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. My flickr photos are here

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2008

Flickr Fan Art on a Typewrtr by CoCreator. I am a member of the Flickr Fan Art Group. So, it was actually fun to write this TechSoup article " How Nonprofits Can Get The Most Out of Flickr." " It is ten tips for those who are new to Flickr to get the most out of it. (My True confessions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

They will Tweet from location, break news on Facebook, send out group text calls to action, document in real-time photos and videos, and blog report backs live from events as they unfold. 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

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. Given my interest in flickr that's why I set one up last fall. Voter's s (flickr and other social media sites).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you haven’t noticed QR Codes yet, after you read this post and browse the QR Codes on Flickr you’re going to start to seeing them everywhere. In museum tour materials. In magazines, on flyers, tabletops, and conference materials. So, what are they? At fundraising events – galas, marathons, etc. At protests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Linktribution is given to Alan for designing the flickr contact acquisition behavior scale. Think museum curator versus pawn shop. My virtual colleague, Alan Levine, posted a reflection about educational technologists flickr contact acquisition behavior. How do you communicate with your contacts in flickr? educational???

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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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AUGUST 21, 2012

You can also read the case studies for four of the organizations we talked with: The Chatanooga Museums Collaborative. Flickr photo: torkildr. Environment America. Editor's note: We'd like to thank the team at Idealware for helping us conduct this research, and Google for supporting the project.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Flickr Photo by WiserEarth - WiserEarth's team from Around the World play Peek-A-Boo With Book. The photo above shows WiserEarth ’s team from around the world in the Bay Area during break from a staff retreat reading the Networked Nonprofit. Photo by KK. Flickr Photo by KK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. 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. Everyone is a Curator.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress About a month ago, the Library of Congress put two sets of photographs (about 3000 images total) up on Flickr. Flickr is a photo-sharing site (learn more here ). So maybe this isn't "LOC Rocks Flickr."

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. We did this graffiti interactive via Flickr.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

full description here , photos from the event here ). We gave people chalk and the choice of four simple prompts: At 3rd Friday I made At 3rd Friday I loved At 3rd Friday I met At 3rd Friday I learned After making a board and taking a photo, each participant had the option to have their photo shared on Flickr or remain private (90% said yes).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Flickr Photo by AstridWestvang. Many told them that sometimes they just need some “creativity time,” that is to go to a museum or walk around. The organization formalized “creativity time” in its employees handbook and established a policy that staff take “creativity time” as half-day per month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Rob Howells. Note From Beth: I remember back when Hurricane Katrina struck, I saw a post to the Museum ListServ that said “ Chuck Patch Is Not Dead.” If you’re accepting donations, show how the money is being spent with photos and videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. She uses the word “curate&# which makes me imagine nonprofits as museum curators. Museum curators have expertise in a particular area of art, they know the ecosystem around the art – the artists, the patrons, other collectors, and other museum curators interested in that art form.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Me: Have you ever been to this museum? meetup for Elite Yelp!

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet. Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. You're It!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Andy Beal. 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. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

I love Flickr Originally uploaded by jodi_tripp. For those who haven't seen it, Flickr is a photo-sharing site. You can upload photos to it, tag them, share them, comment on them, and search for them. So what makes Flickr so useful? It has the most photos from the most people and places. Okay, pop quiz.

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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). This concept has spawned a question I like to obsess over: What would a museum look like that got better the more people used 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. This multi-museum collaborative is undertaking a thoughtful process to tackle these issues.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Some of these challenges were about mission fit.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

All the photos in this post are on Flickr here. As one participant said, "the museum feels friendly in a way it usually doesn't." People make the museum friendly, not activities. There were 168 secrets contributed during the weekend this activity ran (a weekend in which 250 people visited the museum).

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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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JANUARY 13, 2012

If you're an animal shelter or animal rights organization: Credit to Flickr user: Dennis from Atlanta 1. If you're a church, synagogue, or other religious organization: Credit to Flickr user: evilpeacock 5. Credit to Flickr user: Aberdeen Proving Ground 10. If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19. to "Me + Contributors".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2006

These were mostly museums like MoMa (which I wrote about over a year ago here ) and a few others. My Flickr photos here ) (He mentioned that he picked up the microphones in the CMU trash - boy I wish I could lurk in those trash cans!). Museum Podcasting Resources. My del.icio.us

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Imagine that your museum is ready to start creating content on a small-scale in Web 2.0. Imagine you are the Boston Museum of Science, and you are ready to make some videos to post on YouTube. When I search for "Boston Museum of Science" on YouTube, I find 83 videos. You're ready to make a few videos to post on YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0. I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Flickr Photo by Kevlar. Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. But bench learning can be richer than simply collecting numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

There was also a flickr component that I learned about this from the wonderful Heather Gardner-Madras , who like me, is a flickr fan. She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. great example of the innovative new things we can do with Flickr in terms of.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. The Museum 2.0 In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. And yet many museums are fixated on creators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? In A Museum? Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site. Download it here. 10-15 hours per week - also includes some listening tasks).

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

How can these themes make a positive impact on the local museum or symphony? Development Directors are walking the halls of the museum and able to look up a member’s benefits from their mobile device. photo credit: Flickr. As always, I read this article through the lens of our arts and cultural customers.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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