Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Proprietary insights are the keys to game-changing businesses : you don’t need a unique project to start an empire, just an intuition all your own. What do you say to those who think it sounds more like a recipe for ‘perpetual discontent’? But I didn’t want to write a book that is thought provoking but not actionable.

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Mentoring Business Consultant Lecture 67

Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2007

Thanks to Paul Orselli for the link to this week's game, "game, game, game, and again game" by Jason Nelson , self-described new media artist and poet. The game is an odd collection of chicken-scratch drawings, Mario-esque navigation, surprising flurries of poetry and sound, and strange home videos.

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Game Artist Influence Arts 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

But if YOU are sitting there thinking, "gee, what I really want to do this summer is transform a sterile volunteer desk into a creativity lounge," or "I've always wanted to develop a late night game show where people answer local history trivia and make art at the same time," I have the opportunity for you. It could be a game show.

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Museum History Participatory Arts 53

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

We should see ourselves like those board games, where all the players have to work together to win. In this case, I find the most interesting ones to be made by artists. Sound is often a good surprise in spaces. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. That’s huge.

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Museum Participatory Interaction Classroom 35

Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. I spoke with Nikki this week to learn more about the Ministry and their fun and games. How did this project come about? How did the museum staff respond to this experience?

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Interview Museum Badge Game 37

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

They're playing video games. We assume that adults don't want to do crafts or play games--that they want the "serious" stuff. We're showing an installation by artist Shelby Graham which features beautiful photographs of butterflies juxtaposed with images of the bombing of Japan in World War II. They're going to trivia night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

"Because it doesn't sound like Yo Yo Ma!" " I had to explain to him that Yo Yo Ma didn't sound that way after he had played for week either - and that it takes practice. As Phil Morris noted in his blo g, it feels like home to be with this crowd.). He sawed, sawed away at all. " I asked him why.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor. Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers. Throughout the year you can connect with other donors and funders and the people we serve (artists, students, activists).”.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2010

One Million Giraffes is pretty much what it sounds like--a project to collect artistic renderings of one million giraffes. Ola presents the giraffes in several ways--as individual images, statistically , on a map , even via a goofy game where you can view giraffes and guess the age of the people who made them.

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Collaboration Museum Minneapolis Oakland 34

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

While it sounds paradoxical, I'm more likely to talk about and bring friends to a place I perceive as exclusive than one that is transparent, because I feel like I'm more likely to offer them value by sharing the secret experience. Of course, the problem with all of this is that it sounds crazy from a business perspective.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

Everyone''s definition of risk is different, and while museum professionals may share a common language around the topic, that commonality breaks down when you involve artists and technologists and game designers and performers. There were several moments during camp when I was felt a surge of anxiety, trepidiation, self-doubt.

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Museum Arts History Professional 49

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Give me a game, like the Smithsonian's name that artifact gambit. It may sound like work to reply to others, but it can be easier than generating your own content. Give me links to relevant content from elsewhere on the web like the Walker Art Center does. and the conversation begins. What would fit there?

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Museum Twitter Open San Francisco 46

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Last week I announced the end of Game Friday. But this week, I got the opportunity to interview Jason Nelson, creator of digital art and avant garde game wonder game, game, game, and again game and how could I resist? game, game, has had about 5 million hits. game, game, and.

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Discussion Game Oklahoma Museum 20

The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Still a perfect venue for cultivating sponsorships, you can offer creative rewards like a mention in the event credits or, for an extra high touch, offer breakout rooms to mimic backstage VIP passes to meet and greet the artists. That way, they can select their own online board games, host trivia, virtual bingo, or online game tournaments.

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Fundraising Virtual Game Hosting 52

The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Still a perfect venue for cultivating sponsorships, you can offer creative rewards like a mention in the event credits or for an extra high-touch, offer breakout rooms to mimic backstage VIP passes to meet and greet the artists. GAME NIGHTS & CRAFTING. Don’t be afraid to call on your supporters! TUTORING ART.

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Fundraising Virtual Game Hosting 97

EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Game-Changers. American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Do you like the sound of powerful political women? Shero Game-Changers.

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Story Angola Sierra Leone History 133

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I saw every part of our vacation through the lens of the book, and my climbing partner (a highly active and artistic guy) and I spent a lot of time analyzing the choices we did and didn't make and how they reflected our expressions of identity. Roof gardens and sculpture patios pull me into comfortable recharging spaces.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

LLM models are subject to hallucinations; they may generate content that “sounds” right but is not “factually” accurate. Creating AI-generated photo-realistic creative might be a cost-efficient way for your organization to generate content, or it could be perceived as displacing photographers, visual artists, or models.

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FAQ Language Model Nonprofit 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. It''s common in many museums to offer cart-based activities that invite visitors (mostly families) to play a game, try an experiment, or make art.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. It's common in many museums to offer cart-based activities that invite visitors (mostly families) to play a game, try an experiment, or make art.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire. Pro Tip: If you are using a video conference platform, watch for eye movement (means person is reading something), arms moving or typing sounds (they’re typing), or bored expressions.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly. We prototyped the most complicated interactives (the Love Styles quiz and Hearts to Hearts game) with visitors in the months leading up to opening.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

We’re not selling a widget here so it’s a very different game than what you’ll read about in the social marketing realm. RANDY: Yeah, this sounds all so cool and you’ve had some awesome examples of how this is making some great conversions. Our featured artist is Bernardus. JEANETTE: So it’s very simple.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2015

Members of the congregation get together for family-friendly potlucks to watch West Virginia University games on the big screens. The church stages big-name contemporary-Christian concerts with artists like Matthew West and Colton Dixon of American Idol fame. Tools the Church Uses to Do It All.

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West Virginia Technology Experiment Virginia 36

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

and “On Sunday, are you most likely to be: at brunch, at church, at a museum, or watching the big game?&# Sounds like it has great possibilities; time will tell. Its also valuable for small business, artists, and much more. Two of the questions were “Which of these places would you most like to visit?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

One of the most common situations we see here, at Funding for Good, with groups that are 4, 5, 6, 7-years-old, they’re starting to apply for grants, you know, they’re upping their fundraising game, and they’re trying to share the impact from their first years. ” So everything’s a guesstimate. .”

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

This might make Advice sound more like an educational program than an exhibit, or like a failure on the unfacilitated front. The unfacilitated experiences (discussed in more detail below) involved visitors writing their own pieces of advice on post-its and walls and answering each other's questions asynchronously.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31