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How to Make Facebook Fundraising Work For You

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SU2C’s Facebook fundraiser featured personal notes and videos from Katie Couric and brought in $60,450 in less than 8 days. Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose (CDM). Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C). We kicked off SU2C’s 2018 #GivingTuesday campaign with a Facebook fundraiser hosted by cofounder Katie Couric.

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What is a Museum without YouTube?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is a Museum without YouTube? Looks like reviewed the YouTube channels for museums. The videos include short promotions, almost like movie trailers promoting an exhibit. The videos that give a peek behind the scenes at the museum have the most views, like this one of another sculpture installation.

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9 Ways Nonprofits Can Excel Using Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There was also a wonderful blog, “ Litter Did You Know &# and the above video about “Lady Meow Meow.&# But the real story was when the SFSPCA staff shared during the keynote was that these regular videos are produced by volunteers! Examples: Wildlife Direct and Brooklyn Museum. Theory and Practice.

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The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop launches today!

Museum 2.0

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. But this is not just for The Tech; our grant mandates that this project be a service to the museum community at large. A contractor, Involve Inc.,

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Case Study: A Participatory Road Trip takes the SJMA on a Wild Ride

Museum 2.0

Cultural Connections is a group of museum professionals who meet up a few times a year and host excellent programs on a variety of topics. This week, they hosted "Let Them Be Heard: Visitor Participation in the Museum Experience," featuring four presentations on incorporating visitors' content into museums. Here's what they did.

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An Interview with Jeska Linden about Nonprofits in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I graduated in 2003, I moved out here to California and worked with the San Jose Museum of Art before getting a job with Linden Labs. He's a few years younger than me, so very much part of the video game generation. I learned a lot from San Jose Art Museum.

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Game Friday: Bigger is Better

Museum 2.0

What museum hasn't benefited from a giant blow-up dinosaur on its front lawn? Flying into San Jose yesterday, I laughed out loud when I looked out the window and saw Clifford the Big Red Dog below me, a cheerful addition to the skyline (thanks to the Children's Discovery Museum).

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