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4 Ways AI is the Next Big Game-Changer in Museum Membership & Attendance

Connection Cafe

Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments. Nonprofits and museums depend on dedicated, but oftentimes limited, development staff to sift through countless prospects to determine which ones are priority.

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Social Media Strategy Is Everywhere in the Organization and More Cute Dog Theory Evidence from the Indianapolis Museum of Art

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Indianapolis Museum of Art has done an amazing job of integrating a social media strategy into its communications strategy. Whether it is managing their Facebook presence or encouraging conversation on their blog with art lovers, their social media strategy is a team effort. What makes them a success?

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Self Care in the Museum Workplace

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The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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More Cute Dog Theory Evidence: Meet Teddy, Brooklyn Museum Staffer Shelley Bernstein's Dog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition (Nina Simon wrote an analysis of the project here ). Shelley Bernstein, staff members at the Museum responsible for social media projects, left a comment on my blog. She responded: I would say start simply, check often and don't stress too much.

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Learning in Public Challenges and Actions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This could also potentially open the conversation with grantees about how they are sharing their findings/lessons learned with others. One that stood out to me (perhaps because of my proud Indy background) was the public dashboard at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. It is the same dashboard that the Board of Directors receives.

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Can A Public Nonprofit Dashboard Be Your Organization's Best Friend or Worst Enemy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. The Indianapolis Art Museum has been doing just that by sharing its institutional dashboard out for everyone to view. It was met by with both positive and negative reactions from nonprofit and museum professionals. Two years later, we might have some answers.

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Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto: Are Museums Evolving with their Innovative Web Strategies?

Museum 2.0

I just got home from the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis. I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Instead, I found a standard art museum. Impersonal guards.