NetWits

MAY 9, 2012

3 social network in the US (behind Facebook and Twitter). As Arts and Cultural Organizations (museums, zoos, galleries, festivals and foundations), you have so many powerful images to choose from. Museum of the Moving Image. Clyfford Still Museum. Hands On Childrens Museum. Laguna Art Museum.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Social network communities are highly responsive to giving and promoting your nonprofit on cause awareness days provided that your nonprofit prepares at least one month in advance. 20: World Day of Social Justice — #SocialJusticeDay. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2023

6: Reclaim Social — #ReclaimSocial. 20: World Day of Social Justice — #SocialJusticeDay. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay. 4: World Cancer Day — #WorldCancerDay. 22: Earth Day — #EarthDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2021

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising and social media awareness campaigns. 20: World Day of Social Justice — #SocialJusticeDay. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

British Museum :: m.britishmuseum.org. Children’s Medical Center of Dayton :: m.childrensdayton.org. Dallas Art Museum :: dallasmuseumofart.mobi. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art :: nelson-atkins.org/mobileguide. Save the Children:: m.savethechildren.org. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum :: ushmm.mobi.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2011

Children’s Medical Center of Dayton :: m.childrensdayton.org. Dallas Art Museum :: dallasmuseumofart.mobi. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art :: nelson-atkins.org/mobileguide. Smithsonian National Postal Museum :: postalmuseum.si.edu/mobile. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum :: ushmm.mobi. Related Links: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2019

20: World Day of Social Justice — #SocialJusticeDay. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay. 4: World Cancer Day — #WorldCancerDay. 11: Safer Internet Day — #SID20. 14: V-Day — #1BillionRising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

The 50 nonprofits listed below are tackling some of the most important economic, social and political issues of our time. Children’s Defense Fund :: @ ChildDefender. Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) :: @NationalCASA. National Museum of American History :: @ AMHistoryMuseum.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2017

20: World Day of Social Justice — #SocialJusticeDay. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2017

20: World Day of Social Justice — #SocialJusticeDay. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay. 14: V-Day — #VDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

20: World Day of Social Justice — #SocialJusticeDay. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 2: World Wetlands Day — #WorldWetlandsDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 8, 2012

At least twice a week on social media I see a pitch posted by a nonprofit to visit their new website and the first thing I do is enter their URL into my iPhone and then on my iPad only to sadly, tragically discover that their new website is already out of date from the moment it launched. World Wildlife Fund :: worldwildlife.org. Smartphone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Participants will learn how to create a social media strategy, how to craft a content marketing plan, and current best practices for using social media for community engagement and fundraising.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 3, 2014

One of the joys of my role is meeting other social sector leaders: people with a powerful passion for good. She would bring books especially for children and women, and conduct a couple of days of workshops on wide-ranging topics about enterprise, culture, history, poetry and books. She was the first woman bookseller in Morocco.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 16, 2012

A while back, you might remember seeing a beautiful infographic about the social media practices of the top 50 nonprofits. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that these were not ranked in terms of social media use, but rather based on net income. Museum of Modern Art. Social Media (Facebook Likes & Twitter Followers).

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

By Ryan Davis, Director of Social Media Strategy, Blue State Digital. One of the largest web shifts over the last few years has been the increasing move to a real social web. For the social web to come alive and really spark change, users need to be given other actions to take beyond standard sharing. It Gets Better.

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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. The best social tools and techniques that leaders themselves and their organization can use to get results. Model the Model.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. During the period that the 500 were selected, they learned a lot about how various social networking tools could be used as they saw participants start partnering up and organizing themselves for the game.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. The popular reference point for what a museum is--a temple for contemplation--is based on a Euro-centric set of myths and implies a white set of behaviors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2012

The site operations a Genocide Archive, a Museum, Education and Social programs, and a memorial garden and burial grounds. The exhibition in the Museum has three main sections. Germaine: A Social Entrepreneur. Favorite: On A Mission To Help Children in Rwanda.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2019

Or maybe hello museum world! Children see play and imagination as their job. Previously, I had worked at the same museum for 17 years.) So, when you visit more than 300 museums, parks, and historic sites, what do you learn? This week, I wanted to start with us, museum and cultural workers. Hello World!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2010

When a technologist calls me to talk about their brilliant idea for a museum-related business, it's always a mobile application. There are lots of wonderful (and probably not very high margin) experiments going on in museums with mobile devices. Most visitors to museums attend in social groups.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

What do Millennials want from a museum experience? Museum development officers and marketing professionals are all wondering if members of the Millennial generation (born after 1979) will support museums like our parents did. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) seems to think we won’t. The New York Times.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community. There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2011

Many people ( Paul Orselli , Linda Norris , Pete Newcurator ) in the museum field have written about the question of museum "tribes"--based partly on Seth Godin's book , partly on the longstanding fan culture that pervades our lives through sport , celebrity, and shared experience of mass events. There are staff in plush costumes.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This morning, I checked in on the Pocket Museums on our museum's ground floor. After I took down all the "kick me" and "kick it" post-its covering the Pocket Museum title label in the men's room, I realized that this is the perfect example of an A-to-B test for gendered response to a participatory museum experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. If you want a chance of winning a copy, leave a comment saying how you might apply some of the science of participation to your social media strategy. What does this have to do with nonprofits and social media?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. During the ensuing discussion, one woman asked, "Which audiences are least interested in social participation in museums?" But when it comes to socializing with strangers, their interest is incredibly low.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2015

The real-time, in the moment nature of social media increases the likelihood that donors will be inspired to give to your nonprofit on cause awareness and giving days provided that your nonprofit knows how to promote them effectively. 20: World Day of Social Justice — #SocialJusticeDay. 14: V-Day — #1BillionRising.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In addition to the case studies NTEN has compiled , here are some more examples the Communities of Impact and I have spotted: Children’s museum data informs health policy. Social media trailblazers open up. The nonprofit Splash has developed an entire site called Proving.It million in one day. million in one day.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators. It is great to feel more of a part of the museum!" "All

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Last week, I received an inquiry from Mary Maher, editor of Hand to Hand, a magazine put out by the Association of Children's Museums , about Museum 2.0. Why, Mary asked, were there no posts about children's museums on this site? Why aren't children's museums represented on Museum 2.0?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

It isn’t unlike what a museum curator does to produce an exhibition: They identify the theme, they provide the context, they decide which paintings to hang on the wall, how they should be annotated, and how they should be displayed for the public. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Why does your museum open its doors each day? For arts and culture organizations, brand purpose is often about facilitating learning and engaging visitors in unforgettable experiences that provide educational and social value. Will they be visiting with children? What other museums do they follow/enjoy visiting?

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