Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

Let's say your organization has a mission to increase X (art, healthy kids, clean water, community cohesiveness, etc.). We still produce exhibitions, events, and educational programs for an audience, but that audience is just one of our major constituencies. Leading onstage institutions are more publicly-known and recognized.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Likewise, for nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, similar challenges exist because of the impact of new technologies and alternative forms of entertainment on audience tastes and behavior. Among the most severe impediments to nonprofit sustainability are fundamental deficiencies in funding, capacity and infrastructure.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

If your audience is one that responds more positively to social media, then you might want to try a social media sharing blitz. Get local businesses involved for prize sponsorships, and make it a public, fun event that everyone can come and watch. Alternatively, you can also pre-record your live-stream. Live-Streaming.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Activities such as performances, live entertainment, and sit-down dinners regularly attract a large audience and generate significant money for charity. Although this appears at first glance to be beyond reach in a virtual setting, consider breaking down each aspect one by one to consider online alternatives. 7) Shopping.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. I tried to picture an alternative with AleiaBrown and Adrianne Russell ’s # MuseumsRespondtoFerguson and LaTonya S. But I couldn’t get there.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 30, 2017

Reaching a larger audience is a key aspect of increasing donations. Those photos then become public, and others can share them on social media. With the influx of “alternative facts,” good, reliable information is becoming harder to distinguish from biased, cherry-picked, misleading data points.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2015

The new Foundation Index, which tracks revenue from giving to foundations, brings the number of specialty indices up to 11, including: Arts & Culture, Environment & Animal Welfare, Faith-based, Healthcare, Higher Education, Human Services, International Affairs, K-12 Education, Medical Research, Public & Society Benefit.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

After years of staging events, you may feel like there’s nothing you haven’t covered, from art auctions to wine tastings to trivia nights. Here are some to consider: Art: Art auctions serve a valuable purpose because they don’t just raise funds, they also spread awareness and appreciation of the works being auctioned.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

We catalog items by everyone who contributed—writers, editors, typesetters, photographers, interns—and link those people together in our catalog so that users can trace the connections between contributors as they move from one publication to the next. We’ve been doing this for close to five years and have accumulated over 2,000 publications.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Peer-to-Peer Events Arts & Culture Events Community Events Educational Events Events for Grown-Ups Events for Kids & Families Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Events Peer-to-peer events raise funds and generate buzz by having your supporters and participants get their networks involved in your event. The possibilities are endless!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2015

Open is the alternative to the traditional methods of controlling intellectual property and authority with a focus on delivering the broadest possible access and encouraging reuse. A great way to get started and bring a wider audience to your doorstep is by broadcasting lectures through YouTube and Slideshare or posting articles online.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

Billed as "part art museum, part public forum," The Lab at Belmar is a contemporary art space in a suburban Denver development. The point of Belmar was to replace a dying shopping mall with a vital city center for Lakewood, an inner suburb of Denver, and art seemed to be part of that concept. It's a hip, energetic place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

How can we develop audiences, cultivate care and empathy, and find alternate funding that doesn’t require public popularity so that important stories get told? Crowdsourcing killed punk rock…Crowdsourcing kills art…It’s bullshit. But I think it’s also the road to really fully becoming global.” starts around 17:27).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. Why would an art museum create an ARG? To expand their audiences. Reaching Non-Gamer Audiences ARGs can be confusing. To tap into maker culture. Coincidence?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2007

In general, yes, I think that museums maintaining blogs is an effective, cheap way to get changing content out to the public frequently. At the basic level, these are little more than an alternative mouthpiece for the museum's calendar of events. And the answer is. it depends. Do I have a personal preference among these approaches?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

You never say, "this place is so me" when talking about a generic public space. And if you make design choices that intentionally keep your experiences secret, aren't you doing a disservice to institutional goals to serve broad audiences? Secret places are a pleasure to discover and share. They don't fit our expectations.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

In public broadcasting, for example, where direct mail is the main vehicle for acquisition (other than on-air pledge drives), the people donating in response to Direct Mail campaigns are 65+. To sustain their fundraising efforts, public TV stations badly need to attract younger members such as Baby Boomers.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Those words, and so many more beautiful thoughts and tributes about Simone, can be found on almost every fundraising blog, publication, and social media feed. The board meetings alternated between the United States and the UK. Instead, I am going to go down a different and very special path. Part Two – Personal Friendship.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

But this week, I got the opportunity to interview Jason Nelson, creator of digital art and avant garde game wonder game, game, game, and again game and how could I resist? Jason Nelson is a lecturer in cyberstudies/digital art/digital creative writing at Griffith University in Queensland, AU. just won an Italian art award.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I always assumed that this would be a semi-private endeavor and that the public nature of the blog would just be an efficient vehicle for sharing my ideas with a small group of interested folks. Excellent new blogs focused on the field like Museum Audience Insight and Useum. As the audience for the Museum 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come. 7 admin 04.07.09

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

In public broadcasting, for example, where direct mail is the main vehicle for acquisition (other than on-air pledge drives), the people donating in response to Direct Mail campaigns are 65+. To sustain their fundraising efforts, public TV stations badly need to attract younger members such as Baby Boomers.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Here are six ways to fill your nonprofit’s auction fundraising catalog so it’s overflowing and attractive to the widest audience possible: 1. Unique keepsakes and priceless items bring in the audience and the bids. Canvas print or art on t-shirts, puzzles, or calendars. Auction art. Ask everyone. Auction basket themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2011

I picked up a copy of Content Rules by Ann Handley and CC Chapman and could not put it down. The books shares the secrets to creating good content on social channels that engages your audiences. It is critical to include the voice of everyone, not just public relations or marketing. The Practice of Creating Good Content.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

With technology improving, virtual and hybrid events rising in popularity, and new event ideas coming to fruition, it can be hard to determine the best fundraising event that aligns with your audience, goals, and overall mission. Audience members can even continue to give as the show is happening with text fundraising!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

What does it mean when your audience is tired of itself? In 2006, their publication Next proclaimed that the Weston Innovation Centre, and the accompanying Agents of Change initiative, represented the “new” face of the Ontario Science Centre. our returners and core audience, who’ve been there done that. by not changing.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The audience then places their bids by raising bid paddles, calling out amounts, or catching the auctioneer’s attention in some other way. Mobile bidding is a contemporary alternative to old-school silent auction bid sheets. If you can, use audience segmentation to send even more effective thank-you messages.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I remember trying to sell calendars as a public school fundraiser when I was about 8. Maybe they love the food bank but don’t care about the arts. Identify a business that shares your audience, and think about ways to support each other. Send an audience-priming newsletter heavy on stories but with only a light ask.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Zen and the Art of Web Analytics. Screencast Audience and Learning Objectives The audience for this screencast is nonprofits that know they need to analyze the success of their Web sites, but aren't sure where to begin. Production Note: I wonder if " Simple Gifts " is in the public domain?). Analytics This!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

Here’s an example of 25 SMART social media objectives from arts organizations. What should be measured are shifts in awareness, comprehension, attitude and behavior related to donations, purchase, branding, reputation, public policy, employee engagement, and other shifts in audience beliefs or behaviors related to SMART objectives.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

Light argues that while in business, any new idea that generates revenue can be an innovation, a new idea or technique is only valuable for a non-profit organization if it contributes to that organization's ability to deliver on its public mission. It only matters if it matters. So what did I learn?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

This guest post was written by Georgina Bath Goodlander, the Interpretative Programs Manger for the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The “Ghosts of a Chance” alternate reality game (ARG) ran from July 18 until October 25, 2008 and was a collaboration between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and CityMystery.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

” You may realize that you are spending too much time at the events that are attracting large community audiences but they’re not your tribe, they’re not your audience, and that you do better at smaller events, you’re actually going to get more interactions at those smaller events. Ask “So what?”

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. But what if the "traditional" arts experiences is a myth? What if historic arts experiences were actually a lot more participatory?

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Giving your audience a bite-sized version of your full content will keep them wanting more. With 127 million followers to date, National Geographic has certainly mastered the art of Instagram. One simple way to get creative with your grid is by alternating between a still photo and a solid-colored image with typography.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

the real culprit in the minds of the American public emerged as the banks and other financial institutions sent endless waves of credit card offers. 60) Search « Social Media Webinar on June 10th | Main | Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? 6) Social networking is fun – no doubt about it.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. For example, consider two independent arts organizations in Los Angeles -- Machine Project and The Public School.

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