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Using Social Media to Bring Museum Exhibits to Life

NetWits

million volunteers making things happen in the arts and cultural space. 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. That’s almost 4 million people!

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How the San Diego Zoo is Using Social Media to Bring Museum Exhibits to Life

Tech Soup

million volunteers making things happen in the arts and cultural space. 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. are beginning to adopt social media.

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A Guide to bbcon 2021 Virtual for Arts & Cultural Organizations

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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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Insta-what? Pin it where? Why should arts and cultural organizations use Instagram and Pintrest?

Connection Cafe

I realized many museums, zoos, and theatres still aren’t thinking about the tools as a means to expand their reach. Arts and cultural organizations have an advantage over other nonprofit organizations : they have things to take pictures of. People come to visit your museum, aquarium, or theater to see things.

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Balancing Engagement: Adventures in Participatory Exhibit Labels

Museum 2.0

We’ve been doing a little experiment at our museum with labels. The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum recently loaned us some fabulous surfboards that tell the co-mingled history of surfing and redwood trees in Santa Cruz. We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way.

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Guest Post: Lessons Learned Designing a Mobile Game for Balboa Park

Museum 2.0

When I worked briefly with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative to conceptualize a mobile phone-based game to connect visitors to the park to its cultural institutions and history, I knew Ken would be the perfect person to make it happen. Giskin Anomaly Right around Thanksgiving 2010 a strange story began to unfold in Balboa Park, San Diego.

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Living Social, Groupon, and The Like – Are These Group Deals Really a Good Deal for Your Organization?

Connection Cafe

Here’s some tips on how to take advantage of group deals, from a few of our friends in the Arts and Cultural space: Replace Your New Member Acquisition Marketing. Lisa Saneda of the San Diego Museum of Art points out the quick revenue boost that comes with deal sites. Perhaps not. Generate Fast Cash.