Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Participants will learn how to create a social media strategy, how to craft a content marketing plan, and current best practices for using social media for community engagement and fundraising.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2021

TL;DR A lot of really shitty people hate museums and hate that museums would even attempt social justice therefore museums are okay, maybe. It is well documented that most jobs in museums pay poorly. Gainful, full time museum employment is also notoriously difficult and competitive.

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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. On social media, it's hard to get into systemic issues effectively, but maybe people did start to touch on some of the big, bad issues in our field. In this decade museums worst trends were in labor and tech: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2023

6: Reclaim Social — #ReclaimSocial. 20: World Day of Social Justice — #SocialJusticeDay. 18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. Fueled by a strong passion for the Internet, Heather spends her days (and some nights) helping nonprofits, charities, and NGOs worldwide utilize the internet as a tool for social good.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Monday, May 18th is International Museum Day , the mission of which is to raise awareness of the fact that, “museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”. 2019 saw more than 55,000 museums across 150 countries participate.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2020

As a Historic Interpreter for Telfair Museums, I would lead visitors through the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters on a 45 minute guided tour of antebellum Savannah history discussing politics and urban slavery. When the Museum closed I was expecting the next few weeks to be different. I set up digital lunches.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

After the International Committee on Museums spent some time debating the definition of museums, many folks took up the charge on social media to give their own definitions. I’m inviting people to share their definitions, here and on social (and tag me); I’ll summarize your thoughts next week. We need new #MuseumVerbs.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 14, 2023

Bing Search Performance for nptechforgood.com 2) Microsoft Ads for Social Impact In June 2022, Microsoft launched its Microsoft Ads for Social Impact grant. For example, nonprofits are not required to maintain a minimum CTR (click through rate) to stay compliant with the Ads for Social Impact Grant.

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VQ Strategies

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

CREATIVE GRATITUDE MESSAGES Social media posts Kudos cards (i.e., collections or exhibit tours at museums, a fire fighting training center for a city, and the control tower at the – you guessed it – the airport [by now, we were all ready to sign up to volunteer at the airport!) Denver International Airport.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2022

Cause awareness and giving days are powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising and social media awareness campaigns. 20: World Day of Social Justice — #SocialJusticeDay. 18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. 17: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service — #MLKDay. 28: Data Privacy Day — #DataPrivacyDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

How I chose the nonprofits is that I have a basic set of criteria that I use as a litmus test when I audit nonprofits and their social media campaigns. A small selection of that criteria is as follows: Consistent use of a visually compelling square avatar across all social networks. Field Museum :: fieldmuseum.org. Hint, hint.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2020

Nina Simon, Lauren Bentua, and many others would host us in the halls of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art. When we think about mapping these ideas onto an organization I think about how museum leadership can take these on personally as individuals (CEO, COO) and as departments (Human Resources, Education) and so on.

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Forum One

MAY 28, 2024

Forum One partnered with the Museum on a full website redesign and upgrade, to welcome more diverse audiences and provide a space to discover our shared American history through a modern, inclusive, and forward-looking digital experience.

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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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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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Achieve

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

What do Millennials want from a museum experience? Museum development officers and marketing professionals are all wondering if members of the Millennial generation (born after 1979) will support museums like our parents did. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) seems to think we won’t. The New York Times.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

By shopping at any of the 48 online stores listed below, socially conscious and ethical consumers can channel some of their consumer spending power into the nonprofit sector and the Greater Good. 4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. 6) Field Museum Store :: store.fieldmuseum.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Launching online communications and fundraising campaigns around annual social good and cause campaign events is good strategy. Many nonprofits however, are not made aware of such campaigns until the day of (via social media) which is too late. 20: World Day of Social Justice || #SocialJusticeDay. Thus, Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2021

The “Q&A with sgLEADERS” series on sgENGAGE aims to provide readers, including the next generation of social good leaders, with valuable insights from executives across the social good community. Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN.

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sgEngage

APRIL 28, 2022

I [have] several volunteers who do not use any of the social media or latest technology. – Rebecca Barnes, volunteer manager at Tellus Science Museum . The post Volunteer Smarter, Not Harder: Tips from Your Fellow Social Good Pros first appeared on npENGAGE. Ursula Academy . .

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

It’s 2019, and a whole lot is changing in the museum and nonprofit world. That’s not to mention how strained museums already are in terms of resources. According to the American Alliance of Museums, the average museum has 6 volunteers for every paid staff member , a ratio which s oars to 18:1 in museums with budgets under $250,000.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2021

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising and social media awareness campaigns. 20: World Day of Social Justice — #SocialJusticeDay. 18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. 17: World Religion Day — #WorldReligionDay. 18: Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

After our complete closure on March 16, 2020 due to COVID-19 , our museum staff was busier than ever preparing to navigate these uncharted times. Carey Cahoon is the Database Administrator and Strategist at the Currier Museum of Art, overseeing and providing staff support for Altru. Co-Author: Carey Calhoon.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The Western Museum Association was kind enough to invite me to speak on a panel about engagement at their annual meeting in Boise. Phillip’s early remark about museums was an invocation for everyone. As an outsider, he immediately saw that museums were operating “under a business model that doesn’t work.” We need to change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2013

Field Museum. Getty Museum. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum of Modern Art. Fundraising Mobile Media Social Media' BeadforLife Store. Best Friends Animal Society. DoGoodBuyUs. First Book. Global Goods Partners. Handcrafting Justice. Human Rights Campaign. International Princess Project. National Geographic.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

American Jazz Museum Gold – Cultural Institutions 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 18, 2013

We all have aspirational social impact goals for our organizations. These are the questions that underpin Museum Camp 2014 , a professional development experience in which diverse people from the arts, community activism, and social services will measure the immeasurable together. Igniting compassion?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It gave me a chance to really think about how we have been opening up our museum and what it means for our community. Museums can be incredible catalysts for social change. We're doing it in Santa Cruz and it has absolutely transformed our museum into a thriving community institution. But they're not there yet.

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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. I'm generalizing grossly here, but for the most part, I find European museums to be conservative. I find North American museums to be risk-averse.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

The average person worldwide has five social media accounts and spends an average of 1 hour and 40 minutes browsing these networks every day. Today, social media consumes the most time spent on the Internet and the majority of that browsing occurs on a smartphone or tablet. Nonprofits pioneered social media. Bold imagery.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. The popular reference point for what a museum is--a temple for contemplation--is based on a Euro-centric set of myths and implies a white set of behaviors.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

Here are a few of the hashtags I''ve seen applied to photographs of museum objects on Instagram lately: #heytherebigfella #biggysmallistheillest #forbrightfuture #myfavorite #instagood #bestday #withmyhomies #whatever #learnedfromthebest #revolutionary #nowicandie These tags all do a great job capturing the magic of exploring a museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

I am putting the finishing touches on another social media lab designed for arts organizations. I had too look no further than Shelley Bernstein's blog over at the Brooklyn Museum to find some thoughtful experimentation and useful examples. In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

I’ve watched the early adopters of MySpace in 2005 propel themselves into the national and international spotlight using social media, and I’ve seen latecomers begin to dabble with Facebook and Twitter just this year. Not adding social-networking icons to your website. Using a horizontal logo for your avatar. Craziness!

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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