Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Participants had to answer these questions: -What were the objectives, audience, and how did integrate with your marketing or audience development plan? As one participant said during her presentation, “The rest of the staff at our organization is like our audience in some ways. What were some tactics that you tried?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Giving your audience options can increase their involvement in your organization. Always start with your audience and what draws them to an event, then tailor your fundraising event to them. Start your email marketing campaign which will lead your audience to the event registration and payment page. Make it fun and easy.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s also a time for gifts and new clothes, making this a great chance to raise funds or donations of new clothing, especially for children. Reach out to talented local artists, galleries, and museums to see if they can donate pieces, workshops, or behind-the-scenes tours to support your cause. The Michael J.

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Qgiv

JULY 28, 2022

Artistic nonprofits should raise funds for National Poetry Month, especially literary nonprofits. August is Back to School Month and is a time when many parents are preparing for their children to return to school. This is a great way to introduce your cause to new audiences who find it through their interest in the awareness month.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

I grew up professionally in the science and children's museum field, where touching is guaranteed and floor staff spend more time helping visitors learn and ensuring their personal safety than they do protecting the objects. Focus on family audiences. Engagement with local artists. What if you WANT them to touch certain things?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists. When non-white stories are told, they are always flagged as such--an exhibition of Islamist scientific inventions or women pioneers or African-American artists. Not as humans, or artists, or scientists, or dancers.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

One director of a children's museum even told me that they "eventize" normal operations--calling a Saturday a "family festival" without changing the planned programming--to draw more people. There are still many museums in large tourist centers with a hefty one-time audience. These events don't just increase audience.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the past seven years, this exploration has been undertaken by a staff of artists and more than 35 creators each year participating in our residency program.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

The institutions that seem most prey to a "cookie cutter" approach are science centers and children's museums. These institutions have three additional reasons for homogeneity: The audience cycles frequently as families "age out." They may employ local artists to help create visitor experiences.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Museum programs can also bridge different groups that might not typically interact such as the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum’s Educational Residential Centre, which designed a program specifically to bridge children of two groups engaged in social conflict, Catholics and Protestants.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 15, 2009

Although podcasts haven't reached the same popularity as blogs and online video, their audience is increasing. According to Podcasting News , a recent Edison Research report found that podcast audiences are up 22% since last year. They often interview children as sources for their stories. Listen/subscribe on iTunes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

So if your child wants to use their social network to raise money for a good cause, getting involved will help you keep them (and their personal information) safe from would-be scam artists and predators. Make sure you’re involved from the beginning to guide them as they establish the parameters and goals of their project.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The Foundation also supports organizations that provide direct services to children and youth (ages 0-18) by addressing their basic human needs and safety through financial grants as well as Adobe employee volunteer support and software donations. students with a global audience. Youth Services. Youth Voices: Creating with Purpose.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. My focus is on how children learn science. Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. 100 Years of the flagship library in New York. Learning Science by Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. How can we develop audiences, cultivate care and empathy, and find alternate funding that doesn’t require public popularity so that important stories get told? On poster children & social investment. “I starts around 17:27). CHRISTOPHER R.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ). First, exhibits that invite self-expression appeal to a tiny percentage of museum audiences. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I've even taught my children about creative commons (check out Harry's screencast - What A Second Grader Knows About Creative Commons that earned him a feature story in the School Library Association Journal) All of this assumes that people really bother to look at the license, understand it , and respect the rules.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

To make ends meet, artists would sometimes team up as a studio — helping each other come up with ideas, chipping in when someone was in danger of missing a deadline, teaching each other tips and tricks. I’m going to level with you Straight talk and transparency bring the audience inside your circle of trust. <FirstName>,

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

And you don’t need famous musical groups either: Local acts with local fan bases are a great way to attract audiences and put on a great show. Art Exhibition You can never go wrong with highlighting local artists. Paint-Along Paint-along events bring out the inner artist in attendees.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

When I first started exploring the site, I assumed it was mostly a place for charismatic hipsters and a few star artists with enough social media savvy and clever video production capabilities to produce enticing pitches. They are tapping into a large audience of people who don't care whether their donations are tax-deductible or not.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ). First, exhibits that invite self-expression appeal to a tiny percentage of museum audiences. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2010

Three examples: In the late 1980s, the Brooklyn Children's Museum created an exhibit called Send a Letter to Snoopy. As Kathy McLean noted in Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , while staff were afraid that typing on the typewriter would be too hard for some young children, "kids lined up to carefully and slowly type their letters."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

" Over the years, I taught many workshops for arts educators on how to integrate the web into the curriculum, although not as much recently since I have two small children. At least for artists/arts educators. In my opinion, websites need to have more instruction on how educators can make use of the site."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

" He describes what Ian observed what happened with his youth audience. He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education. Some notes from the white paper, I'm still digesting it (not being a digital native, I had to print it out).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects. This was particularly true for Click!,

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

However, by the end of the first week it was clear that the majority of our audience was hooked. As well as our existing audience, new visitors came just because they wanted to be part of it. As well as our existing audience, new visitors came just because they wanted to be part of it.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Their annual report, the State of Babies Yearbook , frames rigorous research, unbiased analyses, and clear communications to influence decision-makers positioned to improve public policies and interventions in support of children and families. This 157-page report created a useful tool for Zero to Three’s advocacy at any stage.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

They provide direct access to an international audience of investors—and potential new donors. Recently, Save the Children partnered with NFDoge, a platform that sells “Non-Fungible Doge” artwork. Are there artists or other influencers who might be interested in partnering with your organization to support you through NFTs?

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood, and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This 157-page report created a useful tool for Zero to Three’s advocacy at any stage.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One worked closely with the AARP Livability Index team to meet the needs of its audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide. Overall, this work has helped empower NRDC’s content managers, engage their audience members in their mission, and amplify their impact.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood, and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library's resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. My focus is on how children learn science. Learning Science by Design The opportunities for engagement now include exhibitions, digital space, and education.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One helped the AARP Livability Index meet the needs of its audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide. Overall, this work has helped empower NRDC’s content managers, engage their audience members in their mission, and amplify their impact.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? You might do this with news or press releases and radio interviews, you may be looking at the reach and the listening audience to say, “How many people did you engage? If the experience of those children is not positive, then is it really a celebration?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I learned to appreciate the audience reach of a big institution while vastly preferring the diversity of work and lack of bureaucracy of a small one. Like slam poetry, blogging is writing for an immediate and hopefully vocal audience.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

With technology improving, virtual and hybrid events rising in popularity, and new event ideas coming to fruition, it can be hard to determine the best fundraising event that aligns with your audience, goals, and overall mission. Audience members can even continue to give as the show is happening with text fundraising!

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