Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. CA: One of the best things that happened to me while volunteering for the local art museum is they funded my travel to Los Angeles and my tuition to take the week-long grant writing training bootcamp hosted by The Grantsmanship Center. My mind was a sponge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Founded in 1960, it has more than 30,000 members in over 240 chapters around the world. Not only as a professional member, I served as a chapter president and on International Board of Directors for the past 4 years. One of them was the curator of the world largest archaeological museum, Grand Egyptian Museum.

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Children Philanthropy Japan China 78

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

In a recent chapter on the history of the U.S. This usage should make us stop and consider whether a smattering of policy makers, scholars, and practitioners have introduced an idea that has meaning only to them, resulting in a grand con on the range of individual industries and activities that fit a vague notion of "public good."

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Weave in well-planned and well-executed “customer experiences” that keep you in active relationships with your donors. For example, at one organization where I worked, customer service was a full chapter in the employee handbook and people, with great pride, really took it to heart. . Action Steps to Increase Donor Loyalty.

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Donor Strategy Retention Relationship 141

Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. First published in Curator magazine in 2002, this essay presents five different museum "types" and their distinct opportunities and challenges.

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Museum Taxonomy Arts National 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. The Museum 2.0 In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

For me, it's the beginning of chapter 8, in which J. William Goldman does something similar with The Princess Bride, commenting about dreadfully dull chapters he has omitted for the reader's sanity. But it's not so easy to integrate into larger-scale museum writing. What does Peter Pan make you think of? A ticking crocodile?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. This is the first time we've had an ongoing activity with a lot of materials (Memory Jars).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2010

Several other profiles with more realistic names voted for Isha, though these accounts have had few if any friends or activity prior to voting.Though many of the profiles supporting The Isha Foundation appear to be new with little to no activity, it's unclear if that is a violation of the terms and conditions of participating in the contest.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Two institutions I see making this "or" choice in exciting ways are the Brooklyn Museum and the Oakland Museum in California. You can't always do "and."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2008

If you are reasonably active with this, I will integrate a "posts by rating" option in the various ways to view posts on the right column, along with "Past Posts by Topic" and by date. But I seem to have finally found a widget that will allow you to easily rate each post in one click (scroll to the bottom of this or any post to try it out).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Chapter 6 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit focusing on examples of how you measure engagement which begins with formulating your engagement model. grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline. In the for-profit world, it is called the sales funnel.

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Social Media Network Media Free 108

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

This week, we're covering the fourth objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : supporting (chapter 8). This chapter is perhaps the most surprising in the book, because it focuses on tools and techniques that predate Web 2.0 Why should museums care about customer support? by years: customer support forums.

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Support Museum Chapter Yahoo 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2016

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. Here's a chapter from Part 2 of the book, Outside In, that explores the differences in how insiders and outsiders perceive institutional change. Read more online and buy your own copy today. Whose Room is This?

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Arts Chapter Sound Story 34

Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

If your nonprofit offers memberships to engage supporters more deeply in your organization’s activities, you need robust software to keep your program organized. In addition, some nonprofits also rely partly or entirely on memberships to support their missions. Here’s our roadmap: What is membership software for nonprofits? transaction fee.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. And she also serves on her home chapter of AFP which we always we appreciate. I love the active participation. Elizabeth: Yes.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This week, we're covering the first objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : listening (chapter 5). For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. After all, even if they no longer volunteer with your organization, there was a time when they were actively engaging with your work. Volunteers are the backbone of any nonprofit organization.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

This week, we're covering the third objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : energizing (chapter 6). In this post, an exploration of ways that museums can support promoters, convert detractors, and generally energize visitors to share their experience with others. How do you support your biggest fans?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

I created a directional pyramid to make a point about social content in museum; namely, that museums are not offering networked, social experiences—and therefore will have a hard time jumping to initiating meaningful social discourse. And I’m not advocating that the dream museum would be all level 5 experiences, all the time.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. Check out the other parts here. The challenge was to figure out how to do it and end up with a high-quality book.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. This chapter, from the last section of the book, is very personal to me. Think of the last time you brought something new into your life—a new activity, a lifestyle choice, a cuisine. Or do I want to peel out?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Responsiveness, both by me and by other folks on the wiki, was a huge contributor to participants' enjoyment of the activity.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 32

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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Fun Resource Mobile Social Media 258

Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Black Youth Project — BYP has various local chapters. Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)— SURJ has various local chapters. Sign up for updates and newsletters from the organizations in the sections above, specifically the local chapters. Find yours here. Check your local events on Google. Keep up with Rally list.

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Resource United States Movie Louisville 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. Many of the book sections started as blog posts on Museum 2.0.

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Participatory Museum Statistics Process 21

Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

This week, we consider Chapter 11 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum , "Function Follows Form: How mixed-used spaces in museums build community," but first, a short and relevant note about my writing process. Museums are naturally tuned to some of these but not all. a disparate mix of useful services.

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Museum Los Angeles Arts Children 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom. A Crowd-Curated Exhibition.”

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Chapter 9 focuses on "embracing" the groundswell, or finding ways to involve users in the development of new products, services, and strategies. How many museums have stacks of comment books that are only culled for the gushing quotes that belong on annual reports? But getting information from visitors is not enough.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

I've spent the last two weeks working on the third chapter of my book about network effects of social participation. And it's brought me back to a blog post I wrote a year ago about the Science Museum of Minnesota's Race: Are We So Different? But designing an entire museum that functions this way probably isn't your goal.

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Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2007

Welcome to the first installment of the Museum 2.0 While every post at Museum 2.0 Elaine Gurian, author of this summer’s book, Civilizing the Museum , will also be popping into the conversation as her time and interest permits. And if you're planning ahead, next week we'll look at chapter 6, Timeliness: A discussion for museums.

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Free Museum Library Louisville 22

Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2007

This week, a look at Chapters 16 and 17 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum. Why don't more museums do this? Many museums, especially large ones, exhibit the worst of the feudal cubicle wars--the Collections Department vs. the Exhibition Department vs. the Education Department. So who owns the vision?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This is the penultimate installment of Museum 2.0's s book club on Elaine Gurian's collection of essays, Civilizing the Museum. Next week, we'll conclude by talking about opportunities for institutional change with chapter 8, "Turning the Ocean Liner Slowly." active use of artifacts?) have portrayed Indians inaccurately."

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Culture Storytelling Challenge Museum 20

Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

I think this is Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Fundraising events give us a unique opportunity where we have some kind of fun activity in our community. I’m most active on Instagram and Facebook these days. They can design that funnel. And finally, you know, masks kind of were all the rage. could be wrong on that.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

This week, we're covering the second objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : talking (chapter 6). Many museums have jumped into the middle level—producing their own content—without starting with commenting. Many of the most active bloggers and Web 2.0 Consider the path of the Bay Area Discovery Museum.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

s Hawaiian son as applied to museums. Consider these two stories of museum-related wikis that struggled. In May of 2007, Woody Sobey released a wiki for science museum educators to share their demos. Woody had seeded the site with about 12 demos from his own museum, but the wiki never took off. What's a wiki?

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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