Help recognize Arts Wisconsin as a Top-Rated Arts Nonprofit-write a review today!

artswisconsin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:45:51 +0000

Every bit of visibility helps, in the nonprofit world, so we’re giving this new social media strategy a shot. If you appreciate the service, advocacy and development work that Arts Wisconsin does, then tell the world!

You have an exciting opportunity to help Arts Wisconsin make even more of a difference across Wisconsin. The website GreatNonprofits – a site like Yelp – has launched a campaign to find the top-rated nonprofits enriching our communities through the arts.

Won’t you help us participate in the campaign by posting a review of your experience with us? All reviews will be visible to potential donors and volunteers. It’s easy and takes less than 5 minutes!

Go to www.greatnonprofits.org/reviews/arts-wisconsin-inc to write your review today! Be sure to choose “Arts Appreciation Campaign” from the drop-down list of campaigns when posting your review.

If Arts Wisconsin has at least 10 positive reviews (4 or 5 stars) by February 28, 2010, we’ll receive exposure to potential donors via the GreatNonprofits Top-Rated Arts Nonprofits list, and via Guidestar, the premier site for philanthropic research on the web. With your help, we can gain greater visibility locally and globally, and continue to do our work on behalf of the creative people, organizations and communities throughout our great state.

Thank you for all you do, and for your support of Arts Wisconsin!

Arts Wisconsin and social media

artswisconsin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:48:54 +0000

People much smarter than me (than I?) have written reams on the meaning, purpose and use of FaceBook and Twitter in our lives, at work and at play. People like me tend to say, “Why, six months ago I didn’t even know what FaceBook was and now I use it all the time!” and that’s about the extent of my analysis of these programs. All kidding aside, what I have managed to figured out so far about social media, and in particular Facebook, is that for a nonprofit arts organization, they are great promotional and informational tools. (I’ve also figured out, as has everyone else, that they are great ways to connect with your past – best friend from middle school, first love from high school…but that’s the subject for another post.) FaceBook allows a robust, ongoing, and multi-faceted conversation to take place on important (and sometimes not-so-important) issues, with an engaged and passionate constituency that expands every day. This kind of conversation and contact is a boon to advocacy, service and development organizations like Arts Wisconsin, because it allows us to share ideas, provide services, get reactions, and understand what’s happening locally and globally in very comprehensive ways.

I confess that I am more hesitant about Twitter, because I feel like I haven’t quite grasped the essential idea of that service. But I’m trying to learn!

Arts Wisconsin has almost 2000 members of our “Cause” page (and we’ve received over $200 in donations through that page) and has just established a “Fan” page that will enable us to more fully interact with our constituents. We’ve gained several hundred fans in less than a week – I call that a pretty good way to connect! If you are on FaceBook (and I’ll bet you are), become an Arts Wisconsin Fan today at www.facebook.com/artswisconsin!

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Help recognize Arts Wisconsin as a Top-Rated Arts Nonprofit-write a review today!

Arts Wisconsin and social media