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 ]. The ability to “Like&# and Comment as a brand/Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. Please leave me a comment or if you're interested in contributing a post, please fill out this form. In essence, it is visible storage for the museum. We are storage, after all.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

This week we’ve found apps from museums. Mobile apps are an interesting way for museums to advance their educational missions beyond people’s expectations. ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. iOS/Android: ArtClix enhances uses mobile to enhance the museum experience. MoMa by the Museum of Modern Art.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Museum of Modern Art :: View Collection. If your favorite nonprofit offers a holiday card program, please add a link to their online store in a comment below. The MoMA offers a wide selection of colorful, innovative, award-winning holiday cards. National Wildlife Federation :: View Collection. Stay tuned!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

This month, we're thinking about the way we do work in museums. But this one resonated clearly, as I got 75 retweets and 61 comments. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. And here are a few suggestions from commenters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

If you know of such a campaign and would like it listed below, please post a comment on this blog post with the date, name and website URL of the campaign. 18: International Museum Day || #IntMuseumDay. Thus, Nonprofit Tech 2.0 May: 1: International Workers’ Day || #IntWorkersDay , #MayDay or #LaborDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

National Museum of American History :: @ AMHistoryMuseum. If there is a nonprofit that you would like to add, please do so in a comment below (political rants not necessary, thank you). National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy :: @ TheNC. National Coalition for the Homelessness :: @ NTL_Homeless.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 2200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. Please try to vote for as many nonprofit panels as possible.

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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. We are trying to change the visitors’ experience at the museum as well as ownership of what is in the museum, break down the walls between the public and the museum.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2019

Or maybe hello museum world! 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! The metaphor certainly works in terms of filling big shoes.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2013

Check out this inane AT&T commercial about a woman whose absorption in her smartphone is so great that Facebook updates become substantiated as pieces of art in the museum through which she strolls. It also suggests that for young people, masterpieces in museums are not nearly as interesting as a good friend''s new haircut.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. A year ago, I put my consultant hat on the shelf and decided to jump into museum management (a sentence I NEVER would have imagined writing five years ago). I'm open to any questions you want to raise in the comments.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

If your nonprofit is location-based (zoos, museums, health clinics, food banks, etc.) That said, publishing news articles to your website doesn’t have the same credibility or positive effect as blogging does because donors and supporters usually cannot comment or participate on those news stories — the content is static.

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Judi Sohn

DECEMBER 29, 2009

See and download the full gallery on posterous A museum devoted to journalism. Leave a comment » Despite an overall theme of "reporter can do no wrong if First Amendment is protected" it's very well done.

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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

APRIL 5, 2021

If you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum or zoo, then also add your address. For example, the Field Museum tags itself when posting on Instagram, thus also posting to the Field Museum Location Page : That said, if your nonprofit does not yet have a Location Page, you can create one using Facebook Check-in.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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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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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. Brad Dunn basically summarized the overall themes of people comments. In this decade museums worst trends were in labor and tech: 1. good riddance to museum studies programs! . good riddance to museum studies programs!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. I''m open to any questions you want to share in the comments. We talk a lot at our museum about empowering our visitors, collaborators, interns, and staff by making space for them to shine. In the meantime, here are some.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 3, 2024

If you’re a museum, zoo, cultural organization, aquarium, garden, or any nonprofit with a physical presence people can visit, you have a great opportunity to raise money and boost your membership sales by marketing your membership as the perfect gift. Here are a few creative ideas and examples—especially for parents with young children.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2024

For example, if you were a children’s museum, you could offer a ‘night at the museum’ benefit for a premium. Simple items like branded goodies, stickers, bookmarks, a map of your museum, park, or trails, coupons for vendors your members might frequent, or free entry tickets to your event(s) can surprise and delight your members.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

Only add your location if you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum, zoo, performing arts venue, etc.: Finally, make note that people can “Like/Repin or Comment” on your Pins. Edit/Set up your Pinboards. Repin your first Pin. Your boards shouldn’t contain only your Pins. Go mobile with Pinterest.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 29, 2011

Last month, I learned about a fabulous, simple participatory experiment called “Case by Case” at the San Diego Museum of Natural History that uses visitor feedback to develop more effective object labels. To date, the solution has been to put photos on the walls, pray for funding, and ignore the front-end evaluation bit. Where to now?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2023

and the comments are sane, friendly, and useful. Ideas: Meetups for walking, hiking, stretching or yoga in the park, book clubs, book readings, discussion groups, support groups, social hours at local pubs and coffee shops, movies, museums visits, dog parks, etc.! 4) Being kind on social media [and human] People on Threads are nice.

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M+R

MARCH 14, 2024

Museums can have a hard time soliciting smaller dollar annual gifts tied to mission, rather than a new exhibit, and this is a great place to turn the focus to why donor support matters. Pi Day, celebrating math and science, is the Museum’s signature day of giving.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

Last week, my museum hosted Hack the Museum Camp , a 2.5 day adventure in which teams of adults--75 people, of whom about half are museum professionals, half creative folks of various stripes--developed an experimental exhibition around our permanent collection in our largest gallery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

Take for example the # AskACurator hashtag created by a digital expert who works with museums almost five years ago and still active today. Someone sent out a tweet wondering if London’s Natural History Museum and Science Museum went to war, which would win. Here’s an example of using Moments from a Museum.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2019

In the spirit of this belief, I’ve decided to unleash the Museum 2.0 For that reason, I’m thrilled to announce that over the next two months, I’ll be transferring ownership of Museum 2.0 Seema is a brilliant museum educator, a generous spacemaker, a prolific writer, and a creative troublemaker. I know Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The authors were kind enough to give me a copy to give away on this blog, so if you leave a comment you could be the lucky winner of a book! She’s been a regular commenter on this blog. Her book is perfect for small nonprofits who are looking for practical and tactical tips and wisdom in developing a fundraising plan.

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JULY 14, 2011

In the end, the site cataloged and accepted YouTube videos, plus allowed users to share and comment. The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum had 1100 pictures of children who were victims of the Holocaust. Getting the word out and generating high quality user videos were key to the movement’s success. Most Jewish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I so happy to sneak into last night’s 501Tech Club New York City gathering last night to hear Shelley Bernstein, Brooklyn Museum, and Naveen Selvadurai talk about Nonprofits and Foursquare. Here are some of my takeways, inspired in part by some of the great comments tweeted out via the #501technyc hashtag last night.

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