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Telling the story in a new way: Should arts leaders use impact evaluation?

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Christopher Haines Artistic Director & Co-Founder, iTheatre Collaborative. Impact evaluation in the arts, and its broader use for leaders of any nonprofit, can drive results. Only within the last decade has research on the efficacy of evaluating the effects of art on audiences been realized (Brown & Novak, 2013).

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

For example, long-form storytelling may still convert better than short snippets – the current long-form podcasts that top business charts are showing this. Evaluate telethons and phone banks – what makes people donate on the spot? The ads were hailed as beautiful, artistic, and innovative.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Help participants evaluate the session in real-time – replacing the use of a flip chart in a plus/delta analysis. see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. She did so in the first few minutes.

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Free Webinar: Sharing Trainer's Social Media Bag of Tricks and Secrets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session. Audience Research.

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How Useful is the "Audience vs. Expert" Dichotomy?

Museum 2.0

One prototype is based on the Billboard Top 10 charts for pop music. Every week, Billboard publishes charts based on airplay, record sales, and now, digital downloads and streaming. For the interactive prototype, we're letting visitors construct their own "Top 10" and compare it to the Billboard charts.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

I see three significant internal reasons for homogenization in museums: As money gets tight, museums look for exhibits, program strategies, and revenue streams that are "proven" by other institutions' successes, rather than charting their own potentially risky path. They may employ local artists to help create visitor experiences.

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I can't easily measure this metric unless I set up some sort of Ruby Goldberg contraption like cut and pasting a month's worth of posts and cut paste into word, count the number of posts, and then chart in excel. I remember serving as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and had to quantify artistic merit.

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