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Finding Your Next Funder: How Prospect Research Helps Secure New Major Donors

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Glancing through it in your car in the parking lot before entering the event, you notice a name you don’t know well (the attendee from the previous scenario) and read that your staff has noted that they are new to town, but had uncovered in a google search that they were a major donor to the arts organizations of their previous town.

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Reflections on MuseumNext and Facilitating Brainstorming

Museum 2.0

Last week, Jim Richardson and I hosted MuseumNext , a 24-hour workshop for museum professionals focused on bringing new, wild museum projects into the world. We also ended the entire event with one of my favorite exercises, the Exquisite Corpse game, in which participants co-created comics of their craziest museum dreams.

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Great Conversationalists: Reflections on Being a Dial-a-Stranger

Museum 2.0

They edit the conversations into radio shows, which are then made available as a podcast (you can listen to episode featuring me, #89: Museum Secrets, here ). I know I hear them differently now that I engaged in one, sort of like how you see art differently if you make it. But it's more complicated than that.

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Game Friday: Collection Management in the Garden

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Every year, there’s a Flash festival/conference, Flashforward , that highlights novel uses of flash in web navigation, art, games, instructional demos, and more. The Hope Garden was set up by BSD Medical, a company in Utah that specializes in a kind of cancer treatment called hyperthermia.

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