Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

Photo by Neatonjr.   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

AUGUST 15, 2012

In 2008, I wrote a post arguing that museums should focus on the pre-visit, not the post-visit, if they want to capture and retain visitors. I said: In many ways, the ability to successfully set a powerful and useful expectation for museum experiences is MORE valuable than the ability to extend said experience. Reader, I was wrong.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

How do you find your way around a multi-faceted museum? Do you interrogate the map? 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. That packaging was in the photos, not the cards.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

All the photos in this post are on Flickr here. Stringing Connections , in which visitors could describe relationships between works in the exhibition and make them visible by tying pieces of yarn between them on a large map of the gallery. As one participant said, "the museum feels friendly in a way it usually doesn't."

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

I’ve received a few inquiries over the last year about museums and geocaching. to ask him all the dumb questions about geocaching and museums you can imagine… and a few more. Sounds like there might be some overlap with your museum audience? Both geocaching and museums are fundamentally about exploration and discovery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Photo by Trav Williams. These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance. Documenter: Using a digital camera, the documenter should capture photos of the process – the set up, the activity, and the products from the activity. Taking in New Ideas: Facilitated Listening.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. This multi-museum collaborative is undertaking a thoughtful process to tackle these issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. t simply about putting your photos up on the web for the world to see. What if you and your colleagues could annotiate these photos with your own descrptions and observations? Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 9, 2014

List any special rules, like an early closing time or photo policy. A great way to get ideas for what to include on this ticket is to experience the process as if you were a visitor yourself : Add a map with the location of your museum and where patrons should park. Include dress code for black-tie only events.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 24, 2022

A car museum would do well to select a vintage car; a mountain bicycling association would be successful with the latest high-end mountain bike as their prize. Before you launch the sweepstakes, map out your exact moves. How Great Photos of Your Prize Will Build Buzz and Generate Donations. Are they outdoorsy types?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Surfrider Foundation , profiled in the book, by gathering research about what motivates its audiences and through what channels and having a strategy session with staff to map out the different levels of engagement and metrics for conversion. Organizations need to build their own engagement model.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

feed * Starbucks Challenge Map * Starbucks Challenge photos tagged on Flickr NONPROFIT CAMPAIGNS USING MULTIPLE SOCIAL WEB TOOLS ONE Campaign. Tools: Videos on Google Videos, podcasts on Gcast, blog posts on site, photos on Flickr, questions on Yahoo! Track the impact of your email on a map. Goal: Make poverty history.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2011

They planned to paint the outline of Santa Cruz County, print out photos of a series of important landmarks or icons throughout the county, and then paint those items onto the map. Two weeks ago, two of my staff members came to me with a problem. They were planning a wall mural for our classroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Flickr photo from handsome monkey. context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 situation unless museums can get the ???stickiness??? Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Engagement Strategie s. era websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Today’s online communities go beyond posting photos or finding dates—they are building social capital, increasing awareness and raising millions of charitable dollars. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

They also included a photo and "My dream title" (examples: banana queen, marathon master, didjeridooer). Org charts, like maps, aren't given the attention they should be, especially in large institutions. Here's a snippet from a map of the affiliations of the JP Morgan board of directors. I was captivated. It shouldn't be.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 22, 2006

The talk was also sponsored by Facing History, Facing Ourselves , Human Rights Watch , the Museum of African Diaspora , Marines' Memorial Association , Bay Area Darfur Coalition , Amnesty International and Stacey's Independent Bookstore. Add yourself to the Bloggers for Darfur Frappr map. Join the Bloggers for Darfur Yahoo Group.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2007

Many in-museum 2.0-style Many museums have created short-term mapping or timeline projects that are post-it based. Slap up a map of the city and let people write memories on post-its and locate them at the site of their old apartment, school, or favorite tree. Creating the backbone for a robust 2.0 It's messy.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

Today’s online communities go beyond posting photos or finding dates—they are building social capital, increasing awareness and raising millions of charitable dollars. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! Bring your yoga mat!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.) We've continued to do this for future exhibitions.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

Kids on probation, kids struggling with addiction, kids whose lives have detoured off every map to a brighter tomorrow. He shows a big board of photos of FoodWhat youth at work. For teens, every photo they share, every activity they opt in or out of, every outfit they wear, is part of establishing their desired identity.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2010

When a technologist calls me to talk about their brilliant idea for a museum-related business, it's always a mobile application. There are lots of wonderful (and probably not very high margin) experiments going on in museums with mobile devices. Most visitors to museums attend in social groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

Photo by Social Misfits. Storify with Tweets and Photos. They post a photo of the recipient on their Facebook page and tag the donor as a way to say thank you. The site shows photos that capture the mundane moments of everyday life in a beautiful way. My blog post with slides and links.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Jorge Luis Borges points out that a 1:1 scale map is useless. Photos matter. Daum Communication , a leading internet services provider in Korea offers a map service with a streetview option, much like Google Maps does in the States. But what’s the point? Nicholas Felton: Annual Report 2010. Typeface sizes matter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

TweepsMap is a free tool that provides a visual, interactive map of your Twitter followers by country, state or city by simply logging in with your Twitter ID. Tripline is a clever way to visually plot check-ins on a map that can be shared with others. PowerPoint Maps Online :: powerpointmapsonline.com. Picmark :: picmark.co.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

In 1990, educator and cultural critic Neil Postman described a museum as "an answer to a fundamental question: what does it mean to be a human being?" Without an explicit "I" voice, the museum's perspective on humanity is oblique to say the least. Welcome to Pine Point is not a museum project.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Here's the basic idea: while you are at the museum, you save digitizable content--either content you make (photos of yourself) or content you collect (museum-supplied text or media of interest). How can museums improve on this personal webpage strategy? The US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Take Action website does this.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos. It is a must download!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 6, 2009

Several of the projects I'm working on these days relate to the concept of "extending the museum experience." And so when it comes to designing online extensions to the museum experience, we need to apply a different set of expectations from those we use to design onsite experiences. How did we make this map and how are we using it?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Here's a problem many museums would like to solve: How do you design an intuitive way to give visitors unique IDs so that visitors can receive personalized content and feedback and institutions can receive real-time data tracking on visitor behavior? It's not a new problem. Define the core technology that aligns to your mission.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Both of these attributes are of great interest to museums, which are trying to figure out how to monetize the Web and how to use the Web to draw more people to their physical locations. You come to the museum, and THEN you post your photo in the Flickr group. It's a very hard question to answer. The second doesn't.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2008

When museum professionals talk about extending the museum experience, they’re usually talking about post-visit experiences. Personalized websites with photos from the visit. But for most contemporary museum-goers, the pre-visit happens on the web. What’s the most used portion of your museum website?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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