2003

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April Fool's Day

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NPR used the April Fool's Day as lead to a story about war jokes, a slippery slope for stand up comics. I'm not in the mood for pranks, jokes, or any other humor. Well, at least my colleagues in the nonprofit tech community can always get a good laugh at nonprofit sector, including CompassPoint's annual Food for Thought April Fool's Day edition. And if need some inspiration for April fools day, check out the Museum of Hoaxes.

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Blogspiration

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I'm blogging again. It has been a long and dreary winter. I got out of the habit. Good bloggers make posting a daily ritual. It is hard to be a blogger and be a mommy of a three-year old! In January, 2003, my friend Jon Stahl gave me the gift of this moveable type blog. But, the technology failed to inspire me to pick up my blog habit. At the roundup, as I was riding the escalator, one of the best bloggers in our community said to me, "I'd read your blog if you'd update it.".

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Art & Gadgetry

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Art & Gadgetry: The Future of the Museum Visit is an excellent article about the current experimentation and usage of hand-held devices in art museums. Hand-held devices are part of a drive toward augmented reality experiences. Unlike virtual reality, which offers imaginary experiences, augmented reality uses computers to supplement the user perceptions of his or her actual surroundings.

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Hadyn in Your Handheld

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The museum world has been experimenting with how handheld devices might enrich the visitor's experience. The CIMI Handscape - White Site includes a list of links to articles and studies on this topic. However, most recently Roland Valliere, from the. ">Kansas City Symphony has been experimenting on how to use these devices to enrich the experience of concert goers.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Study Gauges How Classical Fans

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Study Gauges How Classical Fans Connect to Music, Symphonies - funded by the John and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Magic of Music Initiative. The research has fueled innovative use of technology in the symphony orchestra world.

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Nonprofit Suffering: Action Steps

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Chuck Bean, executive director of the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington, recommends workplace-giving campaigns and other measures to. help the region's nonprofit sector survive economic malaise , funding cuts, and scandal at the local United Way, in a letter to the editor in The Washington Post.

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Arts Suffering

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If you read, in succession, headlines about how the harsh economy is impacting the arts around the country, it is extremely depressing news. HARD TIMES TAKES CENTER STAGE. This article from the SF Chronicle reports how even the large cultural and arts institutions, the "crown jewels of the Bay Area art scene," are hurting from dwindling donations, volatile endowment funds, cuts in government grants and smaller, choosier audiences.

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Arts Policy Reports

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Solid policy research into the nonprofit arts and culture sector, once rare and anecdotal, is now accumulating. This month I'm gathering and reviewing various reports. I'll start close to home. Boston Foundation's report on arts funding was designed to answer two fundamental questions: How does the financial support available for metro Boston???s arts and cultural sector compare to that of other regions across the country?

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Revenue Decline in Art Museums

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Many art museums saw their revenue decline as a result of last year's tough economic climate, a new report says. Seventy-four of the 128 museums that provided data to the Association of Art Museum Directors brought in less money in 2002 than in 2001 -- another year marked by a downturn in revenue, mostly as a result of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

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E-Museum Shop: $50 a month

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While many museums use Yahoo Store for their online shops as my previous entry indicated, some like LA County Art Museum are using other vendors. After experimenting with the Yahoo store, their technology staff discovered that the software wasn't malleable enough to suit the many and varied requests for design and content that were being brought to the table.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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E-Museum Shops

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On the list where museum technology folks hang out, there has been a recent thread on best practices and lessons learned on how to set up a successful store component of a museum web site. A number of museums are using Yahoo Stores. For example, the Brooklyn Museum Shop. Some museums are working with e-commerce/design consultants to further customize the look and feel.

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Selling Art Online: US

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Meanwhile, on the other side of the world. ArtistsRegister.Com ArtistsRegister.com showcases visual art by artists who are US residents represented through many disciplines. The Web site serves to connect the artists and their work with private collectors, gallery owners, interior designers, corporate art buyers, public art administrators, and art enthusiasts in general!

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E-Shop Africa

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Traditional African craftsmen are starting to sell their crafts to collectors on the other side of the globe thanks to E-Shop Africa. Here is a stunning example of how technology can bridge the digital divide and benefit traditional African artisans, struggling to exist. The site features, amongst other things, designer-made coffins in the shape of fish, aeroplanes or beer bottles, which are for sale at $1,000.

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State of Technology Use in Museums

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The Institute of Museum and Library Studies did a survey of the field in 2002 on the state of technology use. One of their findings: ???Museums' technology use is strong in the medium-sized and large museums, but lags significantly in the smaller museums.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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Museums and Technology

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This year's conference for the Association of Art Museums has so many interesting sessions on museum technology and media that it would be hard to choose which one to go to. It even includes some sessions for small museums on how to integrate technology into service delivery. And, of course, a shoestring session.

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Muse Awards

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The MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE is a Standing Professional Committee of the American Association of Museums. They design sessions at the national conference on technology. They also administrator the Muse awards competition which recognizes outstanding achievement in museum media. Categories include educational topics as well as research databases and two-way communication projects.

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Arts Policy

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CPANDA: Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive is world's first digital archive of arts and cultural data for researchers, policymakers and journalists. The CPANDA initiative is designed to help policymakers, journalists, scholars and others gain easy access both to current research findings and to previously hard-to-find data on the arts, including public opinion on the arts, city-specific data and recently released statistics.

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Leonardo's Brain

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Michael J. Gelb does research on genuis, analyzing the way they think. His "How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci" provides a rich source of techniques and inspiration on creative problem-solving techniques. This was one of seven books by experts in creative thinking and problem solving techniques that I scanned for ideas. Words and chains of words that we use to frame a problem play a significant role in the way we approach problems.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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Creative Problem Solving

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I'm working on a workshop on structured creative problem-solving techniques. I found this great resource from Directed Creativity, a meta analysis of over 250 creative problem solving techniques. Despite the diversity of tools to support creative thinking, all such tools are based on three simple principles: attention, escape, and movement.

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Great List of Links: Preschool Technology

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Early Connections - Preschool is a great set links from the Northwest Technology Consortium on integrating technology into the pre-school classroom. According to this site, In the preschool classroom, children and teachers are working on readiness skills and early literacy experiences. Technology can help to support these lessons when used in planned and guided manner.

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Parent's Guide to the Electronic Playground

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What are some specific ways to guide your three-year old at the keyboard? To find the answer, I followed a few good links from the list of resources described in the entry below. I wasn' surprised to discover that Big Bird and Cookie Monster are geeks. The Sesame Workshop site offered several articles with good advice on this topic for parents. The At-a-Glance Guide to Kids' Best Computer Use connects age appropriate development milestones with specific computer skills.

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My Bloginality is.

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My BLOGinality is INTJ ! The bloginality site includes a personality test based on the Myers-Briggs test based on Carl Jung's work. According to the test, as an INTJ (Introvert, INtuitive, Thinker, Judger) my personality tends to be: autonomous, aloof, and intellectual; imaginative, innovative, and unique; critical, analytical, and logical; intellectually curious, driven to learn and increase their competence and knowledge; socially cautious and reserved; organized and definitive.

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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Turn Your Palm Into A Pacifier

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Walter Mossberg's Gadget column was about kid-friendly software for hand-held devices that can occupy restless tykes. The column focused on testing one such software product called Learning Together With Ani. Hmm, I'm not letting Harry touch my treo unless his hands are peanut butter free. Wonder if there is a plam version of kidpix.

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Arts Revenue Down

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Some articles about the dismal state of the nonprofit arts community in SF: S.F. ARTS GROUPS WEATHER DONATION SLOWDOWN.

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Enterprise Blogging

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I need an excuse to obsess about blogging. I just came across this interesting white paper on use of blogs as KM tools.

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Carp Method

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CARP Vs. CRAP Homepage is a little image editing tutorial from Bernie Dodge. Some basics about visual design.

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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File Management: Messy Desktop?

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A great little tutorial from Bernie Dodge on File Management. What does your desktop look like?

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More NPO Tech folks are blogging

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I like how Jon has set up an organizational blog for OneNorthwest.

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TechnoPhobe and The Madman

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The Arts and Humanities Initiative assists Internet2 members in enabling and advancing collaborations between high performance networking technologies and applications in the arts and humanities. One performance, The Technophobe and the Madman seamlessly linked actors and musicians at both universities into single musical presentation while audiences at both sites were able to see and hear the performance as a single show.

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