Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2011

” That’s the Web we all now live and work by, but this year a good old-fashioned holiday greeting with a hand-written note sent via snail mail would likely make a very strong impression – especially if the proceeds benefit a nonprofit. Anderson Cancer Center Children’s Art Project :: View Collection.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

The person scanning is then sent either to a mobile Web browser to view the link inside the QR Code, sent a text message, or prompted to dial a phone number. My guess is that over the next year we’re going to see a rise in nonprofit services tailored to create mobile-friendly Web page and QR Codes. In museum tour materials.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2019

15: World Art Day — #WorldArtDay. 18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. 2: World Autism Awareness Day — #WorldAustismDay. 7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 14: World Dolphin Day — #WorldDolphinDay. 22: Earth Day — #EarthDay.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

I am putting the finishing touches on another social media lab designed for arts organizations. So, have been updating arts 2.0 I had too look no further than Shelley Bernstein's blog over at the Brooklyn Museum to find some thoughtful experimentation and useful examples.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Chris Torres, the artist behind Nyan Cat, has remastered the original animation and will be selling it through the crypto art platform Foundation. Buyers of these works get the privilege of “owning” a piece of digital art — to the limited extent one can really own an endlessly reproducible image file.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Designed with mission-driven organizations in mind, Gesso helps clients like government agencies and nonprofits build fast, accessible, and scalable websites that meet today’s web standards. Customizability and Flexibility: The Art Behind Gesso Gesso is named after the primer artists used to prepare a canvas for painting. starter kit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. 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. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 14, 2012

Every second of every day nonprofits around the world are posting status updates, tweets, and messages on social networks attached to avatars with cropped art work and/or unreadable text. This is one of the most obvious mistakes nonprofits (and small businesses) make on the Social Web, and fortunately, one of the easiest to remedy.

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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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Forum One

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Museums and cultural organizations, like the family of Smithsonian institutions and others we’re fortunate to work with at Forum One, have a wealth of opportunities when it comes to digital engagement. Consider all the ways that museums engage online. We help museums create these campaigns.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 16, 2012

Museum of Modern Art. Museum of Modern Art. Web + Social Media (excludes Charity Navigator Ratings). Metropolitan Museum of Art. View the 100 top nonprofit organizations on the web (including full data table). Web + Social Media + Charity Navigator Ratings (33.3% National Public Radio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. Arts organizations are not alone in this. The question. What we learned: a snapshot.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Boutique hotels, colleges across the country, shopping centers, apartment complexes, and even small art galleries have also been sued—and judges are ruling in favor of plaintiffs. Museums, libraries, and zoos. Paul (Twin Cities) for making websites web accessible to mitigate ADA compliance lawsuits. So, what do you need to do?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

This came the "dashboard" for the Indianapolis Museum of Art , an ongoing effort to measure various aspects of the Museum's performance. According to the web site, the goal is to seek to quantify and report out on areas of activity of general interest to museum studies specialists, colleagues, and patrons.

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

Museums, archives, and libraries share many goals and functions. The items that museums, archives, and libraries collect reflect the human spirit. Art, artifacts, books, and manuscripts are all documents of human innovation, thinking, and activity. They have been produced by people putting energy into telling their stories.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Source: National Arts Index It's at times like these -- in the midst of an extended recession and the wake of the tragedy in Haiti -- that the role of funding arts in society may be called into question. After all, funding for the arts (theater, dance, music, museums etc.) Perli Ni is the CEO of GreatNonprofits.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2011

I have a confession to make: I've never cared much about museums on the Web. When smart people talk about digital museums and virtual experiences, I nod and compartmentalize it as someone else's bailiwick. Walkerart.org is not about the Walker Art Center. It is the Walker Art Center, in digital form. Probably not.

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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.

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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.

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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. Before the session, I spent some time reviewing Museum Facebook Pages – luckily the MIDEA project has them organized into this handy list. I struck out.

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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. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

With YouTube’s resources behind the project and tablets changing the way donors and supporters consume Web content, you’d be wise to spend two minutes reserving and protecting your nonprofit’s Zeen username. Wufoo allows individuals and brands to easily create web forms through a simple drag and drop interface.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

Two weeks ago, Roberto Bedoya asked several arts bloggers, including me, to write a post reflecting on Whiteness and its implications for the arts. I am in no way an expert in issues related to racial and ethnic representation in the arts. I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2005

But, found this interesting example of using this new technology to make art more accessible. Art Mobs ??? s students have produced unofficial audio guides for the Museum of Modern Art and made them available on the Web as podcasts. Makes me wish we lived in New York or that it could be done for MFA in Boston. ???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2012

Soaring tablet use and an online commons increasingly battling information overload has fundamentally changed web design as we know it. Bigger pictures, less text, larger fonts, and easy-to-tap and click buttons and navigation are the new Web design aesthetic. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art :: sfmoma.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Source: Powerhouse Museum. Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. think flickr and del.icio.us ???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

Business always underestimate the fact the nonprofits are some of the most active early adopters on the Web. Only add your location if you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum, zoo, performing arts venue, etc.: In the meantime, you can browse nonprofits and causes on Pinterest at pinterest.com/nonprofitorgs.

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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. YouTube - [link].

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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. Perhaps create a special web site and discuss the results on Twitter or your blog ? The Indianapolis Art Museum has been doing just that by sharing its institutional dashboard out for everyone to view. Two years later, we might have some answers.

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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.

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The Verge

MAY 22, 2020

Credit: World Video Game Hall of Fame / The Strong Museum. Microsoft intern Wes Cherry initially programmed the game, and pixel art and Mac GUI pioneer Susan Kare designed the original card deck. Microsoft’s Solitaire game is turning 30 years old today. It’s also now available across every major OS platform.

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