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The Diversity Question in the Arts Blogosphere

Museum 2.0

But this month, it's as if there was a subliminal email sent to a crew of bloggers in the arts suggesting a salon about audience diversity, and how/why to move in that direction. A rare blog post that combines personal narrative with statistical charts. This never seems like a good idea. You should go and tell us all about it.

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Visualizing the Tate's Collection: What Open Data Makes Possible

Museum 2.0

Jim Davenport, an astronomer living in Seattle, charted the height and width of all of the works in the Tate''s collection. Knowing the dimensions of the frame a painting is in is much less compelling than many, many other things that could be known and explored about works of art. These visualizations are fun.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the physical world, at the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle, staff members partner with visitors to co-produce exhibits based on community members’ interests and the institution’s collections. Here’s a chart that may help you figure out what type is best for your next project.

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How Useful is the "Audience vs. Expert" Dichotomy?

Museum 2.0

When it comes to user participation in cultural institutions and the arts, it's popular to launch projects that pit visitors against experts. at the Brooklyn Museum, where you could track how people of various levels of art expertise rated crowd-contributed photographs. There was Click! What tools do we use?

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

Tech Soup

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Treading Lightly | The Delicate Art of Internal Communications. Seattle, Washington: King County Executive Director Forum. Seattle, Washington: Let's Go Legal: Getting on the Right Road to Compliance and Protection. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Usability Day of Events at U of M | World Usability Day.

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Research Friday: Financial literacy: understanding money for today’s activities and tomorrow’s security

ASU Lodestar Center

1 This study, Financial Literacy and Knowledge in the Nonprofit Sector (PDF) , "engaged a random sample of primarily human service nonprofits, as well as health, civic, environmental, arts, and education nonprofits." 2 Again, the study surveyed nonprofit financial managers such as CEOs and CFOs.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

BoardSource / Seattle, WA / $950. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project / Austin, TX / $575. With continuous shifting trends in the landscape of arts marketing and audience engagement, arts organizations must go beyond “embracing” change.