Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. But, for the most part, nonprofit dashboard reports, if they are measuring the right metrics, are useful tools. Dashboards go beyond just reporting financial results as this post from the Blue Avocado explains. Two years later, we might have some answers.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2016

Five years ago, I left the consulting world to take the helm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) at a time of crisis and change. We have spent the past three years planning and raising money for a project to build a creative town square for our city on the front porch of the museum.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Last week Ginny Fitzgerald, the Director of Visitor Services and Membership at Chicago History Museum, joined us to host a webinar about how she prepares her team for peak attendance times. Chicago History Museum defines their summer season as June 1 through August 31. Ginny has over 17 years of experience in visitor services.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Every few months, a major news outlet does an "expose" about data collection on museum visitors. These articles tend to portray museums as Big Brother, aggressively tracking visitors'' actions and interests across their visit. And then I started thinking: we do that all the time in museums. We''re trying to personalize.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2015

Trendswatch 2015 , the annual forecasting report from the Center for the Future of Museums , is now available! And, while the report itself is great, a live webinar that digs into the research is even better! In case you missed the event, here’s a recap of two of the top trends to watch this year: Open Museums and Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Our track was one of three tracks for participants to dive deep into a topic and learn from peers through dialogue. Photo by Trav Williams. Here’s what we did: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Audience segmentation and research has become a hot topic in museums, especially when it comes to crafting appealing offerings that are customized to different kinds of visitors. I sat down with Kristen Denner, Director of Membership and Annual Fund, to learn more about the program's development and the museum's goals for its future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Arts & Culture. included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, healthcare, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. The grant categories will be: Health. The Planet.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2015

This is the first in a two-part series about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s new theory of change. This week, Ian David Moss and I are each writing blog posts about our collaborative process to develop a theory of change at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We had tripled our attendance.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Account management and reporting: A properly-structured Google Grant account will run 3-5 campaigns at once to drive conversions. Using Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, they’ll keep you in the loop on performance by creating live dashboards and reports that you can reference at any time. Comprehensive reporting.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 29, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. museums, recreation centers, etc.) Executive Director ASU Lodestar Center Welcome to Research Friday !

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

The nonprofit creates books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. As a reuse organization, its motto is "make art, not waste." Cary Creative Center has an art materials reuse store where people in the community can buy pretty much anything an arts teacher might want.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Elizabeth Merritt is the director of the Center for the Future of Museums , a new project of the American Association of Museums (AAM). When I was given the opportunity to found the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM) I had been working for nearly 10 years with Museum Assessment and Accreditation at AAM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Microblogging in a Museum Context. The Cute Dog Theory.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 25, 2023

These tools help streamline the registration process, track attendee information, and manage ticket inventory, leading to a seamless check-in experience on event day. That’s why nonprofit event management solutions often provide features for collecting donations, setting fundraising goals, and tracking donations in real time.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Moveable Type, like its predecessor, Listening Post (now touring international art and science museums), is an exercise in harnessing and repackaging data as art. But when it comes to presenting data, most museum folks believe that over-interpretation is necessary. But in Hansen and Rubin's case, it actually gets across.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology speaks about how difficult is to be objective, while Social Source blog described it as a high school popularity contest. In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems. The media here IS the service.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I always like to get the weather report. I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. In June 2021 Giving USA Foundation and partnership with the Lilly Indiana Family School of Philanthropy released their annual Giving USA report.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Cause Layouts :: causelayouts.com.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2011

want to move to Santa Cruz and work at my museum? We are looking for an obsessively detail-oriented, highly resourceful, financially savvy, culture-loving individual to be the Administrative Manager of The Museum of Art & History. Or do you know someone who might be perfect for this job?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2017

This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (brief video clip from opening night here ). it uses art, history, artifacts, and storytelling to illuminate a big human story and an urgent social issue.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Many of them track us automatically: Nike Plus tracks my run, Mint.com tracks my finances and spending patterns, and TripIt neatly organizes my travel plans. Nicholas Felton: Annual Report 2010. Nicholas Felton has been obsessively collecting data about himself and publishing annual reports since 2005. Our Stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

What do you track? Public Insight Network in Minnesota is a network of 75,000 people who help make Minnesota Public Radio News by sharing their observations, insights, and experiences with reporters and editors who may share these insights through a story or on the web site. What domains of impact should be considered (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

Guides, not report cards. Here’s an example of 25 SMART social media objectives from arts organizations. Want to look at a few inspiring custom landing pages, check these out or cruise through these landing pages of art museums or other nonprofits. Here’s an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Finding the right funders that match your mission, your specific project, and your geographic locale is quite an art. ” I’d agree, but the reporting overhead on multiple small grants is likely to be much more than on a single grant. • National Endowment for the Arts. • Your State Arts Council.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

In fact, according to our Navigating the Unknown Report , almost 70 percent of people are planning to include at least some virtual elements in future events. You can even host one virtually by letting your participants walk, run, or bike on their own with a specific distance or track. Travel auction – Who doesn’t love to travel?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

In this post, a discussion about the art of conversation in the groundswell. Many museums have jumped into the middle level—producing their own content—without starting with commenting. Consider the path of the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Jennifer Caleshu, their director of communication, is a museum talker extraordinaire.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Live-streaming is ideal for reporting live from conferences, fundraisers, and protests. A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. Statigram is a service for tracking your Instagram statistics. for awareness campaigns, staff and volunteer training, and creative storytelling and reporting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Cause Layouts :: causelayouts.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. report back from Wimbledon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. report back from Wimbledon.

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Web Tools Free Mobile 272

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. report back from Wimbledon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Cause Layouts :: causelayouts.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Create a system to track and report on success. ? Integrate mobile and social media into e-books and digital reports. ? Follow and study WITNESS , Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) , Big Cat Rescue , Anaheim Ballet , and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Create a budget. ? Websites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Create a system to track and report on success. Integrate mobile and social media into e-books and digital reports. Follow and study WITNESS , Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) , Big Cat Rescue , Anaheim Ballet , and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Create a budget.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

I also really like eMarketer’s social media usage report. So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness. There are people doing art. That doesn’t mean Apple can’t track you because you’re in the iOS thing.

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