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Techniques for Identifying and Amplifying Social Objects in Museums

Museum 2.0

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

Qgiv

It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. CA: One of the best things that happened to me while volunteering for the local art museum is they funded my travel to Los Angeles and my tuition to take the week-long grant writing training bootcamp hosted by The Grantsmanship Center.

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Your Cause Camp 2018 Lineup is Here

NonProfit Hub

Paul has helped build the multimillion-dollar firm into an internationally recognized multimedia developer and publisher, with partnerships, strategic alliances and clients across many industries – broadcast, museum, institutional, K12, educational publishing, technology and research. Simon Scriver. changefundraising.com.

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New Book Club Starting: Groundswell

Museum 2.0

A few weeks ago, I participated in a Reach Advisors "museum conversation" with Web 2.0 I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to get a big picture for how to evaluate and plan a social media policy for their institution. Shouldn't we make it this easy to evangelize museum products? marketing.

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

On Tuesday, I reviewed Elaine Gurian’s essay, Choosing Among the Options , on museum archetypes and self-definition. Next Tuesday, we'll look at chapters 16 and 17, on the merits and limitations of the team approach to exhibition design.) What if you don’t want to be identified as one type of museum? It did that more than once.

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Book: A Great How-To On Creating Social Content

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My favorite chapter is “Reimagine: Don’t Recycle: Anatomy of Content Circle of Life.&# Using a plant life cycle as a metaphor, they offer a framework for how to think about content that is life-giving, but also more efficient to produce. Here’s an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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[VIDEO] Where to Find Potential Donors to Support Your Cause

Bloomerang

We didn’t paint the picture of who potential supporters are for our organization. First off, we have to kind of paint the picture. It’s not going to be a characteristic of everyone, but it helps to paint that picture. I think this is Museum of Modern Art in New York City. .” Of course they know somebody.

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