Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. What are the best resources, including blogs, books, and articles? In essence, it is visible storage for the museum. What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing?

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

Did you end up just leaving the website after getting too frustrated? For orgs that lack the funding to redesign or overhaul their existing websites, a separate website that is specially designed for mobile devices does the trick quickly and affordably. How do you know if your audience will use a mobile website?

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

What if you didn’t need a highly trained designer every time you needed an image for an article or report? Create Custom Images for Your Website. Is your website in need of some fresh imagery? AI image generators can create custom images that are perfect for your website design. Non-stock Photostock Images. 13 per image.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

Would your nonprofit ever put a cropped, completely wrecked logo in print materials or on its website? Not adding social-networking icons to your website. If they visit your website and can’t easily find quick links to your social-networking communities, they become frustrated and some even will question your credibility.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. While there are many ways for museums to reach new audiences, when it comes to specialized knowledge, it's often a question of reaching the niche who care deeply about German watches from 1822 or the evolutionary shift in raccoon striping over time.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

If the program could be valuable for you, you need to have some assets in place: a good website that can turn visitors into subscribers (potential volunteers, donors, etc.). a plan for how you will build relationships with people through digital channels (website, email, social media, etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2011

In early January, the American Museum of Natural History announced that it would hold a Brain Tweetup for 75 of its Twitter followers. The event promised an after-hours look at their special exhibition Brain: The Inside Story , a chat with its curators, a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum, and an opportunity to meet other fans of AMNH.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I so happy to sneak into last night’s 501Tech Club New York City gathering last night to hear Shelley Bernstein, Brooklyn Museum, and Naveen Selvadurai talk about Nonprofits and Foursquare. For the Brooklyn Museum , they see the competition of mayorship as a source of identity and pride. say about you?

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In this article, you’ll learn about various membership models for nonprofits and discover both the keys to success and potential challenges you may face. Determining which model works best for you will then inform how your program will function and what member benefits will look like. Why should they want to be a part?

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

You may know I love applying lessons from other disciplines to nonprofit fundraising and marketing; recently an article from Merkle inspired me to consider how the social benefit sector might use commercial business insights to increase donor loyalty. Make everything on your website and emails mobile responsive.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Farra Trompeter wrote up an amazing article about Foursquare+Nonprofits (and other location-based social network tools). Farra, along with Thomas Negron and Charles Lenchner, invited Foursquare founder Naveen Selvadurai and Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein to their June 501 Tech Club. Who's your Mayor? he thinks are worth reading.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2008

What if witty cultural commentators reviewed museums the way they do music and restaurants? If Anthony Lane turned his cutting tongue from movies to museums? If Stephen Colbert "reported" on museums at times other than during the TV writer's strike? It's painful. And instructive. And revelatory. And painful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 The Jumo website had its soft launch back on March 18, 2010. and “On Sunday, are you most likely to be: at brunch, at church, at a museum, or watching the big game?&#

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

For more advice, we recommend exploring our dedicated article. Build your auction website. No matter if your silent auction fundraiser is virtual or in person, you’re going to need a dedicated website. Art & History Museums Maitland is planning a virtual 3-day online art auction for summer 2021. Request a Demo.

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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. Successful argument: Great museums improve quality of life and the value of the region. it’s just not about a museum, it’s a local AND regional “quality of life” issue.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2015

Wonderful nerds put Wonder Woman’s invisible jet on display at the National Air and Space Museum. Apparently, website redesign projects can learn valuable lessons from paying a drunk guy to critique their website. According to this article , you can improve your chances with data savvy and design skills. Okay, decades.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. But this is not just for The Tech; our grant mandates that this project be a service to the museum community at large. A contractor, Involve Inc.,

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

articles, interactive media, storytelling elements) do you have? Example 2: The American Museum of Natural History in New York shows a clear hierarchy of content. How your users navigate their way through your website goes beyond your main menu, and you’ll want to make sure you are also taking those other touchpoints into account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

The "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art manages to both celebrate and betray fair use at the same time. Commentary from members of MCN-IP SIG: At first glance, the article contains quite a few mistakes regarding legal issues. It's really out of our hands.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Pensacola Habitat For Humanity’s Women Build initiative encouraged folks to set up their own personal fundraising websites to raise money for the cause. For more inspiration, check out our article: 4 Top Live Streaming Tips For Nonprofit Virtual Fundraising + 7 Real Livestream Examples. Recurring Giving Blitz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach. The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Some of these challenges were about mission fit.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites. As the nonprofit community considers the future of virtual media in education, particularly in libraries and museums, it must not forget the role Second Life plays in pushing information sharing and experiencing to new heights and levels.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. Once you’ve pinpointed what you need new volunteers to do, write out “job descriptions” for different volunteer roles to put on your volunteer website. Tap into schools.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2007

There's a more measured article about twitter from the MIT Technology Review that gets beyond the hype to talk about twitter's functionality. No more dealing with one team member on AIM, another on gchat, one who thinks IM services are evil, and the fourth on the museum floor with a cell phone. Is this good for anything?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2014

They visitedwhether through an event, your website, or by going to your actual organizationand had a positive experience, but they just haven’t gotten around to coming back to donate or volunteer. Chances are, visitors come to your website because they have some sort of interest in your mission.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

As always, I read this article through the lens of our arts and cultural customers. How can these themes make a positive impact on the local museum or symphony? That means almost one in three visitors to your website is from a mobile device. Is your website optimized for mobile devices? Are the same trends applicable?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Pick something small and an easy win and repeat for 3 weeks. Maybe you want to get started with Twitter – start by summarizing an article you have read and want to share. Don’t say you have notimetotweet. Model the Model. Lean on Your Staff.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

If you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum or zoo, then also add your address. They do read and often will read very long captions, even articles or blog posts copied and pasted directly into Instagram. For nonprofits with less than 10,000 followers, you are limited to utilizing the website link in your bio.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Your website is likely the first place potential members will go to learn more about your program. Visit their website for more information. Doubleknot Doubleknot’s integrated software solutions are targeted toward nonprofits and cultural organizations, including zoos, aquariums, museums, science centers, botanical gardens, and so on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It isn’t unlike what a museum curator does to produce an exhibition: They identify the theme, they provide the context, they decide which paintings to hang on the wall, how they should be annotated, and how they should be displayed for the public. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Throughout this article I will highlight how to develop your campaign and connect it with your mission. Resources: Blackbaud’s Giving Tuesday site has a whole host of resources to help you be successful such as the toolkit, a webinar series, podcasts, blog articles and giving trends data.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. As the article Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging suggests, "be a lemming" and follow what others are doing which can also help you discover more specialized, niche tags. You're It!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Meanwhile, a few scholarly articles on the topic. context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 era websites. situation unless museums can get the ???stickiness??? How and Why Nonprofits Are Using Web2.0 I expect it isn???t

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more. Check out the article below. You can set up a website that includes all of your items you are auctioning off. Don’t be discouraged. You can gear your fundraiser towards these types of group activities and create new patrons in the process.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. In February 2001, AAM commissioned a study about the trustworthiness of museums and found that "Almost 9 out of 10 Americans (87%) find museums to be one of the most trustworthy or a trustworthy source of information among a wide range of choices.

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