Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I couldn’t help but wonder what might happen if there was a coordinated series of giving days in local communities that all took place under the back drop of Giving Tuesday’s ability to harness national attention or even world wide attention. The combination of bottom up and top down strategies could be powerful.

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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. Contractual issues or donor restrictions : These are red flags for placing an artifact on exhibit or an online database.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection. We all know Santa Cruz is such a creative place," she said.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use? The Siskind Center gives students and the public the opportunity to pore over the photography in the Museum's large collection of works on paper. If the Museum is a place to visit, students won’t make the time for it, but if it’s a place to use, it becomes a higher priority.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

In it, John provides a model for the museum visitor experience based on one fundamental idea: people visit and make meaning from museum experiences based on their ability to fulfill identity-related goals and interests. In other words, if you are a curious person, you will go to museums to learn new things.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2007

The NYT article is about a photography show by artist Thomas Struth at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Manhattan. You can’t see the paintings, only the people watching them, “wary and hopeful.” Says the reviewer, Michael Kimmelman, Mr. You can’t see the paintings, only the people watching them, “wary and hopeful.”

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. A place that truly sees these initiatives as part of their mission to serve their local community. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

The multi-faceted approach allows your fundraising to take place before and during the event with different appeals and even bidding competitions. PHOTOGRAPHY: BFA.COM 2. You can open up your event to a wider audience of people around the world, and save costs on travel and venues.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The multi-faceted approach allows your fundraising to take place before and during the event with different appeals and even bidding competitions. PHOTOGRAPHY: BFA.COM. You can open up your event to a wider audience of people around the world, and save costs on travel and venues. GALA CAMPAIGN TEMPLATE. virtual 5K cruise.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Your attention-grabbing auction items will have your guests tripping over themselves to place bids, so make the bidding process as efficient as possible. Luckily, we’ve created this list of silent auction basket ideas to help you make sure your auction’s selection of gifts will have your guests rushing to place the highest bid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowdsourcing is defined broadly as: The process of organizing many people to participate in a joint project, often in small ways. Over a century after its inception, over 52,000 people in 1823 places across 17 countries participated in the Christmas Bird Count – using email, web sites, and social media tools.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

The arts are a wonderful way to make a difference in the world because they are fun, engaging, and oftentimes help you to tell stories, all key elements to attracting and keeping people involved in a cause. Examples of socially rousing photography permeate our history: Vietnam, Rwanda, 9-11’s Ground Zero.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

"[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely. People write poems, and stand and recite them in public meetings. They have had arrested some very, very prominent people.

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