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. Engaging with alumni networks is about connecting before alumni become alumni, while they are still students.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Health and wellness advocacy groups often use mobile fundraising as a way to raise awareness as well as money. Teachers, parents, administrators, and students alike all use mobile fundraising to improve their schools. Environmental awareness. Arts and culture. Health and wellness. Animal rights.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. During the ensuing discussion, one woman asked, "Which audiences are least interested in social participation in museums?" Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger."

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Care2

JUNE 22, 2012

When your museum gallery space floods during a freak storm, you know you’re in for some headaches, tough choices, and unexpected fundraising challenges as you deal with major water damage. Over time, especially when the weather got cold, students stopped hurrying outside and more people chose to ignore the alarms altogether.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Shortly after starting the poem-a-day project, I became more aware of the extent to which a vast majority of the internet is about this concept—exposing processes, opening up the innards. How can museums learn from it? But I’ve taught hundreds of poetry students—kids and adults—who refuse to edit their poems.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Andrea has been a leader in the museum technology field. The Detroit Institute of Arts has been a precious anchor where many of us have created memories that helped define who we are today. Today we must face our reality: It is not just the pandemic, the situation only exacerbated larger, systemic issues most staff are well aware of.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 4, 2015

We are all well aware of how volunteers further the mission of NPOs and the altruistic benefits for volunteers. If: Volunteering for wellbeing is a 16 week volunteer training and placement program delivered by Imperial War Museum North, Manchester Museum and Museum of Science & Industry that does that.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Every museum has a number for its operating cost per visitor. Most museums don't strategically set this number--too many operating costs are fixed by building needs--but they can use it to assess how expensive each visitor interaction is and evaluate the efficacy of programs. So where do online initiatives fit in?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

For a long time, I’ve admired their ambitious work, from exhibitions on complex topics like network science to integration of contemporary art into their galleries to incredible dedication to advancing the careers of diverse youth in Queens. Then again, the New York Hall of Science isn’t just any science center. So we had the key players.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Many of them had almost nothing by way of material resources, but they had imagination, and if you have imagination, you can, it turns out, light the dark with all kinds of creative arts. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. They are making progress.

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