Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Many of you, especially those in greater Chicago, may be familiar with the Data Analysts for Social Good group that Andrew Means founded in May 2012. Earlier that week, community member Heidi Massey (who runs Chicago’s 501 Tech Club monthly meetup , where Andrew has been a featured speaker) learned about the waiting list.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. 6) Field Museum Store :: store.fieldmuseum.org. 18) SFMOMA Museum Store :: museumstore.sfmoma.org. 13) NPR Shop :: shop.npr.org.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. We have neighborhood newspapers, internationally-renowned magazines of political commentary, and three View-Master reels of Chicago hot dog stands, neon signs, and motor inns, respectively.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The seven winners, selected from more than 1,700 entries from more than 87 countries, were announced at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. Through community support, the organization has grown to more than 5,000 yellow boats sailing across the Philippines.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Community science workshops. 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. Chicago Underground Library (Chicago, IL). Skill-sharing free schools. is in conflict with (currently, Iran).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. Lean on Your Staff. Use “Fill In” Time.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

At a recent talk in Chicago, an audience member asked a question. His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. The people who want that content may not be in the same city as the museum nor even aware of the museum's holdings. This is museum digitization 101. but people aren't coming.

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Blue Avocado

AUGUST 13, 2024

We recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What are the biggest mistakes you see new nonprofits making?” Nonprofits are not social clubs , they have the potential to make significant positive impacts in the communities they serve. Christy Crosser from Estes Park Museum Friends & Foundation, Inc.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

I'm preparing for a day of trainings in Chicago on Wednesday at Making Media Connections. Community Media Workshop: Chicago View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. I'm preparing for a day of trainings in Chicago on Wednesday at Making Media Connections.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. But I couldn’t get there.

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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 31, 2009

In 2006, John Falk and Beverly Sheppard, seasoned museum researchers and practitioners, released a co-authored book entitled Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. This is a pretty powerful and provocative book—you talk about rethinking the whole business of museums.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 26, 2016

I had the opportunity to attend the Association of Children’s Museums annual conference: InterActivity 2016. As I sat in a session, Membership from Here to There and Everywhere In Between, I had a realization: No one is better at managing membership programs than children’s museums. Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And at the Convio Summit – just a few short weeks away we’ll reward the most creative innovators in our community. It’s the investment of time and resources you make now to understand the unmet needs of your donors, your clients and your community. P.S. You can see all the slides from the TX Nonprofit Summit here.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2016

It's packed with practical theories, rags-to-relevance case studies, and inspiring stories from museums and libraries, theaters and parks, dance companies and orchestras, afterschool programs and activists, churches and synagogues. This post is an invitation for those of you who want to help it come alive in your own community.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2015

MCON is an annual event that highlights these movements and proves how the Millennial generation is actively shaping our communities and world. Place: Civic and cause activists who are driving community or cultural change. MCON 2015 is happening June 24-25 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Who comes to MCON?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Nina observes that the following makes this project really special: It is 100% community-based. They kept the interface simple.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The 2013 Communities of Impact (CoI) pilot program consists of two groups, both focusing on the ways that nonprofits measure, learn from, and share their data. The idea is to create clear, measurable organizational change to participating nonprofits while sharing the learnings and findings with the whole community.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

Museum of Contemporary Art. in Chicago to experience MCON in person and over 20,000 people will stream the event online. We’ll also hear from Jonathan Neman, founder and co-CEO of sweetgreen, a culinary lifestyle brand dedicated to smartly sourced food and the balance between work, life, food and community.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

People from across the country will gather at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to experience MCON in person and over 20,000 people will stream the event online. There are two ways to experience this year’s event: Attend in person at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, or stream the event live online.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

DeepSeek For demonstrating the power of open-source AI Chinese company DeepSeek sent shockwaves through the AI and investment communities in January with the release of a pair of state-of-the-art AI models that used far less computing power and capital than anyone had previously thought possible. The company knows how to make a splash.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

They write poems about their experiences, and when they recite them in community meetings, their neighbors are outraged, and mobilized immediately to action. In order to get a book published, I was told I had to have a museum exhibit. Fortunately, the Field Museum in Chicago mounted an exhibit of the photographs for In Her Hands.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 26, 2025

Before that, she did it on Google’s Material Design team ( material.io ) and UX Community & Culture team where she told stories about the people, product, and practice of UX ( design.google ). In 2016, she started 100s Under 100, a vibrant community of hundreds of creative people under a hundred years of age.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

To update the Obama Foundations visual identity ahead of the opening of former President Barack Obamas presidential center in Chicago next year, the designers tasked with the project had to figure out what to do with its already iconic typeface: Gotham. Its intended for use in communications around community engagement and sustainability.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I just finished listening to This American Life 's incredible two-part series about gun violence at Harper High School in Chicago. All this delightful non-fiction makes me wonder: why aren't museums great at telling these same kinds of deep, intense stories? This seems strange given that museums are organized around objects.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The study specifically excluded institutions without employees, museums, religious institutions, hospitals, and membership organizations to focus on traditional higher education institutions like Harvard, NYU, Johns Hopkins, Duke, and others.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

Traditional exhibition design, in which the museum has a specific story or message to tell, doesn't easily accommodate visitor co-creation. This realization--that a single museum voice was not the best way to tell a particular story--formed the basis for MN150 , the exhibition explored in this post. And we ask: “What would you add?”

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