Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2019

They build wings in museums, sponsor new research at hospitals, and provide large amounts of financial support for special projects. You can use your Donor Management System to keep track of grants from donor-advised funds along with the recommending donor with these helpful features: Soft Credits for Charitable Sponsors .

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Pop-Up Museum [n]: a short-term institution existing in a temporary space. Over the past few years, there have been several fabulous examples of pop-up museums focusing on visitor-generated content. Maria Mortati runs the wonderful SF Mobile Museum , which roams the Bay Area showing mini-exhibits on evocative themes.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Museum Alive includes three exhibits that bring extinct creatures back to life. That little bit of magic happened courtesy of Museum Alive , an augmented reality iPhone app available today featuring narration by none other than Sir David Attenborough. Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge. Remember dioramas? They were the friggin’ best.

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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

There are many reasons for logins, including security, functionality and personalized content–but also for tracking. By logging on to a website we are allowing that site to track every page we visit and keep that information associated with our account. Benefits of Website Logins.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

If you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum or zoo, then also add your address. For example, the Field Museum tags itself when posting on Instagram, thus also posting to the Field Museum Location Page : That said, if your nonprofit does not yet have a Location Page, you can create one using Facebook Check-in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. The Indianapolis Art Museum has been doing just that by sharing its institutional dashboard out for everyone to view. It was met by with both positive and negative reactions from nonprofit and museum professionals. Two years later, we might have some answers.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2022

The museum notes that it’s four times sharper than the last scan that was put out by the museum, which was only 44.8 Arguably it’s an even better experience than seeing the painting in the flesh, since this software allows you to really press your nose up against it in a way that would get you thrown out of most museums.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Excurio For bringing virtual reality experiencesand audiencesto museums Excurio builds immersive, historically accurate installations that feature a shared virtual reality for up to 100 simultaneous attendees. Other exhibits focus on the history of Notre Dame and the evolution of life on Earth across nine eras and landscapes.

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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

JUNE 22, 2011

Surveys can also provide useful data to track progress along the way. Museum Management. Jo Johnson from the London Symphony uses survey data to help track conversions from conversations on Facebook to ticket purchases at the box office. Surveys can help get data to form a baseline, benchmark, or inform strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

  I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership. 

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2011

Many customer relationship management systems, for example, like Salesforce and Raiser’s Edge , include dashboards to make it easier for the development staff to track fundraising activities, donations, and other performance measures. The Indianapolis Museum of Art’s dashboard is an oft-cited example. 4) Tracking Dashboards.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 28, 2025

The benefits vary a discount to your local art museum, a branded T-shirt, a gift card. You can now track a package from the warehouse straight to your front door. A vacationing family who signs up for your museum membership likely only wants the discount. Consider how detailed shipping information has become.

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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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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. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators. It is great to feel more of a part of the museum!" "All

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

My colleague, Devon Smith, a self-described data nerd who loves benchmarking pointed out this glorious example from the museum world from Sean Redmond , a Web developer at the Guggenheim. The original data set was collected in a google spreadsheet , using a manual and time consuming data collection process.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 20, 2023

However, with the right tools and strategies for tracking in-kind donations for nonprofits, your organization can benefit from them while avoiding potential pitfalls. The nonprofit can use the standard hourly rate for such a professional and then track the time they spend volunteering for the benefit of the organization.

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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. How to Stay on Track with Staff Turnover. Monday, October 17, 1:00-2:00 pm ET. How to Financially Recession Proof your Nonprofit.

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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. Be sure to check into the latest exercising apps which make it easy to track your routes and number of calories burned.

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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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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2014

About a year ago, the Dallas Museum of Art did something truly innovative. The museum’s memberships have tripled in the past year. Dallas Museum of Art has taken the concept of website and email marketing metrics and made them analogue. The museum has taken Web 2.0 They made admissions and memberships totally free.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While many American museums require 37.5 The whole issue of wages gets at the heart of the faulty systems of capitalism, the culture of women’s work, and museums as privilege-concentrating institutions. In the last twenty years, or so, professionalization has changed museum work. Not the work we do, but the ways we do that work.

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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. Where would you start?

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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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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

This type of software usually gives you the ability to: Track member information through a database. Your membership management software will automatically note members’ join dates to track renewal dates. Track non-deductible membership fees. Send invoices, welcome messages, newsletters, and more from one central platform.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

It’s 2019, and a whole lot is changing in the museum and nonprofit world. That’s not to mention how strained museums already are in terms of resources. According to the American Alliance of Museums, the average museum has 6 volunteers for every paid staff member , a ratio which s oars to 18:1 in museums with budgets under $250,000.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2009

I spend a lot of time talking to people about social media--how it can be a model for real-life content venue interactions and how it can connect museums and cultural institutions to users in new ways. This is the reason that many museums and cultural organizations decided they needed websites in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Our track was one of three tracks for participants to dive deep into a topic and learn from peers through dialogue. Photo by Trav Williams. Here’s what we did: 1.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2020

As a Historic Interpreter for Telfair Museums, I would lead visitors through the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters on a 45 minute guided tour of antebellum Savannah history discussing politics and urban slavery. When the Museum closed I was expecting the next few weeks to be different. I set up digital lunches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

Museum Visitor Experience. Museums have been all over bots on other platforms, see the Momabot on Twitter for example. So, it comes as no surprise that Museums have been early adopters of Facebook Messenger Bots. The Australia Democracy Museum also has a Facebook Messenger Bot, with similar objectives. The Pop Bot.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It belongs in a museum, but it actually still exists. Today, MDM tries to do everything—lock-and-wipe devices, push apps, track location, geofence apps and camera usage, and generally create more work for IT and less freedom for employees. Search engines are one of the very best examples of this dynamic. Remember Yahoo Directory?

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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. Statigram is a service for tracking your Instagram statistics. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. TwitSprout :: twitsprout.com.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Oh, and when are you on track to join the $100 million ARR club? But if you’re launching a startup with the intention of getting rich, you’re already on the wrong track. Last week, Haje Jan Kamps covered “blockchain-powered museum” Arkive’s $9.7 Perhaps you don’t have much revenue. Thanks for reading, Walter Thompson.

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