Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

One of the themes I’m going to discuss is the Art and Science of Engagement. The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. I wanted to get a better understanding of context for this audience and the approaches they were already using.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

When we say we want our museum to be "audience-centered," what do we mean? However, I have enormous respect for the customer-centered model when it is executed in ways that truly invite visitors in on their own terms and deliver satisfying experiences. They catered to different audiences. All were given value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Policy makers, another target audience, were also using Twitter as a communications channel. ” Leadership modeling is important. When they launched their staff as champion strategy, they had to make the case that it was worth the investment of their time. Kenneth Roth , Executive Director. Lotte Leicht , EU Director.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

We framed the session as what to think about before, during, and after a training , using the “ADDIE” model as an organizing device. We were also accommodating a remote audience as well. The Art of Good Openings and Closings. The room setup fought with our design, but we managed to make it work.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2017

Precarious business model. Even if an institution or a project is fabulous, it may not have a solid, replicable business model behind it. Arts institutions have beat the innovation drum for decades now. Cultural organizations tend to have many programs, projects, audiences, and goals. Too much emphasis on innovation.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The session was facilitated by Susan Feeney, Partner at GMMB , and explored the range of new media models and venture journalism experiments. “As The Knight Foundation pushes experimentation [by funding] the tools and techniques.” To learn more about this art, check out these helpful guides that Chan has created: [link]. #5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Kanter will bring together a group of highly visible free agents working on important social change causes and representatives from different nonprofits for a lively discussion with the audience. What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? My nonprofit has found a free agent, now what? Trust me.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We blatantly borrowed the brilliant technique the San Diego Museum of Natural History used to write labels based on visitors’ questions. The fundamental question here is how we balance different modes of audience engagement. We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. There are several tactical techniques that consistently work on Facebook to inspire engagement. It has to resonate with your audience and connect back to your school experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. Identify Your Unique Value Proposition & Broadcast it to Your Audience.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We have new support from foundations and individuals who care about innovation in audience engagement—and even more importantly, participants who are excited to experiment with us. The cumulative effect of participation.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

During my time at RISD studying industrial design, I developed relationships with two museums on campus: the Museum of Art and the Nature Lab. The Rhode Island School of Design was established in 1877 alongside its Museum of Art, an important resource for RISD students. Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. It couldn’t be an educational space with no works of art in it.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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MAY 9, 2011

The next step is to make those data meaningful, relevant and actionable information by communicating them in some way via a channel to an audience. The effect is being felt everywhere, from business to science, from government to the arts. Information equals data plus communication.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Thanks to Kyle Evans, who forwarded me the fascinating, lengthy master’s dissertation.art: Situating Internet Art in the Modern Museum by Karen Verschooren at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. In it, Karen provides a survey of the evolving relationship of Internet art to art museums. How do you decide? Separation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day. ForumOne Communications blog answers the question " How do you engage 5% of your audience that are most important to you ?" Deadline March 23, 2007.

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AUGUST 16, 2008

These tactics will resonate much more with the YouTube audience than a piece you think is hip or one that features a celebrity. Other nonprofits have been sticking to the celebrity-centric PSA model or the "annual dinner" highlight reel video, which have less of a chance of going viral than other, more creative, models.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

These tactics will resonate much more with the YouTube audience than a piece you think is hip or one that features a celebrity. Other nonprofits have been sticking to the celebrity-centric PSA model or the "annual dinner" highlight reel video, which have less of a chance of going viral than other, more creative, models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This year, Alan invited me to present a webinar for participants in the Marcus Institute Digital Education for the Arts on how Networked Nonprofits use Facebook. The concept of before, during, and after is an important way to plot out your instruction, getting a good understanding of the audience, and modeling. I struck out.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

► November (10) Read "The Seven Arts Of Change" 4 Quick Tips For How To Lead More Effectively 5 Reasons To Do An Employee Survey Give Positive Feedback. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). •how to identify the right tone and content.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Exhibits), Rob Semper (Exploratorium) and I hosted a wide-ranging discussion session on design techniques for developing projects that involve both online and onsite elements. IMLS also wanted to help museums and libraries improve their skills, both for audiences and for their own professional communities. Leary (NRG!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

We addressed two content areas: The art and science of crowd sourcing for social change. The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? Next practices in integrating social media for program delivery that leads to social outcomes.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

What does it mean when your audience is tired of itself? No one would contest the idea that most museum exhibitions, art shows, films, books, in short, most content experiences, have value both for the new and return user. our returners and core audience, who’ve been there done that. by not changing. First, the newcomer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. Crowds create original works of knowledge or art. The Royal Opera used Twitter to crowdsource a new opera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Woudn't it be cool for the audience to rate the opera using their mobile phones? . Pick the Right Model. TechSoup Global has been one of the leaders experimenting with type of model through its Challenges. How do you evaluate this? In the traditional way, a music critic would attend the performance and publish a review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

Almost ten years ago, I used to teach a workshop called " Digital Information Coping Skills " for artists and arts organizations as part of a series of workshop on the theme of how to integrate the Internet into your (arts) organization's mission. Think Web 1.0

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Remind your audience of the point at the end. Thanks to Asher for sending me a copy of his latest book, which is also filled with helpful tips about how to engage your audience in Q&A, and how to overcome nerves -- which hit even the most seasoned leaders. Keep your story tight and on point, but give some details. Don't Praise.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

Light argues that while in business, any new idea that generates revenue can be an innovation, a new idea or technique is only valuable for a non-profit organization if it contributes to that organization's ability to deliver on its public mission. Others are "how" innovators--using unusual techniques to accomplish traditional goals.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

That said, the longer I work in the online world the more I realize how much of old-school, direct mail techniques are applicable to online marketing. I do, however, think that some old fashioned direct marketing techniques might be effective in the social marketing space. 60) Search « MySpace.com: A Place for Donors?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

That said, the longer I work in the online world the more I realize how much of old-school, direct mail techniques are applicable to online marketing. I do, however, think that some old fashioned direct marketing techniques might be effective in the social marketing space. 60) Search « MySpace.com: A Place for Donors?

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This means that web design projects (and even smaller, iterative updates) are important investments for nonprofits, and they can involve any number of different strategies and techniques. Top Nonprofit Website: Interlochen Center for the Arts. Think of these as the essential elements of web design: Clear, prominent donation buttons.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

As part of the session, Tom led live drawing ( click for high-res image ), and we invited the audience to add their own “can’t dos” to a large map of things that are “safe,” “iffy,” and “no way”--more on that later. This is not to say that science centers are more censored than art or history museums—every kind of museum has its own hang-ups.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

The trick is to understand and optimize each channel, and to not give in to simple black and white thinking, but to rather think strategically about your message, your audience, and how to provide the most substantive, mission-based benefit for the donors dollar. These channels will develop and co-exist. But actually you didnt say that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2012

I haven’t seen a campaign this swift on Facebook before & thought it might be a good model for some nonprofits to follow.” Additionally, as AXIS is one of the few companies that does the work we do, Social Media helps us to broaden our audiences – reaching places we couldn’t otherwise. What techniques?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

"How often do we hear colleagues from museums and galleries stating as their fundamental reason for working co-creatively with audiences that they want to make a great piece of museum work, rather than primarily for reasons of social inclusion or democracy?" was the most overwhelming answer.

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