Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. We have neighborhood newspapers, internationally-renowned magazines of political commentary, and three View-Master reels of Chicago hot dog stands, neon signs, and motor inns, respectively. Geography is fluid, though.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2014

Interestingly, some of the money from this campaign will go to more digital storytelling efforts: "Public awareness is the keystone of our campaign. Build a Playground on Chicago's South Side! This campaign is built on an inspiring story of two Chicago communities coming together for the greater good. Indiegogo).

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A natural history museum’s volunteer supervisor described creating materials for kids that were learning from home: “Our education department rallied and created all these STEAM videos and ended up creating online curriculum to help parents who are homeschooling. The [public] transit didn’t go there.”. It wasn’t!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

I’ll keep this simple, as many of us have a lot on our minds as we experience the world grappling with a public health crisis. Previously, he managed business development and marketing initiatives throughout the Americas in the institutional asset management space, working with some of the largest public and private funds in the world.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Last week Ginny Fitzgerald, the Director of Visitor Services and Membership at Chicago History Museum, joined us to host a webinar about how she prepares her team for peak attendance times. Chicago History Museum defines their summer season as June 1 through August 31. Summer Tourism. Spring Field Trips. Staff Vacation.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

But here's a quick list of the conferences, public events and workshops where I'll be appearing in the next few months. PUBLIC EVENTS TO WHICH ALL ARE INVITED September 28, 2016: St. Paul, MN at the Minnesota History Center, 8-10am - Free! Register Now October 18, 2016: Chicago, IL at Navy Pier, 3:30-5:30pm - Free!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

Karin Pritikin, who I met in Chicago in June and works for  Health & Medicine Policy Research Group , reached out to me to share some of the "hallway conversations" taking place in her organization about movements and social media.   There is now public acceptance of the idea.   We had newsletters.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Chicago Underground Library (Chicago, IL). If you're looking for inspiration with a collections focus, the Underground Library is a compelling experimental space dedicated to archiving all media produced in Chicago. is in conflict with (currently, Iran).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 25, 2021

I was born and raised in suburban Chicago to immigrant parents from Hong Kong. Most of my extended family immigrated to Chicago Chinatown and have called it home for the past 50 years. Learn the History of Asian Racism to Understand Present-Day Intersectionality . Photo Credit: Aaron Molo. This perpetual fear cannot continue.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. John Russick of the Chicago History Center runs the annual label contest for the American Alliance of Museums , and those entries are always worth reading.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Engage for Good / Chicago, IL / TBD. Jan 16 - 19. Finance / @southwestfdns.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

This event continues and builds on the legacy of the COOL National Conference and the Idealist Campus Conference, spanning an incredible 32+ year history. Council on Foundations Public Policy Summit. Council on Foundations Public Policy Summit. ASAE / Chicago, IL / Not available. General / #ImpactConference / @ImpactConf.

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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! Fanton: "Our first instinct was to create an island and a replica of our office building in Chicago and announce ourselves. Second Life can be the aggregate of public good - we'll give people the tools what they want to see or not see but not control what people see.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2009

The Smithsonian and a small history museum have very different communities and thus should have very different expectations of what makes them unique. But then the question becomes, what about the public? Are we here to serve the public or to serve these donors? Are the donors here to serve the public?

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Association of Advancement Services Professionals (AASP) / Chicago, IL / $400. It is our turn to make history. Nonprofit Best Practices / Chicago, IL / Less than $700. This event continues and builds on the legacy of the COOL National Conference and the Idealist Campus Conference, spanning an incredible 32+ year history.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Say you want to track mentions of a particular public issue or news item. Enable public feedback on assignments. Content used in mashups is typically sourced from a third party via a public interface or API Many people are experimenting with mashups using Google, eBay, Amazon, Windows Live, and Yahoos APIs. Examples of Mashups.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 5, 2020

Holidayheroes.org , a local Chicago nonprofit whose mission is to provide joy and entertainment to children who are seriously ill, created a Double Good virtual fundraiser. When the wheel lands on a sponsor, that sponsor makes a donation in exchange for the boost in publicity. It’s a win-win-win for a great cause! Use the Roundup App.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

Her research has been featured in tons of magazines and publications and is all over the place delivering those findings, but was again gracious enough to carve out an hour to share all that with us. And that kind of increase gave them the best Christmas appeal in the history of their fundraising in the middle of COVID.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

We’ve been doing them for the whole history of the company, almost 10 years now. But don’t do that right now because Sherry QT is joining us from beautiful Chicago, the city of my birth. And they’re aggressive, and they should be aggressive because he’s working in educational equity here in Chicago.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

He took a psychology degree from the University of Chicago in 1969 and became a reporter and columnist for the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix. among many other publications. Capitalism and socialism are wrestling themselves to death in the tar pit of history. His last name means “Son of Freedom” in Hebrew.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

I was actually born in Chicago. Many grants also have background questions like history of your organization, or mission and vision. . Rachel: I’m doing great. I’m excited to see more Chicagoans in the chat. Hi, fellow Chicagoans. Steven: That’s cool. They must have known. It is all publicly available.

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M+R

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As the crisis unfolded, journalists and the public alike gave substantial attention to articles highlighting the pandemic’s disruption of supply chains—and thus the world’s food supply—as well as how increasing economic instability affected individuals’ ability to afford food. You can reach him at jwalker@mrss.com. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Both have strong histories of service: McCain in the military and Obama as a community organizer in Chicago. And that was also a moment when the petty bickering and partisanship that comes to characterize our public life was set aside.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 3, 2005

Most weeks his podcast is a direct chat with his listeners, but this week he posted a recent speech, "Moving Forward in Iraq" that he gave at the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. Moving Forward in Iraq Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Senator Barack Obama Chicago Council on Foreign Relations Chicago, IL Good afternoon.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

MN150 is a newish permanent exhibition (opened in Oct 2007) at the Minnesota History Center that marks the sesquicentennial of Minnesota with 150 of “the most influential forces in the state’s history.” What made sense was to put out the public call and find out: what does everyone think is interesting and important?

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