Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

SpringFundraising idea Number 2: Celebrate National Cereal Day with a pajama party for good. Or thumb your nose at the spring-forward tradition by spending an hour (or two) at a local watering hole willing to give you the space for some mixing and mingling (in exchange for an entry fee). snapcracklepop Click To Tweet.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 28th annual awards includes over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts.

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Everyaction

MARCH 22, 2018

Considering our team is obsessed with all that is NOLA, we thought we'd share some favorite local spots to eat, drink, party, and enjoy the sights while visiting for the Nonprofit Technology Conference. Anyone briefly strolling through this park will likely hear the sound of a brass band and see local artists scattered along the sidewalk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

I am putting the finishing touches on another social media lab designed for arts organizations. So, have been updating arts 2.0 I had too look no further than Shelley Bernstein's blog over at the Brooklyn Museum to find some thoughtful experimentation and useful examples.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2021

Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN. NMAAM is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced, and inspired by African Americans. Today’s Q&A is with H.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

Earlier in 2013, I was amazed to visit one of the new “Studio” spaces at the Denver Art Museum. The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations.

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Everyaction

JULY 12, 2018

Considering our team is obsessed with all that is NOLA, we thought we'd share some favorite local spots to eat, drink, party, and enjoy the sights while visiting for the Netroots Nation 2018 Conference. Anyone briefly strolling through this park will likely hear the sound of a brass band and see local artists scattered along the sidewalk.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

A year ago, I wrote a post speculating about whether events (institutionally-produced programs) might be a primary driver for people to attend museums, with exhibitions being secondary. Many museums, big and small, thrive on events. At our museum, about 68% of casual visitors (non-school tours) attended through events this year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

These sorts of echo chambers are common inside the Twitterverse – it’s the same with most celebrities and musicians who also tend to only follow each other, but in the case of nonprofits and politicians who are working on many of the same issues, not following the nonprofits listed below is a lost opportunity. Ashoka :: @ Ashoka.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Reach out to the chef of a popular local restaurant or send a call out to any supporters who are baking aficionados to host a virtual cooking or baking class as a fundraiser. Have your local wine expert guide you all through the different wines via livestream to complete the experience. Virtual tours for museums. Silent disco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

“As Miami continues to evolve, Give Miami Day acts as a gateway for new members of the community to learn more about local causes they are passionate about and contribute to the overall success of our city,” said Miami Foundation CEO Javier Alberto Soto. Collaboration among nonprofits is key; Miami Arts Brigade was a huge testament to that.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 28, 2015

However, Lighthouse is celebrating their first quarter of a century with fiberglass and some fancy artwork. Lighthouse, which provides after-school programming for teenagers, has sponsored a public art project for the past several months in Lincoln, Neb., Nonprofits celebrate anniversaries all the time.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 28, 2015

However, Lighthouse is celebrating their first quarter of a century with fiberglass and some fancy artwork. Lighthouse, which provides after-school programming for teenagers, has sponsored a public art project for the past several months in Lincoln, Neb., Nonprofits celebrate anniversaries all the time.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

I feel strongly that there are huge issues with racial and ethnic diversity in museums and arts organizations that deserve a million more posts. One was a conference on pushing our practice in art museums. And one was a local TEDx. In library- and museum-land, the participants were 80-90% women.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

The “superfriends” on stage at OMCA’s California Futures at the Massive Reopening Celebration. Local Oakland Tweeter @trafficologist Standing Beside Her Profile Pic in the Twitterstream. Recently, James wrote about some interesting ways museums are using Twitter for offline/online engagement.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

To celebrate the confluence between these passions, some buddies and I have started an instagram account called @museumfitness. We are posting short museum-based exercise videos each week. While it's a silly project, #museumfitness is also a small attempt to break down unproductive divisions between "art people" and "sports people."

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AUGUST 25, 2023

It’s been a rough couple years for arts-based nonprofits. As pandemic aid has run out without patrons returning in pre-2020 numbers, many arts nonprofit across the country have had to shrink programming, cut staff, or close altogether. This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

  I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership. 

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

Yesterday, the local paper in Santa Cruz published a great article about my new book, The Art of Relevance. I've learned so much from my dad about making art, putting on a great show, inviting audience participation , and navigating celebrity. Learn more about The Art of Relevance and get your own copy here.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2011

Jason Beaubien was reporting on the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, the gleaming new art museum built as a "gift to Mexico" by the world's richest man, Carlos Slim. The news report , strangely, focused on the question of whether the Soumaya Museum is a rich man's indulgence or a truly "worthy" cultural institution.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. Given TCG''s multi-year Audience (R)evolution initiative, I took the opportunity to write a new talk about what revolution has looked like at our small museum in Santa Cruz. We heard again and again that the museum was cold and uncomfortable.

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APRIL 11, 2017

This is the sixth 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. John would run Abbott Square Market , a multi-vendor food and drink business, adjacent to the plaza, adjacent to the museum. Money is on the table.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. From actors, to reality tv stars, to musicians, there are a number of celebrities who will film a shoutout for your auction. Art-themed Auction. Appeal to this audience with an art-themed auction! Spy-themed Auction.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation. Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. This past Friday, we experimented with a new feedback format at an evening event focused on poetry and book arts. Maybe this is good fodder for a future Museum 2.0

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JANUARY 16, 2013

It's not every day that a visitor buys pizza for everyone in the museum. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. The museum itself was well-integrated into the event. Or that visitors form a spontaneous "laugh circle" on the floor.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2022

Many people are eager to be celebrating again, and your organization can capitalize on this. For example, will you (or does your local government) require attendees to be vaccinated or wear masks? For example, a small art museum held an? art auction ?this this winter, but with a twist.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Connections: Relationships to lawmakers, celebrities, newsrooms.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Last Friday night, my museum hosted a fabulous (in my biased opinion) event called Race Through Time. It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. Late night mixers at museums for young adults.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In January, Blackbaud employees from all ov the world rallied together to celebrate our cultural customers through our #showyourculture initiative. Blackbaud employees love arts & culture: Not really surprising – Blackbaud has been working with arts and cultural organizations for over 30 years and has over 2200 cultural customers.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

I spent the weekend queuing up posts for my forthcoming blog-cation--nine weeks of guest posts and reruns from the Museum 2.0 I went to several big museum conferences in 2004-2006 where I identified and started admiring heroes in the field. As the readership for Museum 2.0 vaults that will commence next week.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2013

Recently, my daughter attended a birthday party at the local aquarium. The Museum of Science and Industry encouraged their 2012 Columbian Ball attendees to become “deputy development directors” on their behalf. The kids had a fantastic time seeing the animals up close and learning about their habitats. Here is a great example.

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