Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

Vancouver-based Art for Impact is a nonprofit that celebrates the power of art for social change. Art for Impact staff members used CiviCRM to improve their event planning process by selling tickets and creating an organized mailing list for distributions. Project Management. Image 1 : Blended Images / Shutterstock.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2010

For a year now, Peter Linett and his friends at Slover-Linett Strategies have been blogging thoughtfully about connecting with arts audiences in new ways. This is a new blog written by Diane Ragsdale as part of the Arts Journal suite. Asking Audiences. Peter is a fabulous writer, and this blog has become one of my favorites.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2017

This is the ninth in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. Building the Abbott Square project taught me a whole new mindset: that of the real estate developer. We develop the projects. We develop the ideas.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

We also have 75 new friends, slightly bleary from the experience, which felt like one part intense work project, one part marathon, one part hallucinogenic love-in. I felt lucky to be able to dip into the various project teams, though that also gave me a completely aberrant perspective on camp.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Collection-tagging projects (in which visitors assign keywords to items in a collection) have always left me cold. But over the last couple of months, I've learned about two tagging projects that actually get me excited-- CamClickr at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Posse at the Brooklyn Museum. And that brings us to CamClickr.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2012

The content is pretty US-specific (especially regarding tax status and education) but the blend of issues makes it more broadly relevant than other reports that focus solely on demographics or technology. Each article includes museum examples along with a broader look at the trend.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

We're looking for an Exhibitions Manager to join our team here at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. This is a highly collaborative role, and we are looking for the perfect blend of strong design skills with a generous enthusiasm for amateur and professional co-creation. Join our team. Come to Camp.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag. The newest addition to TechSoup's vast array of nonprofit resources is a live monthly interactive video chat series, Nonprofits Live.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Do Artisans a World of Good For many people, art and craft-making is their livelihood. For example, A Green Mountain Coffee Roasters sampler of Organic Breakfast Blend, Organic French Roast and Organic Sumatran Reserve is $26.95. Wouldn't be great if some of that $923.36 Here are a few ideas for those special someones.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. Many other people helped make this project happen, but this is the core team and I am incredibly honored to work with them.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2007

In Eye Level's case at SAAM, there's a nice blend of museum announcements (exhibit openings, podcast postings, and events) and quirky commentary on museum goings-on (photos of the building's construction, a nswers to visitors' questions about how certain artifacts are maintained). Projects Core Museum 2.0 Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2008

It's an interesting discussion, but it's not what makes The 39 Clues and other projects like it worth studying. Art museums have always created catalogues to accompany exhibitions, which are one cross-platform way for obsessives to deepen their relationships with content. Tags: marketing Unusual Projects and Influences game.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 27, 2007

They take lots of risks, blending gymnastic feats with made-up languages, intensely engineered sets, sexually explicit content, and interaction with the crowd. It’s not just eye candy; it’s art that isn’t afraid to pull punches. Sometimes exhibit designers do site reviews when planning major building projects.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Exhibits), Rob Semper (Exploratorium) and I hosted a wide-ranging discussion session on design techniques for developing projects that involve both online and onsite elements. The REFLECTS project blends practical institutional demands with deep research.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

On 8.16.08, the Museum of Art and History (Santa Cruz, CA) hosted FreelanceCamp, a free unconference that brought 150 designers and techies from the south bay area together to talk shop. Projects participatory museum. Again, hundreds of mostly young people shot hundreds of videos and photos featuring or on location at the museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2010

But I did see something that inspired me quite a lot: a gorgeous, innovative setting for visitors to sit, chat, explore art, and rest. This post is a photo essay focusing on an area at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts called the Digiark. The Digiark is a connected but separate building that showcases media art.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we''re approaching this challenge through a different lens: social bridging. What started as a series of experiments and happy accidents is now embedded in how we develop and evaluate projects. Museum of Art and History programs social bridging' And rarely the twain shall meet.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. Some people commune with the art. Our museum''s vision statement begins with the phrase, "The Museum of Art & History is a thriving central gathering place.". Some visit the archives.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This post is even more relevant today to the broader conversation about audience diversity in the arts than when it was published three years ago. During the school year, they spend one day per week at the Taylor Center working on science projects and leading science programs for young children, seniors, and other community groups.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2012

Over the past year, we've found it fairly easy to invent and sustain participatory art and craft projects. How do we deal with the blending of personal and institutional goals when it comes to contributing to efforts to improve the whole community? Participatory history programming. Working with teams through change.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. We tailor the programming blend to diverse ages, making sure no activity is just for kids or adults, no matter how much glue or fire is involved. Kyle had brought his baby with him.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

This is a high-energy interactive workshop that will shift your focus from viewing fundraising as overwhelming or a backburner project to an inspiring activity. Marcy Heim, The Artful Asker. Hitting It Out of the Park—Learn the Art of Major Gift Relationship Building. Practice time to combine/blend your people and money story.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation. But the exhibit team did something novel.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 30, 2022

Different fonts and art styles appeal to different audiences. Be sure to make infographics with software that allows you to easily scale the project for different platforms. This type of design should be subtle and focus on tasteful imagery that blends into the environment to create subconscious advertisements. Social Media.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This means that web design projects (and even smaller, iterative updates) are important investments for nonprofits, and they can involve any number of different strategies and techniques. Project Open Hand. Top Nonprofit Website: Interlochen Center for the Arts. North Shore Animal League. Mustard Seed Communities. Ontario SPCA.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

In this post, a discussion about the art of conversation in the groundswell. Groundswell profiles the story of the Blendtec, the blender company that stumbled into a viral video explosion with their " Will it Blend? Start with one for a specific, time-limited exhibition project (see the hugely successful LA MOCA Wack!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Today, a look at one of the projects I believe does this best--the World Beach Project. The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence Sue Lawty. The World Beach Project does not exist in the V&A Museum. What makes the World Beach Project so successful?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Museum Projects COSI has done a lovely job aggregating all of their social media efforts into one "Share" tab on their website. LACMA has recently opened their grounds to two pretty unusual art groups, Machine Project and The Public School. There's a lot of great stuff flooding my inbox these days. Keep 'em coming, and enjoy!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

There's a nice overlap to be found here blending the traits of Oldenburg’s third place with the mission of the institution. It was a collaborative library/design/art/community-building project. That's the sort of a "fourth place" model that LAMs want to shoot for. In the 1930s, W.E.

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