Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2017

If bots are designed well, they can have impact. The San Francisco Museum of Art recently launched an ingenious bot called “Send Me” that allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

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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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

We are both excited and proud to see that Forum One has been awarded in nine categories for our work in website, video and mobile application development and design. Forum One redesigned the National Council’s website to create a digital experience that conveys the value and impact of its new brand. AARP Livability Index.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

We are both excited and proud to see that Forum One has been awarded in nine categories for our work in website, video and mobile application development and design. Forum One redesigned the National Council’s website to create a digital experience that conveys the value and impact of its new brand. AARP Livability Index.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Jasper Visser and his colleagues at the not-yet-physically-open National Historisch Museum of the Netherlands have impressed me with their innovative, thoughtful approach to developing a dynamic national museum. In this post, Jasper shares some lessons learned from a recent experiment to design a more social comment station.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

There are three audiences to focus on when (re)designing your mid-level program. Some nonprofits are increasingly experimenting with combining wealth scoring, RFM market research, and additional behavioral and demographic data with the goal of building more precise predictive models for mid-level prospects. .

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Have your local wine expert guide you all through the different wines via livestream to complete the experience. Give your donors the full movie night experience with a virtual viewing party. Virtual tours for museums. Designate a night for a few fun games of virtual bingo. Virtual peer-to-peer run/walk/ride. Bingo night.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. We are trying to change the visitors’ experience at the museum as well as ownership of what is in the museum, break down the walls between the public and the museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

How do you find your way around a multi-faceted museum? I spent some time playing with this question last week at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a large general museum that is moving toward redesign of the permanent galleries. I was there for a think tank about the reinstallation along with a handful of designers and academics.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

Customize your event and donation pages on one platform to create a uniform look and experience for your donors. This software leverages technology to help you build a connection with your virtual event attendees and create an immersive event experience. Qgiv will help you seamlessly integrate your events into your fundraising efforts.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 30, 2017

You need to launch your campaign , test your email deliverability , craft your message , and more. So test out new ideas, seek inspiration, and embrace the quirks! Catholic Relief Services gets a shout-out for their clean and crisp page design. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Catholic Relief Services.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I started the Museum 2.0 can be applied in museums to make them more engaging, community-based, vital elements of society. that are authoritative content distributors--like traditional museums. The user experience with web 1.0 I believe that visitors can become users, and museums central to social interactions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Nina Simon, a long time colleague and author of the Museum 2.0 blog and executive director, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History , told me about this amazing and fun co-created card game to help you think about self-care activities called the The Space Deck. RELATIONAL : opening, connecting and relating to the experiences of others.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

Ken is a game designer and writer who develops narrative, collaborative augmented reality experiences about serious issues. They asked for an experience that could transform how you perceived the Park – whether you were new or had lived in San Diego all your life. Lessons Learned 3: This is not a museum talking (what a relief!)

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2007

This week, with the gracious help of Eric Siegel of the New York Hall of Science , Museum 2.0 is launching an experiment in collaborative exhibition design. In the spirit of that question, Museum 2.0 will be sponsoring a number of test projects in collaboration under the banner of coLAB. Projects design.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Though the new Pages aren’t yet live site-wide ( the Brooklyn Museum’s new Page is ), it was quite random that I stumbled upon an example of the new Facebook Pages back in August [Re: a fake Facebook Page merged with a Facebook Places Page called Hubstown ]. The new design has been in the works for over a year.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Donorly provides a powerful team of fundraising professionals with experience across sectors to get results. The firm has over 30 years of experience and has worked with over 400 nonprofits to make custom-tailored solutions for success. Website: [link]. Brian Lacy & Associates. Alexander Haas. Website: [link].

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact. The Denver Community Museum (DCM) was a grassroots operation in almost every sense.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

With plenty of search engine marketing (SEM) experience, their team will help you design winning ads that target the right keywords. They’re open to chatting about their experience in other areas of Google Ad Grant management, so you can receive the exact support you need. A/B testing. Landing page redesign.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, we take our interns seriously, give them real responsibility, creative challenges, and meaningful work opportunities. I'm particularly excited about two internships that relate to participatory exhibition design. First, there is the Participatory Exhibit Design Internship.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Work for many museum managers has gotten real recently, I suspect. So many people responded, like Michelle Moon of the Tenement and Bruce Wyman of USD-Mach Design Consulting. Museums are a very small sector ( though larger than coal-mining! ). Alright, experiment here. It’s disjointed and siloing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Donorly provides a powerful team of fundraising professionals with experience across sectors to get results. The firm has over 30 years of experience and has worked with over 400 nonprofits to make custom-tailored solutions for success. Website: [link]. Brian Lacy & Associates. Alexander Haas. Website: [link].

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This week''s guest post is written by Julie Bowen, VP of Experience and Engagement at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. But it would never work in my museum because my boss would never go for it.”

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2017

I started my museum career as an exhibit designer. He is a genius designer out of central casting: an artist, mercurial, funny, emphatic, honest, unflinching, with a disarming weakness for babies. The Monterey Bay Aquarium is a giant in our field, just as Don himself is a giant in the world of museum design.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

Last week, I sat down on a toilet in our museum and found myself looking at an interactive station intended to test a “Legends of the Stall” sign concept for the restrooms. Some of my happiest moments as a director come when I encounter awesome things in our museum that I had absolutely nothing to do with. Some experiments fail.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The book of the same title that he edited is rocking my world, both as a museum professional who cares about inclusion and as a new mother. As we start the process at our museum of updating our permanent history gallery, one of our specific goals is to increase intergroup understanding in our community. Implicit Associations test.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

  I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership. 

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2015

Visitors in front of the African Elephant Diorama at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC photo) This guest post was written by Karen Wise, Vice President, Education and Exhibits at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. “I Familiarity may breed contempt in some contexts, but apparently not in museums.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

We’re all starting to see the gaps and fragility in institutions and systems we may foolishly have believed were rock-strong, or at least unlikely to be tested so vigorously. It’s been informative to see the range of museum responses to a world in which people cannot physically visit our campuses. as if that is what everyone needs.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2007

I’m working on a virtual museum project these days, and one question that often comes up is “What is the most fun thing we could let visitors do here that they can’t do in the real world?” After all, most of our ideas don’t require a virtual landscape; any museum could commission Kid Rock’s tour of the galleries. So why do it?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

specializes in designing museum experiences and exhibitions that are community informed, socially stimulating, technologically ambitious, and intriguingly experimental. I am available for consulting and strategic development, and creative design and leadership of exhibition, technology, and museum planning projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

It was a low risk experiment on AppMakr to test drive the service before selecting a vendor and to learn what was involved. For example, just take a look at the explosion of mobile apps for museums. If you do download, and you have feedback on the application, please let us now.

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