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Deliberately Unsustainable Business Models

Museum 2.0

Last year, I met Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project , an extremely cool "post-educational" space in Los Angeles that is part art gallery, part workshop space, part mad scientist party central. Then they start to slide. They're made to plod along. Maybe it's time to change that. Then they die.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

We're taking the art of freelancing for writers, and making it much more transparent and much more public. And it'll probably be to Southern California, Los Angeles, next. We've done audio, we've done video, we've done text, and we've done some photo slide shows. Actually, the art analogy isn't that far off.

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). You can view and download all the slides here. It's only been open for a few weeks, and they already have lots of visitors sharing stories, making and sharing art, and adding their voice to the exhibitions.

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A Mobile and Social Fundraising Success Checklist for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Create introduction and closing slides. ? Follow and study WITNESS , Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) , Big Cat Rescue , Anaheim Ballet , and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). Follow and study Water.org , Surfrider Foundation , Oceana , Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) , and DoSomething.org.

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A Fundraising Success Checklist for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Create introduction and closing slides. Follow and study WITNESS , Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) , Big Cat Rescue , Anaheim Ballet , and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA). . Follow and study Water.org , Surfrider Foundation , Oceana , Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) , and DoSomething.org.

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Training Social Changemakers: An Interview with Andre Carothers of the Rockwood Leadership Program

Have Fun - Do Good

We are a national nonprofit that trains advocacy professionals, people working for nonprofits full-time, in the fine arts of collaboration, leadership, listening, speaking, conflict resolution, and collaboration across organizational boundaries. What that will require from us, of course, is a sophisticated web platform.