Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2012

As a follow-up to Google+ Best Practices for Nonprofits and 22 Must-Circle Nonprofit Bloggers and Resources on Google+ , below are 22 nonprofits that are regularly using Google+ effectively to engage and inspire the Google+ community. The Field Museum. As traffic continues to grow , new tools and functionality are added almost daily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2008

Lynda Kelley I'm here in Sydney, Australia and just finished an informal workshop and discussion with Powerhouse Museum staff and other museums. Will post reflections shortly) I met Dr. Lynda Kelly, a blogger and the Head of Audience Research for the Australia Museum. The site is called Museum 3.0.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

National Museum of American History :: @ AMHistoryMuseum. And if you are an influencial blogger in your local community, state, or country, may I suggest you create a similar list of nonprofits to follow relevant to your corner of the world. National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy :: @ TheNC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. " Indeed, her first post summarized some observations from her research on how museums were using Twitter for her masters thesis. I'm fascinated by social networking and am interested in finding ways for museums to appeal to all types of people.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2005

So I started trolling the net for new ideas and sample scripts for improving my Blogger site. As I play with these tools over the next while I'll offer more substantial reviews that might be useful to other Blogger-based bloggers out there - but until then, let me leave you with a few useful sites: 1. Blogger Templates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Source: Powerhouse Museum. Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. think flickr and del.icio.us ???

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 22, 2006

The talk was also sponsored by Facing History, Facing Ourselves , Human Rights Watch , the Museum of African Diaspora , Marines' Memorial Association , Bay Area Darfur Coalition , Amnesty International and Stacey's Independent Bookstore. Post a Bloggers for Darfur badge on your blog. • Join the Bloggers for Darfur Yahoo Group. .

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2008

Are you going to Museums and the Web in Montreal in April? I'm hoping that you're out there, you eloquent writer you, yearning to share your experiences from MW08 with the Museum 2.0 I'm hoping that you're out there, you eloquent writer you, yearning to share your experiences from MW08 with the Museum 2.0 You lucky person!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers. He is a terrific blogger, knows his beat, and very generous too.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Every once in a while, I'll get a boring email inviting me to be part of some kind of blog salon on a particular topic, the idea being that all the bloggers who are contacted will write about that topic during the assigned month. This never seems like a good idea.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The best new media managers, online community builders, bloggers, and activists will be connected and communicating with their supporters from anywhere, at any time when the need arises. Foursquare is essential for nonprofits that are location-based (such as museums, food banks, and libraries ). Foursquare. 12Seconds.tv. 12Seconds.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

A month or two ago, museums and galleries around the world participated in a Twitter event called Ask a Curator. I asked Jim Richardson, who blogs at the Museum Next Blog and is the brainchild behind the event, a couple of questions: How did #askacurator come about? How did you get 340 museums to participate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

As Cute As I Get by Hermanosmccoy (used with permission) Photograph of "Calder," from Richard McCoy IMA Blogger. The Indianapolis Museum of Art has done an amazing job of integrating a social media strategy into its communications strategy. What makes them a success? Richard has a golden lab named Tana ).

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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. I believe that the ability to take photographs (no flash) in a museum greatly increases many people''s abilities to personalize, memorialize, and enjoy the experience. How many museums? Some people can sketch in museums.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

On Friday our mentor cycle ended and a new one will begin with a new mentor blogger tomorrow (Sunday). This is a project of the Getty Museum. (I I know I read about it in someone's blog this week, but now I've forgotten whose so my apologies for not giving a blogger out there credit for the find).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Huge thanks to everyone who participated in the idea-sharing over the last couple months about how to make Museum 2.0 These posts will be an opportunity to hear from more people who are experimenting, leading, and banging their heads against the challenges of incorporating participation into museums and other public cultural places.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 20, 2020

For Museums: Putting together virtual tours or coloring books inspired by your collections that help parents who are currently homeschooling kids. I saw something like this on a lifestyle blogger's Instagram feed and I loved the idea. Developing a Remarkable communication for your nonprofit takes time and resources, yes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. intl/en/landing/internetstats. Google Mobile :: google.com/mobile.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Three of them are being hosted at my museum , and one at a mystery location. You Can't Do That in Museums Camp - July 10-12, 2013. In July of 2013, the MAH will host our first You Can't Do That in Museums Camp (or better name to be suggested by you), inviting 80 creative people to collaborate on an experimental exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." He was mandated to turn the ship around financially and to expand the reach of the museum in the community. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

From October 4-11, Tara is asking bloggers to raise awareness about The Girl Effect by writing about it on their blogs. When a girl receives an education, she stays healthy, HIV negative, marries when she chooses, and raises a healthy family. You may have seen The Girl Effect videos. If you haven't, check them out at GirlEffect.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. o is Transparency - and the best example of that is what the Indianapolis Art Museum has done with its pubic metrics on its web site.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2011

The fabulous Rob Cottingham, the NTC Official Cartoon Blogger, is helping us prep with some great cartoons -- you'll see them on our blog throughout the conference and at [link]. Here are a few ideas to get you started: National Museum of the American Indian (4th St. NW) National Museum of Natural History (10thSt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. I am excited to bring the Indianapolis Museum of Arts model to the table to see what our board’s reaction would be to sharing ours as it is developed.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. Who's sharing authority and how? Their task is both especially important and challenging.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 9, 2013

My eyes may be bloodshot, but the sight of the blogger interface still warms my heart. And thanks to you for engaging with their posts and with the reruns from the Museum 2.0 She knits together nostalgia and activism with a level of nuance rarely found in debates about the value of museums, libraries, and other cultural spaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Linda Kelley who had just finished an analysis of the technographics of Australian museum goers. One of fellow panelists is Gaurav Mishra who I very much respect and he has been a guest blogger for me. What to do? Tell them to ignore the numbers, but focus on the profiles? Make assumptions about social media participation in India.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Trevor O'Donnell : Leaders Use Their Words O'Donnell was not one of the invited bloggers but a commenter from the field (a follower. Adam and I first met in 2008, when we were part of a National Academies think tank-ish thing on the future of museums and libraries. or a good example of how silly the term "follower" is?).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

Which museums have experience creating collection tagging systems? The Museum Computer Network and Museum Software Foundation have teamed up to bring you MuseTech Central , a site where you can share your own technical projects and search through a growing resource list of others. Who's doing audio tours on iPods?

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Care2

AUGUST 31, 2010

Apps are central to mobile and, mobile web use is exploding, according to Allyson Kapin of Blogger-In-Chief for Care2's Frogloop and Partner at Rad Campaign. American Museum of Natural History - Dinosaurs - Information on fossils in the museum, different species of dinosaur, excavation stories, and more.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

Museum 2.0 and museums discussed at the “Hot Topics in Exhibit Design” session. As you know, Museum 2.0 And Museum 2.0 You can enter any term or phrase there, and Blogger will return any posts that include that term in the title or body of the post. I've added four new tags that are more general: Core Museum 2.0

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2014

Tweets about #marketing, #nonprofit and #nptech,#arts and #museum best practices. blogger at wildandcrazypearl.com. — Frank Barry is the Director of Digital Marketing at Blackbaud and blogger at npNGAGE. By Scott Gilman : Louisville Cardinals, horse racing, nonprofits, music, movies, various rants. Play the Game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition and was one of the first nonprofit technology bloggers. Case Foundation bloggers Kari Dunn Saratovsky , Sokunthea Sa Chhabra , and Megan Stohner cover philanthropy, social change, fundraising, and activism. is the author of the popular Museum 2.0 Jordan Viator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Deanna Zandt is a blogger who writes about social media, civil society, and activism. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. The book made Philanthrocapitalism’s Books of the Year List (so did Networked Nonprofit). Pick up your copy of the book on Amazon. 6. ShareThis! by Deanna Zandt. You can pick up a copy here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2010

5) Networking with NGOs working on the ground in Chile (6) Relying information back and forth to people who are calling numbers in Chile and as far as way as Canada or Spain (7) Networking with social media bloggers , twitter users in Chile who have been helping him spread the message. (8)

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2013

The Museum of Science and Industry encouraged their 2012 Columbian Ball attendees to become “deputy development directors” on their behalf. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising arts and cultural event fundraising fundraising strategy multichannel fundraising Online Fundraising Peer to Peer Fundraising Tech Savvy Museums' Here is a great example.

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