Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. What should we be building to help artists make and sell art, engage their audiences, and connect to other artists? Trust me.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

He commented that as non-profits, museums are built to survive, not to succeed. Last year, I met Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project , an extremely cool "post-educational" space in Los Angeles that is part art gallery, part workshop space, part mad scientist party central. Tags: business models.

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

Smithsonian Associates (SA) , which annually presents 700+ classes and other educational and entertaining programs, made a hard fast pivot in June 2020, when it began to present all of its lectures and art courses as livestreamed programs on Zoom. I also learned to keep my own comments short.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2016

Knowing that those three days are so jam-packed with content, I often get asked what bbcon offers for arts administrators, and the answer is…a lot! So I went ahead and picked out some of the top sessions for Arts & Cultural organization to make planning your conference journey just a little bit easier.

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sgEngage

APRIL 28, 2022

I model the hospitality I expect our volunteers to show to visitors by welcoming them with warmth, fully listening and engaging when they are present, and showing appreciation for their choice to [volunteer] that day. If you’ll be implementing any of the above tips, let us know which one and how by leaving a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector. I had a chance to collaborate with every type of art form, arts management programs, arts education, and individual artists.

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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. The steps include reading, commenting, and sharing stories of personal behavior change. Register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2005

the blog of Barry Hessenius, executive director of Alonzo King Lines Ballet in San Francisco, and former executive director of the California Arts Council takes an interesting twist on a group blog. The press release says: Modeled on PBS???s And, judging by the lack of posted comments, there was a lot of audience participation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 06.20.08 I learned a lot.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits September 19, 2008 Here are a few interesting tidbits that have come my way over the course of the last few days There is a new online fundraising platform, founded by an ex-Convio person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 1200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. We need to hack the model for accessibility tools! from replacing ads with art to alerts when you visit the websites of companies that threaten the environment. To vote: 1.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2017

Here are a few of my hypotheses (and I’d love to hear yours in the comments). 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. Please share your questions or comments!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Kristiansen captured the drama on this video clip of Mena Trott's Keynote calling for more civility in blog commenting. Mena got angry at the comments because they were not so civil - particularly those from Ben MetCalfe who Mena called out publically. Warning she says the F-word on the clip.) One of the reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report. That model uses social media a mechanism to give feedback. It creates communities when users can comment and exchange their stories about a particular topic.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). We created a teen arts council, invested in staff, and invested in programming. Now the teen arts council model is no longer considered innovative.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

It is a strong, museum-focused complement to an excellent three-parter on Createquity about the ethics and future of unpaid arts internships. Even though she worked just as hard as I did, it took her five years longer to get her foot on the arts employment ladder than it did for me.) community in the comments. Absolutely.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

But this one resonated clearly, as I got 75 retweets and 61 comments. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. And here are a few suggestions from commenters. nathan lachenmyer (@morphogencc) November 11, 2019 Managers need to model working smart.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. We are finally leaving behind the 18th century model of education where groups of students are expected to learn at a standard pace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You can also invite Alums to share what they’re up to as part of your engagement strategy on social channels, either as a dedicated post or part of the conversation in the comments. Notice the engagement in the comments, with people tagging each other. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2006

A couple of examples are the NCDD Blog , Technology In the Arts Conference , and WorldCafe Stewardship Dialogue Blog. If others in attendance are also blogging, they are encouraged to comment, link or trackback to the posts. If others in attendance are also blogging, they are encouraged to comment, link or trackback to the posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

One answer comes from Eugene Eric Kim in a presentation he did about networks, “Be the Change You Want To See&# – it’s about modeling. It can be “transparent&# so others can peer or browse or can be open and others contribute or comment. Three Different Designs for Public Learning On Wiki.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Sue Bennett 09.11.07 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Sue Bennett 09.11.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 10.04.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The mission is to promote participation and practice in dance, movement, and performing arts traditions from around the world while using the arts as a key tool to revitalize community. They used social media to win “ Deals for Deeds ” contest. They said thanks.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. The MAH fundamentally has two jobs: we bring art and history out into our community, and we invite our community in. We want to break out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Social != TechCrunch suggests the issue is in the business model: Unfortunately, the business models have not been worked out yet to accommodate such mixing of data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

Providers seem to be surviving (or thriving) with this model, free and open source software projects are getting the support they need, and clients are getting the software solutions they need. This is a model that is impossible with proprietary software. It’s a model I hope spreads beyond the CMS space, into other areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As a result, staff didn’t feel as if they had permission to use it. “After the CEO sent out an email to everyone to remind them about this benefit, and also shared how they were planning to visit an art museum as part of their creative time, staff members started to use this benefit.”. Share it in the comments below. Have story?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

My answer to Holly's question was that organization's that are innovative have leadership that is open to public learning and models that in the organization. There's no better example than the public dashboards of the Indiana Art Museum - Innovation is about opening up and letting the outside in.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2019

As an outsider, he immediately saw that museums were operating “under a business model that doesn’t work.” Share here in the comments or on social. The Western Museum Association was kind enough to invite me to speak on a panel about engagement at their annual meeting in Boise.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 02.14.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why sometimes eating your own dogfood makes you want to throw up! 2 trackbacks } Frustrations » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 03.09.08 at 9:41 pm Linux desktops? And it’s hard.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

Our funds have helped make Oregonians healthier and better educated, provided greater access to social services and the arts and culture, strengthened the nonprofit sector and improved the environment for all who live and visit here.”. We’ve set a goal to make MMT a national model of a regional foundation,” Stamm said.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

Posted by ASU Lodestar Center at 12:16 PM Labels: Asset Based Community Development , Chandler , community , Hannah Humphrey , nonprofits , Public Allies , social media 1 comments: George King said. I agree we need more of these model communities. Our 15 year old son is severely autistic. Thank you for the post! Keep up the good work.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

Over the past two years, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has undergone a significant transformation of program, audience, and resources. Our revolution is predicated on three big ideas: Art and history are something you do, not just something you learn about. Museum of Art and History risk institutional change Core Museum 2.0

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

Despite having modeled institutionalized sharing for literally centuries ( hello, public libraries! ) In some models, it's not sharing that's taking place at all; it's renting a commodity owned by the community, rather than owned by the company. Sign in to share your thoughts in the comments below.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What OpenSocial Means November 1, 2007 The buzz of the blogosphere is the announcement of Google’s OpenSocial. Open Data » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.08.07

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