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Going Viral: Creative Social Media Campaigns to Inspire Museums

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With hours of mindless scrolling available with just a few swipes and taps, it’s crucial for museums to get savvy and creative with social media campaigns to stand out. Posts from visitors and/or followers about museums always appear more genuine than organizational marketing messages. METTWINNING. Art Fund “See Everything”.

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Developing a Participatory, Provocative History Project at a Small Museum in Minnesota: Interview with Mary Warner

Museum 2.0

Mary Warner, the Museum Manager at the Historical Society, wrote a series of moving articles for her museum newsletter and later for the AASLH’s Small Museum Online Community about her experiences tackling big issues in a small museum. How do we get the history of the poor? It’s sort of weird how it happened.

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Curating Valentine’s Day From Nonprofits, Geeks, and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Valentine’s Day is a big day for florists, jewelers, restaurants, candy makers, and nonprofit techies too! Here’s a few curated examples. It’s first Valentine’s Day logo appeared in 2000, looks quite primitive compared to today’s this American Life style animated and audio doodle. Strategy'

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How Do You Capture Compelling Visitor Stories? Interview with Christina Olsen

Museum 2.0

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Content Curation Tweet Chat Recap

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The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. For example, Summify measures sentiment and a user’s reading history to highlight content. Technology has made it easier than ever to access a wide range of information, but what’s the best way to sort through it all?

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. You just need to show proof of membership. Welcome packet.

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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. In December of 2012, the rock musician Beck released his latest album, Song Reader. That''s expected.