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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

Have Fun - Do Good

"If we start losing cultural diversity, we begin to lose our whole sense of community because community is defined by culture. My dad is the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship. They also enrich the community's culture, and they use cultural capital. They're really visionaries.

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iCommons: Artist Residency - Exploring Open Content

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Icommons Artist-in-Residency program is seeking artists who create work both in the physical and digital world and who engage with copyright in some way - either by using Creative Commons licenced content as their inspiration, or by licencing their work under CC; or artists who simply challenge the boundaries of copyright law.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers.

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The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation: Build Staff Expertise and Reduce Information Overload

NTEN

Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can actually be a method to tackle this problem. The museum curator does research, is an expert in the particular artistic style, selects the best examples, puts them together in an exhibit, provides important context with annotation on the labels, and so on.

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6 Ways Nonprofits Learn from Affordable Losses or Little Bets To Improve Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Talking about risk-taking and potential for failure is difficult in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, but having it part of an organization’s culture so it is free of stigma and that everyone learns is even harder. ” They have a specific method for this: The Rules. One method they use is the “ Joyful Funeral.”

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My Latest President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Her goal while at Benetech: to learn more about the data processing techniques and quantitative analysis methods that HRDAG uses to investigate large-scale human rights violations. For the past five years he worked customizing and integrating a single set of software systems that Benetech could use globally.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. Are you using evidence-based methods. And I see an anonymous question here about, “Can you speak to what evaluation methods are particularly effective regarding impact?” So, Marie, thank you so, so much for doing this.

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