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. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. what goes on inside a theater, a museum, a historical home?

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MARCH 25, 2021

The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts: Elevating a world-class cultural landmark. Once they established their new brand, they needed an elevated web presence that could bring the brand to life and showcase their vision for the refurbished museum and expanded campus. The Frist Art Museum: Inspiring cultural curiosity in Nashville.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2008

During my time in Sydney, I spent a day with meeting with the staff at the Powerhouse Museum and Seb Chan who writes the Museum's blog, Fresh + New(er) and who I have had many virtual conversations with via our blogs but have not met face-to-face. She took excellent notes about our session and blogged it here.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Mary Warner, the Museum Manager at the Historical Society, wrote a series of moving articles for her museum newsletter and later for the AASLH’s Small Museum Online Community about her experiences tackling big issues in a small museum. How do we get the history of the poor? We struggle with how to save digital media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

This came the "dashboard" for the Indianapolis Museum of Art , an ongoing effort to measure various aspects of the Museum's performance. According to the web site, the goal is to seek to quantify and report out on areas of activity of general interest to museum studies specialists, colleagues, and patrons.

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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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

For example, when I did this workshop in Australia, I met Dr. Linda Kelley who had just finished an analysis of the technographics of Australian museum goers. I've been obsessing about the " People " cards which are based on Forrester's Social TechnoGraphics profiles. My cards all have US data. What to do?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Last week, I received an inquiry from Mary Maher, editor of Hand to Hand, a magazine put out by the Association of Children's Museums , about Museum 2.0. Why, Mary asked, were there no posts about children's museums on this site? Why aren't children's museums represented on Museum 2.0? stuff naturally.

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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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 4, 2023

For example, DNL OmniMedia’s guide to the Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) highlights the platform’s scalability. For example, a CRM designed specifically for museums might emphasize their ticketing features, whereas a CRM for general nonprofits might have some registration tools but lack a built-in ticketing component.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Web3, the third generation of computing and a new iteration of the World Wide Web, is a rapidly emerging technology poised to help organizations connect, engage, and innovate at a higher rate. To this point, there has been a growing interest among the global Pencils of Promise constituency in Web3 (e.g., cryptocurrency) solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition , an experiment in crowd-sourced exhibits. This compelling experiment in the wisdom of the crowds started off with an open call for works through the museum's various Web 2.0 I'm curious about how or if Click was gamed.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

There are tools available on the web to calculate true cost. For example, toolkits from the Bridgespan Group and Propel Nonprofits provide step-by-step instructional guides and templates. For example, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation offers grants for organizational effectiveness. Pinpoint the right funder.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

As many of you know, I've been working for the past year+ on a book about visitor participation in museums, libraries, science centers, and art galleries. The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. Want to buy a book ?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. I’ll come back to it at the end to demonstrate how it maps to the example. In the world of museums, tagging is of great interest to people in the collections world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The advent of the Mobile Web is slowly starting to permeate and transform nonprofit communications. Just like social media transformed the nonprofit sector and how it communicates with its supporters, so will the Mobile Web (even more so). For example, here’s my first message: trottr.com/74qcww. Foursquare. 12Seconds.tv.

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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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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

Personalized offers – In addition to content specific to your activities, we could even provide specific offers–such as discounted event tickets to everyone who visited the event registration form, but didn’t register, or a store discount to your most active web visitors. How do we get constituents to log in?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums. I provided the Web 2.0 framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. The time cost of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

My colleague, Devon Smith, a self-described data nerd who loves benchmarking pointed out this glorious example from the museum world from Sean Redmond , a Web developer at the Guggenheim. Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be. And it’s not very useful.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2007

The program chair of the Small Museum Administrators Committee, Tracy Sullivan, is seeking examples of small museums (operating budget under $350,000/year) using Web 2.0. Drop a comment here about it (so we can all bask in wonder) and send a note to Tracy Sullivan at TSullivan (at) entnet (dot) org On this note, Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But Vi doesn't work in a science museum. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who are well known in museums for their excellent Smarthistory website and podcasts. the way the best museums do. Does this mean Khan Academy is competitive with museums? She would be the best science center educator ever.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2008

Tom Sakell, a reader and interaction designer, created this very cool presentation for the government that animates my hierarchy of participation with Web-based examples. While I'm most interested in the use of the pyramid for in-person experiences, Tom does a wonderful job demonstrating what it means for museums on the Web.

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MARCH 23, 2021

Example : Marketlinks , a USAID-supported platform that helps users consume and contribute online content along a spectrum of issues. Example : Alliance for Justice , a national association of over 120 organizations representing a broad array of groups committed to progressive values, uses a dropdown menu. A standard basic menu.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

As an example, the ‘Millennial Impact Report’ was a study commissioned by the Case Foundation. We evolved to focus on leveraging technology, like web design, social media, and other digital tools, to advance the causes nonprofits care about. We believe a strong web presence is critical to increasing support for organizations.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

For organizations using both apps and websites, there were challenges in seeing how the data interacts—are web visitors the same people using the app? In contrast, the event model records the actions people take, for example clicking or scrolling. Which visits lead to engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

The session will begin with a simple primer about content curation , the benefits, and a few examples of nonprofit content curators and their tools. If you think about what a museum curator does, it is very similar. The problem is our information consumption — we’re indulging too much at the buffet called the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. Perhaps create a special web site and discuss the results on Twitter or your blog ? The Indianapolis Art Museum has been doing just that by sharing its institutional dashboard out for everyone to view. In October, the Indianapolis Art Museum Dashboard celebrated its' second year.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

For example, YBCA's audiences loved having access to artists' own unfiltered words. " Deciding on a Native App or a Mobile Web App. Unlike a native app, a mobile web app is "device agnostic," meaning it can be. used on almost any device with a mobile web browser. The Dallas Museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. While there are many ways for museums to reach new audiences, when it comes to specialized knowledge, it's often a question of reaching the niche who care deeply about German watches from 1822 or the evolutionary shift in raccoon striping over time.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

Museums , gardens, and parks have jumped on it. Colleague Stephanie Rudat found this example from the National Mall and Memorial Parks. There were two options: use my google account or go to the web site and set up an account. Others are using it to lure visitors to their location. I was finally able to set up an account.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 11, 2009

I'm doing a workshop with the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History which includes a public lecture on "the multi-platform museum" on May 18 at 3pm ET (GMT -5). What is a multi-platform museum? It's a place that engages with visitors through many distribution mechanisms, including exhibits, programs, and the web.

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