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Aligning Your IT Needs With Your Org's Mission (or, Doc Brown to the Rescue)

NTEN

There's a trope in many a science-fiction movie: you need to fix the tech to save the day. In Back to the Future , Doc Brown gets the cable plugged in -- yes, just in time. In Empire , R2D2 reconnects the hyperdrive just in time. In Wrath of Kahn , Spock fixes the warp drive just in time.

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Why You Need to Care About Documentaries in 2022

Association TV

The classical definition of a documentary is a movie, television or radio program that provides a factual record or report. Twenty years ago, crowds flocked to movie theaters to watch two-hour long feature documentaries like the Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine, or the rightfully alarming An Inconvenient Truth.

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Museum Work Today: All the Feels All the Time

Museum 2.0

And another person stopping to share tough things on some crazy thread about movies. Make part of your work and life be about existing in the now and taking care of yourself. Let’s make the doc a living document to help us make informed decisions. Damn straight, it is. The days when an original future disappears.

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How Documentaries Engage Entirely New Audiences For Maximum Impact

Association TV

Twenty years ago, crowds flocked to movie theaters to watch two-hour long feature documentaries like the Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine, or the rightfully alarming An Inconvenient Truth. The premise of Blackfish isn’t an Attenborough-esque window into the charmed life of orcas. News outlets ran stories on the doc and its exposé.

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How Documentaries Engage Entirely New Audiences For Maximum Impact

Association TV

Twenty years ago, crowds flocked to movie theaters to watch two-hour long feature documentaries like the Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine, or the rightfully alarming An Inconvenient Truth. The premise of Blackfish isn’t an Attenborough-esque window into the charmed life of orcas. News outlets ran stories on the doc and its exposé.

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Going Back to the Future to Help Your Nonprofit

NonProfit Hub

The movie hops around the timeline and makes stops in 1955 and an alternate 1985, but the film is most famous for the time spent in 2015 (October 21, specifically). Instead, let’s look at several specific quotes from the movie and what you, the nonprofit professional, can learn from them. Doc looks exactly the same.

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Things We Like (January 2010)

NTEN

is like Google Docs for elementary school students. " While we're still disappointed the flying cars all those science fiction movies promised we'd have by now haven't been built, at least NASA is working on it. A great American philosopher once toasted, " To alcohol: the cause of and solution to all of life's problems."

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