Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

The Museum of the Moving Image is hosting the 2006 Machinima Festival this weekend in NYC. Moderator: Carl Goodman (Deputy Director and Director of Digital Media, Museum of the Moving Image). Chris Burke is winner of Save the Net viral video contest - check out the video here. If I was going, I wouldn't miss this panel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Virtual tours can be surprisingly pleasurable and rejuvenating while not having to travel anywhere — just let a tour guide show you around a museum, ancient site, city, or gallery while live streaming to a group of people. 15) Brand design contests. Consider a brand design contest for a more inventive competition.

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JUNE 6, 2013

Last spring, we successfully pitched our real time social TV analytics platform at the IC tomorrow ‘Digital Innovation Contest – TV and Film’. One of IC tomorrow’s more recent ‘Digital Innovation Contests’ focuses on fashion and is set to complete with a panel of judges on 10 July. SecondSync Eurovision social tracking stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

Chad Norman shares a post of some interesting nonprofit examples , including one from the South Carolina Aquarium that created the Be Rare Contest , which used QR codes as the focus of a city-wide scavenger hunt. Joe Waters shares an example used for Cause Marketing. QR Codes: fab or a fad for Museums?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2007

Louis City Museum's amateur video contest. And therein lies an essential problem with this and other similar museum forays into Web 2.0: For those who haven't visited, the City Museum is part obstacle course, part art city, part shoelace factory. And in June, they launched a creative user-generated content contest.

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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. Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation. Blog commenters are contributors, as are people who engage in contests. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

Margaret shared these thoughts about "museums for use" on her blog , and I asked her to adapt a version for the Museum 2.0 Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use? During my time at RISD studying industrial design, I developed relationships with two museums on campus: the Museum of Art and the Nature Lab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

When I announced the contest, I thought there was one important book missing, Shel Israel's Twitterville. The runner up winner was Maureen Dowd from Open Museum What I propose to do with the library you are offering is read it, try it, share it, and let you know how it works for me, my colleagues and the people we influence.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

According to The Art Newspaper’s annual survey in 2021, visits to the world’s 100 most-visited museums plummeted by 77% in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Host a selfie contest encouraging visitors to snap pics with their preferred objects or in their favorite spaces, . Selfie stations . Exhibition hashtags .

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Truer words … If you feel like (re)making history, the British Museum is looking for help to create its own digital clone in Minecraft. Inspire ” video contest. Speaking of remakes, we at NTEN HQ have been recently enthralled with Puddles the Clown’s video remake of Lorde’s “Royals.” Shoot an awesome video, get a brand makeover.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

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. They just finished a YouTube video contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Why Museum Professionals Should Use Flickr from the Musem 2.0 Indianapolis Museum of Art Visitors sharing photos in a group. Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won! Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest. March of Dimes Contest (features community voting). March of Dimes Contest (features community voting).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community. Opera San Jose gave a presentation on its #operaplot hashtag contest where participants has to tweet the plots of operas in 140 characters.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2008

I once asked Elaine Gurian how museums can change. Here's the problem with both of these ways: they require circumstances that are outside of most museum employees' control. Here's the problem with both of these ways: they require circumstances that are outside of most museum employees' control. There's no client, no cash.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Virtual tours for museums. Your local museums may not be open for admission, but that doesn’t mean you can’t explore all they have to offer. Partner with your local museums to offer virtual tours to your donors, complete with fun, educational facts and some behind-the-scenes action. Sports tricks contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowd voting has been used in Cause Marketing. There has been an explosion of “Vote for Me&# contests that have become contests in techniques for vote getting and inspired cause fatigue at worst. Brooklyn Museum implemented a crowdsourced photography exhibit experiment called “ Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition.”

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JULY 29, 2024

Hold a recruitment contest with special perks for current members and recognition for when they recruit new members. Collaborate with other nonprofits to cross-promote membership programs; for example, an art museum could partner with a local theater to offer joint memberships or discounts.

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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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AUGUST 16, 2018

For example, create a contest/game via social media that leads to prizes or discounts. Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh utilized their resources to develop an innovative retention strategy. Participants earn special stamps when they visit one of the museums or attend an event for a chance to win a grand-prize. Register today !

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009. In my experience, museum professionals aren’t big reality TV viewers.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2007

Nik inquired as to how I feel about museum blogs. what's your take on museums that keep blogs? In general, yes, I think that museums maintaining blogs is an effective, cheap way to get changing content out to the public frequently. version of the news clippings tackboard on “Current Events” in hallways of some museums.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's not every day that a visitor buys pizza for everyone in the museum. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. The museum itself was well-integrated into the event. Or that visitors form a spontaneous "laugh circle" on the floor. Online to onsite migration isn't always easy.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. The Love Lounge I LOVE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

I'm reminded of the March of Dimes - flickr contest - that asked people to photograph where they kept their change because a handful of change is what preemie weighs at birth. I read a post about user-generated content from the fresh+new blog which is focused on new media in museums. Not sure if this includes a cash prize.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2007

I read recently about an awesome project at the San Jose Museum of Art in 2001, Collecting Our Thoughts, in which visitors were invited to write the labels for an art exhibition (more another time). But it's a lot of fun, and it could be a great way to construct a personalized takeaway from a museum experience. Pick a plural noun.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums. framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. I provided the Web 2.0 and sniff around.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

Sometimes the negotiation is contested. The museum invites art-making in the elevator. institutional change relationships participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences game visitors' Sometimes the negotiation works beautifully. Sometimes the negotiation can be exploited for artistic means.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

There are lots of museums (and organizations of all kinds) looking for ways to inspire users and visitors to produce their own content and share it with the institution online. The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence Sue Lawty. It's not marketing hype.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

And then finally one of our project sponsoring organizations is the Tech Museum Awards in San Jose, so there are several US based Tech Laureates who have posted projects. The America's Giving Challenge was by far the largest of these contests we've run or helped run - generating almost $400,000 to projects on GlobalGiving.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. and "why?" to "how?".

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

This is an amazing April Fool’s idea from the Frederic Remington Art Museum : Their annual April Fool’s Day Ball invites users to contribute at normal event-pricing tiers (attendance, attendance + pre-party, attendance + after-party), but then not show up. Offer to highlight the winners on your social channels. BBQ for Good.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

No, these are neither the words of a self-important curator nor a well-spoken museum director. the crowd-curated photo exhibition now open at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It is a substantive research contribution by the museum to the social technology field at large. As with any good museum exhibition, Click!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

at the Brooklyn Museum, where you could track how people of various levels of art expertise rated crowd-contributed photographs. Even ArtPrize , the "radically open" art festival that was judged last year by public vote alone, will incorporate a juried contest as well this year. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 There was Click!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. If there are museum objects and visitors'' objects on display together, all should be afforded the same level of exhibit design, labels, etc. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. Some of these people are professional artists or exhibit designers, but most are just talented folks with an interest in museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Also, here’s a post I wrote about how early adopter nonprofits have used Instagram for contests , but also see this recent slideshare deck that examines contest best practices in depth. Met Museum Thomas Campbell or use your organization’s branded account like Udi Ofer, CEO of NJACLU.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 situation unless museums can get the ???stickiness??? Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! era websites. I expect it isn???t t always going to be a ???build

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