Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 14, 2023

Nonprofits are well familiar with Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Google Business Profiles, but most do not know the basics of Bing Webmaster Tools, Microsoft Ads, and Bing Places. 1) Bing Webmaster Tools Bing Webmaster Tools provide analytics about your website traffic and tools to improve your search results in Bing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Fun Resource Nonprofit Social Media 277

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles.

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Resource Fun Nonprofit Social Media 277

Candid

MARCH 27, 2024

Have you ever wondered what the funders, donor advisors, and other industry professionals who use Candid nonprofit profiles are searching for? Candid users conduct more than 100,000 searches of nonprofit profiles on average each month, most commonly by keyword, subject area, and geography.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2011

This is especially true if your nonprofit is location-based, such as museums, hospitals, animal shelters, food banks, etc. Social networking icons that link to your mobile profiles and pages. Many people will use their smartphones when in proximity of your nonprofit to find your location.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Partnered with FirstGiving, if your nonprofit is already in the NFG database, then you have a profile on HelpAttack!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2008

The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition (Nina Simon wrote an analysis of the project here ). Shelley Bernstein, staff members at the Museum responsible for social media projects, left a comment on my blog. IMA Staffer Facebook Profile. The community will guide you if you listen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Local Oakland Tweeter @trafficologist Standing Beside Her Profile Pic in the Twitterstream. Recently, James wrote about some interesting ways museums are using Twitter for offline/online engagement. The San Francisco Bay Area has seen some extraordinary museum openings over the past several years.

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Trend Oakland San Francisco Museum 91

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Partnered with FirstGiving, if your nonprofit is already in the NFG database, then you have a profile on HelpAttack!

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Web Tools Free Nonprofit 279

Association TV

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Have you ever been to a restaurant, museum or shopping mall and needed to use the bathroom? Become a member” is a helpful and inviting call to action that could live in a sidebar on a products page, a button underneath a company profile or at the bottom of a video. You begin by looking up and around for any sort of signage.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We ended up with a gallery in the museum instead. That is more curated.

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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

For example, a museum could ask constituents for their preferred exhibits or topics, and the Return User Landing Page can be personalized to show content based on those very interests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I've been obsessing about the " People " cards which are based on Forrester's Social TechnoGraphics profiles. For example, when I did this workshop in Australia, I met Dr. Linda Kelley who had just finished an analysis of the technographics of Australian museum goers. Tell them to ignore the numbers, but focus on the profiles?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. converts your LinkedIn Profile content into a visually-compelling Re.vu

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2010

When a technologist calls me to talk about their brilliant idea for a museum-related business, it's always a mobile application. There are lots of wonderful (and probably not very high margin) experiments going on in museums with mobile devices. Most visitors to museums attend in social groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

Take for example the # AskACurator hashtag created by a digital expert who works with museums almost five years ago and still active today. Someone sent out a tweet wondering if London’s Natural History Museum and Science Museum went to war, which would win. Here’s an example of using Moments from a Museum.

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Twitter Nonprofit Museum Poll 144

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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Donor Software Management Guide 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

Leaked screenshots indicate Facebook’s experimenting with profile or status QR code generation on fan pages, according to TechCrunch. QR Codes: fab or a fad for Museums? View more presentations from Museums Computer Group. Joe Waters shares an example used for Cause Marketing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

The best part is that high-profile individuals or celebrities are more likely to participate in these sorts of charity events if they don’t have to travel, and you’ll save money on their accommodations and transportation. Why not consider comedy, dancing, theater, or even an interview with a celebrity? 13) Scavenger hunts.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 14, 2010

Having your own profile relative to an exhibition can help you find a way "in" to the experience via your own interests. Staff reported that the profiles were popular and that many visitors wore their tags with pride, talking with friends and strangers about their heroes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Twibbon is a tool that allows your supporters on Twitter and Facebook to add a micro version of your nonprofit’s avatar to their profile pics. converts your LinkedIn Profile content into a visually-compelling Re.vu Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. Twibbon :: twibbon.com. Tweriod :: tweriod.com. Re.vu :: re.vu.

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Twenty Hats

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Right now I have a great project – I’m working with a museum client to create a Volunteer Engagement Strategic Plan. We’ll have an additional nine months to implement, assess, and adjust our priorities to meet the real life demands of the volunteers, the visitors, and the museum. Are buy-in and inclusion two haves of the same whole?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

The Indianapolis Museum of Art has done an amazing job of integrating a social media strategy into its communications strategy. Parceling the workload - whether it is blogging or managing a Facebook profile has lots of benefits. What makes them a success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

In A Museum? Generate Buzz: Your raising your organizations profile and spreading awareness of your organization's programs or campaigns. I'd also include your individual social networking profile which can be a great way to spread buzz (or spread yourself too thin.) (10-15 Finally, consider how you can mix in fundraising.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

Buying an NFT also usually gets you some basic usage rights, like being able to post the image online or set it as your profile picture. Could I pull off a museum heist to steal NFTs? But physical art in museums is also shockingly fragile. No, I meant I’m a collector. Ah, okay, yes. Image: Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers.

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Arts Artist Museum Digital 145

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Brooklyn Museum With over 21,000 followers, the Brooklyn Museum, one of the oldest and largest museums in the country, is having discussions about art with art patrons and other art museums on Twitter. The organization's chief geek, Shelley Bernstein, runs the Twitter profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. and “On Sunday, are you most likely to be: at brunch, at church, at a museum, or watching the big game?&# Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For museums, gardens, zoos, and aquariums to serve all people in their communities, staff must be aware of the societal disparities and gaps that interplay with their operations, decisions, and programs. Leverage visitor profiles to Increase annual giving and membership. Monday, October 17, 1:00-2:00 pm ET.

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Culture Arts Virtual Guide 98

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. While there are many ways for museums to reach new audiences, when it comes to specialized knowledge, it's often a question of reaching the niche who care deeply about German watches from 1822 or the evolutionary shift in raccoon striping over time.

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Wikipedia Content Museum Artist 54

Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

I've written before about three types of museum users: contributors, lurkers, and judges. Digression: Some people have commented that my hierarchy of social participation suffers this fault by implying that museums should be trying to level up to higher social engagement. But we're weak in the middle levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

For example, just take a look at the explosion of mobile apps for museums. You want to incorporate it in your existing marketing strategy and the very first thing you should do is put a big link and announcement to your iPhone App to download on your web site, blog, social media profiles, print publications, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

As Robert Stein, Deputy Director for Research, Technology, and Engagement at the Indianapolis Museum of Art told us, “Museums have tended to use [websites] as extensions of marketing.” But as digital media matures as a tool for cultural organizations, groups are using it as a gateway to connect people with art.

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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. to support programs and exhibits.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum had 1100 pictures of children who were victims of the Holocaust. The Most Jewish site incorporated Facebook Comments, meaning votes and comments were easily pushed into the users social profile. Each interaction has helped to shine a national spotlight on the tragic frequency of LGBT suicide.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." He was mandated to turn the ship around financially and to expand the reach of the museum in the community. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

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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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