NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As we do every year after the Nonprofit Technology Conference , we reviewed evaluations, debriefed the entire conference as a team, and brought ideas to our various committees to help us plan an even better event the next time. This year, we are excited to have expanded Community Conversations, live art, and music events at the NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” They enjoy sharing their ideas and perspectives openly with others.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

And now they are up to something again: MMT is looking for a million dollar idea to support! The foundation will collect the ideas from Oregonians on a forum on the web at ideas4oregon.org to commemorate MMT reaching $500 million in money distributed to tax exempt organizations, primarily in Oregon.

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Forum One

MARCH 30, 2021

Beyond delighting visitors with accessible, inspiring, and ever-changing cultural experiences, the newly renamed Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (formerly the Arkansas Arts Center) is a catalyst for advancing arts education, enhancing the quality of life, and promoting civic and cultural development in the Little Rock community and beyond.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The theme of TEDxSantaCruz was "Open." It gave me a chance to really think about how we have been opening up our museum and what it means for our community. We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

What happens when you let visitors vote on art? Each of these invited members of the public to vote on art in a way that had substantive consequences--big cash prizes awarded, prestige granted, exhibitions offered. The Brooklyn Museum just finished the public stage of GO , a "community-curated open studio project."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. That speaks volumes to me.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

With Open AI’s ChatGPT , nonprofits can generate high-quality emails in a fraction of the time it would usually take to write them. This model was developed by Open AI and is one of the few language models to pass the Turing Test. For a human, learning the art of writing subject lines might take years of trial and error.

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DipJar

AUGUST 9, 2022

They’re one of the only public spaces open to everyone and where pretty much everything is free. The original library building was opened in 1904. The library’s physical art gallery was converted to a digital one that continued to present the work of area artists. Joyce was responsible for coming up with ideas.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology So where is open source in the nptech ecosystem? Of course, one can’t base anything on two forum comments, but I wonder if we haven’t turned a corner in the conversation. Comments? {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #8:XChat February 5, 2008 This is, really a post both about a tool ( XChat ) and about IRC (Internet Relay Chat.) XChat is one of quite a few IRC clients. I use IRC every day.

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Media Cause

JULY 21, 2021

I’ve always had an interest in design and art, but I never thought that it could become part of my career. It can feel intimidating to have this type of conversation, especially with your manager. I learned to be flexible with my life plans and open to change. The First Steps. Going All In.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

It’s more like an art form, one that you can learn with practice and by understanding the real purpose of a donation receipt. The Winning Formula for a Flawless Donation Receipt As important as it is to create the right online donation receipt, it is an art form you can master through practice and following our formula.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In social theory this is sometimes called social interactionism, the idea that humans are social beings and everything we think or do is affected by our understanding of the social world around us. Questions are actually embedded with understandings of the past, ideas about what we are up to today, and beliefs about what change is possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

But I also had a more immediate problem: I had no idea how to lead a staff meeting. I had no idea what to do. I didn't know how to open a meeting. I didn't know how to kick off a productive conversation, make group decisions, or close a meeting with energy. I felt like a new teacher on the first day of school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I am thrilled with the response to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout as my co-author and I have been sharing the ideas on a virtual book tour during the last month. One of our hopes for the book was that it would spark conversation about the need for self-care as part of doing the work.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

In my experience, the best participatory experiences are as constrained and clear as possible in the invitation offered, and as open-ended as possible in the outcome generated. Are the products created via such a process of worse, better, or equivalent quality as traditional art products? Sheet music is a beautiful analogy for this.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

Creative Ideas for Social Impact Imagery. Using pop art styles gives the ability to avoid the pitfalls of photorealism and instead focus on the action. Ever have those conversations in your organization’s brainstorming session about what might be possible if there were no limits on resources? Public link: [link]. Also, whales!

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2014

Think about them as free professional development opportunities — spaces to have smart, organic, and timely conversations and presentations with your nptech peers. They''re free to join and open to everyone regardless of NTEN Membership. Have an idea for a group? So join one or a few and connect, learn, and change! Let me know!

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

After you’ve considered your foundation’s readiness and decided this approach makes sense, here are some practical, actionable ideas for developing participatory grantmaking in your funding institution. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Is this you?

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Kindful

APRIL 28, 2021

Perhaps the greatest advantage that comes with a hybrid fundraising event that has an offline and online component is that it keeps the doors open to supporters who prefer one format over the other. Conversely, offering an in-person option may provide accessibility to those for whom a screen experience is not optimal.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. This report is not an end-all; it is the opening for a conversation. Excellent case studies, especially from the performing arts sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Each module discussing ideas and content that will progressively take more time to implement. This week we've had a lively discussion about Module 2: Participate in the Conversation. How do you find conversations on Twitter that you want to join? What is the benefit of having a conversation? Generated article ideas?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

It’s not that you don’t think it is a good idea. ” It isn’t a matter of finding the time, it is a matter of making the time and starting with some steps. Have a conversation with your social media team and ask these questions: What do you spend time doing now that you could do better via social?

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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. Who are all of these people? What inspires them?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

So many wonderful ideas, and I shared a few below. A few offered solid concrete suggestions that take the big idea of "advocacy" and make it concrete, like list wages on hiring requests and refusing to use unpaid interns. walking meetings to open up our lungs and our thinking). Read Fierce Conversations.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

After I graduated from college, I thought about all of the conversations I heard back at home, about how there was just nothing you could do to stop injustices. Standing far away, I had no idea what people needed. I co-founded a nonprofit called “The Moon Balloon Project” and worked for arts in healthcare nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

(NSD) aimed to improve the voting experience and increase civic engagement using public art. Working with the Knight Foundation, Mural Arts, Committee of Seventy and other key nonprofit partners, HMC created a completely new way to look at, and impact, voter turnout and experience here in Philadelphia.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

So why then, if our best ideas come to us when they’re given time and space to percolate, why are many people still operating in workplace cultures where the speed and quantity of our work is valued over its quality? Framing your work in this context is not only helpful for agency/client relationships, but also for individuals.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 1, 2013

Anna would kick me under the table when I shared ideas out of turn, yet she also fiercely defended me (and our whole team) so we could do creative, risky work. It''s hard for me to evaluate the extent to which these fears are well-founded, and whether the climate for risk is changing in the arts sector broadly.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are so many different kinds of nonprofit event ideas out there! With those factors in mind, we’ve put together a list of 52 nonprofit event ideas to help serve as a “vision board” for your organization’s next event. This can work for organizations with missions that aren’t arts-related, too! How do you choose just one?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I am just starting to dive into the science of intergroup relations (psychology-speak for social bridging), and I greatly appreciate these individuals who are working to popularize and open up what could otherwise be esoteric research. inclusion Museum of Art and History research social bridging Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

One of the ideas we explored is it possible through social media to share some of the findings in a conversational way to help prod more insights from the field. We experimented with “Conversational Case Studies&# and found that conversation in the comments helped improve the richness of the final report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This idea of bouncing ideas and growing them might be said for my other post of the week, about touching art. I'm pretty open to a number of possibilities in museums. I am most definitely not open on the issues of collection care. The sanctity of the work is paramount. And yes, it really is 2 Legit 2 Legit to quit.

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