Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

With the public launch of Google’s Bard chatbot which uses their LLM and search data as of May 2022 the clock has started on how the largest search engine will be shifting user behavior ( Bard FAQ on how it works ). This next example shows this same search result with Perplexity.ai , one of the more advanced chat-first search solutions.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

Jump to something more interesting: A Visual Example of Chat-First Search How to create an AI Chat-first search traffic risk audit? Don’t Blindly Adopt this Tech A Visual Example of Chat-First Search Sometimes a picture (of a search result) is worth a thousand words, so let’s show exactly what we are seeing in a chat-first search.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Why is your organization needed if others are doing this work already? But have you looked at all the organizations in your area doing similar work? Are you sure no one else is working in this area? Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? What need will you address?

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Planning Your Faith-based Peer-to-Peer Event Building A Compelling Campaign Website Encouraging Your Entire Organization To Get Involved Following Up With Your Supporters Post-Peer-to-Peer Event Faith-based Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Examples: Qgiv Clients. Let’s dive into how. Determine a goal, 2. Recruit volunteers, 3. Provide resources, 4.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Let’s learn what works in a fundraising email subject line and how you can write winning subject lines that get results. I use this strategy myself and it really works! Urgent: Teens need your help to start college on time . These strategies are overused and don’t work as well anymore. So take the time to get this right.

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Neon CRM

MAY 1, 2023

That concept doesn’t really work because it strips the humanity out of fundraising. The steps are: Pick a target audience Determine your ask Set your goals Create a plan Ask and record Repeat the process These steps set a baseline for moves management, but they don’t humanize the process. Here’s how.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Larry Swiader, Senior Director of Digital Media at The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. If you want to reach a broader social media audience, post about topics outside of your specific issue area. Look to attract crossover audiences who don’t only follow other organizations like you.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Charity: Water’s annual report is the perfect example of keeping it simple, but effective. Full disclosure: This is from our founder George, who also co-founded PowerPoetry.org , the largest teen poetry platform in the US. Your organization does great work. Save time on design and focus on showing your impact. Charity: Water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Distinctiveness: It is expressed in a unique way and clearly defined, so their audience can quickly grasp what they stand for. Relevant: It meets the target audiences needs. Take for example this shot of fireworks and the accompanying reflection. He gives you the inside story about the work of art. Visibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Who is the target audience? What is your message and what do you want the audience to do? How do your all your communication channels work together to inform, engage, and motivate? Is mobile the best way to reach your target audience? Example of Integrated Mobile Campaign: Salvation Army. Qwerty Monsters.

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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

The work you do is invaluable to generations of people. For older kids and teens that benefit from your youth organization, a video game tournament is a great opportunity for them to show off their skills while raising funds for your organization. Then, make asks throughout the performance to get your audience giving!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

During the ensuing discussion, one woman asked, "Which audiences are least interested in social participation in museums?" I immediately flashed to my work with art museums and staff members' concerns that older, traditional audiences will shy away from social engagement in the galleries. They like to do and touch and make.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

Take the UNICEF Tap Project , for example. It worked so well because the action is easy to do and is already part of a person’s normal routine. Make it possible for your audience to identify with your issue. Campaign messaging can take two approaches: talking down to audiences or leveling audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

.” I had opportunity to write up a case study about how VolunteerMatch’s calculates social return on investment as a prelude for a facilitated session at Media Impact Funders , so it was a delight to hear more examples from Robert about VolunteerMatch’s measurement culture. netnon I want one thing for this audience.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

Sarah has worked at the Walker since 1992 and is currently the Director of Education and Community Programs. It's the ability for me to work with my CFO to be able to budget and align the right kinds of resources for new projects. How does the process of getting an innovation off the ground work at the Walker?

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Not only does she understand social media very well and stays on top of all the changes, but she also has a very deep background in nonprofit work. So if you want to take a moment and introduce yourself to the audience, that’d be great. And I also think a good example of this is the organization, DoSomething.org.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

The curatorial team or a multidisciplinary team who have the audience in mind when decisions are made about the best way to connect visitors to the collection?" Instead of designing programming and then seeking out audiences for it, we identify communities and then develop programs that are relevant to their assets and needs.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Games command an audience of 97 percent of teens and and 60 percent of women, according to Pew and Nielsen reports. Creating good games requires identifying: Your game's audience. As an example, Stokes cited the game Macon Money, which involves real-world action to explore the issue of socioeconomic inequality.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

If you’re trying to raise money but all you’re hearing is crickets, you may need to work on your message for fundraising. It’s how you explain to a potential donor who your organization helps, what problem you are working to solve, and how your organization is changing lives. When you’re raising money, any old message won’t work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

As Wyman’s Teen Outreach Program® began to be replicated across the nation, the need to capture learning in a more sophisticated way grew right along with the growth of replication. Explain why it will be important or informative for their work. Being intentional about learning can also help an organization scale effectively.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

Newsjacking is the practice of "hijacking" or leveraging a current news story to help your messages get the attention of a wider audience. Even though memejacking seems like little more than frivolous fun, it works. The best memejacking will forge a compelling connection between the meme and your organization's work.

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NTEN

AUGUST 3, 2011

Games for Change spoke with Darren about their work with Channel 4 Education in the UK, how they approach creating innovative and immerse games, and the difference in experience between creating commercial titles and "games for change.". This audience spends a great deal of time online, often playing games.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

It opens up new conversations about the work of art in our communities. They live their mission, working in questions and projects rather than exhibitions and programs. For example, right now, Temple Contemporary's offices are packed floor to ceiling with broken musical instruments from classrooms across the city of Philadelphia.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Earlier this month, people from the nonprofit and technology worlds convened at the 1920c co-working space in San Francisco's historic Chinatown neighborhood to learn about a few apps that are making a difference in the community. She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2011

These are some good examples of nonprofit mobile sites. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy's Bedsider Project. The advantages of apps are: they are good at helping the user focus on one thing that you want to highlight, and lend themselves well to location-based services like self-guided tours, for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

" He describes what Ian observed what happened with his youth audience. According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). Circulations - shaping the flow of media (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

This Walker Blog let's us peer into the inner workings of the art institution. For example, this one about the exhibition called: " The Table. audiences via the internet. share what is happening with our work candidly. In early Feb, we finally installed WordPress and started using it to talk about our own work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Effective campaigns always keep their audience's needs in mind. According to Andresen and Rovner, the old marketing and fundraising playbooks don't work anymore. Examples * Teen Health Talk engages youth to talk about health issues rather than lectures at them. care about. One commenter wrote, "I hate these commercials."

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Many people would love to do the front-line work of making a difference, just like your nonprofit does. Fundraising 101: Getting Started The key to Fundraising 101 is finding and keeping wonderful donors who love the work your organization does. If you can only think of a couple of people, it’s ok – this will still work.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. Which source of traffic worked the best? hours did they work? How frequently did we email? Sometimes more!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. Which source of traffic worked the best? hours did they work? How frequently did we email? Sometimes more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur hopes to gain insight into how virtual worlds are used by young people, to introduce the foundation to an audience that may have little exposure to institutional philanthropy and to take part in and stimulate discussions about the real-world issues that it seeks to address. Linden gives the example of American Cancer Society.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library's resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. In our digital space, we have a new innovation called the Explorer.

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