Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2011

Many people ( Paul Orselli , Linda Norris , Pete Newcurator ) in the museum field have written about the question of museum "tribes"--based partly on Seth Godin's book , partly on the longstanding fan culture that pervades our lives through sport , celebrity, and shared experience of mass events. There are staff in plush costumes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2011

The Indianapolis Museum of Art’s dashboard is an oft-cited example. Note from Beth: Check out this case study about The Indianapolis Museum of Art’s Dashboard). These dashboards are typically inward facing, so that only staff and perhaps board members can view them, but they can be outward facing as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

One that stood out to me (perhaps because of my proud Indy background) was the public dashboard at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. I am excited to bring the Indianapolis Museum of Arts model to the table to see what our board’s reaction would be to sharing ours as it is developed.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

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.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

As our trip wound up we decided that the first week of August would be our annual Extended Family Reunion for all of us at our home in Indianapolis. We had two unbelievable versions of this before COVID hit halting last year’s plans. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

As Robert Stein, Deputy Director for Research, Technology, and Engagement at the Indianapolis Museum of Art told us, “Museums have tended to use [websites] as extensions of marketing.” But as digital media matures as a tool for cultural organizations, groups are using it as a gateway to connect people with art.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

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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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

Image: The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Our guests will speak to the importance of creating a culture. of storytelling at your nonprofit, library, charity, or social benefit. organization.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Last week, as part of my museum's year-long Loyalty Lab project , we hosted a workshop for Bay Area museum professionals with special guests Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne of the game design firm Situate. Our goal was to help people see the museum as a Friday night habit. When you mastered arcane rules to achieve your goal.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. to support programs and exhibits. Not really.

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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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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

The presumed answer is "yes" your museum needs a blog, a pony, or a set of comfy couches. Does your museum need a custom online social network? Many museums have been experimenting in these spaces by creating institutional profiles, museum affinity groups, and connecting with visitors and other museum professionals individually.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Why Museum Professionals Should Use Flickr from the Musem 2.0 Indianapolis Museum of Art Visitors sharing photos in a group. And, what if you could subscribe to an RSS feed so anytime a new picture was added about a topic you care about, were studying, or writing about - it would come automatically to you? A List of Examples.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

On a recent trip to DC, an old friend showed me around a new exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide. The paper is perforated with one section for the promise, which visitors keep, and another section for a signature, which visitors leave at the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2008

Earlier this week I wrote a post about the Indianapolis Museum of Art's social media strategy - that it was everywhere within the organization. | View | Upload your own. Obviously, this is the result of starting with a small group, lots of conversation, and some culture change.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Museum passes Offer a local museum bundle for those looking to explore more of the cultural and historical opportunities your city has to offer. For example, you could create a bundle with art, history, and science museum passes. Offer a spa day package at a local spa for a lucky winner to unwind and receive some pampering.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. But museum folks, no matter how much we want to collaborate, don't move quickly. A month ago, I invited you to join this project. Now, a month tired-er, I still want to invite you.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2006

symposium in Amsterdam, NL, organized by Mediamatic December 11-12, 2008 - Future of the Tropenmuseum symposium in Amsterdam, NL, organized by the Tropenmuseum February 25-27, 2009 - IMLS WebWise conference in Washington DC March 30, 2009 - keynote speaker at Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY April 14-18, 2009 - Museums and the Web (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Beth Kanter, Social Media Strategy Is Everywhere in the Organization - Indianapolis Museum of Art. Nina Simon, How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Beth Kanter, 52 Ways To Streamline Your Social Media Use. Beth Kanter, How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Tactics and Tools.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2007

Welcome to the first installment of the Museum 2.0 While every post at Museum 2.0 Elaine Gurian, author of this summer’s book, Civilizing the Museum , will also be popping into the conversation as her time and interest permits. And if you're planning ahead, next week we'll look at chapter 6, Timeliness: A discussion for museums.

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MAY 26, 2021

A: When we started in 2008 in Indianapolis, Indiana, Achieve’s origins were around strategic planning, fundraising strategy, campaign development, and academic research on what motivates people to give and how to reach them. Q: Tell us a bit more about Achieve.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

We tried this at the Denver Art Museum last week, and it is incredibly challenging—you can’t just put out a box of chocolates and expect people to talk. Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis. Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

These are the notes and slides for a keynote speech I'm giving this Saturday at MuseumNext in Indianapolis. All weekend, we've heard uplifting stories about amazing work you all are doing to involve people from all walks of life in museums. But museums do exclude people. If not, please share a comment and let's talk online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. o is Transparency - and the best example of that is what the Indianapolis Art Museum has done with its pubic metrics on its web site.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The study specifically excluded institutions without employees, museums, religious institutions, hospitals, and membership organizations to focus on traditional higher education institutions like Harvard, NYU, Johns Hopkins, Duke, and others. people, representing a significant economic impact.

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