Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

blog and executive director, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History , told me about this amazing and fun co-created card game to help you think about self-care activities called the The Space Deck. The camp was co-designed by Beck Tench , a designer and brilliant thinker about creating space for creativity.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2023

Here are five strategies to help your nonprofit increase your supporters’ value and build relationships that stand the test of time. The most straightforward method is adding personal information about a donor, such as their name and engagement history. Personalize communication. Personalization comes in several forms.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. For years we have been producing digital media to fulfill our mission of educating the public about science and history.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Double-certified neurologist and preventive medicine specialist with a background in public health, working toward the transition to replace the use of animal experimentation with superior human-based testing methods.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

Your plan should also include what you’ll do when you’re NOT asking for money like donor communications, stewardship, and warm touches — all designed to give the donor a GREAT experience. Yes, there’s both art and science to a good appeal, and you can learn how to do it in a way that motivates people to give. Rich people.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, we take our interns seriously, give them real responsibility, creative challenges, and meaningful work opportunities. I'm particularly excited about two internships that relate to participatory exhibition design. First, there is the Participatory Exhibit Design Internship.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. Some things to ask for might include: Book collections Technology, like phones, laptops, tablets Certificates to local businesses Art pieces. Art-themed Auction. Appeal to this audience with an art-themed auction!

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

We rummage through troughs of data to tweak campaigns, make minor adjustments to landing pages, and obsess over A/B testing email subject lines all in the name of incremental improvement. GivingTuesday is one of the most successful year-end fundraising events in recent history. What do you think about when you hear the word web design?

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

We rummage through troughs of data to tweak campaigns, make minor adjustments to landing pages, and obsess over A/B testing email subject lines all in the name of incremental improvement. GivingTuesday is one of the most successful year-end fundraising events in recent history. What do you think about when you hear the word web design?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

After years of community town halls, design, and prototyping, we''re finally starting to build our dream. My engineering training taught me to design through iteration. This temporary pilot allows us to test out the possibilities. creative placemaking design Museum of Art and History programs public space'

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

After I took down all the "kick me" and "kick it" post-its covering the Pocket Museum title label in the men's room, I realized that this is the perfect example of an A-to-B test for gendered response to a participatory museum experience. This may be the first time I advocate for gender-segregated exhibit design. What would you do?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

We try to design every new program with a partner organization with an audience for whom that kind of content or format is already appealing. Every time we've tried something new, we've gotten lots of support in terms of media coverage and enthusiastic attendance.

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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. Studying engineering taught me to think like a designer: state the problem, brainstorm, test, iterate.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. About a decade ago, I remember reading "Nuns sat here" at the Detroit Institute of Art as the title of a label for a piece of wooden convent furniture. But I couldn’t get there.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

Applying for grants is an art form in and of itself, and research and preparation are key. To apply, you’ll need to seek out foundations with a history of supporting causes like yours, strive to make a professional impression on the application, and, if you receive the grant, be able to prove that you used funds effectively.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

We recruited folks and designed software that texted them five times a day for thirty days, asking one question, "Rate your mood 1 (low) to 10 (high)." A critical part of the scientific method is the development of a hypothesis, which can then be tested with well controlled research. The project blew away our expectations.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

Last week, I sat down on a toilet in our museum and found myself looking at an interactive station intended to test a “Legends of the Stall” sign concept for the restrooms. Legends of the Stall was started by a visitor services staff member, Katie Chrivia, who collaborated with interns and volunteers to develop the content and the design.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I wrote The Participatory Museum in response to this energy--to put together case studies in the context of a design framework so we could talk as a field about what works and why.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This tool was awarded five different awards for its interactive design and ability to communicate key health and livability data. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year! Forum One worked with the National Rural Health Resource Center to design their new website in Drupal 9.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This tool was awarded five different awards for its interactive design and ability to communicate key health and livability data. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year! Forum One worked with the National Rural Health Resource Center to design their new website in Drupal 9.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution. We decided to select 12 individual works of art from the exhibition, reproduce them as 2.5 Reassert the "forum"?

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2022

Organized by the International Awards Associate (IAA) , a group of industry innovators, creators, designers, and communications professionals deeply committed to recognizing and honoring the outstanding performance, talent, and effort of the best digital and creative professionals around the world. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

They are presented by the International Awards Associate , and judged by a group of industry innovators, creators, designers, and communication professionals. Forum One worked with the National Rural Health Resource Center to design their new website in Drupal 9.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

There's a game design source I used extensively at the beginning of development for Operation Spy: Gamasutra. It combines a job bank with news about developments in the gaming world and, my favorite, an impressive collection of feature articles on the art, business, and production of games. Where am I?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I wrote The Participatory Museum in response to this energy--to put together case studies in the context of a design framework so we could talk as a field about what works and why. It's common in many museums to offer cart-based activities that invite visitors (mostly families) to play a game, try an experiment, or make art.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 5, 2014

It measures whether the design of the talkback is sufficiently clear and compelling. This is especially useful in exhibitions or areas with multiple different talkbacks; it allows us to do A/B comparisons across talkbacks and learn which of our designs worked best (presumably, for the same group of visitors). Also, a sidenote.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Just testing all this stuff out in early 2007, it became clear to me just how important it is for an organization to have a full-time staff position whose role is to manage the groups presence in the various Web 2.0 The rest is history, but in the next few weeks, the story was in several local newspapers and blogs. Use with care!

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

The more data points you have on your donors—from email and street addresses to job titles and company names, giving capacity, philanthropic history, contact preferences, and general interest—the more you will be able to target your asks and create fundraising campaigns that speak directly to them. You won’t know until you test!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. If participatory exhibit design is going to progress as a design methodology, it has to produce outputs that are demonstrably equivalent to or better than exhibits created by traditional methods.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 29th annual awards included around 3,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the world’s largest awards of its kind. For the second year in a row, Forum One developed a brand-aligned design that was both easy to read and inviting.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

ska, an art historian interested in museums, education, and new technologies. She has created educational mobile apps for teaching art history and is the organizer of the Polish edition of Free Arts Day. It's related to another aspect of the app: a well-designed user experience. There are many apps available.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

I was able to participate thanks in part to professional development grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Sigma Alpha Iota. Our group enjoyed several hours of lively, interactive conversation and I walked away with some interesting ideas about how MIM might test some international appeals or campaigns.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

I was able to participate thanks in part to professional development grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Sigma Alpha Iota. Our group enjoyed several hours of lively, interactive conversation and I walked away with some interesting ideas about how MIM might test some international appeals or campaigns. Like this article?

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