Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marc van Bree and I were chatting about some of the collaborative arts marketing strategies that some arts organizations have experimented with on Twitter. Since there have been a few examples, I asked Marc if would write a post looking at some of these. How did you get 340 museums to participate? What was the objective?

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AUGUST 25, 2023

It’s been a rough couple years for arts-based nonprofits. As pandemic aid has run out without patrons returning in pre-2020 numbers, many arts nonprofit across the country have had to shrink programming, cut staff, or close altogether. This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more.

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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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JULY 13, 2012

This week we’ve found apps from museums. Mobile apps are an interesting way for museums to advance their educational missions beyond people’s expectations. ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. iOS/Android: ArtClix enhances uses mobile to enhance the museum experience. Frogloop has you covered.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Once upon a time, there was a beloved children’s museum in the middle of a thriving city. The brilliant team at the museum set out to find a bigger space and ran a successful capital campaign to expand to a much larger location. Adults had as much fun as the children. It was tiny and well-loved. They also benefit the donor.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

However, that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on the fun. Participants may improve their painting abilities, try their hand at some knitting, or do whatever other sort of art they like without having to leave the comfort of their own home. 7) Shopping. Why not consider comedy, dancing, theater, or even an interview with a celebrity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This year, Alan invited me to present a webinar for participants in the Marcus Institute Digital Education for the Arts on how Networked Nonprofits use Facebook. This was a fun opportunity to pull together some of my Facebook action learning curriculum and summarize much of the wisdom being shared over on at my Facebook Page.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

The fourth blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the delicious Meg Worden (I say delicious because I love her e-cookbook, Salad Alchemy). Doing good is fun. And incredibly fun. Supporting art and artists, writers and books. My work as a Health Coach is deeply rewarding. Feeding people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

Only add your location if you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum, zoo, performing arts venue, etc.: Now the fun begins! Experiment with Pinterest, have some fun with it, and if you’d like to receive updates from Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Edit/Set up your Pinboards. Upload your first Pins. e-Newsletter.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2013

Imagine seeing a museum exhibition related to this person's work. The answer depends on what kind of museum you are visiting. If we're talking about an an artist working in the context of an art museum, it's likely that the genius' work will be presented with minimal interpretation. What will you experience?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2012

million volunteers making things happen in the arts and cultural space. 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. Creating interesting contest.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum.

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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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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. Offer something fun and appealing to do that required entering the exhibition? Reassert the "forum"?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2015

What do Millennials want from a museum experience? Museum development officers and marketing professionals are all wondering if members of the Millennial generation (born after 1979) will support museums like our parents did. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) seems to think we won’t. The New York Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

  I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership. 

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

Here are a few of the hashtags I''ve seen applied to photographs of museum objects on Instagram lately: #heytherebigfella #biggysmallistheillest #forbrightfuture #myfavorite #instagood #bestday #withmyhomies #whatever #learnedfromthebest #revolutionary #nowicandie These tags all do a great job capturing the magic of exploring a museum.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 3, 2024

If you’re a museum, zoo, cultural organization, aquarium, garden, or any nonprofit with a physical presence people can visit, you have a great opportunity to raise money and boost your membership sales by marketing your membership as the perfect gift. Film lovers If you’re an arts nonprofit , try tapping into the local movie scene.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

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

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Name Tags: Make sure you have name tags and if are you hosting, be a good host and introduce people. Activities: If the event will be more than a networking event, have some structure activities or presentations. Be creative. Also encourage people to live tweet from the event. Keep in touch.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We ended up with a gallery in the museum instead.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Tenacious, Intelligent, Resourceful, Passionate, Insightful, Caring, Determined, and Fun are among the hundreds of words used to describe my friend and mentor, Simone Joyaux, since her passing last week. After they helped us settle into the house, we began five days of adventure and fun. She soon adored them and vice versa.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Have you ever been to a museum with no permanent exhibits ? On a recent trip to Chicago, I checked out the Museum of Contemporary Art. As I walked around delighting in the weirdness that is contemporary art, I realized how advantageous it can be to not have any permanent exhibits. Use Your Space Creatively.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This guest post was written by Joël Tan , Director of Community Engagement at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco, CA. YBCA:YOU is an intriguing take on experiments in membership and raises interesting questions about what scaffolding people need to have social and repeat experiences in museums. But they don’t.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

And because we love rapid ideation and an excuse for a fundraiser here at Whole Whale, we’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. Get a selection of your breakfast favorites and a variety of milks — make it extra fun with a pajama party vibe for your supporters. Enroll Now.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

There are many exchanges to find NFTs and each one tends to specialize in different types of art or styles. What’s more, artists will continue to get a percentage of the future sales of that NFT art into the future. This example shows how a nonprofit can be a fun partner to meme NFT and benefit from the sale. Top NFT Exchanges.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2010

When a technologist calls me to talk about their brilliant idea for a museum-related business, it's always a mobile application. There are lots of wonderful (and probably not very high margin) experiments going on in museums with mobile devices. Most visitors to museums attend in social groups.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2017

Like Seema, I've been looking for ways to increase active resistance of racism, hate, and bigotry--both as an individual and as the leader of a museum. Seema and I have started an open google doc to assemble ideas for specific things museums and museum professionals can do to resist oppression. Museums are ideas.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

And if you’re searching for fun and engaging ways to raise money, auctions and simple online events will get your donors excited to support your organization. Check out our comprehensive list to keep your fundraising campaigns fun and fresh for all of your donors. Virtual tours for museums. Student art show. Silent disco.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2007

As the host, I asked bloggers to post about, How Does Your Nonprofit Have Fun and Do Good? Your favorite fun, creative nonprofit campaign (i.e. How you make nonprofit work fun for you, your colleagues and constituents. Next week's carnival will be hosted by Michelle Murrain of Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2014

Working with arts organizations there are often concern that your constituent stories aren’t as impactful. million likes surely someone touting the effect of music and art on their lives can get just as many. Make it fun! Annual Fund Fundraising Arts & Cultural museum' to participate in an event. Make it easy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

While writing my mentor post last Sunday I got to thinking about how artists use art for social change and accumulated a bunch of links for related projects, programs and organizations that I thought I'd share: Change Me: The Power of Imagery to Create Change. This is a project of the Getty Museum. (I art activism social change

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Have each homeroom teacher set up a Board with fun pins from their class and share the Boards by email with parents so they can follow along and repin they are proud of and want to share with their child's family and friends. If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19.

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