving as guest author for the following entry. Eloise is the Director of Exhibitions Research and Development at the Indiana Historical Society (IHS). She has been with the IHS for 12 years, overseeing the research, writing, and selection of graphics and artifacts for exhibitions within the Indiana History Center. Her primary responsibilities these days surround content development for the IHS's "You Are There" (YAT) exhibition series, including the...
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The HRC thanks Susie Wilkening for serving as guest author for the following entry. Susie is a Senior Consultant and Curator of Museum Audiences with Reach Advisors, a strategy and research firm serving community-driven enterprises in fields including museums, tourism bureaus, municipalities, and master planned communities. Prior to joining Reach Advisors in 2006, Susie worked for ten years in museums, including tenures as the Executive Director of the Saratoga County Historical Society and as...
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Guidestar, a nonprofit organization that gathers and publicizes information about other nonprofit organizations, recently published an article about why nonprofits should all be blogging. (Why You Need to Blog, October 2010) Guidestar bases its argument on several recent studies, including a September 2010 one by eMarketer on the continued rise of blogging which estimates that by 2014 blog readership will grow to more than 150 million Americans--or 60% of the Internet population in the United...
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Next week the HRC will be traveling to Oklahoma City to attend and report back from the 2010 American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Annual Meeting. From Wednesday September 22 through Saturday September 25, check the HRC Community Center Blog and HRC facebook pages for reports and thoughts on conference sessions, news and updates on the history and museum community, and tips on new resources worth checking out. We'll let you know what...
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