Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

I'm headed off for the Museum Computer Network conference in Chicago tomorrow. Kurt Stuchell just finished a project and created a new widget called the Universal Museum Media Podcasts & Blog Widget. The widget contains a collection of museum podcasts and blogs. is the museum crowd on MySpace?), What do you think?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

SFMoMA Museum Store. FEED Projects. Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop. Skatistan Store. Serrv Store. Pura Vida Bracelets. PETA Store. PBS Kids Store. ONEHOPE Wine. National Wildlife Federation Store. National Park Posters Store. National Geographic Store. Habitat for Humanity Store. Greenheart Shop. Everything Happy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. A good quote is certain to garner your nonprofit Retweets and thumbs up on Facebook any day of the week. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

For the past six years I have spent 50 to 60 hours a week utilizing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Foursquare to promote nonprofits. Posting more than one status update a day on Facebook. I am a big believer that less is more on Facebook. Like us on Facebook! No doubt about it. Make a donation!

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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. Facebook is a completely socially-engineered environment. We''re trying to personalize.

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For example, Pencils of Promise will be hosting, for the first time in two years, its PoP Gala on October 20 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. People naturally form connections through interactions on social media platforms like Twitter, Discord, Instagram, and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

If your organization has a robust Facebook presence, you can also use a Facebook Event to promote the event. If you have a projector and laptop available, you may want to stream the Twitter Feed during the event. Use Social Media Event Software: Three of those resources are Meetup.com , Eventbrite and TwTvite. Be creative.

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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 2.0

APRIL 13, 2009

I spend a lot of time talking to people about social media--how it can be a model for real-life content venue interactions and how it can connect museums and cultural institutions to users in new ways. This is the reason that many museums and cultural organizations decided they needed websites in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

I was out hiking in the Santa Cruz Mountains this weekend, sans wifi, so I was not paying attention to it until I got home and saw mentions of it in my Facebook feed from technology observers like Jeremiah Owyang and Robert Scoble. Museums , gardens, and parks have jumped on it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

If you think about what a museum curator does, it is very similar. The average user on Facebook shares/creates 90 pieces of content a month. With over 800 million global users on Facebook , if you do the math – that’s a lot of information! We can’t blame it all on the amount of information.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2017

You know that Facebook and Twitter are still major drivers of traffic to your website, but your love affair with Facebook is somewhat diminishing because hardly anyone even sees your posts if you haven’t boosted them (i.e. You need as strong a strategy for Instagram as you do for Facebook and Twitter. Brooklyn Museum: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It isn’t unlike what a museum curator does to produce an exhibition: They identify the theme, they provide the context, they decide which paintings to hang on the wall, how they should be annotated, and how they should be displayed for the public. For example, on Facebook the average user creates 90 pieces of content each month.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. While there are many ways for museums to reach new audiences, when it comes to specialized knowledge, it's often a question of reaching the niche who care deeply about German watches from 1822 or the evolutionary shift in raccoon striping over time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Known for having higher engagement than other social media, Instagram is evolving and it is becoming increasingly more difficult for nonprofits to get exposure in the Instagram Feed. In most cases, your avatar should not include text as it would be too small to read in the Instagram feed on a smartphone. Verified Badges.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Anyone can set up a profile for an organization (it prompts for an EIN number ( but not required ) and Facebook account url) and you can opt to be the administrator. But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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. Does your organization stream live on Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook? Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum invites community members to participate in the development and creation of an exhibit. Museum staff create an exhibit by a traditional internal design process, but the exhibit, once open, invites visitors to contribute their own stories and participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Museum of History and Industry ( MOHAI) uses social media to engage with Seattle residents whom they would not be able to connect with otherwise and have a say in how history is being interpreted. She told the story of how she created the videos herself initially, but when they started to catch on, she documented the results.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums. framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. run a Twitter feed. I provided the Web 2.0 and sniff around.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

It’s a news aggregator that pulls from your social media feed to create an e-newspaper that you can send out. Storify creates stories from social media feeds and can be useful for a conference or reporting. You’ve got social media covered. Please—you were an early adopter. And Twitter? You could do 140 characters or less in your sleep.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

I've written before about three types of museum users: contributors, lurkers, and judges. Digression: Some people have commented that my hierarchy of social participation suffers this fault by implying that museums should be trying to level up to higher social engagement. design participatory museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. You can actually go back and review your entire feed. Microblogging in a Museum Context. The What, Why, and How of Facebook Fan Pages. Is Facebook Causes A One Night Stand?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2007

LOLnptech: Comic Relief for the Nonprofit Technology Community said I could pick my favorite one of their posts for the Carnival so I picked the image above from They Want Me to Build Them a Facebook Widget. You can keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. A good quote is certain to garner your nonprofit Retweets and thumbs up on Facebook any day of the week. CheckFacebook :: checkfacebook.com. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

Last year, I wrote a post explaining what Twitter is and how it might be applied in museums. Now, a year later, I’m using Twitter on a daily basis, and it’s brought up some new observations about participation on websites and in interactive venues like museums. I’d love Museum 2.0 Consider, for example, this blog.

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MAY 9, 2012

3 social network in the US (behind Facebook and Twitter). As Arts and Cultural Organizations (museums, zoos, galleries, festivals and foundations), you have so many powerful images to choose from. Museum of the Moving Image. Clyfford Still Museum. Hands On Childrens Museum. Laguna Art Museum. Still not sold?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

How can you make your museum website more effective in driving traffic and raising awareness of your institution? But there is a simpler, more impactful way for museum websites to become more visible, cited, and visited in the online landscape. Museums are creating “walled gardens,” and it hurts online visibility and impact.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2011

With a mix of donated tools like Wikispaces and free services like Facebook, your organization has more readily accessible channels to get its message out, boost its fundraising and help recruit volunteers. Flickr even lets you can cross-post your images on Twitter and Facebook with a single click. Check out the TechSoup Flickr pool.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But it’s also the latest online creation of Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. They have also been very active on Facebook and Twitter along with a few entries on the Jumo blog. This is also where the connection to your Facebook account comes into play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2011

Having a robust content strategy that can feed multiple channels – web site, print, email newsletter, social media outposts, and now mobile – is critical to success. For organizations that museums and performing arts organizations, this is an easy and natural extension of their programming.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

The big cloud computing companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, and Apple have formed a consortium with the nonprofit American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in signing a letter to the Obama administration (PDF) urging for greater transparency. Images: Shutterstock.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

An iPhone app called Memento compiles the data from your various disparate personal information repositories such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr, and brings them back into a diary format, of all things. We live in the age of Facebook. But Facebook is horrible when it comes to telling stories. You can even add diary entries.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 26, 2009

I used the CNN.com/Facebook application to watch the inauguration live. The video was streamed live, and on the right, you could see status updates from your Facebook friends and or all of Facebook. While Facebook is in many ways a walled garden , they let you jump out to explore links easily.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Viewbix is a service that allows you to insert numerous apps inside of the videos that you host on your nonprofit’s website, such as a “Donate” button, an e-newsletter subscribe option, or your Twitter feed. Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and others are coming soon. Viddy :: viddy.com. Twibbon :: twibbon.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. A good quote is certain to garner your nonprofit Retweets and thumbs up on Facebook any day of the week. Facebook Cheat Sheet :: dreamgrow.com/facebook-cheat-sheet-sizes-and-dimensions.

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