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Let's Stop Talking about What People Need

Museum 2.0

It''s really important to be able to articulate what we need to achieve our institutional missions. It is incredibly valuable for cultural institutions to present experiences that might be surprising, unexpected, or outside participants'' comfort zones. But what do they need?

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5 Reasons Why You Should Make Mentoring A Priority

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Spence, an 11 th grader at ECHS wrote, “I am one of the Environmental Charter students you presented to on Friday. She shared, “The experience with the teens was amazing. It’s so great to see all these kids focused on education and with well-articulated goals for where they want to be someday.

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Wyman’s Teen Outreach Program® began to be replicated across the nation, the need to capture learning in a more sophisticated way grew right along with the growth of replication. To alleviate any concerns or tension, explicitly articulate to your team that their jobs are not at stake.

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Creating Buy-In for a Data Culture at Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

Well, you know your organization best, but in general, the best ways to speak to your colleagues about integrating analytics into everyday functioning are through a three-pronged approach focused on vision, participation, and presenting prototypes. You can increase that number exponentially if you know where previous conversions came from.

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

This week at the ASTC conference, Kathy McLean, Tom Rockwell, Eric Siegel and I presented a session called “You Can’t Do That in Museums!” And while narrative-based museums have long dispensed with the concept that museums present a neutral point of view, science centers still feel that their trustworthiness rests on their objectivity.

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What's a Virtual Visitor Worth?

Museum 2.0

You should be able to articulate your goal, whether it is reaching a particular niche audience or a designated level of participation. Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. Does your museum take in traveling exhibitions that feature worldwide cultures?

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14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

DNL OmniMedia

Every nonprofit site should include the organization’s mission statement somewhere, and Mustard Seed’s Mission and Vision page does a great job of articulating their purpose using short paragraphs and to-the-point language. Their well-organized photo gallery page makes great use of space and showcases a variety of their efforts. Mission page.