Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

A month or two ago, museums and galleries around the world participated in a Twitter event called Ask a Curator. I asked Jim Richardson, who blogs at the Museum Next Blog and is the brainchild behind the event, a couple of questions: How did #askacurator come about? How did you get 340 museums to participate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. A tag is a user???s

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Use a Unique HashTag: A hashtag is a keyword that opens up a public conversation on Twitter. Some Tips: Tweet Before the Tweet Up To Build Excitement. You’ll want to designate one for your event and use it before, during, and after the event. Be creative. Also encourage people to live tweet from the event. Keep in touch.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Tenacious, Intelligent, Resourceful, Passionate, Insightful, Caring, Determined, and Fun are among the hundreds of words used to describe my friend and mentor, Simone Joyaux, since her passing last week. After they helped us settle into the house, we began five days of adventure and fun. She soon adored them and vice versa.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2017

Like Seema, I've been looking for ways to increase active resistance of racism, hate, and bigotry--both as an individual and as the leader of a museum. Seema and I have started an open google doc to assemble ideas for specific things museums and museum professionals can do to resist oppression. Museums are ideas.

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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. Offer something fun and appealing to do that required entering the exhibition? I hope more museums do things like this.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Weekly Viz of the Day's Each week Tableau Public will be featuring a viz celebrating Black History Month. Back to Viz Basics - Build a symbol map–interactive visualizations that use symbols to represent data points on a map–using geographic data for African American Museums in the United States. Wells” (Feb. Check them out below!

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Weekly Viz of the Day's Each week Tableau Public will be featuring a viz celebrating Black History Month. Back to Viz Basics - Build a symbol map–interactive visualizations that use symbols to represent data points on a map–using geographic data for African American Museums in the United States. Wells” (Feb. Check them out below!

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

. “There’ll be a corner store, and we have one name for it, and then people remember all of the owners over time,” says John Marks, curator of collections and exhibits at Historic Geneva , a museum in Geneva, New York, that operates a Facebook page with frequent historic discussions.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2013

Her work is monumental in her field, but her achievements are somewhat opaque to the general public. Imagine seeing a museum exhibition related to this person's work. The answer depends on what kind of museum you are visiting. Science museums get criticized for "dumbing down" big ideas for a general audience.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

And because we love rapid ideation and an excuse for a fundraiser here at Whole Whale, we’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. Get a selection of your breakfast favorites and a variety of milks — make it extra fun with a pajama party vibe for your supporters. Enroll Now.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 22, 2021

percent of the total revenue for public charities in the form of tuition, membership fees, paid services and sales, etc. They may be museums or research groups and may act as a financial support to other organizations that would, in turn, support the work of the nonprofit through sales, research, public awareness, or other means.

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DipJar

AUGUST 9, 2022

Public libraries are some of our favorites. They’re so much more than book museums. They’re one of the only public spaces open to everyone and where pretty much everything is free. Not a librarian by training, she started her career in public relations before moving into nonprofits. At DipJar, we love our customers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

Britt Bravo's Have Fun, Do Good Blog. For example, just take a look at the explosion of mobile apps for museums. Content feeds on the application include: The Zoetica Link Feed. The Case Foundation Blog. Chronicle of Philanthropy Give and Take. Great NonProfits. Allison Fine's Blog. Social Edge Blogs. Care2's FrogLoop. Working Wikily.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Within days, inspired by Dan’s message, members of the public began to post their own videos. The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum had 1100 pictures of children who were victims of the Holocaust. The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College wanted a fun way to have users talk about what being Jewish means to them.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

YBCA:YOU is an intriguing take on experiments in membership and raises interesting questions about what scaffolding people need to have social and repeat experiences in museums. YBCA:YOU grew out of years of audience development research and was highly informed by my prior work in AIDS case management and public health.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

And if you’re searching for fun and engaging ways to raise money, auctions and simple online events will get your donors excited to support your organization. Check out our comprehensive list to keep your fundraising campaigns fun and fresh for all of your donors. Virtual tours for museums. Classic online fundraising ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

The "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art manages to both celebrate and betray fair use at the same time. And it could be argued that a curator's repsonsibility is to keep his or her museum away from courts of law.). It's really out of our hands.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2020

This week we're hearing from Eastman Museum's Kate Meyers Emery. They have created elevated and new digital opportunities for public access and engagement within their respective museums at a time when physical access is not possible. My team will also continue to protect and monitor the museum.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When you find a bar with your favorite song on the jukebox, or a museum room that feels like your grandmother's living room, you suddenly feel a strong affinity and are able to see yourself reflected in the space. You never say, "this place is so me" when talking about a generic public space.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 6, 2024

eCards are electronic greeting cards that include fun, attention-grabbing visuals and a personalized message. This is a fun spin on the classic donor thank-you email that will help your nonprofit stand out from the crowd. Thank-you emails are a staple of most nonprofits’ appreciation strategies, and you can elevate yours with eCards.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. Nonprofit Technology Magazine is a free monthly multimedia iPad publication that provides some of the best technological information available from leading authorities in the nonprofit field. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

When I signed up to participate in the Girl Effect Blogging Campaign, I wasn't sure how I would contribute, but when I connected with Carinne Brody at an International Museum of Women event a couple weeks ago, I knew she would be a wonderful person to talk with us about the connection between girls' education and global health.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

The thing that makes them special IS that they can be owned, and that the ownership can be proven because it’s recorded and tracked on a public blockchain ledger (a digital record of transactions). NFTs might put the “fun” in Nonfungible, but they come with plenty of significant challenges as well. Fun fundraising with gamers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The company’s suite of services are built around two principles: First, that it can immerse early-age learners into the world of English at scale, and second, that it can actually be fun to use. Within the classroom, a teacher may take a student on a VR-enhanced tour through famous landmarks and museums to practice vocabulary.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Between high-altitude hijinks, run-ins with wildlife, and very long days of hiking, I finished John Falk's new book, Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. In other words, if you are a curious person, you will go to museums to learn new things.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. It was one of the most intense, fun work experiences of my life. Check out the other parts here.

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

Others are looking at no demand at all, and with it, no revenue, because their mission involved gathering large groups of people in places like theaters, galleries, and museums. Although a jingle might be fun.) . Imagine you run a performing arts organization dedicated to saving theater programs in your local public school system.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Seb Chan has a lovely, long interview up at Fresh+New with Helen Whitty about the Powerhouse Museum's new mini-exhibition, the Odditoreum. The Odditoreum is another wrinkle in the study of visitors' understanding and interpretation of authenticity in museums. I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

Non-fungible tokens or NFTs are reaching an all-time high in public interest and dollars spent. This example shows how a nonprofit can be a fun partner to meme NFT and benefit from the sale. The NFT is the result of a partnership with the Muhammad Ali Center, a museum dedicated to Ali’s life. Embed from Getty Images.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I like to ask myself this question periodically, challenging myself to find substantive ways for visitors to contribute to our museum. And when I think back on the past year, some of the most magical things that have happened at the museum have NOT been designed by us. We don't have to convince them that it's their museum.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions. game and the Neversink Valley Museum's capital campaign launch materials. Jim's is a fun game involving sock puppets.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Ensure all public-facing interactions are customer-service focused. People like to engage, and when you enter them into a raffle for a prize (preferably one that is donated), they’re more likely to join the fun. When you add some fun to a donor’s life, they think of you positively. No one should ever say “ that’s not my job.”.

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