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Turning Visitors into Customers: Maximising Retail Potential for Museums

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Museum shops can and should be more than just walls of collection postcards and bins of branded pencils. With captive audiences, a link to the creative, and consistent footfall, shops in museums have ample opportunity to maximise retail potential by offering products that appeal to visitors and have a clear connection to collections. .

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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. Hat Tip Jordan V at Convio ) The community will guide you if you listen.

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Introducing the 2013 Communities of Impact

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Without further ado, here are the 19 fearless CoI leaders: Barbara Burt, Policy Innovators in Education (PIE) Network Peter Campbell, Legal Services Corporation Michelle Chaplin, PBS David Goodman, International Rescue Committee Karl Hedstrom, NTEN Doug Jacquier, TechSoup Global Matt Koltermann, Action Against Hunger Mark Mathyer, Museum of Science (..)

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How Nonprofit Leaders Make Time for Social Media and Other Secrets to Adoption

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sharon Sobol Jordan, the president and executive director of the Centers for Families and Children , says “I was hesitant at first but I am amazed at how it has helped me process and crystallize ideas, as well as challenged me to stay current and engaged in the ongoing public conversation that surrounds our work.”

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Women in Nonprofit Technology Who Rock: Adding to Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jordan Viator. is the author of the popular Museum 2.0 Blog that covers how museums are using social media. Michelle Murrain. is an open source software guru who writes the some best posts on that topic. is Vice President of Operations of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition and was one of the first nonprofit technology bloggers.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: May 27

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Thanks to NTEN members Nate Solloway , Chris Parks , Jordan Dossett , Jono Smith , and many others for sharing tips and ideas there. > Hear from the co-founder of Foursquare plus the Technology Director of the Brooklyn Museum! If you know what that means, and you work in DC, you should join the group here. > NTEN Facebook Page.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jordan Viator invited me to be a panelist on this panel and I agreed because David Neff is a fellow panelist and I bet Jordan will make him wear an apron! Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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