Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Forum One has partnered with NRDC to develop its website as well as additional digital assets, such as an immersive storytelling experience to celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary in 2020 and an offshore drilling position tracking tool to help constituents easily find their legislators’ positions on offshore drilling.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2011

Still totally inspired by Save Oakland Library. This week they had a 14-hour Read-in , presented 14,500 petition signatures to the City Council, and showed up at City Hall with shovels, rakes, and hammers to protest the potential closure of the Temescal Tool Lending Library. I hope there will be a 3rd season.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

However, as the founder of the Bookshare online library, we have a great deal at stake in how the Treaty gets implemented. Plus, it will especially help countries with less-developed libraries and services for people with disabilities by making it easier to tap large collections (like Bookshare) in other countries.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Brand Personality : XYZ has a fun and helpful tone. This helps the AI understand your requirements better and provide a relevant response. This can help prevent overly verbose outputs and encourage more concise ideas. XYZ’s founder was originally a comedian.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library. Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. 100 Years of the flagship library in New York. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Local libraries may also be open hosting egg-hunters for a good cause. Invite a local artist or crafty supporter to host an evening on the terrace of a local cafe or office, and let your supporters get their hands dirty while making something fun to take home, all while supporting a great cause. Families want to have fun too!

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This helps show the mission’s importance. Helping real people should be the star. There are tons of ideas that you can shop on Meta (Facebook) Ads Library. The ads were hailed as beautiful, artistic, and innovative. Google Analytics is a must-use tool to help understand your campaign performance.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 2, 2012

For the past ten years, Benetech’s Bookshare library has provided accessible books for people with print disabilities. Bookshare helps people who cannot read standard text participate in the world of ideas. The organization works with people in their 20s, to elder artists in their 80s. You can too!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

It was started in 2003 and is run by Mark Allen and a collective of artists, many of whom have also been applying their talents by performing "interventions" at formal art institutions including LACMA, the Hammer Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Chicago Underground Library (Chicago, IL).

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2015

The Free Music Archive is a curated, interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU , the most renowned free-form radio station in America. Here are some quick tips to help you find the right music for your project. Here's how to get the most out of this free resource. A Little About Us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

Then bow your head and say a silent "tak" (that's "thank you" in Danish) to the creators of the Living Library. What is the Living Library? According to their website : The Living Library works exactly like a normal library – readers come and borrow a 'book' for a limited period of time.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

A dynamic design team will include developers, designers, artists, strategists, community builders, researchers, and studies on the success or impact created through gameplay. (MB, ARIS is used for designing local, geolocative games at Global Kids connected to libraries and schools to talk about the history and issues in their.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

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. We should be helping enable these conversations in the real world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2007

One of my longtime flickr contacts, an artist named Darlene, just sent me a note that when her paycheck arrives, 10% is going to the Sharing Foundation. Donations thus far have focused mainly on library and school construction projects through various organizations. Please sign up to help me! Thank you so much! Call To Action.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

An exhibiting artist approached me recently at an evening event at the museum. I'm particularly curious about other cultural and community organizations--libraries, performing art spaces--and how hours impact their use and value. he said, "I have some feedback for you. He's right. They aren't. We're open Tuesday-Sunday, 11am-5pm.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it. Beauty is on the eye of the beholder and some people just like the chaos and artistic freedom of MySpace, while some like the neat clean, linear look of Facebook.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

I’m listing most of the concerns voiced in that debate so that readers can assess the severity of each obstacle and can help generate ideas for surmounting them, toward a goal of more open collections access. Digitization can help offer safe access to collections.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. The result was a true experiment in designing the future--right here, right now--with artists and planners and civic leaders at the helm together. Pop up libraries, performance spaces, and seating areas.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Cary Creative Center in North Carolina is an upcycling nonprofit that provides used artistic materials to people. QuickBooks for Nonprofits and Microsoft Office donations from TechSoup have helped Cary Creative Center become more organized and effectively present information to the organization's board and other stakeholders.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

Last week I announced a new weekly feature that I'm trying out on Have Fun * Do Good, Ask Britt , where you send in questions related to career design for artists and activists, and I'll do my best to answer them. Help your community donate. I encourage you to add on to my answers in the comments. Organize other local businesses.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

David Lee King writes about, talks about, and works around libraries, social media, and digital communities. Kirthi Nath is the founder of Cinemagical Media , a conscious media company that produces artistic, heart-based videos. Connect with Danny on Twitter at @See3. Connect with Aaron on Twitter at @AaronMSB and @NPFilm.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As you create or adapt your donor benefits, you may find the list compiled below helpful. It can be helpful to lead a planning process within your own organization that examines your organizational assets and access so you can translate them into benefits. Swag or merch: handmade item by someone helped by your charity.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It’s not unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day. We look for partners who have: An understanding of and desire to help meet your community’s needs. Help them learn from the experience. Large and small (or no) followings.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. A Dutch friend volunteered to go snap the library.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. In this case, I find the most interesting ones to be made by artists. Please help me get responses to my survey. As important as excellence is, shared success is equally important in this field. Technology is, of course, a hot topic in immersion.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

This week's Ask Britt question comes from a friend who is helping a changemaker launch a new book. The author of Social Software in Libraries hosted an Alternative Book Cover contest. The winners got signed copies of her book and were announced at the Computers in Libraries Conference. Here are a handful of ideas: 1.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2006

bekka writes about volunteering at the Algiers Regional Branch Library in New Orleans where she sorted through books that thousands of people sent to the New Orleans Public Library System after Hurricane Katrina. KungFoodie is volunteering with Girls Inc and helping out with their fall fundraiser Women of Taste.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Meanwhile, library geeks are talking about tagging. Wikis The Commons is a free collaborative online newsmagazine about non-profits that serve the Silicon Valley, the people behind them, and the people that they help. What I really like that they are providing extensive help, including screencasts and live chat.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

You can find local comedians on entertainer-sourcing sites like GigSalad or The Bash, or you can ask for help from local comedy clubs. It may be helpful to use some kind of map on a mobile app to help guide participants and allow them to reach out for help if needed while providing their exact position.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2008

It’s helpful to have a designated note-taker to write down what each person says they are going to do so that at the next meeting they are held accountable. If you have a laptop, it may be less distracting to have your job search time at a café, or the library so that when you come home you don’t feel guilty relaxing.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

Again and again, I'd have discussions with community leaders--from the city, the library, downtown businesses--that made clear the incredible potential for the MAH to have transformative impact on the cultural life of the city in a way that a small business could not. When we moved here four years ago from Washington D.C., We'll need interns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

It creates a gift economy and that help you build your network. Or, I get gasps of horror from some colleagues who more concerned about how to "lock up" their content with "all rights" reserved and hire IP lawyers to help them police and protect their work so no one "steals it." Here's why: A way to crowd source ideas.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Many museums produce superb lesson plans, curator interviews and artist interviews for the web. The focus remains on the high status, expensive and little-read exhibition catalogue, instead of developing web-based content that will draw more visitors, and help create a loyal web-community.

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