Connection Cafe

MARCH 6, 2020

We love Know Your Own Bone because it uses data to help cultural organizations stay relevant in today’s ever-changing world. Next is another role model of ours : Aubrey Bergauer , the Executive Director of the Center for Innovative Leadership & VP of Strategic Communications at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

The Washington Post covered the MAH's transformation as part of an article about museums engaging new audiences. The whole second half of the article was dedicated to our work: Smaller museums can be especially scrappy in finding ways to connect with the community. It’s something that any museum, of any size, can work toward.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Although their primary emphasis is on theatre, with a secondary focus on dance, they also offer some awards to arts-related organizations and MFA programs that help support their growth and advancement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

After all, funding for the arts (theater, dance, music, museums etc.) By publishing these reviews, GNP helps raise awareness about the importance of these groups, and showcases the many reasons to continue supporting their work. Many may be asking, therefore, “Why fund the arts?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The book looks at how individuals can avoid burnout through self-care and how nonprofits can support it – through activities that promote well-being, cultural cues, or an overall strategy. Activities are designed to support organizational wellness for greater productivity and morale boosts.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. It's not just a personal activity; it's an opportunity to be part of something. The first activity is creative, the second editorial. The collective outcome (a cool music video) is clear.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Need help deciding what type of online auction your nonprofit should host? We’ve compiled a list of various online auction ideas divided into the following categories: Simple Themed Online Auctions Online Auctions For the Whole Family Online Auctions with an At-home Activity. Livestream some 60s music and entertainment.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. As you create or adapt your donor benefits, you may find the list compiled below helpful. How can you grow your email list to activate and build your organization’s power?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

As a kid, I was saturated by symphony performances and choral music. You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. Think about what types of activities your organization offers that kids would like. Could your teen volunteers help run the kids programs?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

We know that young people like Generation Z are future donors, so programs that help introduce philanthropy at a young age will a big pay off down the road. One of them was the curator of the world largest archaeological museum, Grand Egyptian Museum. Read on for more. In 2010, the conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

Museum of Contemporary Art. Since its founding, Fashion Project has expanded to serve over 500 nonprofits, helping provide valuable funding for disease research, humanitarian aid, sustainability initiatives and disaster relief. It’s hard to believe we’re only two days away from. People from across the country will gather at the.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

The whole experience welcomed newcomers while helping them understand what "value" constituted in that community. Dan writes about the explicit and implied "rules" of participation for musicians that create great music both onstage and for the crowd. Opaque funding decisions don''t help anyone. Exhibition proposals.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. And despite the fact that I've enjoyed being at the museum for 12 hours plus for ten days in a row, I'm quickly realizing that if I want to really get some fun participatory projects going, I need some help.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Using the right virtual events software and also with a little hardware, you can recreate many of your favorite fundraising activities over a livestream to give an experience that’s as close to the real thing as possible while also providing plenty of new and unique benefits. A Gala is a well-known charity fundraising event.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Last Friday night, my museum hosted a fabulous (in my biased opinion) event called Race Through Time. Everything about the event--from the time slot to the tone of the content to the music played--was designed for that audience. Late night mixers at museums for young adults. Museums are not for specific crowds alone.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Dear Museum 2.0-ers, ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. But one page!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. First published in Curator magazine in 2002, this essay presents five different museum "types" and their distinct opportunities and challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. o is Transparency - and the best example of that is what the Indianapolis Art Museum has done with its pubic metrics on its web site.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2012

Recently, the majority of Createquity posts focus on the topics of active arts engagement and creative placemaking. The posts share cross-discipline stories ranging from dance to classical music to public art. I've lived in a museum bubble for a long time. Complex approach to topics I care about. They are rigorous.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Who interprets the interests of the community and decides on the relevant themes and activities for the year? The program works because it is teen-centered, not museum-centered.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. Some of these people are professional artists or exhibit designers, but most are just talented folks with an interest in museums. It's lovely.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

People from across the country will gather at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to experience MCON in person and over 20,000 people will stream the event online. Most MCON speakers stay for the entire event and participate in the sessions, activities and parties, even after they’re done speaking.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

The recording starts with two and a half minutes of music without talking. Finally, at 3:45, after those two non-physical activities, Steve asks you to stand up. But it’s rare that museum exhibit designers or audio tour developers are willing to explicitly require certain kinds of actions by visitors.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

Last month, the Christian Science Monitor published an article entitled, "Museums' new mantra: Connect with community." It took me a couple weeks (and various museum blog responses ) to realize what bugs me about this article--it treats "connecting with community" as a marketing ploy, a "mantra" rather than a mission.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We’ve been going through changes, too, from figuring out new ways to help organizations incorporate new technologies, such as machine learning and AI , to keeping our client organizations in the know on new social media platforms like Threads. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. I spent an hour this morning "brand listening" to what the online world says about one of my favorite museums, the Exploratorium.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2007

We want the lights to go down, the music to swell, and the experience to sweep us away. Operation Spy, the narrative immersion experience at the International Spy Museum, does the same thing. In both cases, the focus is on taking a more active role in what is typically a very directed experience, not as a creator, but as an actor.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

American Jazz Museum Platinum – Cultural Websites Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater. Department of Energy.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2010

And because users use the "Next" button so liberally--to escape gross users, to find someone interesting--the fundamental activity on Chatroulette is not chatting or connecting with strangers. I can't help but think how much better it would be if the system provided an external prompt--a challenge or a topic to discuss.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

This week, I'm hoping you can help solve a mystery on a similar topic. Out on the boardwalk, or at the zoo or a museum, there's a common experience of the sights, sounds, smells, activities of the place. Ideas participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences visitors. Tags: Core Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

The more we ask of them, the more committed they are because they have a stake in seeing their initiatives through and bringing up new folks to help them. Never mind your work experience, what do you really want to be doing that the library can help you accomplish? This Pop Up Library just returned from a folk music festival.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We’ve been going through changes, too, from figuring out new ways to help our clients incorporate technology, such as machine learning and AI , to keeping our clients in the know on new social media platforms like Threads. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. For us, it was no different!

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 46

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Imagine activities that actually encourage you to spend time on said beach. Imagine bonfires, musical jam sessions, and iron chef exhibit design. There will be discussions, workshops, immersive activities, and plenty of time to relax and seduce the creative genius inside you. Imagine making and playing together.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

into the museum is the potential to encourage more positive in-museum interactions among strangers. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content. A lot of what interests me about bringing 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Last week, I prototyped four exhibit ideas with the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Since it was just one of four prototypes, it didn't feel like our time was wasted; the failure helped us sort out what was working and what wasn't. It also helps me prepare for outdoor climbing, where the stakes of failure are much higher.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

He notes that film, music, visual art, and literature have evolved as media that are used in all kinds of environments, from the mundane to the profound. Certainly many of these activities seem to be just as banal as pointing out the exits on a Boeing 767. And Wii Fit is the new hot thing--a game to help you exercise.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Get your staff, board members, most dedicated donors, and active members of your community involved by asking them to kick off the first peer to peer fundraisers. With the slowing down of things such as mail, this might be a good opportunity to push more of your supporters online to donate and a crowdfunding appeal can help do that.

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