Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Many American Blacks have been here long enough to be in DAR, but cannot travel freely in America. What does this have to do with museums? It is why in the great museum upheavals of 2020 no white male director of import ended up getting toppled. It is why art museums have greater financial resources than other ones.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Environmental Impact.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Environmental Impact.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2008

What if witty cultural commentators reviewed museums the way they do music and restaurants? If Anthony Lane turned his cutting tongue from movies to museums? If Stephen Colbert "reported" on museums at times other than during the TV writer's strike? It's painful. And instructive. And revelatory. And painful.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

When writing The Art of Relevance , I knew I wanted to share a bit of his story and the ways artists negotiate the relevance of their own work. We’re working on a smaller scale, with specific content or programs. No museum puts up a label that says: “Our last curator thought this painting was lousy and kept it in storage.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

This summer, we opened two exhibitions at my museum that are highly relevant to local culture. One is about the Grateful Dead ( Dear Jerry ), the other about the dawn of surfing in the Americas ( Princes of Surf ). These two pieces of wood are like the Shroud of Turin of surfing in the Americas. Killer content. Muscle and bone.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Their stories also highlight how important having the right technology is to accomplishing this important work. Here are the top 10.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

To this day, it is still considered one of the finest works in the history of Japanese literature. Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga (under her literary pseudonym Gabriela Mistral) was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature for her poetic work, Sonnets of Death. Gabriela Mistral. Do you love ladies in literature?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2014

The best part of his job is getting to showcase Blackbaud’s amazing clients and the valuable work they do. . For all the amazing work they do, they deserve to be recognized. For all the good they do, nonprofits deserve recognition. Read the case study. Read the case study. Read the case study.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Unfortunately, it’s all too often that nonprofit professionals don’t get recognized for the meaningful work they do. I got to see the pride in their eyes as they walked back to their seats clutching their trophies. That is why it was so exciting to see seven organizations get honored this year. Read the case study. Read the case study.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Once upon a long time ago, North America was bursting with animals that were really big. It’s the largest flying bird in North America. Captive breeding at the zoos worked better than anyone could have hoped. The hard work and challenges go on, but condors are back in the wild, flying free. Stephanie La Loggia, M.A.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

Examples of numbered lists include, “Five Reasons Why Conserving Wildlife is Important,” “Ten Simple Ways to Serve Your Local Community,” “Nine Powerful Stats about Domestic Violence in America,” and “Six Reasons Why You Should Read to Your Children.” Or an arts organization could write about the top 10 museums to visit in a lifetime.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2015

My favourite email subject line during December was “No, you can’t have my blender” from Oxfam America. The rest of the message and the entire year-end email campaign from Oxfam America were all well done. The best end-to-end campaign was done by the Museum of Modern Art. Happy Holidays from the Gibbes Museum!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

There were more faux forwards in my inbox this year and except for a few, most don’t work. Best Subject Line Award goes to Oxfam America Ambassador Aziz Ansari for his “Bad fruitcake news, Steve” message. The Nature Conservancy gets the Best Text Message Award for the second year in a row.

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