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Game On: How Gamification is Changing the Sector

ASU Lodestar Center

Gamification can create a more meaningful experience for the customer, volunteer, or donor, just as it already does when people use their GPS systems, sensors for fitness, and even communicating with friends. Having the right players is key when designing the user experience, and for the future of a gamification system in the social sector.

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009. Museums used these thematic lists to develop scavenger hunt lists to distribute to participants so that they might find art objects to illustrate Wikipedia topics like "Roman architecture" or "mask."

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Cary McQueen Morrow: Arts and Technology Thought Leader

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In two weeks, several hundred arts leaders from around the country will gather on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University to discuss the role of technology in the arts field at the Technology in the Arts Conference. Tell me a little bit about how you got into arts management? Was that your progression? Actually, I???m

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Blame the Crowd, Not the Camera: Challenges to a New Open Photo Policy at the National Gallery

Museum 2.0

The posts come from an aptly-named blog: Grumpy Art Historian. For the first time, the National Gallery is permitting non-flash photography. We push the once-in-a-lifetime experience of seeing the art. The art gets captured like a lame animal in a game park, instead of the wild thing it is. And then the crowds show up.

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YMCA of Greater Seattle: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

We did periodic check-ins on how the MultiPoint Server system held up under use so here is a case study from one YMCA site. Existing after school lab IT system the new Multipoint Server system replaces: 5 Pentium IV desktops with CRT monitors. Art programs (12 users=12 hour per week). Installation Date: Dec 7, 2012.

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Julie Daley: Making Time for What Matters

Have Fun - Do Good

Her own journey began in 2001, when she realized that her 17-year career as a systems analyst, and her new Computer Science and Design degree from Stanford could not distract what wanted to come forth in her. Two deeply traumatic experiences called her to listen to a stirring intuitive voice.

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Steal these 42 Creative Pinterest Ideas for Nonprofits

Care2

Set up a system to reach out asking for a Pinterest update a few months after the adoption. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Create a shared Board for visitors to pin their favorite works of art or to share shots of themselves feeding their favorite animals. (In Set "Who can pin items?"

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