Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Though we’re disappointed to not be exploring Seattle with all of our awesome Arts and Cultural friends, we are super excited for our first-ever virtual bbcon 2020 ! Next week’s content will bring up new ideas, new faces, and fresh inspiration to take back to your organization. bbcon 2020 Virtual Schedule at a Glance.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2023

With thousands of content creators and over 80,000 pages of content, the EPA needs a robust, intuitive system for publishing content to advance its mission of protecting the environment. EPA started its journey to Drupal 9 as a Drupal 8 migration from Drupal 7.

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Drupal Government Websites Module 69

NetWits

JUNE 20, 2012

Social media has revolutionized the way tech savvy arts and cultural organizations communicate. Facebook has 901 million active users; 500 million people use Twitter; 8 years worth of content is uploaded to YouTube every day; Pinterest has 4 million unique views daily. Asking never hurt. Sharing is caring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

Too many times I have observed trainers simply launching into the new content without honoring what participants already know. This is something you do at the beginning but throughout your content delivery. Effective training is not about stuffing content down people’s throats, but giving them an opportunity to digest it.

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Forum One

JULY 22, 2021

With thousands of content creators and over 80,000 pages of content, the EPA needs a robust, intuitive system for publishing content to advance its mission of protecting the environment. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). EPA started its journey to Drupal 9 as a Drupal 8 migration from Drupal 7.

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Drupal Government Websites Module 84

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One – "The rise of social media has led to an exponential proliferation of content online and widespread demand for tools to filter that information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2013

I enjoy meetings when there has been a lot given to the design and you have expert facilitators in the room because I not only learn about the content, but also learn some new facilitation techniques. Then we found a partner and shared our maps. Networks Training Design'

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Byte Technology

JULY 21, 2016

It’s great to have a stellar and attractive website, one that was professionally designed to utilize the most current design trends with state-of-the-art plugins and all the accompanying bells and whistles. What is a sitemap?

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sgEngage

JULY 22, 2022

Luckily, with the help of search engine optimization (SEO), you can make wise web desig n and content management decisions that will increase the chances of your website being found. This post will help you get started by providing you with four tips for optimizing your nonprofit blog for SEO: Create new blog content on the regular.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

Earning the right to deliver content directly to the inbox of your biggest fans is critical to your long terms success. Portland Museum of Art groups their E-newsletter with links to their social media accounts. Include your events, photos, maps, twitter link, polls, and of course, your email list. Add it to your Facebook Apps.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

American Jazz Museum Best Arts Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room and Gem Theater.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. The guiding principle is uncovering relationships between the works of art themselves rather than explicating information or theoretical concepts.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Michael serves on the board of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago where he lives. Additionally, Rebecca is a digital mapper for the Tanzania Development Trust mapping rural Tanzania to aid the work of local anti-FGM activists. michael.sullivan@thegivingblock.com [link].

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Tanzania Cameroon Fundraising NGO 52

Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Michael serves on the board of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago where he lives. Additionally, Rebecca is a digital mapper for the Tanzania Development Trust mapping rural Tanzania to aid the work of local anti-FGM activists. michael.sullivan@thegivingblock.com [link].

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Tanzania Cameroon Fundraising NGO 52

Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2020

The folks working in your annual giving team are likely reeling right now as they cancel content and rework their plan for the end of the fiscal year. Once they have worked through the immediate issues, this is a great time to work with them on creating content. You could also look into webinars and other online content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

It is really hard to maintain a balance of interaction and content delivery when you have 90 minutes and four people with subject-matter expertise. Our session was really about “train the trainer” which requires going beyond mere content delivery and do what I call “going meta.” The Feng Shui of Good Teaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Whether you are facilitating a session with your board, staff, or hundreds of folks in a room, you’ll find ways to design instructional content that interests, engages, and inspires action. Why Extreme Content Delivery Does Not Equal Learning. Creating a Network Map. The Art of Good Closers. Peer Learning Design.

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Training Train San Jose Instructional Design 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

  As part of the preparation, we surveyed participants for their burning questions and that's how I created the content.   I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. A 3 day walk).

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YouTube Badge Museum Mashup 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

One of the themes I’m going to discuss is the Art and Science of Engagement. The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. Engagement: Readers engage with their content. Register here.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching: The big picture. Reduce/Reuse/Recycle: Repurposing Content for Various Channels. Understanding the Switch Toolkit: Mastering the Art of Change. Online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching: The big picture. Serenity Now!: Are you the picture taker???

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Conference Technology Proposal Social Media 96

Care2

JULY 13, 2012

ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Museum visitors can use the in-app camera to photograph individual works of art which the app recognizes to serve up information about the piece, comments from past visitors, and for some works, audio orientations from the artist. MoMa by the Museum of Modern Art. Historic St.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). It’s a great project that allows us to keep researching and creating content around our collection, and we need about $10,000 per year to produce it. Some things move at different paces.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

And if you’re a staff member in charge of producing content for your nonprofit, you know how time-consuming content creation can be. That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Participants create a poster of their networks, view other the network maps of others, and then do a debrief. The big ah ha after viewing the maps on the wall next to each other is that these NGOs had strong and vibrant networks established on the ground. So stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Ami’s one and only board is called “ Really want these ” and instead of Louboutins, iPhone cases and nail art she’s dying to try, Ami’s pinned images include plain rice, faucets for clean drinking water, and chalk for school. With this particular activity being an experiment we didn’t formally map out a ladder.

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Sierra Leone Case Study Benchmark Comparison 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

Transmedia storytelling is storytelling by a number of decentralized authors who share and create content for distribution across multiple forms of media. It is a much a deeper engagement with the content and the influencers or those most passionate about the cause. She offers some examples of this approach from the activism field.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Creative Commons Search is another search engine that searches multiple sites simultaneously, including Flickr, Open Clip Art Library , Pixabay , and several more. I like this resource for maps, flags, and people photos. DPLA is a great source for historical images, fine arts, and a wealth of other things.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2016

I've been thinking recently about distributed content experiences--ways for people to interact with museum content (art, history, science, etc.) There are a zillion apps for making your own tours, podcasts, maps, or QR code-infested games. Are you going to use it to scan for public art near you?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. We worked with C3ers at the kickoff workshop to map the issues and communities of greatest interest and connection. This map formed the basis for topic definition for subsequent meetings.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

By Carrie Spates, Design Manager, Siteworx Nonprofit clients I work with generally have mastered the art of engaging members and supporters once they are in the door. Even in this social media age, content remains king. Diversify Your Content. Once you've got fresh content, spice it up with a photo or video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance. Later, these questions were organized into categories so we had a concept map of issues people wanted to explore and these categories were also used in different activities. The lead is also in charge of the pivot and communicating that to other facilitators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Here's a remix of the approaches mapped to other types of nonprofits: Blue:  Institutional Information Blog.   The content includes announcements, events, program happenings, staff changes, commentary, stories about volunteers or donors, and answers to stakeholder questions.  Green: Aggregate Content Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

Earlier this week, I wrote a post called " What happens when you set your content free using Creative Commons Licensing? " I explained why I set my own work free, provided some examples, and pointed to a new tool. She relays a story about how Leonardo Da Vinci freely shared his art work, but closely guarded his scienctific inventions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2014

has published this really useful and free e-book on Micro Content. As our attention fragments and more and more of us are reading content on mobile devices, content creators are finding that the best way to engage audiences is with shorter, bite-sized chunks of content known as “Micro Content.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

He also drew the first good topographic maps of Siberia and wrote a memoir of his revolutionary days that has become a minor classic. the current term of art for this altruistic approach. People who are creating content for OpenContent publications, like Wikipedia. gift economy,???

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

The City Gallery was mounting a contemporary art exhibition at the New Walk Museum called Play Ground , which featured artists who treat the gallery space as a kind of carnival instead of as an aesthetic temple. I spoke with Nikki this week to learn more about the Ministry and their fun and games. How did this project come about?

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