Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” The five different styles included: Educator, Creator, Visionary, Organizer, and Creator.

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APRIL 10, 2024

This is a time of accessible AI—anyone with an internet connection can use state-of-the-art tools to help with tasks like brainstorming ideas, generating art, and drafting documents. Additionally, there is a risk that language AI systems can misunderstand special vocabulary or cultural language.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

I figure I should practice what I preach, so here are some photos from my fun Friday in Berkeley and Oakland with a Move, Play, Reflect, Connect twist. I made some progress in the next book we're reading for my virtual social change book club : Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. A super fun Friday!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2014

Five years ago, I wrote a post arguing that museum photo policies should be as open as possible. The posts come from an aptly-named blog: Grumpy Art Historian. Last week, he wrote a series of posts about the British National Gallery''s reversal of their photo policy. We push the once-in-a-lifetime experience of seeing the art.

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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. If people can take their own photos, they won't buy them in the gift shop. Aesthetics of Experience: Photo-taking is distracting for other visitors.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum collaborated with German toy manufacturer Playmobil to create a line of toys replicating art from the collection. Photo: Rijksmuseum Shop, [link] . This is a great way to encourage creativity in your community and support local art. . Ringing it all up .

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2011

They collaborated on this photo essay that demonstrates the simplicity and power of their vision. We found one of our favorite photos on Flickr, taken by Austrian photographer Thom Trauner, who captures the essence of the issue. Or this one by Lacey Criswell, of Bike Night at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants. After finishing the song, we rubbed noses which was a traditional welcome gesture. Meeting with Funders in New Zealand.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Social media has revolutionized the way tech savvy arts and cultural organizations communicate. Sharing photos across social media garners a lot of attention for your page. It is also important that links from your website include a photo thumbnail to catch the reader’s eye as they scan their wall. Asking never hurt.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

Selecting photos for your brand in a deliberate and thoughtful way makes your organization more inclusive. It also has the power to make our culture more equitable for everyone. Every day, we constantly see photos of people—in social media, on websites, on television, in advertisements, in print, and in our daily environment.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

It’s been a rough couple years for arts-based nonprofits. As pandemic aid has run out without patrons returning in pre-2020 numbers, many arts nonprofit across the country have had to shrink programming, cut staff, or close altogether. This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009. The Wikimedians asked if the museum would coordinate a project in which people could photograph artworks in cultural institutions to illustrate Wikipedia articles. I hope you'll share your thoughts in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Flickr Photo by PCSO900. As the leader, she is creating a culture of flexibility. . A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking with Vikki Spruill, Ocean Conservancy 's President and CEO and members of her communications team, Laura Burton Capps, and Dove Coggeshall about their recent experiments and learning on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Photo courtesy of The Miami Foundation. HistoryMiami , the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science , Borscht Film Festival , Buskerfest , Bakehouse Art Complex and others collaborated to create the Miami Arts Brigade to unify their messaging. Note from Beth: It’s Giving Day Season!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

We''re grateful for the articles, blog posts, videos, photos, and more from the 14LCS community. All of us all NTEN are amazed (but not too surprised, really) by the degree of engagement at the 14LCS, and by the movement of individual ideas into actionable projects during the Idea Accelerator. Did we miss anything?

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Make sure to advertise your artists and makers on your social media platforms leading up to the opening of your shop with photos and videos. Student art show. Give your artistic students the opportunity to show off their skills by hosting a virtual art show. Virtual tours for museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2005

the blog of Barry Hessenius, executive director of Alonzo King Lines Ballet in San Francisco, and former executive director of the California Arts Council takes an interesting twist on a group blog. The blog is being hosted by Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) at www.westaf.org/blog and join in the dialogue!

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

In early October, Laura Beussman blogged about demand-based pricing for arts and culture organizations. Her blog talked about several different ways arts and culture organizations could ease into demand-based pricing, including scaling the house, peak load pricing, targeted discounts, and dynamic pricing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. Her goal is nothing less than to remake the MAH as the primary cultural touchstone of the Santa Cruz community, the place that best embodies the unique cultural vibe of Santa Cruz. "We That doesn't entail a big, expensive redesign.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

It is an art form completely dependent upon the creative potential of each audience member in relation to the events on stage. Over a month ago I told Emily from the Nonprofit Blog Exchange that I would participate in the most recent exchange and write about The Artful Manager. art social media social web web net2 nptech

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re supporting the arts , you could expand online offerings at accessible price points. You could take art to the schools. Once I had a few donations in hand, I printed postcards with beautiful photos of the artists’ work. I needed to assign someone to make calls to supplement the art with other items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Flickr Photo by AstridWestvang. The book looks at how individuals can avoid burnout through self-care and how nonprofits can support it – through activities that promote well-being, cultural cues, or an overall strategy. How cultural norms influence participation. Motivations and barriers for individuals to participate.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In January, Blackbaud employees from all ov the world rallied together to celebrate our cultural customers through our #showyourculture initiative. Blackbaud employees love arts & culture: Not really surprising – Blackbaud has been working with arts and cultural organizations for over 30 years and has over 2200 cultural customers.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 9, 2014

Supporters of arts and cultural organizations come in all shapes and sizes , and I would be willing to bet that somewhere in that group is an engineer, a graphic designer, a lawyer, an event planner, an accountant and a copy editor. Integrated Marketing Arts & Cultural crowdsourcing non profit social media nonprofit events'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

The Indianapolis Museum of Art has done an amazing job of integrating a social media strategy into its communications strategy. Whether it is managing their Facebook presence or encouraging conversation on their blog with art lovers, their social media strategy is a team effort. Here's the photo shoot he did recently with Calder.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Just over a year ago, musician, Olivia Greer , was commissioned by Culture Project , a New York City theater company, to write a song for the Women Center Stage Festival. Culture Project's mission is to present work that is socially relevant and that calls attention to issues of human rights and social justice around the world.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2015

I am privileged to be on the Arts & Cultural team here at Blackbaud as an account manager for accounts in the western region of the U.S. And I’m especially proud that both of these innovators are members of the Blackbaud Arts & Cultural family!). They simply asked members to post photos using their hashtag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Flickr Photo by elycelfeliz. It is especially hard given the blame game culture that exists in most workplaces and work relationships. The ingredients of successful social media strategy are to learn from mistakes and Networked Nonprofits have cultures that allow this happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Flickr Photo by WiserEarth - WiserEarth's team from Around the World play Peek-A-Boo With Book. The photo above shows WiserEarth ’s team from around the world in the Bay Area during break from a staff retreat reading the Networked Nonprofit. Photo by KK. Flickr Photo by KK. Flickr Photo by James Leventhal.

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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. I firmly believe that all people have something meaningful to contribute to our communities, cultural work, and society at large--including youth. He shows a big board of photos of FoodWhat youth at work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. That's the cultural norm in the nonprofit sector, with a couple of exceptions. The Indianapolis Art Museum has been doing just that by sharing its institutional dashboard out for everyone to view. Tags: Arts & Technology evaluation scholar transparency.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 14, 2014

It’s all about knowing your unique audience, your culture, and making that culture accessible. The problem with Faber College is that it’s a boring, uninspiring institution with practically no culture (that we can see.) Know your culture. So you’ve got culture, now get creative and express it. Knowledge is Good.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. What needs to change in the way that nonprofits are structured and their culture to make this happen? Is that a Zen graffiti artist? Did he run out of paint before spraying the letter “e&# ? Who knows, but if nonprofits embrace abundance, wouldn’t it give them more time to breathe?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Use Nostalgia (old class photos) to Spark A Trip Down Memory Lane. ” 3.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

When an organization embraces the culture of creating and empowering all staff to become “brand ambassadors,” authentic and exponential growth starts to happen. If the program staff posted Facebook photos of the successful food drive? When organizations embrace this holistic culture, the nonprofit begins to come alive online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

Photo by Beth Kanter. Learning was an individual, often solitary activity. For many of us of a certain age, that style has carried over to our work culture where we are rewarded for our expertise and to keep quiet what we don’t know (or screw up). How do you do this?

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Allegiance Group

MAY 1, 2024

You can also create a culture of storytelling by inviting everyone to identify potential stories. When it comes to images, we’ve all heard the adage, “A photo is worth a thousand words.” It’s easy to center work on one or two departments, but giving every department the opportunity to identify potential can make a world of difference.

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