Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2008

Earlier this week I wrote a post about the Indianapolis Museum of Art's social media strategy - that it was everywhere within the organization. Obviously, this is the result of starting with a small group, lots of conversation, and some culture change. It was nice to have a quick conversation with a couple of staff members.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I just got home from the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis. How can participation, openness, innovation, and institutional change become part of a broader conversation? This fear was precipitated by a painful visit to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Instead, I found a standard art museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

There are many sparks for conversation about the points raised. Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations. Some beta work is happening on this with TechSmith's " Jing Project ," an application that allows you easily embed screencasts into conversations on both PC and MAC platform.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

The experiment is a multi-step activity in which you talk to strangers, get strangers talking to each other, and then build a social object that mediates conversation among strangers (more here ). Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

These are the notes and slides for a keynote speech I'm giving this Saturday at MuseumNext in Indianapolis. Our Story I came to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago. One day, I walked in, and there were two armchairs with a sign that said "Sit back, relax, and enjoy the art." We had to make a change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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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. Nina Simon, How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Tactics and Tools.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Q: What advice would you give for those of us that are members of a leadership team, but have an executive director who doesn’t make time for conversations like this? Perhaps the fact that the American Alliance of Museums has identified self-care as an issue worthy of museums’ attention will help jumpstart a conversation!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We’d been using Facebook for awhile for groups, but then I happened to read about apps, file it away, and then a week later it came up in conversation. If you look at the IMA (Indianapolis Museum of Art), they’ve got that going on in YouTube.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2011

The section features rock stars like Shelley Bernstein (Brooklyn Museum), Mike Edson (Smithsonian), and Rob Stein (Indianapolis Museum of Art) and covers projects from Tweetups to Arduino hacks to Google Art.

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