EveryAction

MARCH 2, 2017

Songbyrd may seem like a coffee place, but it brings a lot more to the table, including a robust live music and event calendar. Check out the local art that is featured regularly. The museum is free and open to the public, but on crowded days timed passes should be picked up at the museum desk in advance. Pleasant Pops.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2016

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance in advance of its release. The Art of Relevance has a central metaphor that relevance is a key that unlocks the door to meaningful experiences (which live in a room). To get into this chapter, imagine that your institution/program/art is a room.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. " Waukesha Public Library. New Heights provides families with tutoring services , a library with more than 3,000 books, field trips, and online classes.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2017

At TechSoup, we love to supply good, solid, low-cost refurbished or remanufactured IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. The bottom line is that most people do four or five things on computers: email, Internet browsing, accounting, multimedia (video and music), and office applications like word processing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. You just need to show proof of membership. It was super cool.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. Want some waffles with your art? Chicago Underground Library (Chicago, IL). Skill-sharing free schools.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

Many of my favorite museums, libraries, and zoos are customer-centered places. One hundred years ago, John Cotton Dana, founder of the Newark Museum and godfather of modern museums, famously said: “A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established."

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

One of our missions at TechSoup Global is to supply low-cost refurbished IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. The bottom line is that most people do four or five things on computers: email, internet browsing, accounting, multimedia (video and music), and office applications like word processing.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

One of our missions at TechSoup Global is to supply low-cost refurbished IT equipment to nonprofits and libraries. The bottom line is that most people do four or five things on computers: email, internet browsing, accounting, multimedia (video and music), and office applications like word processing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. Dear Museum 2.0-ers, Why are our current models failing?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

BUT, what if we did invite the public to provide situational awareness such as telling us about the elderly people on a hill? What if we stopped thinking of the public as a liability and started empowering them to be valuable resources who can increase efficiency and make a real impact?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Sadly, at the same time, libraries and schools across America were blocking MySpace, but allowing Facebook. Music and arts organizations, probably. MySpace is not just a community of poor people! Recent reports have alluded to class and race divisions between MySpace and Facebook users. took over MySpace.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. According to Kyo Shimizu, KnK ‘s public relations officer, who also takes care of the computer network in the office. Our Local Impact Map.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

After years of staging events, you may feel like there’s nothing you haven’t covered, from art auctions to wine tastings to trivia nights. Here are some to consider: Art: Art auctions serve a valuable purpose because they don’t just raise funds, they also spread awareness and appreciation of the works being auctioned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

The Denver Art Museum's Side Trip poses many specific questions about visitors' experiences with psychedelic rock music, concerts, and drugs. My local public library does an annual summer book recommendation wall, on which patrons can post their mini-reviews of books they've read and enjoyed. That's why I asked.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

The Denver Art Museum's Side Trip poses many specific questions about visitors' experiences with psychedelic rock music, concerts, and drugs. My local public library does an annual summer book recommendation wall, on which patrons can post their mini-reviews of books they've read and enjoyed. That's why I asked.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2006

Beth is a Cambridge, MA blogger and techy who has done a lot of work with arts and educational organizations. Beth picked up on my fiddling photo and expressed her musical solidarity by posting this picture of her playing the flute, thirty years ago, along with a touching yet classic story of how she met her flute teacher.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. I promise (!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. I promise (!)

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

This year, Forum One took home one platinum, four gold, and six silver awards in the categories of cultural, non-profit, science, health, and school/university websites, as well as digital branded content, arts and culture virtual experiences, and family and kids apps and software.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I think it's a good thing that librarything gives me a way to talk to strangers about books that feels safer than approaching the drooling guy at the public library. Imagine a music store where each CD lists the names of the last 20 people to pick it up, and what those people ultimately bought.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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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. The Communicator Awards honor excellence in innovation and creative work in marketing and communications.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

The median music blog reader is a 26 year old man with an annual family income of $60,000 reading 5 blogs a day four hours a week. If you post organizational news on your blog regularly, when it comes time to pull stories together for other publications, you will already have a lot of the material written.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Lock-ins – A lock-in at a school or a library with your supporters and their families can be a fun idea. Art show – Are there any local artists in your area? Encourage them to show off their latest creations with a fundraiser art show! Sandcastle art – If you live near a beach, consider hosting a sandcastle art contest!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way? I started promoting the Public Library of Science to the readers of Nonprofit Online News as far back as December of 2002.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

Despite the herculean efforts many museums take to offer accessible, cool, inviting experiences to the public, the word museum is still laden with the ghost of "don't touch" past. Labeling your collection--however dinky--a museum puts it into a useful category that signals value, organization, and public presentation of the stuff.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities. In addition to text quotes, Quoto also has a digital library of quotes embedded on images. Giving Library :: givinglibrary.org. Quoto :: quoto.com.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

We haven't yet solved the internet quandary, so most days, I bike to town to work from the library or cafes. And an art gallery. As Elaine points out in her essay, there are butchers who sell phone cards, barbershops with de facto day care centers, and bookstores that resemble cafes more than libraries. It's a laundromat.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Giving Library :: givinglibrary.org.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

We have a live library in our lobby here at Bloomerang. ” So I ended up serving in the Peace Corps, and I was creating what were essentially marketing programs, public health marketing programs for the people and the places that I was living and the people that I was working with. . There are people doing art.

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