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Blueprint Book Club Part 2: Museums as Battlefields in the History Wars

Museum 2.0

MAY 30, 2012

This post is the second in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. This guest post was written by Regan Forrest , exhibition developer and visitor experience researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia.

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History Museum Australia National

Highlights from the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Summit

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Throughout the day, top customers shared their experiences using Salesforce and highlighted the digital transformations their organizations have undergone. . Before joining Salesforce in 2008, she held positions in customer support, professional services, product marketing, and program management at Oracle, Peoplesoft, Evolve, and Primavera.

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Connecting With the Past through Technology: Oberlin Heritage Center

Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and celebrating the area’s extraordinary, nationally significant heritage. family history information from all over the country. performance would lag, leading to frustrating experiences for visitors. installation of Windows Server 2008 and Exchange Server 2010 improved.

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A Radical, Simple Formula for Pop-Up Museums

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

There was Jaime Kopke's Denver Community Museum , which existed for nine months in a Denver storefront in 2008-9 to celebrate visitors' creations. And now, Michelle DelCarlo has created a shockingly simple template for pop-up history museums focusing on personal objects of meaning. The format focuses on intimate experiences.

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Museum Denver Netherlands Classroom

Reflections on a Weekend with Ze Frank and His Online Community

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Even though for many of the participants, Ze is a celebrity of epic proportions, he did everything he could to make the event about them and their engagement and not about him. Or that visitors form a spontaneous "laugh circle" on the floor.

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Reflection Community Museum Participatory

Making Museum Tours Participatory: A Model from the Wing Luke Asian Museum

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). One man (Gordon from Kirkland) told us that "Vi is kind of a celebrity" in the Seattle Chinatown community, which made the rest of us more excited about taking a tour from her.

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle

Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. Our peace and solidarity program is really unique because we look at the work and the experiences of women veterans, which is a group that is rarely looked at. AD: It was a pretty incredible experience.

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Online Fundraising Ideas: Nonprofit Fundraising During COVID-19

Whole Whale

JUNE 5, 2020

If Tom Moore, who just celebrated his 100th birthday, can walk 100 laps around his backyard and raise $39 million for front line workers , you can organize a virtual fundraiser too! Live stream a featured room with celebrities, or use other zoom rooms for other people to join in a poker tournament. Virtual Poker. Use the Roundup App.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Hosted in Duluth, MN, this year's gathering is the perfect opportunity for professionals from every corner of Minnesota’s robust nonprofit sector to join together, celebrate the sector, learn from one another and prepare for another year. Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo. It is our turn to make history.

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Becoming Generous Thieves: Notes from the Museums in Conversation Keynote

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I spent a lot of research time learning how designers in related fields solve the problems we had developing Operation Spy: how screenwriters craft plot twists, how game designers build instructions into the game, how theme park designers deliver consistent, high-impact multi-sensory experiences. The fastest growing demographics are over 35.

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Museum Conversation Columbus Local

Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Operationally, C3 has standardized around Salesforce's Force.com which we started using in 2006, and Google Apps which we started using in early 2008. I experimented with video, using Jing to produce screencasts. It's not a destination (or a religious experience). I can only imagine how we'll celebrate 10 years.

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Cloud Computing for Small Nonprofits: Lessons Learned from 5 Years in the Cloud

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Operationally, C3 has standardized around Salesforce's Force.com which we started using in 2006, and Google Apps which we started using in early 2008. I experimented with video, using Jing to produce screencasts. It's not a destination (or a religious experience). I can only imagine how we'll celebrate 10 years.

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Lesson Cancer Learning PDF

Women's Earth Alliance: Co-Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

They shared stories from their experience there, and talked about how they are trying to do development and social change work differently. We sang, we danced, and we celebrated what it means to have access to a resource that is so much more than just a resource. This training was tremendous. It is about human rights. It is about joy.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

Certainly, People's Grocery here in West Oakland is something that is celebrated as a model of bringing environmental solutions to people who need them. And the Democrats want to be the fiscal conservatives in 2008 who want to run against Bush's mega deficit. It is a mobile market. And that costs money.

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Green Interview Oakland Job

The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

KR: I think a major concern, from the very founding of the Global Fund, has remained a concern despite the fact that this year we celebrate our 20th anniversary of grant making, and that is access to the financial resources necessary to take the work that women do on a daily basis in their communities to the next level of impact.

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