Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Last Friday night, my museum hosted a fabulous (in my biased opinion) event called Race Through Time. Race Through Time was designed specifically for this audience of 30 and 40-somethings looking for fun social events with a Santa Cruz bent. I've written before about the " parallel vs. pipeline " approach to new audience development.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Host a Passover seder as an alternative to the rubber chicken dinner or spaghetti supper. Fox Foundation’s, Team Fox young professionals have made these events into a fine art. Art Show and Silent Auction. Once it gets warmer and closer to summer, find a beach near you and pick a reason to gather an audience.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2015

Trendswatch 2015 , the annual forecasting report from the Center for the Future of Museums , is now available! So when AAM and Blackbaud hosted Trends Watch 2015: Using Open Data and Personalization at Museums with Elizabeth Merritt , Michael Edson , and Stephen Watson , attending it was a definite no-brainer!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

Let's say your organization has a mission to increase X (art, healthy kids, clean water, community cohesiveness, etc.). We still produce exhibitions, events, and educational programs for an audience, but that audience is just one of our major constituencies.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When you find a bar with your favorite song on the jukebox, or a museum room that feels like your grandmother's living room, you suddenly feel a strong affinity and are able to see yourself reflected in the space. It may be great for a natural refuge to remain hidden, but that sounds like a disaster for a restaurant or museum.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

If your audience is one that responds more positively to social media, then you might want to try a social media sharing blitz. Hosting a live-stream fundraiser is an excellent way to attract, nurture, and convert your audience over the course of a day. Alternatively, you can also pre-record your live-stream. Live-Streaming.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

Start an exploratory project to open a small, probably struggling, museum? Forget your grand dreams and try to weave awesome strangeness into your regular museum job? It involves an exotic museum bedfellow, the suburban real estate developer. At the time, I was Master Teacher of Modern and Contemporary Art at the museum.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Activities such as performances, live entertainment, and sit-down dinners regularly attract a large audience and generate significant money for charity. Although this appears at first glance to be beyond reach in a virtual setting, consider breaking down each aspect one by one to consider online alternatives. 7) Shopping.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2008

The point of these endeavors is that video games and books provide different kinds of experiences, and by putting them together, audiences can experience more varied, layered overall content. This problem is analagous to the repeat visit problem for museums. Museum visits, like book reading, can be an intense and wonderful experience.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. Why would an art museum create an ARG? To expand their audiences. Reaching Non-Gamer Audiences ARGs can be confusing. Coincidence?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2007

Nik inquired as to how I feel about museum blogs. what's your take on museums that keep blogs? In general, yes, I think that museums maintaining blogs is an effective, cheap way to get changing content out to the public frequently. version of the news clippings tackboard on “Current Events” in hallways of some museums.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

They felt that replacing the keynotes gave them a real opportunity to bring the whole audience together in focused participation which would hopefully spill out and over into the conference as a whole. She was really excited about the opportunity to perform in a museum space (at the MFA Houston). Where do our eyes go to in art?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Today, Museum 2.0 I started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 I started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 and watched the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This is the second part of a two-part interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard on their book Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. I love this idea, but I often find that museum staff are really nervous about making any changes that might alienate current members/donors.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

But this week, I got the opportunity to interview Jason Nelson, creator of digital art and avant garde game wonder game, game, game, and again game and how could I resist? Jason Nelson is a lecturer in cyberstudies/digital art/digital creative writing at Griffith University in Queensland, AU. just won an Italian art award.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

What does it mean when your audience is tired of itself? No one would contest the idea that most museum exhibitions, art shows, films, books, in short, most content experiences, have value both for the new and return user. our returners and core audience, who’ve been there done that. by not changing.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

The board meetings alternated between the United States and the UK. Those of you who have watched Simone mesmerize a large audience should see her work with a small crowd of energetic and knowledge seeking children. Part Two – Personal Friendship. She soon adored them and vice versa.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Participating in events that have little to do directly with books helps develop CUL’s audience, but it also increases the visibility and relevance of the materials in our collection by placing the publications themselves in new contexts. This Pop Up Library just returned from a folk music festival.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2011

I picked up a copy of Content Rules by Ann Handley and CC Chapman and could not put it down. The books shares the secrets to creating good content on social channels that engages your audiences. Here’s an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They offer principles, how-to steps and tips, and case studies.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

With technology improving, virtual and hybrid events rising in popularity, and new event ideas coming to fruition, it can be hard to determine the best fundraising event that aligns with your audience, goals, and overall mission. Audience members can even continue to give as the show is happening with text fundraising!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

Here’s an example of 25 SMART social media objectives from arts organizations. What should be measured are shifts in awareness, comprehension, attitude and behavior related to donations, purchase, branding, reputation, public policy, employee engagement, and other shifts in audience beliefs or behaviors related to SMART objectives.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

This guest post was written by Georgina Bath Goodlander, the Interpretative Programs Manger for the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Luce Foundation Center for American Art, the museum’s innovative open storage and study center, seemed like the perfect fit for the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The key thing that is different with setting a social media objective is that it is not about reaching a mass audience and blasting your message out, it is more about reaching the influencers, developing relationships, having a conversation, and getting insights. Dosh Dosh, Social Media Marketing Campaign Objectives and Audience Defintion 2.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

The longer I consult with museums and cultural institutions, the more time I spend peering into people's eyes, wondering: do folks here feel able to innovate? But overall, I found his approach effective and strongly preferable to the common alternative--an anthology of case studies devoid of connections or overriding conclusions.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2008

I'd love to meet many of you there, whether you will be at the conference or will just be in town for the annual Art Buggy Derby. On Saturday, Bryan Kennedy (Science Museum of Minnesota), Jim Spadaccini (Ideum), Kevin Von Appen (Ontario Science Centre), and I will be reprising our annual Web 2.0 Because attendees at these Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. But what if the "traditional" arts experiences is a myth? What if historic arts experiences were actually a lot more participatory?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. For example, consider two independent arts organizations in Los Angeles -- Machine Project and The Public School.

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