Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project? Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s. Science has an answer.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. A year ago, I put my consultant hat on the shelf and decided to jump into museum management (a sentence I NEVER would have imagined writing five years ago). I'm open to any questions you want to raise in the comments.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2016

Five years ago, I left the consulting world to take the helm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) at a time of crisis and change. We have spent the past three years planning and raising money for a project to build a creative town square for our city on the front porch of the museum.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

First, your active mid-level donors, who you want to retain and upgrade. Over three months and 15 fundraising appeals, we tested using custom language for mid-level prospects, including thanking them for their support, describing the impact of the group, and asking them to make an Impact Circle-qualifying gift.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. And yet in the museum world, we still see interactives as being mostly for kids.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

A man walks into a museum. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Two years later, this project is still one of the most fondly remembered participatory experiences at the museum--by visitors and staff. He shares a story.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

Better maybe, for the different pieces to keep to themselves, with their own methods, language, and professional development programs? In a recent chapter on the history of the U.S. I can understand why somebody interested in museums wouldn't want to cover ground on health sector management. I mean, really.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But if you are using their language or really innovative elements, you should credit them. For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. How can you grow your email list to activate and build your organization’s power? Get creative.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I''ve mostly seen museums employ one of two methods for formal community advisors: Create special "spots" on the board of trustees for certain kinds of community representatives. CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. I struggle with both these options.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

All weekend, we've heard uplifting stories about amazing work you all are doing to involve people from all walks of life in museums. There is no other museum conference going on somewhere else in the world today where professionals are sharing proud case studies and helpful tips on how to exclude people. But museums do exclude people.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2009

In my continuing quest to find elegant ways to integrate technology into the museum experience, we come to interpretative material and the simple question, "How can you create natural ways for visitors to retrieve the information of most interest to them relative to an artifact or exhibit?" Here's one lovely answer: Meta.L.Hyttan.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Who interprets the interests of the community and decides on the relevant themes and activities for the year? The program works because it is teen-centered, not museum-centered.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Unsurprisingly, some of my favorite museums are small, funky places run by iconoclasts—but that’s not useful to most professionals who work for organizations in which they have little control over size or leadership matters. Many museums are making this shift as they hire “community managers” who communicate with users on an ongoing basis.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

It is downright scary going to a country where none of us speak the language. Here are a few photos of a few of the myriad of fun activities we had from the Welcome Banner to Indy to visiting the Art Museum to Symphony on the Prairie at Conner Prairie to celebrating a birthday! Simone was absolutely one in a million!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Of course, you can make their work a more fun version of real work (and give them the most fun parts of real work to do), but it's important to maintain the overall stance that their activities are in pursuit of a goal that is valued and needed by the institution. Find a way to control the structure, even if it's artificial.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I believe in transparency in all language use--whether the words are familiar or new. Inspired by Stacy, I wanted to share some of the work we are doing at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History to clarify what we mean by engagement. I don''t think these goals are universal by any means to the museum or arts field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

Museum Visitor Experience. Museums have been all over bots on other platforms, see the Momabot on Twitter for example. So, it comes as no surprise that Museums have been early adopters of Facebook Messenger Bots. The Australia Democracy Museum also has a Facebook Messenger Bot, with similar objectives. The Pop Bot.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

is the largest webmail service in the world nowadays with 425 million active users. In the meantime here is some language that Pamela Grow included in the Grow Report : “PS: If you’re using gmail to read The Grow Report, Gmail’s bizarre new interface is probably dumping me into your Promotions tab. Google Gmail.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 5, 2014

Consider three very different talkbacks in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History''s fall exhibition, Santa Cruz is in the Heart: cocktail napkins, rear view mirrors, and refrigerator certificates. They took awhile to make, though--this was definitely the longest talkback activity. Each of these talkbacks was very different.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Yeah, the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. I’ve been to the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. So you may have something called appeals, or activities, or whatever. So I’m going to say I get [foreign language 00:19:56]. ” And I’m like, ” [foreign language 00:20:19].” Robin: Yes.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2008

When museum professionals talk about extending the museum experience, they’re usually talking about post-visit experiences. Online activities that continue experiments begun in the galleries. But for most contemporary museum-goers, the pre-visit happens on the web. What’s the most used portion of your museum website?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This is the penultimate installment of Museum 2.0's s book club on Elaine Gurian's collection of essays, Civilizing the Museum. active use of artifacts?) As Elaine puts it in the essay, When I was last involved in such an endeavor, it was when the Boston Children's Museum was small, insignificant, and unselfconscious.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. noCloud :: npcloud.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. report back from Wimbledon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. report back from Wimbledon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

It can also translate your messages in multiple languages. A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. If your nonprofit does awareness tours, hosts events in multiple cities, or is active around your hometown, Tripline can help staff share their location-based activism and advocacy online.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think that it's too bad that our stories are not in the common language of arts and entertainment because I think our stories can be very powerful - the stories of an immigrant family, of a single family, of a family who's organizing, or fighting evictions, a young woman who's questioning her sexuality. I think that is really important.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 27, 2014

Like a lot of organizations, our museum sends out a weekly email to folks who are interested in upcoming events, exhibitions, and happenings at our museum. As a community-based museum, it makes sense that we actively solicit participation through the e-blast when we can. marketing Museum of Art and History web2.0'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

Martus is available in seven languages , including in Dari and Farsi which are commonly spoken in Afghanistan. The location was chosen by the conference organizers so that the participants could observe and learn from Cambodia’s own history of recovering from the Khmer Rouge period.

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