Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2008

Earlier this week I wrote a post about the Indianapolis Museum of Art's social media strategy - that it was everywhere within the organization. One person said, "What's happening on the social web is totally invisible to upper management. How do you become a social media change agent in your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. The exhibition will coincide with programs about art theory, online communities, and crowd theory, providing a forum for public evaluation and discussion about the process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. Nonprofit dashboard reports, which communicate critical information in a concise, visual, and more compelling way, are mostly used by board or staff for discussion at internal or private meetings or used as part of reports back to funders for grants. .

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

And projections from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at IUPUI in Indianapolis show it’s likely to happen again. NOTE: Each of these programs bears its own discussion, so feel free to click on the links offered above. This is what happened in 2020. In fact, charitable giving is expected to increase 4.1% and +11.9%).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Does your museum need a custom online social network? Let's discuss what it means, how it works, where it can go. A social networking site is one in which users connect with one another. Some of the most popular are LinkedIn (a professional network), Facebook (social and professional), and MySpace (anything goes).

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 11, 2013

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. It suggests that they "will face immense, complex social problems in their lifetimes, requiring them to be both generous and smart in their giving." They want to make this part of their social DNA. Indianapolis: Indiana University Center of Philanthropy.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

LinkedIn , the professional social networking site that boasts more than 100 million members, just added a new profile feature : Volunteer Experiences and Causes. You and your volunteer coordinator probably know and discuss the professional benefits of volunteerism on a regular basis. Author: Cheryl Black.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 at the 92nd Street Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact in New York City. Encourage social sharing. Social media is a great tool for supporters to share their personal fundraising pages, so make sure you encourage them to post their pages. Plan a social media campaign.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Networking opportunities, hands-on workshops, keynote speeches, and roundtable discussions combine to recharge you — usually when you need it the most. Education Tracks include Donor Relations, Grant Writing, Social Media, and Executive Leadership. Also, why is it that conference breakfast muffins are the best muffins?)

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I just got home from the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis. This fear was precipitated by a painful visit to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. This is a problem that many of the museums doing the best work in social media may soon confront. You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

What if you could invite other people from the around the world to have discussions about those images? Indianapolis Museum of Art Visitors sharing photos in a group. Voter's s (flickr and other social media sites). is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post called " Social tech meets the Social Innovation Generation " The Nonprofit Eye blog writes about leadership challenges in the nonprofit sector. An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Social Web. " What do you think?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The updated 2019 version of the LGBTQ+ Alliance’s Welcoming Guidelines and the Toolkit for Trans Inclusion (both can be found here ) include sections discussing similar situations. That said, I think collective lunch can be an important way to grow social connections between staff. That would be a great place to start.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

The experiment is a multi-step activity in which you talk to strangers, get strangers talking to each other, and then build a social object that mediates conversation among strangers (more here ). I will aggregate the results for later discussion on the blog. Free workshop on topic of your choosing—Friday, April 24 in Seattle.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

These are the notes and slides for a keynote speech I'm giving this Saturday at MuseumNext in Indianapolis. If you'll be there, I look forward to discussing these issues with you. If not, please share a comment and let's talk online. The theme of this conference is inclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The goal is to help participants create a social media strategy AND take a deep dive into the tactics and tools of social media. I've come up with synthesis - a worksheet, how-to points, and resources that would guide an organization to think strategically about social media. The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

However, remote operations are the new norm thanks to social distancing recommendations, making effective board management challenging. Effective meeting tools will allow them to keep discussions focused so your team can hold collaborative discussions and arrive at decisions much quicker. Reduced engagement.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. If it’s connected with an exhibition, I work with our interpretative materials person really closely on the goals and we have a discussion. So it’s a calmer discussion, and the people here appreciate that.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Multiple studies have shown that people do not want to be solicited through social media, but when your supporters (donors, volunteers, etc.) share your message with their social networks, it is more successful at bringing in donations. She is currently studying nonprofit management and philanthropic studies at IUPUI in Indianapolis.

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