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Are You Passionate about Technology and Social Good? Benetech Needs You!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

You are the leader we are looking for if you see the combination of social good and businesslike management as the answer to pressing problems throughout the world. As one of our partners from an LGBT group in Uganda noted last year, “If it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen.”

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Donor Management Software: Buyer’s Guide + 16 Top Solutions

Bloomerang

When my sister first started working with a nonprofit museum, she had a lot to learn about the fundraising process for the organization. The museum had notes saved in their donor management software about the seating preferences for their major donors and that particular donor preferred their regular seat toward the front.

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Do they “get it” now? The value of #musesocial and #musetech in the era of COVID-19

Museum 2.0

By Lori Byrd-McDevitt After a decade spearheading the social media presence at the world’s largest children’s museum, Lori now co-owns her agency 1909 DIGITAL where she helps others with their digital strategy. She is an adjunct in JHU’s museum studies faculty. Museums have made waves. It’s our time to shine. Let’s do this.”

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Guest Post: Restoration Artwork

Museum 2.0

George Scheer is the director and co-founder of Elsewhere Collective, a fascinating "living museum" in a former thrift store in Greensboro, NC. In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it.

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Guest Post: Radical Collaboration - Tools for Partnering with Community Members

Museum 2.0

It started as a handout for a session that Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of Museums, and then I realized it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing with all of you. The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations.

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Leading the Participant

Museum 2.0

The students are each given roles on one of three teams--the Oval Office, a military command center, and a press room. You will make history. Each time the students decide what to do, the young Reagan picks up a red phone and presses either A or B. The topic is the invasion of Grenada. Lives are at stake.

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Meditations on Relevance Part 5: Relevance is a Bridge

Museum 2.0

This summer, we opened two exhibitions at my museum that are highly relevant to local culture. Yielded mountains of press. Before the Princes of Surf exhibition, these boards rested deep in the collection storage of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. Grown men fighting for seats at lectures about the history of the boards.

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