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Coming to Your Town, The Art of Relevance in Hand

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Maybe you've been feeling this way about coming to an event related to The Art of Relevance. Paul, MN at the Minnesota History Center, 8-10am - Free! When your favorite band comes to town, you'll buy a ticket and go to the show. But you probably won't be in the audience when they perform thousands of miles away.

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Anyone Who Says this isn't a Business is Nuts.

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In the Netherlands, State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra slashed 200 million euros from the national budget for the arts, leading to the close of the innovative National History Museum project and crippling many superbly inventive and inspiring organizations like Mediamatic and the Waag Society. Well, they only cost me $8 apiece.

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Two Crucial Themes from the GDPR Featuring in US-Privacy Legislation

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Marriott suffered a data breach affecting up to 500 million customers—one of the largest breaches in history. The CCPA and bills in states like Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, and Washington give residents the right to request erasure of their data held by organizations.

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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

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The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers. We selected a First Wave that reflects diversity of geography, size, and sector, so we can see who this works best for and why. Half are led by people of color or indigenous people.

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Month at the Museum, Part 1: A Video Contest that Delivers

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Nothing warms my heart like seeing outtakes of a guy trying to scale the walls of MSI, or a man spinning a yarn about his family's long history sleeping in museums. In some ways, the videos make me incredibly heartened about the love and enthusiasm people have for museums and science. Museum staffers.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

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I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center.

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Notes for Berkman Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many nonprofit bloggers feel like Robert Moffit, blogger with the American Lung Assocation of Minnesota, who said as a nonprofit blogger, he felt like an. Walker Art Center New Media Blog Interview with New Media Designer Community Programs Blog Interview with community program. American Lung Association of Minnesota.