Lacey Helmig

Nonprofit communicator. Music lover. Dog owner. Macaroni eater.

[Museum Hack @MuseumHack]

museums: digital cleanup during closures

1. take down job posts that are no longer available
2. check scheduled social posts for accuracy + tone
3. review all automatic email systems
4. reduce or eliminate ad spend

[Lacey Helmig @laceyhelmig]

@mo_flow Yup. I've seen some non-event related posts/emails that look really insensitive in this time.

[Lacey Helmig @laceyhelmig]

“Pandemic,” by Lynne Ungar:

“What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath—
the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now,
on trying to make the world
different than it is...”

https://t.co/wlKFbkM5X3

[Lacey Helmig @laceyhelmig]

Interesting thread:

[Lacey Helmig @laceyhelmig]

Proud mom moment--my 3-year-old had her first #NPRdrivewaymoment! We couldn't get out at school until the coverage of Frozen II was over. Thanks, @NPR @MorningEdition @NPRextra!

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Parents focus too much on grades and goals, and too little on generosity.

Kids raised to be kind are more successful in school and work—and happier too.

At family dinner, don't just ask kids what they achieved. Ask who they helped and who helped them.

https://t.co/1ESEC8YPsq

[West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) @WestWingReport]

What is Mr. Lincoln thinking? (Photo: Kevin Lemarque/Reuters)

[West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) @WestWingReport]

Not enough has been said about the correlation between the slow death of local, robust journalism and the rise of demagoguery; citizens living in an information vaccum are more susceptible to charlatans and fear mongerers - a trend that appears to be worsening

[Lacey Helmig @laceyhelmig]

RIP my @Spotify Discover Weekly playlist. Thanks to a certain 2 year old, my recommendations are now all Frozen and Moana.

[Lacey Helmig @laceyhelmig]

@jmackbnd Have you heard this story? Fascinating story about the MSG you used to so passionately avoid.

[This American Life @ThisAmerLife]

The myth of MSG being harmful can be traced back to a letter to the editor in the New England Journal of Medicine. But who wrote that letter? https://t.co/mWqEXphnEC

[Lacey Helmig @laceyhelmig]

An important (and short) listen:

[Sam Sanders @samsanders]

As heartbreaking as the tragedy in Parkland is, it’s a reminder that we care more about some types of gun violence than we do about other types of gun violence. I wrote a story about this, and made it an episode of my podcast as well
https://t.co/20AoQQXu0q

[Lacey Helmig @laceyhelmig]

An inspiring story on this morning's @MorningEdition remembering a hero I had never heard of.

[Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep]

Rosemary Mariner, one of the first female Navy pilots, has died:

[Vanessa Zoltan @vanessamzoltan]

It's 2019. I'm still writing, President Obama on all my checks.

[NPR @NPR]

Before they sat on the Supreme Court together and before they were both married, William Rehnquist proposed to Sandra Day O'Connor. She said no, because she was in love with another man.
https://t.co/TUSypHKGLs

[Lacey Helmig @laceyhelmig]

A factoid for the day: President John Tyler's grandson is still alive. Tyler left office in 1845, and his grandson is 94 years old. Mind blown.

https://t.co/ysJxej3WpP

[West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) @WestWingReport]

Aerosmith has sent a "cease and desist" letter to the White House demanding that President Trump stop using the band’s songs at rallies. Which begs this question: What music would be appropriate?

[Lacey Helmig @laceyhelmig]

I'm inventing a game called "Social Media Comment Moderating Bingo." Today's entry: Someone refers to the antichrist in a FB comment.

[Lacey Helmig @laceyhelmig]

When you refresh your podcast feed to see @SYSKPodcast released an episode about narwhals! 🙌🙌🙌

[Lacey Helmig @laceyhelmig]

I was already scared, then the way Nina Totenberg ended this interview terrified me. https://t.co/1PzlCZlvvo

[Nina Totenberg @NinaTotenberg]

Re: Kennedy retirement, let's quote REM. It's the end of the world as we know it.

https://t.co/HUC6UdQqGz

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

These evangelicals are turning AR-15s into garden hoes https://t.co/ELdeoXrXOs