Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2008

The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition (Nina Simon wrote an analysis of the project here ). Shelley Bernstein, staff members at the Museum responsible for social media projects, left a comment on my blog. The community will guide you if you listen. IMA Staffer Facebook Profile.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Brain Lacy & Associates provide services for nonprofits including augmentation, analysis of data, prospect research, major donor information, and matching gift data. It was founded based on the idea that donor research is crucial to successful development and fundraising operations. Brian Lacy & Associates. Website: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition , an experiment in crowd-sourced exhibits. This compelling experiment in the wisdom of the crowds started off with an open call for works through the museum's various Web 2.0 Nina Simon wrote an analysis of the project when it launched here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. A tag is a user???s

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Finding your audience part 1: file analysis. The chart below is an excerpt of an analysis that we conducted for one M+R client, looking at a range of digital platforms, and the “match rate” of our donors to those platforms. Her clients include Oxfam America, the American Museum of Natural History, and the American Red Cross.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

This week at my museum, as we are wrapping up our current set of exhibitions on collecting, I noticed a simple, subtle example of this that I thought might interest you. I am fascinated by the incredible differences in what people contribute based on format and phrasing of the invitation to participate.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

What does "big data" look like for museums? Several museums around the world have worked hard to make their data accessible by providing free access to datasets, applying Creative Commons licenses to digital content, or creating APIs (application programming interfaces) that allow programmers to build their own software on the museum''s data.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Brain Lacy & Associates provide services for nonprofits including augmentation, analysis of data, prospect research, major donor information, and matching gift data. It was founded based on the idea that donor research is crucial to successful development and fundraising operations. Brian Lacy & Associates. Website: [link].

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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. Better yet, the graduate student who led this project, Anna Greco, documented the whole project and did in-depth analysis of the visitor contributions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

For example, when I did this workshop in Australia, I met Dr. Linda Kelley who had just finished an analysis of the technographics of Australian museum goers. And then it clicked, he did an analysis of Forrester's Social Technographic profiles in India using secondary data. I have seen the framework used in other countries.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009. In my experience, museum professionals aren’t big reality TV viewers.

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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

MARCH 12, 2014

I recently read the BERI report on bilingual labels in museums and was blown away by its findings. in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. is a controversial topic, and the same is true in museums.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. We conducted a comprehensive landscape analysis and full audits of their technical ecosystem, communications, and analytics.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. We conducted a comprehensive landscape analysis and full audits of their technical ecosystem, communications, and analytics.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Megan Smith incisively covered the sad state of staffing in the museum industry pre-coronavirus, as well as her fears for staffers post-coronavirus, in a previous post for Museum 2.0 , so I won’t belabor this one. If you are communicating without doing this analysis, you run the risk of appearing tone-deaf. What parts don’t?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It might record that the user clicked play and then clicked pause after 16 seconds, or that they searched for the hours of a museum, clicked through to the information page, and stayed for 40 seconds. Moreover, GA4 is optimized for collecting lots of data, with much of the analysis taking place outside the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

Museums , gardens, and parks have jumped on it. Here’s a good analysis by Ralph Koster that Robert Scoble point out. Most of the nonprofits are using it as a form of clever newsjacking — discovering that the nonprofit’s office or program location is a Pokemon stop and have snapped a photo for social media posting.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

It is the largest analysis of actual overall and online giving data in the nonprofit sector. on a year-over-year basis for the organizations in the analysis. year-over-year for the nonprofit organizations in the analysis. ” – Ford Bell, President of the American Alliance of Museums. Overall Giving Trends .

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2012

You know those times when you are looking for a blog that provides you with meaty analysis on contemporary issues in arts engagement? Here's what I love about Createquity: In-depth analysis of arts research reports. I've lived in a museum bubble for a long time. When you want someone rooted in both the business and art worlds?

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Understand Your Target Audience One of the most important steps in refining your membership model is to gain an understanding of your target audience by conducting an audience analysis. Once you know the type of people your potential members are, you can tailor your membership offerings to their interests and needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Examples: Wildlife Direct and Brooklyn Museum. Example: Northern California ACLU social network analysis of their followers on Twitter. I introduce a couple of basic social network analysis concepts and how they apply to an organization’s friends, fans, and followers on social media sites.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

But here, there are many "evergreen" posts dating back to the beginning with design ideas, analysis, links, and interesting projects. and starting points ("I'm a curator from a small art museum.") So I've decided to make a better archive , one that organizes posts by questions ("How do I get familiar with Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I’ve been finding RowFeeder useful to do a quick and dirty content analysis and grab all the tweets into a google spreadsheet. The content analysis gives you some insights into what lines were Tweeted most.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

As in the contributory model, in the collaborative model of citizen science, the scientists still determine the research question and the overall data collection and analysis methodology. For this reason, some citizen science projects are now moving towards collaborative and co-creative models.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

Museums have shifted the focus of their fundraising to better address demand from donors who want to know the difference their gift makes, said Ford Bell, president of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Read more sector analysis in the A Closer Look section of the 2013 Charitable Giving Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

You can also look for colleague organizations that done a great job in a particular area and learn from them. Stowe Boyd wrote about this “ bench learning ” and there are a few examples from Aquariums and Museums. In the preliminary analysis we are seeing some useful trends and some areas that will require more examination.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

In A Museum? Key skill is pattern analysis. Link listening and analysis to decisions or actions. Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media? In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Laura Quinn is the founder of Idealware, which offers a consumer reports like analysis and comparison of nonprofit software. is the author of the popular Museum 2.0 Blog that covers how museums are using social media. Jordan Viator. writes for the Convio Connection Cafe Blog. Deborah Finn. Social Change Activists. Nina Simon.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

means, ways museums are and can use Web 2.0 style design, The Tech Virtual open exhibit design project, and the challenges museums face as they try to grow into--or against--future technologies. no experience is too small for Stephanie to add her thoughtful analysis. interview Core Museum 2.0 Your comments welcome!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2019

That tool is called Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA). Based on this analysis, we decided to focus on ensuring that videocalls would work and that we had enough staff time to support our First Wave teams. Here, you can see that there were two failure modes we honed in on (1B and 3).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. Microblogging in a Museum Context.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2009

Diana starts with an analysis of the psychology of survivors and extends her view to the potential for museums, orchestras, and arts institutions to survive and thrive. There's an excellent newish blog, New Curator , focused on the future of museums. If you feel that Museum 2.0 Next week, Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

That said, I sympathize with the challenges involved in designing something like this--challenges we faced again and again when I was working on the Operation Spy immersive experience at the International Spy Museum. Could 5th graders handle a truly open simulation? Maybe, maybe not.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This is the second part of a two-part interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard on their book Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. I love this idea, but I often find that museum staff are really nervous about making any changes that might alienate current members/donors.

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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. Family Lifetime memberships – When a donor joins an organization like the YMCA or a museum, can you extend the membership to the entire household. This can include museums, archives, galleries, etc.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

This is the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s book club on Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , a collection of essays edited by Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean. Ultimately, the arguments against including visitor voices come down to a lack of respect for visitors as meaning-makers in museums.

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