Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Don’t let the discomfort of the learning curve for new technology tools get in the way of adopting social media or mobile tools as a personal and organizational leadership tool for your organization. To be sure, it’s an investment of time, but I actually think it’s a more efficient use.” ” Always Be Learning. Lean on Your Staff.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

My hypothesis as to why nonprofits are falling behind is that they think that adopting the Mobile Web is expensive or time-consuming, or they equate the mobile technology solely with text-to-give. British Museum :: m.britishmuseum.org. Dallas Art Museum :: dallasmuseumofart.mobi. Child Fund International :: m.childfund.org.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Parker, a Seneca Indian who worked as the director of the Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester, N.Y. In the following years, New York adopted the Congress’s plan, designating the second Saturday in May as American Indian Day. The earliest efforts were led in the early 1900s by Dr. Arthur C.

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Think museums, zoos, theaters, and other places that rely on philanthropy to operate and offer a “visitation membership.” Members pay a monthly or annual fee for a special perk, like free admission to your museum or a discount in your store. We see this in the arts and culture realm, especially.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments. Nonprofits and museums depend on dedicated, but oftentimes limited, development staff to sift through countless prospects to determine which ones are priority.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 25, 2016

In time, Snapcash may be used for fundraising, but for now it’s all about being an early adopter. Los Angeles County Museum of Art . Doing so requires a willingness to experiment beyond traditional social media marketing and an understanding that there is no immediate payoff in terms of fundraising. United Nations . FOUR PAWS .

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

Two recent events have got me thinking about pranks and unauthorized activities in museums. Improv Everywhere staged an event at the Metropolitan Museum in which an actor posing as King Philip IV of Spain signed autographs in front of his portrait, as painted by Diego Velazquez in the 1620s. I feel like it's more complicated than that.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. 6) Field Museum Store :: store.fieldmuseum.org. 18) SFMOMA Museum Store :: museumstore.sfmoma.org. 8) Getty Store :: shop.getty.edu.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2012

In that case, go to Bing Images and search by color (to match your nonprofit’s avatar ) and you’ll be presented with hundreds of potential header images that could look as good as the eleven chosen by the early adopter nonprofits listed below: 1. Guggenheim Museum :: @ Guggenheim. charity: water :: @ charitywater.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2012

To help inspire your creativity and encourage you to be an early adopter, below are eleven nonprofits that have upgraded to Facebook Timeline. Contemporary Art Museum St. You can also view the new Timeline design on the Nonprofit Organizations Facebook Page. Amnesty International :: facebook.com/amnestyglobal.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

The museums of the world are collaborating to bring you #MuseumGames every Sunday, with a new crossword puzzle each week featuring clues from all sorts of museums. ??: While donations are going down, global interest in museums seem a boom industry. Do we refer to Mar a #museum social media guru, maven, connoisseur?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 5, 2012

For the mobile social media manager, Instagram is a must-download photo-sharing smartphone app – and with more than 80 million users who to date have shared over four billion photos – its quickly becoming a community that early adopter nonprofits have added to their regular list of must-do’s.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2011

I have a confession to make: I've never cared much about museums on the Web. When smart people talk about digital museums and virtual experiences, I nod and compartmentalize it as someone else's bailiwick. And it breaks a lot of conventional rules about museum homepages. Is this the future of all museum websites?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

And yet despite limited budgets, the early adopter nonprofits began using responsive web design in 2012 in order to adapt quickly to the new realities of Internet browsing. Hermitage Museum 2015. Hermitage Museum 2005. Nonprofits pioneered social media. Bold imagery. Large font. GlobalGiving 2015. globalgiving.org. icrc.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

They are early adopters and boldly pioneer the Social Web. Field Museum :: fieldmuseum.org. They consistently get retweeted, repinned, and reblogged and have an active fan base on Facebook and Google+. They have found the right balance of what kind of content to post on their social networks and how often. Hint, hint.

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JULY 18, 2023

Recruit early adopters and your most active / influential followers to expand your reach! Are you an art museum that posts behind-the-scenes looks at your collection on Instagram? Show the impact that donors have made and keep followers up to date on your progress throughout the day.

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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. We started bootstrapping growth.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2011

They have either not yet had their “Aha&# moment about the Mobile Web, or think it is too expensive and time-consuming to be an early adopter. Regardless of the nonprofit sector’s slow adoption of mobile communications, the Mobile Web continues to soar. I am here to tell you ( and train you ) that it is not. Not at all.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2015

The book is a deep account of repatriation of spiritual objects from museums to native people, written by museum people and Blackfoot people together. This story starts in 1960s, though of course, the story of the Blackfoot people and their dealings with museums started way before that. The museums were not.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

The early adopters in the nonprofit sector are a creative bunch. In museum tour materials. That said, QR Codes that prompt scanners to call phone numbers could be put to very interesting use at political events protests ushering in a new wave of QR Code activism. At fundraising events – galas, marathons, etc. At protests.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

Our volunteers, docents, and donors are instrumental in the success of the museum and its programs,” said Madelyn Strubelt, Director of Visitor and Volunteer Services for Holocaust Museum Houston. Why Volunteer Management Software. The point-based reward and recognition program we have created in VolunteerHub is awesome!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 14, 2010

This external profile technique was also used at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum when it first opened to let visitors connect with the stories of particular people affected by the Holocaust. They cannot find out the final fate of their boarding pass personae until the end of the exhibit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

Consequently, some of the nonprofits best known to be early adopters are pinning away too: National Wildlife Federation , Amnesty International , SFMOMA , Water.org , and the AARP. Business always underestimate the fact the nonprofits are some of the most active early adopters on the Web. Edit/Set up your Pinboards.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

At our museum, we''ve gotten better at communication up from the front desk to the office. I doubt this would be the perfect solution for every organization, but it really is amazing how quickly it has changed the nature of cross-institution communication at our museum. participatory museum professional development'

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Our county board of supervisors had brought their official meeting to the museum. In it, I argued that museums could give up control of the visitor experience while still maintaining (a new kind of) power. Museums could make the platforms for those experiences. Traditionally, museums and cultural organizations offer programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

But, try as we might, we couldn’t find any research that looked at arts groups’ adoption and attitudes toward digital and social media nationally that also asked all-important questions about how groups are measuring what they’re doing. Arts organizations are not alone in this. Just over 70% of our respondents, a majority, said “yes.”.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2021

For example, last year I was delighted to receive an email from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco including information informing supporters about new tax deduction benefits made possible through the CARES Act. The post Do You Inform Donors Of These 2 Giving Opportunities? appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2020

The most important thing to remember is to find channels to reach your target visitors : the people most likely to visit your zoo, museum or aquarium or to attend a performance. . In the consideration stage, you want to entice patrons to visit your museum, aquarium, zoo or attend a performance. Retention .

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

What role does “promoting human happiness” play in the mission statements and actions of museums? That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). Earlier today, the CFM offered a free webcast of Jane McGonigal’s talk on gaming, happiness, and museums.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The barriers to increasing broadband Internet adoption. Closing the Internet access and adoption gap is not something that nonprofits (or libraries or government or the private sector) can do alone. The infographic. as a whole. Who is getting left behind. What we can do to address the problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

QR Codes: fab or a fad for Museums? View more presentations from Museums Computer Group. Museums have been using them to enhance the visitor experience and have been early adopters of the technology. QR codes are popping up in school lesson plans, like this arts lesson plan. QR codes hold potential for arts organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC).

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Gradual return to work from childbirth or adoption. Caulkett is a long-time museum educator with experience in developing curriculum and educating children from ages 4 to 18. Occasional or regular work from home opportunities. Paid time off for family or personal reasons. Control over breaks throughout the day.

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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. If your nonprofit is location-based (zoos, museums, health clinics, food banks, etc.)

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We’re not saying that this will be your one and only chance to party in a venue that was voted one of the ten coolest museums in the world by the New York Times, but we’re saying that you should definitely take advantage just in case. It’s like it was meant to be.

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