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Why Your Giving Day is Your Secret Weapon

M+R

Unfortunately, not all of our donors are themselves professional fundraisers — so creating a special, attention-grabbing Giving Day that gets your audiences excited and engaged can be a big boost during an otherwise quiet time of year. Pi Day, celebrating math and science, is the Museum’s signature day of giving.

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How Museum Hack Transforms Museum Tours: Interview with Dustin Growick

Museum 2.0

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Today on Museum 2.0, How did you first get involved with Museum Hack?

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A Decade of Museums and Museum Work

Museum 2.0

I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. But I couldn’t get there.

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On White Privilege and Museums

Museum 2.0

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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Orchestras, Musicians, The Concert Experience, and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also, it requires adding the words “social media&# to any professional conduct language or a social media policy. I’ve been at the League of American Orchestras Conference. This can be sensitive issue for some orchestras at particular times. Integrating Social Media: Before, During, and After The Concert Experience.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place, and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. He has spoken publicly about his work to audiences at the Smithsonian, UC. Thomas Grasty - Stroome.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

Tech Soup

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. Thomas Grasty - Stroome.