Media Cause

APRIL 16, 2021

Here are a few of our favorite Facebook fundraising campaigns we’ve had the pleasure to work on: . The audience really appreciated the content as evidenced by the growth in average gift. . Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose (CDM). We’d love to make Facebook fundraising work for your organization.

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Forum One

JUNE 4, 2024

As emerging technologies inevitably reshape Forum One’s offerings and approaches, Molly’s leadership includes anticipating and planning how teams work together most effectively on new products and processes. But they also hire us for the way that we work. I’m proud to work on things that matter.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

NRDC Gold – Nonprofit Since 1970, NRDC has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. Overall, this work has helped to empower NRDC’s content managers, engage their audience, and amplify their impact. Check out our Davey Award Winners below!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

These two adages were both in my mind last week when I asked people for the worst museum trends. In this decade museums worst trends were in labor and tech: 1. Brad Dunn (@badunn) December 7, 2019 Work The issues of work were pretty front and center for people. good riddance to museum studies programs! .

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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. Written by Alison Koch I think us non-profit folks have a particularly complicated relationship with work. How might we re-imagine the future of mission-based work? You are too important not to be a part of the future of our work.

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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. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information. Why is Content Curation Valuable?

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

American Jazz Museum Best Arts Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room and Gem Theater.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

And we need more people who lead by being truthful and intrepid and scared and nervous; people who still go to work, virtually, the next day. It’s the person who answers your question about zoom or the person who passes on their work at home policy. The work we do matters. Our reserved sector is just telling truths these days.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Written by Seema Rao Last month, I shared some of my thoughts about the best of museums over the last decades. (I I'll mention now, Kate Livingston, listed Museum Twitter as one of the best things, and I definitely thought this as I read people's responses. Many respondents talked about a fundamental shift in museums from them to us.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We are excited to share that the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal , NYU’s Congressional District Health Dashboard , and March of Dimes have been named Anthem Awards finalists. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

With so many apps coming out all the time it’s easy to miss the ones built for social good and hard to keep up on useful apps that nonprofits and causes can use to do their work. This week we’ve found apps from museums. ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum.

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Candid

MAY 18, 2022

About a month ago, Candid was tagged in a social media post from someone who had visited the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. We reached out to Amanda Moniz, Ph.D., the David M.

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Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2023

Our dotComm Award winners include two platinum awards in nonprofit websites for our work with March of Dimes and the AARP Livability Index , a gold award for nonprofit websites for our work with NRDC , gold in virtual events for NMAAHC’s Simmons Talks , and an honorable mention in nonprofit websites for our work with the Pacific Science Center.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

As a free, relatively easy tool, it was used almost universally by nonprofits and all the organizations with whom we work. This is a good thing; setting real KPIs backed by user data and analyzing what works and doesn’t is key to effective digital strategy. The planned phaseout of Google Analytics was a shock when it was announced.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments. Nonprofits and museums depend on dedicated, but oftentimes limited, development staff to sift through countless prospects to determine which ones are priority. Source: Blackbaud.

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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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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2012

When our editorial committee decided on “Content Curation” as the overall theme of this issue when planning back in 2011, we knew that it would be an important topic for the nonprofit sector, but we didn’t anticipate that, in some ways, 2012 would turn out to be the year of content curation , as Beth Kanter predicted in January.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 13, 2024

As the founder and CEO of HistoryIT , she works with organizations to photograph and catalog the objects, documents, and images that accumulate over time and turn them into a collection that your team can search through and use. When you hear the term “digital archive,” you likely think of museums, historical societies, or libraries.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We ended up with a gallery in the museum instead.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

Facebook shifted its design to focus on photo and video-sharing in response to data showing that this content is shared way more frequently than text and links. Visual content motivates more responses than text, engages younger participants, and is often cited as a major trend of 2012 and 2013. A trend in which I take almost no part.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Why does your museum open its doors each day? What other museums do they follow/enjoy visiting? What type of content do they respond to best? blogs, videos, photos, etc… Social media platform insights can offer a lot of this information but doing an informal survey or poll can also work to learn more about your audiences.

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Forum One

MARCH 2, 2023

Webflow is a content management system that allows the creation of websites with no code required. It is leading the future of content management systems (CMS) as it provides technology, usability, and reliability without compromising on functionality and scalability. The home of animation and development by designers.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Spotlighting content from happy visitors allows you to turn those socials media shout outs into powerful marketing tools. . According to The Art Newspaper’s annual survey in 2021, visits to the world’s 100 most-visited museums plummeted by 77% in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Exhibition hashtags . Final takeaways .

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

Forum One received 10 awards in eight categories in this year’s awards for Canopus (platinum), Centauri (gold), and Arcturus (rose gold) across the categories of environmental awareness, cultural, art, health care services, associations, branded content, and website redesign. National Air & Space Museum. The Vilcek Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. The museum gets better the more people use it.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Pop-Up Museum [n]: a short-term institution existing in a temporary space. Over the past few years, there have been several fabulous examples of pop-up museums focusing on visitor-generated content. Maria Mortati runs the wonderful SF Mobile Museum , which roams the Bay Area showing mini-exhibits on evocative themes.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

A year ago, I wrote a post speculating about whether events (institutionally-produced programs) might be a primary driver for people to attend museums, with exhibitions being secondary. Many museums, big and small, thrive on events. At our museum, about 68% of casual visitors (non-school tours) attended through events this year.

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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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Forum One

JANUARY 30, 2024

By amplifying the voices that ignite global change, these awards honor work across seven core causes: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Education, Art & Culture; Health; Human & Civil Rights; Humanitarian Action & Services; Responsible Technology; and Sustainability, Environment & Climate.

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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. What have you seen work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

Take for example the # AskACurator hashtag created by a digital expert who works with museums almost five years ago and still active today. Someone sent out a tweet wondering if London’s Natural History Museum and Science Museum went to war, which would win. Here’s an example of using Moments from a Museum.

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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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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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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

Without it, your nonprofit can’t operate and do the important work that fuels your cause. It takes a strategic approach, strong advocacy, and collaboration to secure the funding that ensures your organization can continue its valuable work. The team at EdVenture Children’s Museum is spreading the value of play.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 18, 2013

What is the change you hope your work effects in your community? They are stewing in our guts when we wake up to get to work. They are stewing in our guts when we wake up to get to work. How do we know if our work leads to an increase in compassion, or unity, or creativity? Igniting compassion? But how do we measure them?

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