Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. How do you truly involve the general public and ask them to engage , online with art? In essence, it is visible storage for the museum.

Museum 92

Museum Campaign Flickr Arts 92

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

Fun 279

Fun Resource Nonprofit Social Media 279

Care2

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.

Museum 76

Museum St. Louis Mobile National 76

TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

What if museums were curated and funded by the internet, and allowed pieces to stay close to their cultural roots, displayed in a context that made sense? Native art in native museums, religious artifacts shown in temples, mosques and churches, and so on? This idea evolved into having an on-chain Museum,” says McLeod.

Museum 86

Museum Build Arts Offline 86

Neon CRM

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.

Arts 98

Arts Ideas Organization Fundraising 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

Fun 279

Fun Resource Nonprofit Social Media 279

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. " So, I thought I'd use a screen capture of the photo inside flickr instead, but wasn't sure whether I could. website with The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology we???ve Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

Flickr 61

Flickr Museum Denver Photo 61

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2011

I asked Wendy Pollock and Kathleen McLean, authors of the new book The Convivial Museum , to share a guest post about the book. They collaborated on this photo essay that demonstrates the simplicity and power of their vision. At first glance, our new book, The Convivial Museum , is about the most simple ideas.

Museum 50

Museum Photo Minneapolis Oakland 50

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

Web 274

Web Tools Free Nonprofit 274

The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The majority” of its tours will be migrated to Google’s separate Arts & Culture app, letting users view them via web or mobile device. As Arts & Culture will offer many of the Expeditions tours, we’ll no longer support the Expeditions app.”. You can even view some Arts & Culture content in Cardboard.

Google 129

Google Arts Classroom Culture 129

Mashable Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Save $700 Get Deal Why we like it The QLED-TV-turned-wall-art-turned-back-to-QLED-TV is an elegant upgrade for any room where a giant slab of technology doesn't exactly blend with the decor. Best Samsung Frame deal at Amazon Opens in a new window Credit: Samsung Samsung 65-inch The Frame 4K QLED TV (LS03D) 🔥 $1,297.99

Amazon 64

Amazon Arts Blended Museum 64

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Storify is a new tool that allows you easily search multiple social networks by subject or theme and then through drag and drop functionality, you can organize the results (tweets, status updates, videos, photos, etc.) It provides engagement data about your photos, likes, follower growth, as well as when is the best and worst time to post.

Free 280

Free Nonprofit Social Media Mobile 280

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

project will focus on apps for arts organizations, with a practical. We'll share some interesting apps developed for arts. Discovering Public Art with Public Art Omaha. engage with public art? engage with public art? The really cool thing is how Public Art Omaha did it: their public art.

Arts 63

Arts Organization Omaha Museum 63

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

Web 279

Web Tools Free Nonprofit 279

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.

Museum 55

Museum Interview Interaction Arts 55

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

Web 279

Web Tools Free Nonprofit 279

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?

Arts 55

Arts Difference Museum Artist 55

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.

Museum 50

Museum Contest Arts Results 50

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.

San Diego 66

San Diego Social Media Museum Media 66

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. 9) Movie screenings.

Virtual 358

Virtual Ideas Fundraising Nonprofit 358

Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century abstract artist and art theorist obsessed with simplicity and essence of form. This science of trees inspired my colleague and me to measure the scaling of tree branch diameter in art. The art of trees Among my favorite images is a carving of a tree from a late-medieval mosque in India.

Artist 128

Artist Arts India Images 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2006

" They covered the why, what, and how to get started of podcasting in the arts sector. Jerry Coltin gave an excellent overview which included listening to and showing some examples of arts podcasting and video podcasting. These were mostly museums like MoMa (which I wrote about over a year ago here ) and a few others.

Podcast 50

Podcast Arts Organization Museum 50

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2011

Note: This post is written in response to recent articles about museums by Arianna Huffington (on museums and new media) and Ed Rothstein (on museums and ethnic identity). I appreciate that you write about museums, and by doing so, publicize their work and efforts. Myth #1: Museums are about contemplation.

Museum 55

Museum Open St. Louis Social Media 55

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.

Public 94

Public Organization Museum Indianapolis 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

Photo by Neatonjr.   I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. In this first experiment, the Museum took advantage of the "tips" feature where users can leave tips about a location.  

YouTube 95

YouTube Badge Museum Social Media 95

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2014

Five years ago, I wrote a post arguing that museum photo policies should be as open as possible. I believe that the ability to take photographs (no flash) in a museum greatly increases many people''s abilities to personalize, memorialize, and enjoy the experience. The posts come from an aptly-named blog: Grumpy Art Historian.

Camera 55

Camera Policy Photo National 55

The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2022

Neural networks were reportedly used to check each image for color and sharpness, and an AI system helped stitch these photos together into a single image. The museum notes that it’s four times sharper than the last scan that was put out by the museum, which was only 44.8 The result is a 717 gigapixel image that’s 5.6

Museum 104

Museum Online Press Conservancy 104

Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2014

By Jen Leavitt, Arts and Cultural Consultant. . About a year ago, the Dallas Museum of Art did something truly innovative. The museum’s memberships have tripled in the past year. Dallas Museum of Art has taken the concept of website and email marketing metrics and made them analogue.

Dallas 38

Dallas Museum Arts New York City 38

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2008

Photo by Aur2899. Last week I taught a social media workshop for artists and arts nonprofits and did some research on different arts organizations using social media effectively. The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition (Nina Simon wrote an analysis of the project here ).

Museum 50

Museum Indianapolis Social Media Jordan 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2011

Flickr Photo by drachenspinne. Or alternatively, if your organization is starting with something larger, like a research paper or an entire season for a performing arts program, think about how to create smaller chunks of shareable content. Here’s an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Content 111

Content Create Social Case Study 111

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.: If you have an iPhone, download the Pinterest iPhone App so you can pin, repin, like, comment, and upload photos taken with your iPhone from anywhere at anytime: 8. Edit/Set up your Pinboards.

Nonprofit 274

Nonprofit Profile Social Network Twitter 274

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.

Museum 46

Museum Tag Arts Project 46

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. Is that a Zen graffiti artist? Did he run out of paint before spraying the letter “e&# ? Who knows, but if nonprofits embrace abundance, wouldn’t it give them more time to breathe? Trying to do everything, a scarcity model, is such an exhausting way to work.

Nonprofit 96

Nonprofit Museum Structure Artist 96

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.

Ideas 104

Ideas Fundraising Giving Museum 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

The Indianapolis Museum of Art has done an amazing job of integrating a social media strategy into its communications strategy. Whether it is managing their Facebook presence or encouraging conversation on their blog with art lovers, their social media strategy is a team effort. What makes them a success?

Indianapolis 50

Indianapolis Social Media Museum Arts 50

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.

Nonprofit 103

Nonprofit South Carolina Museum San Francisco 103

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.

Museum 43

Museum Story Project People 43