Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

In April, I taught a social media workshop for artists and arts nonprofits and did some research. on how different arts organizations using social media effectively. The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition , an experiment in crowd-sourced exhibits. Full Moon Over the East River.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

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. Best yet, you could even offer some of the art produced in the class as auction items during your next fundraiser. 7) Shopping. 13) Scavenger hunts.

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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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MAY 28, 2024

The site’s design emphasizes three primary avenues for discovering content: watching the series, exploring additional materials like interviews and lesson plans, and engaging in real-world activities, such as building a native plant garden. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). It's easier to secure grants for community-based programming or exhibitions, but it's not easy to get funding for some of the core work that museums do.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 6, 2020

I had a total fan-girl moment meeting Colleen when she delivered the Arts & Cultural track’s keynote at bbcon 2019 in Nashville last October. And coming very soon, we will be interviewing Aubrey on Blackbaud’s sgENGAGE Podcast on all of the above — so make sure you subscribe to be notified as soon as it goes live. .

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. The guiding principle is uncovering relationships between the works of art themselves rather than explicating information or theoretical concepts.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Audience segmentation and research has become a hot topic in museums, especially when it comes to crafting appealing offerings that are customized to different kinds of visitors. I sat down with Kristen Denner, Director of Membership and Annual Fund, to learn more about the program's development and the museum's goals for its future.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. And it ended with this: No wonder it [MOMA] ends up showing shallow, label-dependent art rather than work that offers deeper, more contradictory encounters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Interview with Donald Marinelli - Parents and their kids - web2.0 Howard Wright and Phillip Horn received awards for their visionary efforts in forming CAMT, ArtsNet, and furthering the field of arts management and technology. If you are in the business of education or arts, what degree do we know this future generation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

Some of the entries of what you can read on the Walker Blog, may appear at first glance to be mundane details of cube life , but then you remember that it is a museum blog and it makes the institution seem more human. This Walker Blog let's us peer into the inner workings of the art institution. I saw your posts on Art Mobs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

on July 18th and subsequently had a chance to interview her at her fabulous virtual office in Second Life. We created and ran the web site for the Liberal Arts College in an atmosphere which, upon reflection is a lot like Linden Lab. I learned a lot from San Jose Art Museum. Mixed Reality Event ???

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? But for museum and art wonks, it could be. No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Each of them comes from the extended family of museums: close enough to be relevant, far enough to spark new thinking. Joe Patti runs a performing arts center in Ohio. he has been blogging about arts management. Grasstronaut offers long-format essays and interviews about grassroots and DIY arts spaces.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Two weeks ago, my museum was featured in a Wall Street Journal article by Ellen Gamerman, Everybody''s a Curator. I''m thrilled that our small community museum is on the map with many big institutions around the country. I''m glad to see coverage about art museums involving visitors in exhibitions. It''s not cheap.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

." -- Tom Aageson, co-founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship A week, or so ago I interviewed my Dad, Tom Aageson, for a special Father's Day show on the Big Vision Podcast. I've posted an edited transcript of the interview below. He is also the co-founder of the International Folk Art Market. This was 7 years ago.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 24, 2011

There is a long interview with me in this week's Good Times (Santa Cruz's leading weekly). We talked Paulo Friere, what museums can learn from dentists' offices, and the challenges of not feeling stupid while viewing art.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. to support programs and exhibits. Not really.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

While I was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art working on a website redesign, we recognized the need to be transparent with our internal audiences and started hosting a series of monthly open forum presentations called “Website Wednesdays.” Just like a good soccer coach does for their team. They can even be done virtually!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 This post is even more relevant today to the broader conversation about audience diversity in the arts than when it was published three years ago. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. blog posts from the past. Why can''t new visitors do the same?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2024

a leash with your logo on it for animal shelters, a portable Bluetooth speaker for music or theater organizations, or a special edition print for art museums, etc.) You can use surveys, polls, interviews, focus groups, or online forums to collect and analyze your donors’ input. or a discount on tickets or membership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Stay tuned for a video interview I did with him while in Vegas. But even more fun was this video interview with the good folks at the Gifts In Kind International who I ran into in the lobby and they pulled out their copy of the book and shared a few thoughts about they’re applying the ideas. Independent Sector in Atlanta.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2019

Geoffrey Dunn, a fabulous writer and collaborator, just published a big cover interview with me in our local weekly, the Good Times. I was proud to work with amazing colleagues to lead major change at the museum. For a museum to survive and thrive today, it must be relevant and meaningful for many people from many backgrounds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2005

She has worked in museum informatics for many years, including 10 as co-chair of Museums and the Web. (I I interviewed her (but not about STEVE) for a technology and the arts paper I researched and co-authored for NPower a few years back.). Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences.

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MARCH 30, 2022

It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. I was assigned to the art school to track art classes and enrollments, and to work on reporting and making sure records were polished and current. When I look back, this was one of the most sophisticated fundraising programs in Texas!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 28, 2011

Save Time and Energy When Turning Interviews Into Content by Joanne Fritz on the About.com Nonprofit Charitable Orgs blog. Ask for the interview well in advance. Unless you're covering a breaking news story, you likely have the luxury of letting the interviewee know in plenty of time that you'd like to interview them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Seth quickly reached out to me via Roxy Allen suggested that I do an interview. There's no better example than the public dashboards of the Indiana Art Museum - Innovation is about opening up and letting the outside in. This conversation took place yesterday.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Nikki created "The Ministry of Rules" --a shadow organization that existed for one week during half-term break, staffed by visitors who served as "Inspectors" investigating, exploring, and poking fun at the rules that make museums and galleries go. How did the museum staff respond to this experience? How did this project come about?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2015

I’ve always been inspired by the creative ways the Brooklyn Museum uses technology to connect visitors to museum content. To learn more, I interviewed Brooklyn Museum project partners Shelley Bernstein, Vice Director of Digital Engagement & Technology, and Sara Devine, Manager of Audience Engagement & Interpretive Materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

For example, a museum could create a fun treasure hunt by having people check at specific galleries or works of art. There are certainly some wonderful possibilities - like putting out volunteer requests and for organizations where they want their audience or stakeholders to explore the physical space.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0 People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." hour at the Museum. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2011

As I drop 5 cent tokens into my slots of choice, I often wonder: could my museum be on this list? They are successful with audiences who already believe in the intrinsic power of art or the role art plays in civic engagement, but it's unclear how helpful they are to the people who aren't attending, participating, or supporting.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Designed to assist and support an organization (and most commonly hospitals, museums, libraries, and arts organizations), these groups historically focus on raising funds, sometimes manage the volunteer corps, and nearly always maintain their own governance system. Lessons from the Field.

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