Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

And now the scary part for nonprofits, let’s talk Ad Grant… The Google Ad Grant is possibly the most generous in-kind donation to the nonprofit sector in history, offering $10k per month in text search ads to qualifying nonprofits. ChatGPT was the fastest product adoption in history.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Full disclosure: This is from our founder George, who also co-founded PowerPoetry.org , the largest teen poetry platform in the US. No cumbersome download required, this report knows its audience by calling out important impact efforts without bogging down the casual user with superfluous detail and text. We think that’s a win-win!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. 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. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

But that doesn''t mean we know what visitors/audiences/humans need. In my experience, the "needs" of audiences often look suspiciously like the "wants" of the people speaking. I don''t hear this phrase accompanied by evidence-based articulation of "needs" of audiences. Some organizations need to focus on 3rd graders. visitors'

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People Articulate Culture Teen 54

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

The curatorial team or a multidisciplinary team who have the audience in mind when decisions are made about the best way to connect visitors to the collection?" Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. My answer: neither.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

Newsjacking is the practice of "hijacking" or leveraging a current news story to help your messages get the attention of a wider audience. And, if you're thinking that only teens like memes, look at the range of people who drenched themselves for the Ice Bucket Challenge. Meme Me Up, Scotty. … 2. Be Informative.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences.

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NTEN

AUGUST 3, 2011

Each of the themes had parallels with urban existence now to make the themes relevant and to explode the chocolate box image of history that period drama can often present. One of their key objectives is address issues that affect teens and give them some tools to negotiate them. I just know what we do and how we work.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

It’s not just major brands that have to cater to modern consumers – museums and nonprofits also need to anticipate the needs of an increasingly mobile-oriented audience. Increasingly Eco-Conscious Audiences. The rise of mobile technology has also led to changes in consumer expectations and demands.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. The group was mostly young (teens to thirties) and nerd-diverse: a little bit punk, a little bit hacker, a little bit craft grrl. Or that visitors form a spontaneous "laugh circle" on the floor. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. I''ve struggled with some of the "celebrity" aspects of having a big audience. I''ve never taken a break from blogging before.

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NTEN

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

AUGUST 18, 2008

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. But these events have benefits both in terms of audience development and word-of-mouth marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

stream, reading a chat history, answering ims, and taking notes! There were some excellent questions from the audience of over 200 gathered in the space. Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage. I just came from an historic and ground breaking event. The John D. and Catherine T. to the USC folks). Virtual to Reality Blog.

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Virtual Philanthropy Foundation Second Life 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

For those who haven't attended, the Museums and the Web conference brings an international audience from art, history, cultural, and science museums together to talk about new ways to engage with their audiences via the web. The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

Sounds like there might be some overlap with your museum audience? For a related teen project , I was invited to teach roughly 200 middle- and high-school students about geocaching (a GPS-based scavenger hunt) so that they could send miniature sculpture pieces out into the world. Add some history about the museum or the area.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

We started with a brief presentation of the basics of each project, and then spent about an hour responding to questions from the audience, using illustrative images and documents to support the discussion. conference audiences are ready to work (and play). At professional conferences, we tend to spend most of our time analyzing.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors." If you feel that your audience needs monitoring or social support, position the talkback stations in open settings.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

We''re more successful when we target particular communities or audiences and design experiences for them. In the past, I''ve subscribed to the theory that an organization should target many different groups and types of people to serve a constellation of specific audiences across diverse affinities, needs, and interests.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

They were a rich collection museum with some local history—they had many dolls, a famous toy collection. And they tend to be talking about preservation first, audience second, or now, equal roles. One person commented about how he loved growing up in DC as a teen and generally using the Smithsonian as a playground.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Here are some sample end-of-year fundraising campaign themes : Let’s Make Hunger History. Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. This is your opportunity to shine the spotlight on the good work your nonprofit does, not to fill your audience’s inbox with screens and screens of text (no one’s going to read that!).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience. Others layer these new activities and audiences on through monthly late nights or short-term installations. Introduce new participants to committed members at every new event.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

As part of the session, Tom led live drawing ( click for high-res image ), and we invited the audience to add their own “can’t dos” to a large map of things that are “safe,” “iffy,” and “no way”--more on that later. This is not to say that science centers are more censored than art or history museums—every kind of museum has its own hang-ups.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Do you want to offer audio or video programming to an international audience for free? If you had one youth educator, would you expect them to develop and run overnights AND scout programs AND teen programs AND toddler programs AND outreach AND… of course not. Pod or Vodcast. Do you want to become a community nexus?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

Our entire strategy at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is rooted in community participation. Teens advocating for all-gender bathrooms. They can attend first as audience members or spectators, checking out the space and getting comfortable. Printmakers leading workshops. Volunteers restoring a historic cemetery.

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