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Meet Amy Fox of MuseumTweets: Best Practices for Micro Blogging in Museums

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. " Indeed, her first post summarized some observations from her research on how museums were using Twitter for her masters thesis. I'm fascinated by social networking and am interested in finding ways for museums to appeal to all types of people.

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What Does a Great Distributed Digital Museum Experience Look Like?

Museum 2.0

Museum technology nerds: this post is for you. I've been thinking recently about distributed content experiences--ways for people to interact with museum content (art, history, science, etc.) as they make their way through the world outside the museum. At the museum? but none of them are great. At the historic site?

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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. " The Role of Libraries. Additionally, 30 million library users reported going to the library for employment-related activities.

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What Should Happen to Underperforming Nonprofit Organizations?

Museum 2.0

But here I sit, the director of a museum that almost closed, squirreling away money for an operating reserve. Consider two high-profile arts closures in 2013: that of Shakespeare Santa Cruz and the 3rd Ward. Consider the museum I run. We had a dedicated staff that wanted to make this museum as good as it could be.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Tracking In-Kind Donations for Nonprofits

Neon CRM

All you need to do is include a field that allows you to track this type of donation in each donors’ profile or record. While most will receive the majority of their donations in cash, inventory-heavy nonprofits like museums or private libraries may have higher in-kind receipts than anything else.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Me: Have you ever been to this museum? meetup for Elite Yelp!

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