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Favorite Software and Hardware for Museums and History Organizations

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TechSoup offers many donated and discounted products for nonprofit museums and history organizations, such as historical sites and societies, of every type. Here's our guide to what's most popular with our over 8,000 museum TechSoup members. Our museum members particularly like Microsoft Project and SQL Server.

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Developing a Participatory, Provocative History Project at a Small Museum in Minnesota: Interview with Mary Warner

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Mary Warner, the Museum Manager at the Historical Society, wrote a series of moving articles for her museum newsletter and later for the AASLH’s Small Museum Online Community about her experiences tackling big issues in a small museum. How do we get the history of the poor? But how did this specific project get started?

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Citrix Online Returns

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Web and Audio Conferencing. Recording and playback : Record the audio and on-screen content of your meetings to send to others or review later. GoToTraining includes many of the same core web and audio conferencing features as GoToMeeting. Citrix Online's handy feature comparison can help you decide. and Android devices.

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Sending Collections on the Road: Geocaching and Museums

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I’ve received a few inquiries over the last year about museums and geocaching. to ask him all the dumb questions about geocaching and museums you can imagine… and a few more. Sounds like there might be some overlap with your museum audience? Both geocaching and museums are fundamentally about exploration and discovery.

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Tech Tools: Can IMing Make Your Museum More Efficient?

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IM also has an unusual capability to transfer large files, a task that is sometimes onerous over email or FTP sites. I worked with a composer who transferred almost all of his audio files to me via IM. The same composer who sent me files would often IM me to ask a quick question. Working with contractors and remote teams.

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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

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Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. In December of 2012, the rock musician Beck released his latest album, Song Reader. That''s expected.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Files: Is your organization the holder of the official record of something? Do you have the news clippings of major events in your files? This can include museums, archives, galleries, etc.

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