Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2009

Over the weekend, I took my kids to the movie, Night of Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. It looks like their strategic planning process is being extended by the social web, going beyond the traditional flip charts and chocolate chip cookies of all-day planning retreats. They thoroughly enjoyed watching the exhibits come to life. (My

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Here are a few photos of a few of the myriad of fun activities we had from the Welcome Banner to Indy to visiting the Art Museum to Symphony on the Prairie at Conner Prairie to celebrating a birthday! Jay and his team grew the company to more than 10,000 nonprofit clients, charting a decade of record growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community. Contemporary Jewish Museum. Everyone was given a piece of flip chart paper and magic markers when they arrived at the workshop.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

A rare blog post that combines personal narrative with statistical charts. And a couple museum-specific sites and resources: I've become intrigued by the Incluseum blog , which is run by a group of museum folk in Seattle with a mission to encourage social inclusion in museums.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2019

At the end of February, I attended the first of (what I hope will be) many Museums Advocacy Days (MAD) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. There was something magical about the combination of something I love – museums – with something that scares me: US politics. around something I’ve suspected for a long time: everyone loves museums.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009. In my experience, museum professionals aren’t big reality TV viewers.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Now, not all of you will get to spend every other week for months chatting with Rob about museums, but I wanted to offer you a slice of how wonderful that can be. This week Rob will share some ideas about museum work. The Activity Level Discussion in Museums: Is a Role Marketplace an Answer? People make museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? In A Museum? Download it here. I'm getting ready to a workshop later this week, I did a simple pre-workshop assessment, asking folks about their level of experience/comfort and their burning questions.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

at the Brooklyn Museum, where you could track how people of various levels of art expertise rated crowd-contributed photographs. I've been thinking about this as I prep some interactive prototypes for the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum, a Seattle-based museum of pop culture. There was Click!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Want to look at a few inspiring custom landing pages, check these out or cruise through these landing pages of art museums or other nonprofits. How many by when?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

Org charts, like maps, aren't given the attention they should be, especially in large institutions. They're visually muddled, and even when you do get the information, job titles are often confusing at best; at my museum, the woman who maintains the artifacts is called the "Collections Manager." I was captivated. Who's an excel maven?

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

The above chart represents the responses from survey participants. In this article, we're taking a closer look at what we mean by "Tech Adoption". What is Tech Adoption? "We We think of ourselves as cutting edge, using QR codes for both exhibits and fundraising, for example. What Do the Results Tell Us About Tech Adoption at Nonprofits? “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

This can be done with a flip chart and markers or there might be one graphic facilitator dedicated to this task. I designed this exercise after a delightful experience visiting the Barnes Foundation Museum where the art work is hung on the wall in a way to facilitate pattern recognition and learning about art concepts.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The election season, as well as a recent research study on museum membership, has change my perspective on this. Consider this recent study about the perceived benefits of membership in an aquariuam, referred to as a "visitor serving organization" in the chart below. Who's really going to read the fine print to find out why?

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The chart below is an excerpt of an analysis that we conducted for one M+R client, looking at a range of digital platforms, and the “match rate” of our donors to those platforms. Her clients include Oxfam America, the American Museum of Natural History, and the American Red Cross. However, digital can be a bit trickier.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Museum professionals tend to think this is OK because they think of the contributory act as the important part of the participation. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. I think this is why the Top 40 exhibition at the Worcester City Gallery and Museum was such a success.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Whether it seems important in the moment or not, it’s really valuable to make a list or chart or picture, whatever you want, of all the information you have about your community. What kind of action and interaction already happens, and what actions or interaction are they looking to find?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. An applause meter is just what you think it is.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Audiences are a portion of the humans in the museum ecosystem. The reason I think of a museum as human-centered is that to become audience-centered your organization has to center people. Museums often don’t have enough clout to be about to be community-centered or audience centered on their own. Partners need to plan together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'll be doing a presentation on a panel at the Museum Computer Network Conference in two weeks on this topic and in early 2008 for the Legal Services Corporation. See her chart specifically. | View | Upload your own. I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. This is work in progress.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Goldman relied on user-generated content for Imagining Ourselves at the International Museum of Women. Collaboration Tools Chart for Libraries. Members, who are incentivized to share for a chance to win prizes, can share their stories via video, photo, or text. Asking for What You Want.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 26, 2019

4 Important Membership Trends Every Museum Needs to Consider by Brendan Ciecko, Cuseum. A lot has been changing in the museum world. Brendan shares four trends that museums need to be aware of to have continued success with membership operations. Have you seen a chart and asked yourself, “What is this?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2013

It doesn’t matter if your mission is educating your members about the artwork in your museum, providing scholarships for children to attend your school, or buying warm coats for homeless families; when you spend money on those activities, you’re justifying your own existence by improving your community.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Here's the basic idea: while you are at the museum, you save digitizable content--either content you make (photos of yourself) or content you collect (museum-supplied text or media of interest). The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2007

This is the final installment of the Museum 2.0 book club on Civilizing the Museum; The Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian. I’d like to do more book clubs in the future; please let me know if there are any particular books on museum theory, design, innovation, etc. that you would recommend for Museum 2.0.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2012

When you want cogent arguments with charts to back them up? I've lived in a museum bubble for a long time. Createquity is a little heavy on the funding discussion, but the Around the Horn bullet list posts along with the longer essays help me connect with worlds beyond museums. Stop looking and start subscribing to Createquity.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

This is the sixth in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. John would run Abbott Square Market , a multi-vendor food and drink business, adjacent to the plaza, adjacent to the museum. You can see them in this chart.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

I created a directional pyramid to make a point about social content in museum; namely, that museums are not offering networked, social experiences—and therefore will have a hard time jumping to initiating meaningful social discourse. And I’m not advocating that the dream museum would be all level 5 experiences, all the time.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2015

Learn how to plan and implement QuickBooks, how to set up the chart of accounts , master coding and reporting , and more. Image 6: Durango Discovery Museum. We evaluated Kickstarter, Indiegogo, CauseVox , and more, so you can be one of the cool kids, too. QuickBooks Makes Your Pulse Quicken. Prefer online training? spanhidden.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Can you really use the same criteria to measure the effectiveness of a rural food bank that works locally and an internationally renowned art museum located in a major metropolitan area? Nonprofits’ missions vary too widely, and size and location matter, too. My colleagues and I would say that you can’t.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

They're used to chart everything from crime statistics to Craigslist postings. The Bob Dylan video at the top of this post is an example of a mashup of particular interest to museums because it overlays user data (personal messages) onto a cultural artifact (the Subterranean Homesick Blues video).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 1, 2008

My more complete thoughts and reactions to the AAM (American Association of Museums) conference are forthcoming in a longer post soon. Today, I want to share slide presentations and interviews you might be seeking related to the sessions I chaired this week.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

It doesn’t matter if your mission is educating your members about the artwork in your museum, providing scholarships for children to attend your school, or buying warm coats for homeless families; when you spend money on those activities, you’re justifying your own existence by improving your community. Want more fund accounting resources?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Though when I read Susan’s tweet, I did wonder how many people at 22 can get hired at a museum in anything but a part-time job. Blog research in 2029 museum pros will have solved which work issue? We are charting our course every day. As Susan Spero reminded us, in 2029, our current 12-year-olds would be graduating from college.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Our nonprofit museum had outgrown our grass roots. When we had seven people, we barely needed an organizational chart. She was a retired HR executive and a treasured museum volunteer. When we started this project, I expected about 30% of the museum’s jobs to change a little bit, and about 20% to change a lot.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Entertain the idea of an exhibit based on Gantt charts and spreadsheets, and your head might just explode. Moveable Type, like its predecessor, Listening Post (now touring international art and science museums), is an exercise in harnessing and repackaging data as art. Huge swaths of words. Volumes of dry-as-dirt content.

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