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An Open Letter to Museums on Twitter

Museum 2.0

Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. So here is a list of suggestions that hopefully will improve the way your museum thinks about using Twitter. Don't use Twitter to spam me about visiting. Or it's rainy so you suggest I visit the museum? Respond to people.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. Spam, obscenity--they just aren't an issue at all.

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Where's My Comment? Differences Between Visitor-Generated Exhibitions and Discussions

Museum 2.0

I was talking recently to David Klevan, Education Manager for Technology and Distance Learning Initiatives at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (say that three times fast), about some of their awesome experiments with online discussion groups, blogs, and 2.0 In a six month period ending last month, 655 comments were submitted to this boa rd.

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10 Ways to Build a Better Community Brainstorming Meeting

Museum 2.0

Please add your own ideas in the comments too. For example, when we held community meetings about the development of a new creative town square next to our museum, a group of middle/upper-class moms talked about not feeling safe downtown. Part of this is rooted in a legitimate desire not to spam people.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

Museum 2.0

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. I spent an hour this morning "brand listening" to what the online world says about one of my favorite museums, the Exploratorium.

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How to Effectively Use an Email Welcome Series to Boost New Donor Acquisition

Connection Cafe

He’d like to learn more about the museum.”. They are going to decide then whether or not they want to unsubscribe because you’re sending them spam or if they want to stay engaged with your organization. Comment below to let me know what step you’re at in the process or share your own tips and tricks for welcome series.

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10 Instagram Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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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