Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The book looks at how individuals can avoid burnout through self-care and how nonprofits can support it – through activities that promote well-being, cultural cues, or an overall strategy. Activities are designed to support organizational wellness for greater productivity and morale boosts. Have story?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. Sheet music is a beautiful analogy for this.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

We’ve compiled a list of various online auction ideas divided into the following categories: Simple Themed Online Auctions Online Auctions For the Whole Family Online Auctions with an At-home Activity. Livestream some 60s music and entertainment. Music can always add a fun touch to any decade-themed event! Ready to dive in?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

Margaret shared these thoughts about "museums for use" on her blog , and I asked her to adapt a version for the Museum 2.0 Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use? During my time at RISD studying industrial design, I developed relationships with two museums on campus: the Museum of Art and the Nature Lab.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. An online database of third-party social media apps and software, there are thousands of free tools listed in categories ranging from photos and videos to music and games. oneforty :: oneforty.com.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Different culture has different understanding of philanthropy and we use different words to represent various aspects of the concept. Each year AFP organizes an international fundraising conference, attracting more than 4000 professionals from 60 different countries to attend over 100 different sessions over 3 days.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. How can you grow your email list to activate and build your organization’s power?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. It is an incredible museum experience. The primary interactive activity is one in which visitors can make their own rock posters.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Last Friday night, my museum hosted a fabulous (in my biased opinion) event called Race Through Time. Everything about the event--from the time slot to the tone of the content to the music played--was designed for that audience. Late night mixers at museums for young adults. Museums are not for specific crowds alone.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

Dan writes about the explicit and implied "rules" of participation for musicians that create great music both onstage and for the crowd. It acknowledges differences in talent, experience, and effort, and has a system--either explicit or implicit--for rewarding greatness. This is an issue we are actively grappling with at our museum.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. First published in Curator magazine in 2002, this essay presents five different museum "types" and their distinct opportunities and challenges.

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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? Or different people. Who interprets the interests of the community and decides on the relevant themes and activities for the year? My answer: neither.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

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. Visitors will be able to see how different subgroups (including art experts) ranked and responded to the art. Write the truth.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Authors Alan Brown and Jennifer Novak-Leonard pack a lot into 40 pages--an argument for the rise of active arts engagement, a framework for thinking about ways to actively involve audiences, and lots of case studies. Excellent case studies, especially from the performing arts sector.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. with a few significant differences. In January, I wrote about the challenges and opportunities of using Second Life as a design space. It's lovely.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

Last month, the Christian Science Monitor published an article entitled, "Museums' new mantra: Connect with community." It took me a couple weeks (and various museum blog responses ) to realize what bugs me about this article--it treats "connecting with community" as a marketing ploy, a "mantra" rather than a mission.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. I spent an hour this morning "brand listening" to what the online world says about one of my favorite museums, the Exploratorium.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2015

The outdoors absorbs difference comfortably; you can come or go, eat or talk, participate in different ways without alerting concern. If we walk by music and culture and conversations and kindness, we may feel better about ourselves and our community. None of this contact happens if these activities are trapped inside buildings.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

Pop quiz: How much does it cost to go a museum? Museums can range from free to about $30 for admission. But even more than this confusion, I believe museums suffer from a lack of consistent expectations when it comes to price and purchase options. So why can’t museums do it? How much for a family? How much for a student?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For us, it was no different! This tool was awarded five different awards for its interactive design and ability to communicate key health and livability data. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

Forum One has been nominated for 11 Vega Awards in 8 different categories! 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 entire American Jazz Museum brand as a whole. We’re glad to share some exciting news!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2007

But this yearly music/film/interactive conference/festival/creative happening has risen to the top of must-gos for techy, arty, gamey folks. Game is vehicle for player to explore different paths and directions. When I read this speech, I wonder, where do museum experiences fit in? Have you been to South by Southwest ?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

into the museum is the potential to encourage more positive in-museum interactions among strangers. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content. A lot of what interests me about bringing 2.0

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

He notes that film, music, visual art, and literature have evolved as media that are used in all kinds of environments, from the mundane to the profound. Certainly many of these activities seem to be just as banal as pointing out the exits on a Boeing 767. But ultimately it comes down to semantics.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For us, it was no different! This tool was awarded five different awards for its interactive design and ability to communicate key health and livability data. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Last week, I prototyped four exhibit ideas with the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Four good things about this kind of failure: It confirmed that there was a difference in visitor response to different facilitated activities. Three were hits. One was a total dud.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2009

Maybe it's a learning program for people who want further content knowledge, or perhaps an activity-based program where people make music together or blow glass or build robots. That's 1/4 of a weekend spent on a new activity with new friends. What makes volleyball different? The group of us learned together.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. Some museum pros have been puzzled by this. or to start their own.

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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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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Get your staff, board members, most dedicated donors, and active members of your community involved by asking them to kick off the first peer to peer fundraisers. You’ll want people to sign up, potentially pay a registration fee, set an activity goal , and have a date and time where everyone runs at the same time on their own.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Maybe it's a live music concert, or a museum visit, or a play. Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience. For myself personally, this gulf rears its head every time I go to a live music concert.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

They oversee activities and play a large role in determining how you spend your budget and the goals you set. With this fundraising idea, you gather supporters together online to join different “house parties” led by each of your peer-to-peer volunteers. People can bid either in-person or virtually with a mobile app.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

There have been some fun semantic jousting matches recently on the ASTC listserv about the difference between science museums and science centers. And earlier last month, the Museum of Television and Radio announced a name change to the Paley Center for Media. Museum means different things in different markets.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

Last Friday, I witnessed something beautiful at my museum. This is a tiny example of social bridging--people making connections to others who are not like them, who have different backgrounds, ages, races, professions, etc. I've been documenting lots of small bridging incidents at our museum over the past few months.

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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. In this case, a heck of a lot.

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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. Every database, and maybe Steven wants to type into the chat box what Bloomerang uses to categorize these kinds of topical areas, but every database has the same kind of structure but may call it differently. That’s right.

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