Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

I'm headed off for the Museum Computer Network conference in Chicago tomorrow. Kurt Stuchell just finished a project and created a new widget called the Universal Museum Media Podcasts & Blog Widget. The widget contains a collection of museum podcasts and blogs. is the museum crowd on MySpace?),

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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. ACLU Store.

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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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sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With the first wave of lockdowns in Spring 2020, the primary value proposition of membership vanished overnight, and closures caused many museums to reinvent their benefits and programming in digital formats. 100+ Membership Leaders Share Their Priorities For Digital Transformation in Museum Membership. And where is membership headed?

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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. Report back from the first-ever Do Good Data Conference by Julia Smith.

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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Kate McGroarty's month living at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is over. The young actress and teacher beat out 1,500 other applicants and spent 30 days exploring exhibits, participating in live demos, talking to visitors (both in-person and online), and romping through the museum at night. Lisa's goals were met.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On October 20, a young woman named Kate will move into Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and live there for a month. This post is not about the Month at the Museum concept or implementation. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. That will come later.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

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). is in conflict with (currently, Iran).

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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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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.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments. Nonprofits and museums depend on dedicated, but oftentimes limited, development staff to sift through countless prospects to determine which ones are priority.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

bbcon 2021 Virtual , happening October 13–15, will bring together thousands of arts & cultural professionals from zoos, museums, aquaria, performing arts organizations, gardens, and beyond for three days of cutting-edge thought leadership, virtual peer networking and unforgettable experiences.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

How does this question play out in museums? At the 2013 American Alliance of Museums annual conference, a group of exhibition designers explored authenticity in a session called Is it Real? They explored a huge range of museum objects and grey areas of "realness." To remake a thing correctly is to discover its essence.

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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. Share Our Spare works to help fill these gaps, so that every Chicago area child – from newborn to age 5 – has a healthy, safe start, and every parent the opportunity to provide one.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

Meanwhile, thousands of small and midsize Latinx-focused nonprofits are serving our communitiesfrom a womens shelter in Chicago to a scholarship program in Tucson. I also heard that fundraising training is not for us, meaning it was designed for large nonprofits like universities, museums, and hospitals.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Have you ever been to a museum with no permanent exhibits ? On a recent trip to Chicago, I checked out the Museum of Contemporary Art. Plus, I know the next time I’m in Chicago, the museum will be a totally different experience, so I’m highly motivated to go back. Use Your Space Creatively.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. I asked a few people I trust who are not museum folks to read the third draft. 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. Not only does she illustrate the valuable qualitative insights you can glean from social media listening efforts, but shows how to apply them to a museum context.

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AUGUST 13, 2024

Christy Crosser from Estes Park Museum Friends & Foundation, Inc. Kate from Social Responsibility Chicago Weak accounting practices One of the biggest mistakes we had to learn from the hard way was not investing in our accounting “engine” enough and soon enough. Great question.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Last week Ginny Fitzgerald, the Director of Visitor Services and Membership at Chicago History Museum, joined us to host a webinar about how she prepares her team for peak attendance times. Chicago History Museum defines their summer season as June 1 through August 31. Summer Tourism. Spring Field Trips.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

There are great examples of this kind of thing focusing solely on the participant--for example, the Chicago Children's Museum practice of inviting kids to write postcards home to themselves from the museum. But a lot of participation extends beyond the individual, and we should celebrate that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

s essays have appeared in Good Housekeeping, The Huffington Post and Imagining Ourselves, an online exhibit founded by Paula Goldmanfor the International Museum of Women in San Francisco. I first met Jen at BlogHer in Chicago last summer at the Global Women's panel.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 2, 2009

Many museums are experimenting with “back channel” platforms that allow visitors and staff to chat and share content while onsite at the museum. It felt like something we could use at my museum as a step to get people more comfortable with Twitter and other back channels.” The back channel isn’t just a social space.

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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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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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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

Visitor (though, really my child) at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK As I said, last week, I’ve been to a travelin’ girl for the last couple of years. So, instead, I am offering 3 posts this month about what I learned from visiting more than 300 museums. Last week, I talked about what I learned about museum workers.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Elizabeth Merritt is the director of the Center for the Future of Museums , a new project of the American Association of Museums (AAM). When I was given the opportunity to found the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM) I had been working for nearly 10 years with Museum Assessment and Accreditation at AAM.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Register Now October 2, 2016: Brooklyn, NY for a workshop and book signing in partnership with Museum Hack, 11am-12:30pm - Ticketed! Register Now October 18, 2016: Chicago, IL at Navy Pier, 3:30-5:30pm - Free! Paul, MN at the Minnesota History Center, 8-10am - Free!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Both of these attributes are of great interest to museums, which are trying to figure out how to monetize the Web and how to use the Web to draw more people to their physical locations. You come to the museum, and THEN you post your photo in the Flickr group. Dating, like museum-going, is more about niche preferences than mass volume.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Here's a problem many museums would like to solve: How do you design an intuitive way to give visitors unique IDs so that visitors can receive personalized content and feedback and institutions can receive real-time data tracking on visitor behavior? It's not a new problem. Define the core technology that aligns to your mission.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

It’s first of all about identifying a need – whether explicit or unarticulated – and only when the problem is fully understood, exploring better ways meet that need, assessing their feasibility and testing them.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2007

I've been thinking recently about ways to represent issues (social, political, scientific) in museum settings. Museums often pursue the dual goals of presenting accurate, objective information while encouraging visitors to think for themselves, take a stand, engage with the issue at hand. But is stand-taking always right for museums?

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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. My last book, The Participatory Museum , did well. I am truly thrilled to share this book with you.

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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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