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Reboot Yourself: Take A Digital Detox Day

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was an early adopter of using the Internet in 1992 where I had a virtual job working online for a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts called ArtsWire. I’ve found that it lights up different parts of my brain and helps think more creatively than starring at a screen or typing. Artist Tiles.

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Creating A Culture of Well-being in Your Nonprofit Workplace: The First Step

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am thrilled with the response to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout as my co-author and I have been sharing the ideas on a virtual book tour during the last month. Their program includes about teaching artists. Then we had the whole staff brain storm together.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. Real Virtuality had two games that were on display that augmented reality. Within our exhibitions, we have a focus on creating very dynamic, interactive opportunities.

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Boosting Your Association's Revenue with Attractive Microcopy

Association TV

Maybe, but our brains are trained to go with what we know. There’s virtually limitless opportunity to remind your audience why they took a liking to you in the first place. We particularly appreciate search bar suggestions, like how Spotify invites users to search not only a song title but an artist or a podcast too.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

NTEN

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. Real Virtuality had two games that were on display that augmented reality. Within our exhibitions, we have a focus on creating very dynamic, interactive opportunities.

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Making Alternative Meaning out of Museum Artifacts

Museum 2.0

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum). The introductory label talks about "strangeness, mystery, and oddity" and comments that, "when things are strange, the brain sends out feelers for meaning."

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Where Do We Put It? Fitting the Web Into Museums

Museum 2.0

And while there's lots of good stuff in these sections (including an introduction for me to some wild net artists ), it's the last chunk that interests me most, where Karen explores the question of how and where Internet art should be exhibited. Why do that at the museum when I can do it at home?

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