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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

Museum 2.0

Steve is a Principal at Audience Viewpoints Consulting, has a Ph.D. He is fluent in Spanish (for a non-native speaker) and one of his main areas of study is bilingual interpretation in out-of-school environments. Bilingualism in the U.S. is a controversial topic, and the same is true in museums.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

Our programming isn't for target audiences. We strive to be a place where you will always meet someone new, someone who is not like you, in a positive environment. We're struggling with this right now when it comes to family audiences. I'm proud of the bridging work that we do. But it is so, so delicate.

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Elevating Advocacy Voices for Children Through Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Given the challenging environment facing children’s advocates who see the negative consequences of underfunding health and education every day, it is hard to. to leverage social media as a way to engage our key audiences, Packard created the Friending the Finish Line project in July 2011. of the past. Recognizing an opportunity.

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[VIDEO] Young Professionals and Junior Boards: Beyond the Kid’s Table to Meaningful Engagement

Bloomerang

It’s going to let you reach a broader audience than you can with one-on-one meetings if you have a large enough group that it’s not, like, attainable to do one-on-ones. So it can be really helpful to draw folks in and get those new ideas, but we’re going to have to make sure we empower them to actually use those ideas. .”