Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Here's a few reflections from people in the room. There are approximately 320 individuals on the Second World Education list as well as 20 colleges/universities that have built virtual campuses (including Harvard's Berkman Center ), and are offering educational activities in world, most notablely the New Media Consortium.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

In the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s four part series on comfort in museums, we get down to the basics: creature comfort. So for this last piece, we look at going the other way: making museums more physically comfortable. And on the walls, my friend explained, was art from the museum itself. There was funky music.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2015

Last week, I sat on the jury for the first Cultural Innovation International Prize given by the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona , and this week, I'm offering a workshop for museum professionals across Poland participating together in a "Museum Lab" in Warsaw. The second post , in which Museum 2.0

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2012

Read the transcript of the Nonprofit Commons meeting, featuring Dr. Valerie Hill of Texas Woman’s University School of Library and Information Science discussing libraries, museums, and immersive learning. TechSoup Global reflects on collaboration and inspiration at the TechSoup Global Contributors Summit.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

This guest post was written by Ruben Huele and describes the scenario-based strategic process used at the Dutch Natural History Museum, Naturalis , to innovate the redevelopment of their permanent collection. The new building of Naturalis, the Dutch National Natural History Museum, opened in 1998. It should not surprise the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

They edit the conversations into radio shows, which are then made available as a podcast (you can listen to episode featuring me, #89: Museum Secrets, here ). Mercedes and Zach aren't just interrogators; they also shared their own reflections and stories throughout our conversation. But it's more complicated than that.

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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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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. As one participant said, "the museum feels friendly in a way it usually doesn't." People make the museum friendly, not activities.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2017

Hertford College , which is part of Oxford University stood up a Virtual event to provide alumni with the opportunity to fundraise from wherever they happened to be located. This type of fundraising is really popular among Universities and Hospitals. This helps keep the ROI high for these types of activities. Project Based Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I did a scan of the several hundred organizations registered for the webinar, many from Jewish education organizations, looking at their social media engagement practices as well as a literature scan of alumni network engagement with social mediaHere’s some reflections: Alumni Networks: Benefits, Challenges, and Strategy.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0 People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." hour at the Museum. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

She has created a company that is reflective of her diverse professional and personal experiences and her desire to make philanthropy accessible to everyone. She also teaches in the philanthropy graduate program at Saint Mary’s University, Minnesota, USA. Julie Hirshey. philadelphiaeagles.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Amy Sample Ward shares her first reflections and critique of the platform and wonders what’s the point? He has also put together a team of advisers including Jeffrey David Sachs , Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO of the Acumen Fund , and Linda Rottenberg is CEO and Co-founder of Endeavor.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2008

When you design a new interactive, talkback station, or traditional exhibit for your museum, what best practices and design requirements do you consult? Museums don't have a well-developed body of industry-wide best practices. In 2006, I wrote about how game mechanics can improve the stickiness of a museum experience.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

In almost all cases, museums assure me that they want to be in conversation, that they want to be responsive, that they want to “really hear” what people think. Sadly, it was the second story that was about a museum. But the issues these stories bring up around willingness to "hear" and "engage" are universal. Let’s start there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

I went to the University of Detroit-Mercy where I got a dual BA in English and Communications. We created and ran the web site for the Liberal Arts College in an atmosphere which, upon reflection is a lot like Linden Lab. In 2001, I started at the Digital Media Studies Masters program at the University of Denver.

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

Others are looking at no demand at all, and with it, no revenue, because their mission involved gathering large groups of people in places like theaters, galleries, and museums. They know that if they put their name on a poorly made product, it reflects on their good name—and degrades their ability to make money. .

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2007

What does your museum have to say about it? What do visitors expect of museums, and what do museums expect of themselves, when it comes to timeliness? This is partially driven by museums, which want to be seen as "forums" for discourse, but also by the expectations of a media-saturated public. Pluto just got demoted.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2008

In the museum world, we often talk about lowering barriers to entry, helping people get through the door. And so today we look at an educational facility (not a museum) that swabs the deck with these barriers. A tutoring center is even more stereotyped than a museum in terms of the public's expectation about who it is "for."

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2019

At the end of February, I attended the first of (what I hope will be) many Museums Advocacy Days (MAD) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. There was something magical about the combination of something I love – museums – with something that scares me: US politics. around something I’ve suspected for a long time: everyone loves museums.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2011

Note: This post is written in response to recent articles about museums by Arianna Huffington (on museums and new media) and Ed Rothstein (on museums and ethnic identity). I appreciate that you write about museums, and by doing so, publicize their work and efforts. Myth #1: Museums are about contemplation.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators. It is great to feel more of a part of the museum!" "All

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Today, a conversation with Elisa Giaccardi , from the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design at University of Colorado , Boulder. Elisa’s focus is interactive arts, media design, and cultural management, and she has been involved in many pertinent projects, such as MUVI (the Virtual Museum of the Collective Memory of Lombardia).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Her writing is reflective and brilliant. Do Good Well is written by Nathaniel Whittemore who is the founding director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University. Nina Simon a proud member of Gen Y, writes the very awesome Museum 2.0 blog, but you don't have to be a museum person to get a lot of value from it.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

In museums, attention to the visitor--her desires, his preferences--has grown over the last few decades. Reading all of the responses, I was surprised to see that the vast majority (not reflected here) threw their audience out the window as a perceived obstacle to truly innovative design thinking. Usable art.

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Non Profit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In a recent story, NPQ , quoting Komal Shah, a trustee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , asked, “How evil is too evil when it comes to donors?” Rafael Reif, conceded that the university had “accepted about $800,000 in donations over two decades, all of which went to the MIT Media Lab or to physicist Seth Lloyd.”

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I don’t know how you find the time to do this, Elizabeth, in addition to your full-time job which is a lot, but you’re also an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. As I shared, I’m a Senior Vice President at CCS and an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. So a little bit more about me very quickly.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

I spent last week working with staff at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) on ways to make this encyclopedic art museum more open to visitor participation across programs, exhibitions, and events. All artworks delivered to the museum during the submission period will be accepted and presented; no one is turned away.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

We also like to believe she was one of the first proponents of the "shine theory" with her quote, " There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ". Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. Roxane Gay.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

Whether it's my posters in the street, or books that I'm publishing that are getting out to bookstores, or workshops, or my speaking in different universities with different young people, I really see art as a way of changing our communities. Yet, the art world does not reflect that. I do art that can be very universal, to anyone."

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Museum work includes many intellectual labors that draw on deep reserves of knowledge and years of experience. Understanding work, time, and efficiency in museums aren’t easy or universal. Museums have a lot of tasks that are terrible dates. Neither gets more credit than the other (if they’ve co-curated the show).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

Contrasting that rich human narrative with the kind of gleamy tweaky technology narrative that was emerging from the NISE-NET meeting made me realize that generally speaking, science museums ignore many of the aspects of life that are the most resonant--mortality, sex, humor, tragedy, pity, joy. So we had the key players.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

It has introduced me to corrupt university fundraisers , the true history of Tom Dooley , and the world's oldest marathon runner. All this delightful non-fiction makes me wonder: why aren't museums great at telling these same kinds of deep, intense stories? This seems strange given that museums are organized around objects.

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