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Machinima Festival and NTC Video Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Combining aspects of animation, game development, puppetry, graffiti, fan fiction, and improvisational theater into a moving image art form, machinima represents the latest frontier of digital popular culture. The Museum of the Moving Image is hosting the 2006 Machinima Festival this weekend in NYC.

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Arts 2.0: Brooklyn Museum Click Exhibit Results: It's not a contest, it's a study in curation of the crowds.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In April, I taught a social media workshop for artists and arts nonprofits and did some research. And finally, the top 20% of the 389 images are now in a physical exhibition space at the museum and on display until August. (If Read the artist statement and then read the discussion. View the Evaluation Statistics.)It

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34 Clever Summer Fundraising Ideas

Whole Whale

Canva is a great tool for designing images. Or host a rib, pie, or hot dog eating contest and have your own tip jars for people to support their favorite competitors in the form of donations. Bonus points if the artist does an entire custom flash related to your cause. Website or event page so people can find it.

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13 Innovative Online Fundraising Ideas For Nonprofits & Charities

CauseVox

Make sure you share images of each item and organize them clearly. Considerations: have an impartial umpire or judge for the games so that its a fair contest for all. Reach out to a talented volunteer or local artist to lead the class, and purchases the necessary supplies. Have your lead artist jump on and run the class on Zoom.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A set of screensavers and background images. Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures. Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. Feature your donor images and quotes in social media advertising. Hint: It’s the XYY Soup Kitchen.”

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Getting in on the Act: New Report on Participatory Arts Engagement

Museum 2.0

Useful differentiation in their Audience Involvement Spectrum (see image at top) between programs that provide "enhanced engagement" and those that invite audience members to make contributions that impact and alter the end result. What's the relationship between the goals of participation and the techniques employed?

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20 Years of Photoshop

Tech Soup

Since its early days, Photoshop has become synonymous with altering images to make them look better or different than reality. Cropping logos, converting images for web use, brightening images, balancing levels, and using artistic filters are just a few of the many features we use here at TechSoup almost every day.

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