Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

This is the seventh post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. According to the Open Data Project , of the 89% of nonprofits worldwide that use social media in their digital marketing and fundraising strategy, 75% of those use Instagram.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. oneforty :: oneforty.com.

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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. For years we have been producing digital media to fulfill our mission of educating the public about science and history.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2011

This is the casual attendance data from my first full month as the Executive Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz. This graph is making me change the way I think about what our museum is for and how we should market it. First Fridays are raucous and fabulous events. They are made for people to enjoy.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Activists Cause-related organizations with memberships, like the ACLU or Human Rights Campaign, can market the gift of a membership to a friend or loved one, as seen in the screenshot below. Sleepover at the museum What could be better than a once-in-a-lifetime experience spending the night in a museum or aquarium?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

A year ago, I wrote a post speculating about whether events (institutionally-produced programs) might be a primary driver for people to attend museums, with exhibitions being secondary. Many museums, big and small, thrive on events. At our museum, about 68% of casual visitors (non-school tours) attended through events this year.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. They tell histories of white male conquest. I never saw comparable adjectives used in the European art labels at the museum.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Flipboard :: flipboard.com. A must-download for nonprofit Twitterers!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Imagine you've just been tasked with developing an innovative, future-thinking national museum for your country's history. Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). The Museum directors released Blueprint as a showcase for these plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marc van Bree and I were chatting about some of the collaborative arts marketing strategies that some arts organizations have experimented with on Twitter. Since there have been a few examples, I asked Marc if would write a post looking at some of these. How did you get 340 museums to participate? What was the objective?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2017

TechSoup offers many donated and discounted products for nonprofit museums and history organizations, such as historical sites and societies, of every type. Here's our guide to what's most popular with our over 8,000 museum TechSoup members. Our museum members particularly like Microsoft Project and SQL Server.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When I started at The Museum of Art & History (MAH) in May, one of my priorities was redesigning our website. We made two key decisions that I think are somewhat unusual in doing this work: We tried to create a single message that clearly defines what the museum is about and put that front and center. It's not a 0-1 game.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Starting at $8 per month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0′s

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I believe that the museum blogosphere is still underdeveloped and there's lots of room for people to share their inspiration, experience, and ideas. If you need a good reason to read her blog, sit down for an afternoon with this incredible talk she gave in 2008 at an arts marketing summit and prepare to be blown away. Poesy-Praxis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. " Indeed, her first post summarized some observations from her research on how museums were using Twitter for her masters thesis. I'm fascinated by social networking and am interested in finding ways for museums to appeal to all types of people.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 23, 2024

For instance, a large nonprofit focused on preserving arts and culture might segment its audience by location and focus its stories on the most well-known museums or cultural landmarks in a donor’s state. What is your donor’s giving history? Using giving history to steer donor segmentation is another effective approach.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Starting at $8 per month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0′s

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A genuine social media shout out from a happy visitor is fantastic for marketing your arts and cultural institution; consider it like a testimonial but not as arduous to solicit. Consumers are naturally driven to trust each other more over marketing collateral. Photo Credit: Devon Rose Turner, Natural History Museum, London. .

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

million of its shares because Tesla eclipsed $20 billion in total revenue over the last four quarters and a market capitalization of more than $100 billion — the first in a series of tandem milestones Tesla must hit for Musk to realize the full value of the plan. when the markets closed on Thursday, meaning those shares are worth about $1.36

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

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. Getting Organized for bbcon 2021 Virtual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2011

In early January, the American Museum of Natural History announced that it would hold a Brain Tweetup for 75 of its Twitter followers. When I attend a museum alone, I like to take my time reflecting on the collection and the space. Notes from a Tweetup by Jay Geneske.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Mobile Marketing Watch :: mobilemarketingwatch.com. Mobile Marketing Watch is a blog about all things mobile technology and mobile commerce. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. DollarPerMonth.org :: dollarpermonth.org. report back from Wimbledon.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

When my sister first started working with a nonprofit museum, she had a lot to learn about the fundraising process for the organization. The museum had notes saved in their donor management software about the seating preferences for their major donors and that particular donor preferred their regular seat toward the front.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

The Communicator Awards honor excellence in innovation and creative work in marketing and communications. The Frist Art Museum. The Frist Art Museum is a destination for art, culture, and community in the heart of Nashville, TN. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History DIY Exhibits.

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Forum One

JANUARY 3, 2023

Moving digital efforts beyond just marketing and communications into technology platforms that directly support their programs and mission. We will continue to see museums, theaters, tourist destinations, and other cultural institutions identify new, innovative ways in 2023 to engage more deeply with their audiences online.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

The Washington Post covered the MAH's transformation as part of an article about museums engaging new audiences. The whole second half of the article was dedicated to our work: Smaller museums can be especially scrappy in finding ways to connect with the community. It’s something that any museum, of any size, can work toward.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

Like a lot of organizations, my museum struggles with two conflicting goals: The museum should be for everyone in our community. And while it may be effective when it comes to marketing, it''s limiting if your mission is to reach and engage with a wide range of people. Museum of Art and History programs social bridging'

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2011

In the Netherlands, State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra slashed 200 million euros from the national budget for the arts, leading to the close of the innovative National History Museum project and crippling many superbly inventive and inspiring organizations like Mediamatic and the Waag Society. Well, they only cost me $8 apiece.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

It’s 2019, and a whole lot is changing in the museum and nonprofit world. From hosting special member events to fulfilling membership cards to all related marketing, mailings, and collateral, everything adds up fast! Both physical membership cards and snail mail marketing materials can be taxing for these organizations.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2020

Many museum conferences have a moment of unfettered camaraderie and unvarnished joy--that moment is at karaoke. Because museum people are the most creative, devoted, and scrappy people in the world. As the museum field eventually bounces back, there will be pressure for us to accept not only the pre-covid status quo, but even less.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for telling your nonprofit’s history on the Social Web, you can add Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, WordPress, and Instagram. Great for farmers’ market vendors, silent auctions, and fundraisers on the go! Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. Mobile Marketing Watch :: mobilemarketingwatch.com.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

One of the most astonishing things we’ve found in our digital marketing to these high-value audiences is that just a very small lift in performance among them can yield significant increases in revenue. Finding your audience part 2: matching to digital marketing channels. Cultivate + engage. You can reach her at sdijulio@mrss.com.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

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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. No doubt that’s high on the list, but something comes first—marketing. Why is nonprofit marketing so important? What is considered nonprofit marketing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

I blurbed this book with, “If you are looking for a recipe book for tips and tactics to integrate mobile and social media to round out your nonprofit’s marketing plan, look no further than this book.” Click to see larger version.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Last Friday night, my museum hosted a fabulous (in my biased opinion) event called Race Through Time. It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. Late night mixers at museums for young adults.

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