Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

What is Content Curation? Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

While Twitter and other platforms can amplify the under belly of the world, they can also connect people with nonprofit organizations and spread social good, joy, and even fun. Take for example the # AskACurator hashtag created by a digital expert who works with museums almost five years ago and still active today.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. But I couldn’t get there.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

Earning the right to deliver content directly to the inbox of your biggest fans is critical to your long terms success. Join Our Newsletter is displayed first, followed by links to social media accounts on the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum website. Harbor History Museum asks for only the basics. But that’s not the case.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

This week we’ve found apps from museums. Mobile apps are an interesting way for museums to advance their educational missions beyond people’s expectations. ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. iOS/Android: ArtClix enhances uses mobile to enhance the museum experience. Frogloop has you covered.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Every few months, a major news outlet does an "expose" about data collection on museum visitors. These articles tend to portray museums as Big Brother, aggressively tracking visitors'' actions and interests across their visit. Facebook decides what content you see, what ads you see, and your personal ratio of puppies to snow warnings.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

By being both an auctioneer and a relationship builder he is able to make a connection with people from diverse backgrounds, a powerful force in encouraging people to bid generously at benefit auctions 6) Chris Hensley Chris Hensley (bidraisebid.com) is a nationally renowned charity and benefit auctioneer.

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Bloomerang

JULY 29, 2024

Your constituents are the people you serve, advocate for, or organize—and who directly benefit from your work. Create engaging and shareable content like videos, testimonials, and graphics highlighting the unique benefits of membership. Let us know in the comments. Who could you target as a member? Happy recruiting!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Content Curation for Nonprofits. Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2020

This week we're hearing from Eastman Museum's Kate Meyers Emery. They are producing innovative online campaigns, reusing available content in creative ways, finding ways to create new content from home, and doing most of this with little to no budget, limited or no access to physical objects, and limited access to their colleagues.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This morning, I checked in on the Pocket Museums on our museum's ground floor. After I took down all the "kick me" and "kick it" post-its covering the Pocket Museum title label in the men's room, I realized that this is the perfect example of an A-to-B test for gendered response to a participatory museum experience.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. Over the past few years, they've worked hard to make their rich content more accessible both through digitization and programs. but people aren't coming. This is museum digitization 101. including museum professionals.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

Last week, I visited the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle. I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). I'm always a bit nervous when I visit a museum I love from afar. What if it isn't what I expected?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. Please leave me a comment or if you're interested in contributing a post, please fill out this form. In essence, it is visible storage for the museum. We are storage, after all.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Museum technology nerds: this post is for you. I've been thinking recently about distributed content experiences--ways for people to interact with museum content (art, history, science, etc.) as they make their way through the world outside the museum. It's extremely hard to get people to download a new app.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

If people on the street are talking about X, the museum should be talking about X too. I used to work at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. Our mandate was to be the museum of Silicon Valley--not of its material history, but its pulse of innovation. The problem was not one of content but one of form.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In the most extreme cases, I've talked to folks from museums that are government-mandated to provide all content in multiple languages who say they are unable to invite visitors to make comments because they'd have to translate all of them and simply can't dedicate the resources to do so. So what are the options?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

I wanted to open up conversation about how we judge the relative ethics of various sources of museum revenue--all of which have moral grey areas. In the last week: 10,000ish people saw the blog post on the web or as an email. 3,125 people viewed the game. 610 people played the game. 20 people commented on it.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 21, 2020

Alison Koch shared these thoughts originally as part of Museum Computer Network 's 2019 Ignite. First, I think that museums need to think about their staff as a stakeholder group worthy of just as much time, attention, energy, and evaluation as visitors or donors. They were that true and that powerful. I hope you enjoy them.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late. In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

People either start ignoring your updates because you’re always in their news feed, or they “hide&# you altogether. People are much more likely to follow you if they think you will follow them in return, and the more people you follow, the more your nonprofit’s avatar gets spread throughout the Twitterverse.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Research libraries have been facing daunting challenges in the digital world, but not everything is digital in research and the library really wants to connect people with the curators and staff that can help them.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Author: Seema Rao This month, inspired by the panel at Western Museums Association , we've been discussing all things audience, community, and visitors. For this week, I'm summarizing thoughts people had about community-engagement on Twitter. Their comments bring up the heterogeneity of the people associated with museums.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. So here is a list of suggestions that hopefully will improve the way your museum thinks about using Twitter. Or it's rainy so you suggest I visit the museum? Note: this is a geeky post that assumes familiarity with Twitter.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This is a ground-breaking web-based tool built using JavaScript technologies that presents the clearest picture yet of how well a community meets the current and future needs of people of all ages, incomes, ethnicities, and abilities. Pacific Science Center. GOLD – Science Website. National Council for Mental Wellbeing.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

The team at EdVenture Children’s Museum is spreading the value of play. EdVenture Children’s Museum increased donor retention from 29% to 46% after it was able to implement technology to support its staff in stewarding existing donor relationships. Think global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On October 20, a young woman named Kate will move into Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and live there for a month. This post is not about the Month at the Museum concept or implementation. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. That will come later.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

You can also post comments on any chapter, adding your reactions and questions to the published content. Take five minutes and learn how the Science Museum in London created better experiences for deaf visitors. I do it for three reasons: It makes it easier for people to share and spread the ideas in the book.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Though the new Pages aren’t yet live site-wide ( the Brooklyn Museum’s new Page is ), it was quite random that I stumbled upon an example of the new Facebook Pages back in August [Re: a fake Facebook Page merged with a Facebook Places Page called Hubstown ]. The ability to “Like&# and Comment as a brand/Page.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

Today I got an early present from the San Francisco NPR station, KQED, which aired a piece on Museum 2.0 featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). being based on a simple premise: software that gets better the more people use it. How could a museum get better the more people use it?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. Check out the other parts here. Why Self-Publish?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This is a ground-breaking web-based tool built using JavaScript technologies that presents the clearest picture yet of how well a community meets the current and future needs of people of all ages, incomes, ethnicities, and abilities. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website. NMAAHC: A Seat at the Table Event.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This is a ground-breaking web-based tool built using JavaScript technologies that presents the clearest picture yet of how well a community meets the current and future needs of people of all ages, incomes, ethnicities, and abilities. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website. NMAAHC: A Seat at the Table Event.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 20, 2020

You want to be relevant, heard, and not tone deaf given what's happening in people's daily lives. This could include blog and website content, social media updates, press releases, email marketing, and so on. They post and publish certain types of content with decent regularity. In the midst of a pandemic?

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