Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

The early adopters in the nonprofit sector are a creative bunch. In museum tour materials. That said, QR Codes that prompt scanners to call phone numbers could be put to very interesting use at political events protests ushering in a new wave of QR Code activism. At fundraising events – galas, marathons, etc. At protests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Don’t let the discomfort of the learning curve for new technology tools get in the way of adopting social media or mobile tools as a personal and organizational leadership tool for your organization. To be sure, it’s an investment of time, but I actually think it’s a more efficient use.” ” Always Be Learning. Lean on Your Staff.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 25, 2016

In time, Snapcash may be used for fundraising, but for now it’s all about being an early adopter. Los Angeles County Museum of Art . Doing so requires a willingness to experiment beyond traditional social media marketing and an understanding that there is no immediate payoff in terms of fundraising. United Nations . FOUR PAWS .

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

If you've been keeping up with this blog series about applications of our annual Nonprofit Tech Staffing & Investments research, you've noticed that we refer to "Tech Adoption" when gauging the impact of staffing levels or investments on an organization. In this article, we're taking a closer look at what we mean by "Tech Adoption".

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2011

They have either not yet had their “Aha&# moment about the Mobile Web, or think it is too expensive and time-consuming to be an early adopter. Regardless of the nonprofit sector’s slow adoption of mobile communications, the Mobile Web continues to soar. I am here to tell you ( and train you ) that it is not. Not at all.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

If you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum or zoo, then also add your address. For example, the Field Museum tags itself when posting on Instagram, thus also posting to the Field Museum Location Page : That said, if your nonprofit does not yet have a Location Page, you can create one using Facebook Check-in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

Consequently, some of the nonprofits best known to be early adopters are pinning away too: National Wildlife Federation , Amnesty International , SFMOMA , Water.org , and the AARP. Business always underestimate the fact the nonprofits are some of the most active early adopters on the Web. Edit/Set up your Pinboards.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

Two recent events have got me thinking about pranks and unauthorized activities in museums. Improv Everywhere staged an event at the Metropolitan Museum in which an actor posing as King Philip IV of Spain signed autographs in front of his portrait, as painted by Diego Velazquez in the 1620s. I feel like it's more complicated than that.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

I’ve watched the early adopters of MySpace in 2005 propel themselves into the national and international spotlight using social media, and I’ve seen latecomers begin to dabble with Facebook and Twitter just this year. If your nonprofit is location-based (zoos, museums, health clinics, food banks, etc.)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2012

In order to sustain this type of impact tech savvy art museums, zoos, historical sites, botanical gardens and many other types of arts and cultural nonprofits understand that technology is key to sustaining their growth. As part of understanding the need for technology , the more than 17 thousand museums in the U.S. YouTube - [link].

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sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2021

Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN. NMAAM is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced, and inspired by African Americans. Even though the museum is now open, the Museum Without Walls will continue.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2011

I have a confession to make: I've never cared much about museums on the Web. When smart people talk about digital museums and virtual experiences, I nod and compartmentalize it as someone else's bailiwick. And it breaks a lot of conventional rules about museum homepages. Is this the future of all museum websites?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Leadership and decision-making come from adoption not from executive authority. If there’s an idea that the community is behind, and a project or plan that’s adopted (whether it’s a new way of operating or a new tool), then it moves forward, regardless of “who” thought it up or campaigned for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

More and more people are adopting social media messaging, including Facebook Messenger , to contact nonprofits with questions, comments, or requests. Museum Visitor Experience. Museums have been all over bots on other platforms, see the Momabot on Twitter for example. What is a Chat Bot? Why Use One? The Anne Frank House Bot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. The Indianapolis Art Museum has been doing just that by sharing its institutional dashboard out for everyone to view. It was met by with both positive and negative reactions from nonprofit and museum professionals. Two years later, we might have some answers.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Stephen Jackson From supporting a local museum to responding to climate change to aiding people in the midst of a health crisis, nonprofit staff turn time and attention to a variety of issues, working on them in creative and hyperlocal ways. It is, importantly, also the right of free association.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

And yet despite limited budgets, the early adopter nonprofits began using responsive web design in 2012 in order to adapt quickly to the new realities of Internet browsing. Hermitage Museum 2015. Hermitage Museum 2005. Nonprofits pioneered social media. Bold imagery. Large font. GlobalGiving 2015. globalgiving.org. icrc.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

But, try as we might, we couldn’t find any research that looked at arts groups’ adoption and attitudes toward digital and social media nationally that also asked all-important questions about how groups are measuring what they’re doing. Arts organizations are not alone in this. Just over 70% of our respondents, a majority, said “yes.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

QR Codes: fab or a fad for Museums? View more presentations from Museums Computer Group. Museums have been using them to enhance the visitor experience and have been early adopters of the technology. QR codes are popping up in school lesson plans, like this arts lesson plan. QR codes hold potential for arts organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

Rick Kats kindly sent me a spreadsheet of metrics for 6 nonprofits that were early adopters, using it consistently and best practices. Rather, I selected a small group of nonprofits that have were early adopters of Pinterest and have been consistently using the platform as part of their integrated content strategy. Gardening/Farming.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 28, 2025

The benefits vary a discount to your local art museum, a branded T-shirt, a gift card. Adopt a Subscription Model Modern commerce has conditioned people to pay monthly for everything from streaming services to meal prep kits. A vacationing family who signs up for your museum membership likely only wants the discount.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The folks at the New Media Consortium have released their annual Horizon Report , a roundup of up-and-coming technologies relevant to museums, archives, and libraries. Like its predecessors, the report provides succinct backgrounds and reference projects for technologies predicted for widespread adoption on the 1, 2-3, and 4-5 year timescale.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

This conversation came about after Seth's provoking post " The Problem with Non " took a swing at nonprofits for lack of adoption of social media, saying it was all due to fear. There's no better example than the public dashboards of the Indiana Art Museum - Innovation is about opening up and letting the outside in.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 14, 2010

This external profile technique was also used at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum when it first opened to let visitors connect with the stories of particular people affected by the Holocaust. They cannot find out the final fate of their boarding pass personae until the end of the exhibit.

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The Next Web

APRIL 27, 2013

Fast forward a few months and I’ve returned to my adopted country of Ecuador with the objective of helping to develop a thriving tech scene. Of all the obstacles, the biggest stumbling block, (according to JP) is one that is entirely within the tech community’s capabilities to solve. In one word, that issue is trust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

As an early adopter, I remember switching, despite how strange it felt. Yet, at the time, people were questioning “How could serious work ever be done using a pull down menus?&#. In many cases, the slow to change eventually adopt or they no longer remain relevant to their constituents, donors, or loose their edge.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin pictures of families who adopt animals from your shelter. Many animal adoption sevices send representatives out to do a home visit before the family can be approved to adopt their new pet, or even to drop the pet off once an adoption is finalized. If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19. Just use your beard!".

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

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Double the Donation

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Imagine this: Your museum must temporarily close its doors while making intensive repairs to the building’s entrance. Or, a decrease in animal adoptions causes a lull in your shelter’s main source of revenue. How do you continue funding your mission? 45% of nonprofits have no emergency fund at all.

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sgEngage

JULY 22, 2024

Just as organizations started to see patrons coming back to museums, live performances, and art classes, this year saw state governments from Florida to California severely reduce financial support for arts and cultural organizations. And nearly 60% of early adopters report higher total revenue, compared with 45% overall.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

2d Code is a must read for the early adopters. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. A comprehensive blog about all things related to Quick Response (QR) Codes, Augmented Reality (AR), and Near Field Communication (NFC).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Today a company focused on experiences — museum visits, skydiving, local cooking classes and more — is announcing a round of growth funding on the back of seeing its own business bounce back. Travel and tourism are slowly starting to move again in the wake of COVID-19 crashing over the world and sending us to shelter in place.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments. Nonprofits and museums depend on dedicated, but oftentimes limited, development staff to sift through countless prospects to determine which ones are priority.

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