Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. Please leave me a comment or if you're interested in contributing a post, please fill out this form. In essence, it is visible storage for the museum. We are storage, after all.

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Museum Campaign Flickr Arts 92

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?

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Museum Audience Program Artist 24

Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Joe explains the what makes Pinterest demographically unique in his recent Huffington Post piece, Why and How Causes Should Use Pinterest : “The heavy presence of women 25-44 on Pinterest is what distinguishes it from other new social media platforms, which are generally populated by men 18-24. If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19.

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Ideas Images Flickr Adopt 78

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

I spent Saturday in beautiful Monterey, ocean pounding outside the window of a conference room, where about 40 museum folks were pondering a question more elusive than the origin of the waves: can museums change the world? The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo.

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Model Action Congo Museum 26

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

If you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum or zoo, then also add your address. For example, the Field Museum tags itself when posting on Instagram, thus also posting to the Field Museum Location Page : That said, if your nonprofit does not yet have a Location Page, you can create one using Facebook Check-in.

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Practice Nonprofit Avatar Social Media 363

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

This week, we're looking at the first section, Talking Back and Talking Together , which features comment boards, talk-back walls, and discussion forums at a variety of museums. I invite you to do the same in the comments. of comments directly addressed questions posed by the curators, whereas 2.4% What were they about?

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Voice Museum Lesson Pledge 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2007

When people talk about museum projects in Second Life and other virtual worlds, I'm often disappointed by the short-sightedness of the vision. Virtual worlds are a new, emerging technology, and like any new technology, overlaying old techniques onto new platforms is disappointing at best. I watched the beauty unfolding in front of me.

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Second Life Arts Life Machinima 20