Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

And while I’m usually able to offer some general guidance, nonprofit website design best practices have never been my area of expertise. Recently, I sat down with TJ Nicolaides and Allison Hossack of Think Company , a Philadelphia based design firm specializing in research, strategy, development, and design. .

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

They're playing instruments, painting pictures, and cooking gourmet meals in record numbers. If you design interactives for kids, adults recognize that the experience is not for them, and they don't engage. There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

In fact, Snapchat is giving rise to anew type of artist – the Snapchat artist. Snapchat’s navigation and design is tailored for Gen Z – the mobile-first and mobile-only generation, but Millennials and Gen Xers are also becoming more active on Snapchat. Share your first Snap to “My Story.”

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Canva is a great tool for designing images. Design a local route with varying distances to be both competitive and family-friendly. Have your supporters send pictures of their causey ink. Bonus points if the artist does an entire custom flash related to your cause. Actually, please do this and send us a picture.

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Achieve

AUGUST 5, 2022

Plus, you don’t need to have a background in design to participate. There are thousands of online resources and services that streamline all parts of the process, whether it’s designing your logo, making the merchandise itself, or. Your brand will be displayed on your merchandise through graphic designs. selling it online. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), 9) Browse pictures of baby animals regularly. We’re now 10 years into the Social Web. premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.),

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it. Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Paint and sip events work for any type of organization, artists of all levels, and can easily be adapted for every season. For fall, offer picture options that include themed-subject matter like pumpkins or the changing of the leaves. Your artist just has to log in and lead class virtually. Autumn Paint & Sip Night.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. Keep them brief, include a quote or two from the person being highlighted, and definitely add his picture. 11 Nonprofit Blogs Designed for the Social Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Many of them, like the lightbulb , the phonograph , and the motion picture camera , were brilliant creations that have a huge influence on our everyday life. So, I designed a training curriculum that embraces thoughtful do-it-yourself social media experiments and a process for learning from them.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 28, 2015

Local artists decorated and designed the 51 6-foot-tall light bulbs, which have been spread throughout the city. Designs include starry night, an owl and a giant metallic hand holding a lightbulb. All of the designs can be found on Lighthouse’s website. The project has been a massive success.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 28, 2015

Local artists decorated and designed the 51 6-foot-tall light bulbs, which have been spread throughout the city. Designs include starry night, an owl and a giant metallic hand holding a lightbulb. All of the designs can be found on Lighthouse’s website. The project has been a massive success.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2017

You don't need to be a professional graphic designer to create astonishing covers, wallpapers, or landscapes for every occasion. Isn't it amazing that you can now create things like this on your iPhone or Android, when not too long ago this was only for graphic designers or people that knew how to use Adobe Creative Cloud?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your blog.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Picture it like this. The following arts nonprofits have nice designs, engaging content and stronger than most calls-to-action on their landing pages which encourage involvement: (I used nonprofits within the same sector to better establish a comparable set of examples.). 1. Chicago Artists Coalition.

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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

Designate a specific time for your raffle drawing, or if you want to keep donors engaged throughout the night, try drawing raffle tickets at various times to give away multiple prizes at a time. Interior designer consultation. Give your lucky donors the opportunity to win a nice home refresh with an interior design consultation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2011

This picture is from the "Chalk Art Phase" last summer in which we would write loving messages on chalk - Lilly is the artist, I'm the lookout and embellisher. We heard gossip later about how pleased and mystified people were! We've done this numerous times and it's taken different forms.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. The project is designed to scale. To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. That's hardly revolutionary.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin pictures of animals who need homes. Pin pictures of families who adopt animals from your shelter. Use that opportunity to get a picture with the family. Bonus for pictures of your furry friends in action chasing and playing with them. Pin pictures of people in their costumes at your holiday party carnival.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 12, 2012

This is a picture of the largest temporary exhibition gallery in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I feel great about both of these goals, and I feel even better about the amazing artists , innovators , and historians we're working with to make it happen. Our next exhibition is opening in here in two days.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. Design them free on Canva. Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures. Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. Hint: It’s the XYY Soup Kitchen.”

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Here are two pictures. As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process." DO delineate the space, but design easy ways to disengage. The first one is me. The second one is George. We weren’t trying to pick each other up.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. You can design your own t-shirt with Teespring's online tool or you can work with one of the company's consultants. Using CauseVox's design tools, the nonprofit launched a branded campaign called Do It In A Dress.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

That's all fabulous, but it's also all by design. And when I think back on the past year, some of the most magical things that have happened at the museum have NOT been designed by us. Here's a picture of it in action. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 27, 2011

Pictured: Travis "Sweet Tooth" Butterfield. When an artist became angry about having her jewelry designs stolen by the company, she blogged about it. We're extremely respectful of one another, and we get along like fuzzy critters in a Disney movie. A great example is the recent Urban Outfitters controversy.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. You can design your own t-shirt with Teespring's online tool or you can work with one of the company's consultants. Using CauseVox's design tools, the nonprofit launched a branded campaign called Do It In A Dress.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 8, 2013

They invested massive amounts of time and money into the rebrand, hiring the very best designers and brand managers to help them redesign their image. They threw out the simple logo of the orange with the straw and replaced it with a picture of a cup of the juice. Met the artist? We all do it. We buy from the brands we trust.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Also, in my upcoming webinar on How Nonprofits Can Successfully Launch and Maintain a Blog on WordPress , I will give concrete examples of the nonprofit blog content ideas below as well as how to set-up and design your blog and craft your blog content to ensure that your supporters and donors will actually read your blog.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

We have witnessed and experienced incredible moments of transformation: homeless people and history buffs working together on historic restoration, graffiti artists and knitters collaborating on new artistic projects, visitors from different backgrounds making collages, or sculptures, or dance performances together.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

What made the game so unique is the social element – the game designers spent a lot of time writing about the participants and their visions for the future on postcards and distributing them throughout the night, giving them to random participants so they were prompted to seek out others. Learning Science by Design.

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Association TV

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

If your page is expertly designed then you can get away with microcopy on the subtle side, like Google has on its search page. 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. It works, because there’s nothing else drawing your attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

The above powerpoint is from 1999 and excerpted from day-long workshops I used to lead when I worked at NYFA and design and ran a program called "KIT: Knowledge in Technology - Technology Planning for Arts Organizations." With relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement 2. s creations with others 3.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. This brilliant design allowed patrons to create new knowledge about the books in the library while only slightly adjusting their book-returning behavior. Tags: design participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. Three years later, we''re out of turnaround and into growth mode.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2005

There are some things I don't like only because as an artist-type, I want more control over the design. What I don't like: Doesn't insert your pictures/images from your entries -- although the kids could draw in their own after it is printed. what about people who don't proof well on the screen?). No comments are included.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2007

The NYT article is about a photography show by artist Thomas Struth at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Manhattan. Says the reviewer, Michael Kimmelman, Mr. Struth’s pictures are about this continuum, from artists like Velázquez into the public spaces where their works end up, and to us. What are we looking for in a museum?

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