Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Is that a Zen graffiti artist? She uses the word “curate&# which makes me imagine nonprofits as museum curators. Museum curators have expertise in a particular area of art, they know the ecosystem around the art – the artists, the patrons, other collectors, and other museum curators interested in that art form.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 17, 2011

As many of you know, in addition to blogging and podcasting for myself and others, I'm also a blogging trainer and coach for artists, writers, creative entrepreneurs and do-gooders. During this 4-week Juicy Blogging e-course you will read and discuss lessons through a private blog from the comfort of home.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

organizations, but also some insights into the development process and lessons that these organizations learned. And check out Code For America's roundup of mobile art discovery tools for even more ways to use mobile devices to discover and engage with public art. This Cool App Roundup from the App It Up. engage with public art?

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

Auction an Artistic Experience Auctions are popular fundraising events that all kinds of nonprofits use to engage and connect with their supporters. Get creative and host an auction for your arts organization where the artistic experience itself is what’s up for bidding. Which CRM is right for me? Click on this image to take the quiz!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. For almost six years, she has been integrating social media tools and tricks into her instructional practice. Materials and Lesson Plan Development.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was designed to be a marketing tool. Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it. Their tool sets are completely different and as well as their purpose. The tool set is astounding.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

While much of the branding and design inspiration we run across is either from consumer brands or individual artists, it all provides us with the opportunity to discover new principles, practices, and approaches that we can incorporate into our nuanced nonprofit world.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

As an educator, I know that lessons learned and questions raised from this experience will substantively shift how I think about and act upon our relationship with our local creative community moving forward. Community artists gave their honest feedback, and we crafted a display based on these discussions and their contributions.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). One of the things I always focus on in participatory exhibit design is ensuring that everyone has the same tools to work with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. I wonder what lessons or techniques can be learned from her practice that can be applied with the next generation of tools? Meet Susan Silverman.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. Here are my top ten lessons from The Tech Virtual experiment with regard to design exhibits with a community of amateurs.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

The "love locks" are not a project with an institutional or artistic director. While the tools require some forethought (purchasing and inscribing a lock), on the most active bridge, enterprising vendors have sprung up, ready to sell you a lock and inscribe it for you. Nor are they historic. That's the key.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

At first glance, it may seem impossible to recreate some of these types of events in a virtual format, but with a little creativity and the right fundraising event tools, you might be surprised at the high-quality experiences you can offer for your donors virtually. However, that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on the fun.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. Access to password-protected content like checklists for camping with kids or sample lesson plans for outdoor educators. Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. Her game uses the human body to transform the verbs of nature into game play tools. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. What lessons can nonprofits take from this in using social media campaigns for social good? It is authentic, it is caring, and it is beautiful.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Many museums produce superb lesson plans, curator interviews and artist interviews for the web. Learning is increasingly global and fluid and the fact that cross-institutional initiatives such as the Google Art Project and Europeana are rare, points to how much work still needs to be done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. And here's another "vertical" video host -- Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network.

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M+R

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I took away a few lessons from Taylor’s smashing success that nonprofits can apply to communications and media relations. In recent years, we have seen artists like Beyoncé and U2 experiment with new ways to launch music. I’ve got a few to share with you if you’re … Ready For It?

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

It’s recommended to invest in an auction platform and a versatile bidding tool. If you do want to include virtual elements in your auction event, consider investing in a live streaming tool and posting all of your items online so that people can view them no matter where they are. Ice cream social – Everyone loves ice cream!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2021

We prioritize effective hiring and talent development because we recognize that a high-quality team is the single most valuable tool we can provide to help our clients increase their impact. Tutorials can be instructive, but lessons may not “stick” if you don’t use them in a real-world scenario. Meet the team.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

These kinds of events can easily be run on a tool like Zoom. This can easily be held virtually using a tool like Zoom and sending out an ingredient list ahead of time. Reach out to a talented volunteer or local artist to lead the class, and purchases the necessary supplies. Check it out.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

The good news is that there are hundreds of thousands of people debating the content of every book, scientific principle, and artistic movement on the Web right now. Together, these lessons paint the picture of a future museum or library: a safe, comfortable live venue for discourse about content. From the Web 2.0

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Golf – For those who like to spend their weekends out on the green, this golf basket has all the tools they need to up their game, whether they’re playing for fun or prepping for a tournament. Start with a candy-making cookbook, and then add some silicone molds, stainless steel dipping tools, and some non-stick baking mats.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

Now, on to the lessons thus far. Our proto-users are artists, architects, university professors, mathematicians, engineers who have already been experimenting with creating interactive environments and objects within the virtual world. Now, a month tired-er, I still want to invite you. First, let's talk process.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Do you have members who need help familiarizing themselves with Zoom, Slack, and other now-must-have office tools? If you have some talented artists, knitters, jewelry designers, and candle-makers in your youth group, consider hosting a craft sale at your church. You don’t have to limit lessons to painting, either.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2008

It’s called Pandora , and its successes reveal interesting lessons about aggregating museum content. You enter a seed artist or song (or several) and Pandora starts playing music that it interprets as related in some way to your selections. It doesn’t just group artists together and play music by similar musicians.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

During our conversation, Seane talked about what inspired the creation of Off the Mat, Into the World, her trip to Cambodia, the connection between your inner work and your outer work, and the tools Off the Mat, Into the World uses to help people determine how they are being called to be of service. 20,000 is a lot of money to raise.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

For instance, Stocksy United, a platform cooperative for photographers, videographers, and artists generally, has a fair wage distribution system for members. Tools of Democracy. Tools of Democracy. Nathan Schneider, “Exit To Community: Grafting the lessons of old cooperatively owned companies to the online economy.,”

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Louis is a traditional artist and I was in the journalism field. We've been trying since then to learn all those lessons and continue to make more stuff like that. You have to make all kind of different tools that do that, whether they are storytelling tools or just regular web tools.

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