Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 23, 2008

I wanted to put in a plug for the Tech Museum Awards. Here's the blurb from the nice people at the Tech Museum: Nomination Deadline: March 24, 2008 Nominations are being accepted for the 2008 Tech Museum Awards, an international Awards Program that honors innovators from around the world who are applying technology to benefit humanity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

I had too look no further than Shelley Bernstein's blog over at the Brooklyn Museum to find some thoughtful experimentation and useful examples. 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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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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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Or, if one of your volunteers works at a local museum, have them ask their boss about contributing an annual museum membership as an auction prize. Choose the Right Procurement Method for Each Item As you send your committee members out to procure their assigned items, make sure they’re familiar with the three primary ways of doing so.

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Singularity Hub

MARCH 18, 2025

For example, museums could provide different audio guides to visitors without headphones, and libraries could allow students to study with audio lessons without disturbing others. Offices and military settings could also benefit from localized speech zones for confidential conversations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

SFMoMA Museum Store. Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop. Either way, give back this holiday season and shop for good. UNICEF Market. Syracuse Cultural Workers Store. Stand Up to Cancer Store. Smithsonian Store. Society B. Skatistan Store. Serrv Store. Pura Vida Bracelets. PETA Store. PBS Kids Store. ONEHOPE Wine. Greenheart Shop.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The Field Museum Store. Dancing Deer Baking Company. De La Gente Coffee Shop. The Elephant Pants. The Ethos Collection. Fair Trade Winds. Fetch Eyeware. First Book Marketplace. The Getty Store. Global Goods Partners. The Good Buy. Good Paper. The Home T. I Heart Dogs (& Cats). Ivory Ella. Krochet Kids International.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Los Angeles-based Certified B Corp describes itself as a B2B financial technology company that is on a mission to give employees — and their families — free access to financial support in the workplace as a benefit. The company plans to use its new capital in part to grow its sales, engineering, and customer success team. .

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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

This month, we're thinking about the way we do work in museums. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. Sharing articles that work is a great reason to stay on Museum Twitter by the way. . Exposure to all sectors of museum work is important.

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Bloomerang

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. Like the set of the movie Night at the Museum , these guests had the whole museum to themselves.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

How to Start: Create a compelling sponsorship package that outlines clear benefits for potential partners. Membership or Subscription Programs A membership program offers exclusive benefits to supporters in exchange for monthly or annual dues. Or an airline could donate frequent flier miles to cover an organization’s travel expenses.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 14, 2023

Submitting your website now could reap significant SEO benefits in the coming years. Microsoft Advertising Certification & Badge Programs 3) Bing Places If your nonprofit is location-based, such as a zoo or museum, odds are that your Bing Places page has not yet been claimed.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2011

This is the casual attendance data from my first full month as the Executive Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz. This graph is making me change the way I think about what our museum is for and how we should market it. Simply, I'm shifting my perspective from an exhibit-driven model to an event-driven one.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2024

In short, a membership program offers members exclusive benefits and perks for a recurring fee. Step one: Get feedback on the benefits they value most Do you know which perks your members value most? Are there benefits they want that you don’t currently offer? Which do they value the least? We’re all ears!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 3, 2014

She has a new vision of doing even more than the book caravans: she wants to build a new kind of school and ecologically sound social enterprise at an oasis in Morocco, which would include a museum about Moroccan culture. It''s a big set of goals, but she''s pulled off the improbable before! She would welcome English-speaking volunteers.

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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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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

This year, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Information Systems Research released a study that showed just how much companies in the commercial sector benefit from having a tech-savvy board. I recently discussed what it means to be a “museopreneur” in a feature article published by American Alliance of Museums.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Using the right virtual events software and also with a little hardware, you can recreate many of your favorite fundraising activities over a livestream to give an experience that’s as close to the real thing as possible while also providing plenty of new and unique benefits. A Gala is a well-known charity fundraising event.

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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

Benefits of Website Logins. For example, a museum could ask constituents for their preferred exhibits or topics, and the Return User Landing Page can be personalized to show content based on those very interests. As stated earlier, promote the benefits of logins on related webpages (Register or login to download the full report!)

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Is your museum running on interns? It is a strong, museum-focused complement to an excellent three-parter on Createquity about the ethics and future of unpaid arts internships. I got my first real job in a museum (at the Guggenheim) after a life-changing internship. It''s probably a path you had to navigate too.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2012

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. As part of understanding the need for technology , the more than 17 thousand museums in the U.S. YouTube - [link].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2011

Those nonprofits that are pioneering mobile websites today will reap the benefits of Mobile SEO tomorrow. This is especially true if your nonprofit is location-based, such as museums, hospitals, animal shelters, food banks, etc. On the Mobile Web, it’s 1999 all over again. Mobile search engines like Google Mobile , Yahoo!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

There are so many benefits to following on a 1:1 ratio, and sadly less than 1 percent of nonprofits on Twitter do. If your nonprofit is location-based (zoos, museums, health clinics, food banks, etc.) Not applying for YouTube’s Nonprofit Program. YouTube.com/nonprofits. Enough said. Find it, claim it, set it up, and promote it!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In 2024, Forum One partnered with the Smithsonian to launch Kaleidoscope , a cross-museum experience focused on resilience, designed to engage Millennials and Gen Z. Another key benefit is faster time-to-market. Whether you’re building a small website or a complex portal, Gesso offers the versatility to scale. starter kit.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Where do museums fit in? Here is our statement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Though the new Pages aren’t yet live site-wide ( the Brooklyn Museum’s new Page is ), it was quite random that I stumbled upon an example of the new Facebook Pages back in August [Re: a fake Facebook Page merged with a Facebook Places Page called Hubstown ]. None of this is written in stone!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

The Brooklyn Museum has done a lot with FourSquare, like sharing promotions and building visible community; check out the write up on the FourSquare blog or on the Museum’s site. Estrella Rosenburg shares her case study using FourSquared in the 100×100 campaign on the Community Organizers 2.0 Meetup Everywhere.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

These two adages were both in my mind last week when I asked people for the worst museum trends. In this decade museums worst trends were in labor and tech: 1. Susan Spero brought up the cost tuition rises had to the field: The rise in tuition which in turn has meant that museum studies programs have taken a huge hit.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 28, 2025

The benefits vary a discount to your local art museum, a branded T-shirt, a gift card. But once the benefit is exchanged or used, whats left to keep a one-time donor coming back? They dont necessarily care about what their money supports they simply want the benefit.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

If you think about what a museum curator does, it is very similar. The museum curator does research, is an expert in the particular artistic style, selects the best examples, puts them together in an exhibit, provides important context with annotation on the labels, and so on. What is content curation exactly? And guess what?

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Candid

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Heres what we are learning: Be culturally competent Weve learned that Latinx leaders benefit when theres a high level of cultural competency and comfort. I also heard that fundraising training is not for us, meaning it was designed for large nonprofits like universities, museums, and hospitals. Our most recent survey finds that 80.5%

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2020

million) to Bletchley Park, the UK center for Allied code-breaking during World War II that now operates as a museum. . | Photo by Rui Vieira / PA Images via Getty Images. Facebook is donating £1 million ($1.3

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Association TV

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Have you ever been to a restaurant, museum or shopping mall and needed to use the bathroom? Send it to a few trusted members, friends, colleagues, anyone who has no pre-existing knowledge and ask them to accomplish an objective like learning about membership benefits or signing up for a webinar — any desired audience outcome you prioritize.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 24, 2022

A car museum would do well to select a vintage car; a mountain bicycling association would be successful with the latest high-end mountain bike as their prize. If your nonprofit has a brick and mortar presence (for example, if you’re a museum, or you have an office that the public visits), display your prize! Are they outdoorsy types?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

The benefits of hosting a Tweetup include deeper relationships, lead generation, or more exposure. It can be a good way to meet your Twitter followers or identify who in your existing audience is using Twitter. How Tweet Ups Can Benefit Your Marketing Strategy. There is no right way to do them. How To Host Successful Tweetups.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

I can understand why somebody interested in museums wouldn't want to cover ground on health sector management. I also understand why somebody interested in health care wouldn't want to know the ins and outs of museums. Both hospitals and museums rely to some extent on fundraising, giving rise to a cadre of fundraising professionals.

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