Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

So, I've been looking at a lot of different examples of how theatres are using social media.    I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. created to mark their 2009-2010 Season of Belief. 

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0 People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." This seems like an appropriate time to share the story.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Residents in the three counties that pay the millage will receive special benefits : free admission to the museum and expanded educational programming. Reading through the 300+ comments online reminded me eerily of the extraordinary 2010 ArtsWave report on the public value of art (full report here , my synopsis here ). Rebuttal: none.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

Our guests will talk about consistency, production quality, distribution tips and ways to work effectively together to achieve the greatest impact with your nonprofit stories. David is a cross-disciplinary mediamaker, working at the intersection. He has spoken publicly about his work to audiences at the Smithsonian, UC.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

When I worked briefly with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative to conceptualize a mobile phone-based game to connect visitors to the park to its cultural institutions and history, I knew Ken would be the perfect person to make it happen. Giskin Anomaly Right around Thanksgiving 2010 a strange story began to unfold in Balboa Park, San Diego.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The design and feel of the place was different than any science center I''d ever experienced. There are lots of great science museum resources, but not where these kids can walk after school. I came on in 2010 to start the statewide nonprofit network. Where it didn''t work, no local support stepped up. Geography is key.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

Our guests will talk about consistency, production quality, distribution tips and ways to work effectively together to achieve the greatest impact with your nonprofit stories. Driven by a desire to make a game-changing difference in how people consume content, Tom comfortably resides at the junction where media and technology collide.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2012

Last month during my kid's spring break we took a little trip to a favorite destination of mine as a child, the Science Museum of Oklahoma. Thirty-something years later was no different. Promote their business and your cause by offering a gift card at different levels. This place was always a magical place of learning for me!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? But for museum and art wonks, it could be. Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

These services, by-the-way, are different from spam filtering services like Postini , GFI.com, or Spamcop. We’re used to hearing nothing but bad news from Haiti since it was hit by a succession of catastrophic events since 2010. Historical societies and museums might especially benefit from using this app.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Nicholas Felton: Annual Report 2010. For his 2010 Annual Report he compiled and presented data around his father’s life. It provides much needed difference and rhythm we are attracted to, over the often mind-numbing flat Twitter or Facebook feed. He has worked in Alexandria, Korea, Vietnam, and currently Seattle.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

It’s also one I’ve been asking myself for nearly 12 years, ever since I began working for GuideStar in November 1999. (If Can you really use the same criteria to measure the effectiveness of a rural food bank that works locally and an internationally renowned art museum located in a major metropolitan area?

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The 2010 mid-term election campaign saw unprecedented fundraising from both traditional political players like the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and new, secretive conservative entities like American Crossroads. Participants will learn the following: 1) What strategies and tactics worked and flopped for raising money online?

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