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Platform Power: Scaling Impact

Museum 2.0

Our county board of supervisors had brought their official meeting to the museum. They were off-site for the first time in years, holding a special study session sparked by an exhibition about foster youth, Lost Childhoods. Then, for an hour, former foster youth who helped design the exhibition shared their stories with supervisors.

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4 Strategies to Increase Donor Loyalty

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Your loyalty program (aka “donor communications” or “donor relations” or “donor stewardship” program) is just one of many touchpoints that must be considered within the entirety of the consumer’s brand experience. They don’t care if the touch comes from marketing, fundraising, or programs. Donors know only one organization.

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Equity in Arts Funding: We're Not There Yet. We're Not Even Close.

Museum 2.0

We may say that we want to support programming and cultural opportunities for low-income and non-white people, but that's not where the money is going. But a lot of the questions and issues described in Sidford's paper are as applicable on the level of individual programs or institutional priorities as they are for funders and foundations.

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Where Do We Put It? Fitting the Web Into Museums

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Thanks to Kyle Evans, who forwarded me the fascinating, lengthy master’s dissertation.art: Situating Internet Art in the Modern Museum by Karen Verschooren at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. In it, Karen provides a survey of the evolving relationship of Internet art to art museums. Citizen science programs.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

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For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. I spent an hour this morning "brand listening" to what the online world says about one of my favorite museums, the Exploratorium.

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No longer in extremis.

Museum 2.0

Andrea has been a leader in the museum technology field. This work led to my appointment as an organizing committee member of AAM’s Tech & Media MUSE Awards, my election as Program Co-Chair of MCN, being part of Knight Foundation’s initiative to support positions with digital expertise, and receiving grants to continue digital efforts.

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