Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The Davey Award winners have been announced, and we’re proud to say that Forum One and our amazing clients have officially won 10 awards in website and app design for nonprofits, health, government, cultural institutions, and more. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. congressional districts.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Monday, May 18th is International Museum Day , the mission of which is to raise awareness of the fact that, “museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”.

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Forum One

MARCH 16, 2023

[Workshop] Creating Powerful Digital Campaigns That Engage and Inspire Monday, April 3, 2023: 8:30 – 11:30 am Successful digital campaigns create the buzz you need to get awareness about your cultural institution’s mission. Your museum may even be planning some audience research in the near future. Find out more here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

After graduating with a BFA in drama & music from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ellen spent ten years bringing joy to audiences nightly as one of only ten lead performers in the longest running musical revue in the world—San Francisco’s “Beach Blanket Babylon.”

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Have you ever been to a museum with no permanent exhibits ? On a recent trip to Chicago, I checked out the Museum of Contemporary Art. Plus, I know the next time I’m in Chicago, the museum will be a totally different experience, so I’m highly motivated to go back. Engage New Audiences with Tailored Special Events.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Forum One received 12 awards in six categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of environmental awareness, health, art, cultural institutions, and associations. The Frist Art Museum. Excellence – Website for Cultural Institutions.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

Forum One received 10 awards in eight categories in this year’s awards for Canopus (platinum), Centauri (gold), and Arcturus (rose gold) across the categories of environmental awareness, cultural, art, health care services, associations, branded content, and website redesign. National Air & Space Museum. The Vilcek Foundation.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Their stories, brimming with passion, resilience, and a rich cultural legacy, are deserving of more than just passive acknowledgment. In an era where representation and inclusivity have become paramount, nonprofits stand at the forefront of this cultural celebration, uniquely positioned to amplify these voices.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

To mark its anniversary, NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories and moments from the last 50 years. Our team partnered with NRDC to conceptualize how to capture these highlights in an engaging and informative story. Silver – Cultural Institutions for Websites. I’m Determined.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

To mark its anniversary, NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories and moments from the last 50 years. Our team partnered with NRDC to conceptualize how to capture these highlights in an engaging and informative story. The Frist Art Museum. Outstanding Website. City Health Dashboard.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. The popular reference point for what a museum is--a temple for contemplation--is based on a Euro-centric set of myths and implies a white set of behaviors.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

When we say we want our museum to be "audience-centered," what do we mean? My career first got moving at a brilliant example of the customer-centered museum: the International Spy Museum. Many of my favorite museums, libraries, and zoos are customer-centered places. They care about visitor comfort.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Forum One received 11 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of government, DEI, education, arts, health, cultural institutions, and annual reports for corporate communications. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. The Harry S.

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Media Cause

APRIL 16, 2021

The audience really appreciated the content as evidenced by the growth in average gift. . Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose (CDM). The Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose had two board members help kick off their Facebook Fundraising efforts when they first launched the giving tools on their page.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. SILVER – Virtual & Remote Experiences-Arts & Culture for Virtual & Remote. The Harry S.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. A year ago, I put my consultant hat on the shelf and decided to jump into museum management (a sentence I NEVER would have imagined writing five years ago). In the meantime, here are some of the. MISTAKES I MADE: Using the F word.

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sgEngage

JULY 18, 2023

Know Your Audience You’ll find that you have a unique community on each of your social media platforms based on the demographics they draw and the culture they foster. A poll on your Instagram stories, e-newsletter, or other active social channel will give you insights into where your supporters are most likely to engage.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments. Nonprofits and museums depend on dedicated, but oftentimes limited, development staff to sift through countless prospects to determine which ones are priority.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

The museums of the world are collaborating to bring you #MuseumGames every Sunday, with a new crossword puzzle each week featuring clues from all sorts of museums. ??: While donations are going down, global interest in museums seem a boom industry. Do we refer to Mar a #museum social media guru, maven, connoisseur?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In all scenarios, audiences experience the National Council impact story, strengthening the connection and interest they have in the institution and the important work it is doing. Silver – Virtual & Remote Experiences, Arts & Culture. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In all scenarios, audiences experience the National Council impact story, strengthening the connection and interest they have in the institution and the important work it is doing. Silver – Virtual & Remote Experiences, Arts & Culture. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

The same historical and cultural structures that have held back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in so many aspects of our lives are also mirrored in much of the nonprofit sector. Change Organizational Culture. By: Yolanda F. Johnson, Founder of WOC, Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Different culture has different understanding of philanthropy and we use different words to represent various aspects of the concept. In most cultures, philanthropy existed a long time ago. One of them was the curator of the world largest archaeological museum, Grand Egyptian Museum. I was there as a new trainer.

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JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. Crossing Cultures features paintings by Belle Yang that relate to her family''s immigration experiences. We mounted those objects and stories alongside visitor-contributed suitcases.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2017

The podcast offers incredible stories behind the making of businesses like Chuck E Cheese, Southwest Airlines, and Zuumba. I can think of many extraordinary innovators in the nonprofit cultural sector--people and organizations creating brilliant programs, site-based experiences, and products. Change may be necessary. Skills mismatch.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Imagine you've just been tasked with developing an innovative, future-thinking national museum for your country's history. Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). The Museum directors released Blueprint as a showcase for these plans. Where would you start?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Our county board of supervisors had brought their official meeting to the museum. Then, for an hour, former foster youth who helped design the exhibition shared their stories with supervisors. In it, I argued that museums could give up control of the visitor experience while still maintaining (a new kind of) power.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

The media doesn't tell us all the stories, especially once the world has moved on to the next hotspot. Share your stories on motherhood with us, and discuss your ideas on better maternal healthcare worldwide. Image & Identity: Culture behind clothes Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2007 Appearances aren’t everything, or are they?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. We may say that we want to support programming and cultural opportunities for low-income and non-white people, but that's not where the money is going. The title may sound innocuous.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. EMPSFM is one of a handful of museums worldwide for which the death of the King of Pop is a very big deal. Are museums only relevant when they can serve our most pressing needs?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 23, 2024

Fundraising is all about connecting with your audience with personal and relevant messages. For instance, a large nonprofit focused on preserving arts and culture might segment its audience by location and focus its stories on the most well-known museums or cultural landmarks in a donor’s state.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I often think museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested adults, alien and overwhelming to newcomers. What is the appropriate way to evangelize cultural institution use to the unconverted?

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