Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. Support Children’s Colorado Foundation. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2021

For example, last year I was delighted to receive an email from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco including information informing supporters about new tax deduction benefits made possible through the CARES Act. For an example of how to share IRA gifting information with donors, see the Phoenix Children’s Foundation website. .

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. SILVER – Virtual & Remote Experiences-Arts & Culture for Virtual & Remote. Pacific Science Center.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. But the more I learned, the more I wondered where the real threat is, and why children's museums have been so resistant to change. in her book, Civilizing the Museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards.

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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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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

More involved in-person fundraisers or campaigns that require lots of resources can eat into your profit margins. It’s also much easier to target and personalize your message to different demographics, making your marketing strategy for fundraising far more effective. Virtual tours for museums. Virtual silent auction.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" Children of the Lodz Ghetto ).

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Become a Member page on Florida Coalition for Children’s website The Florida Coalition for Children uses the members-as-advocates membership model to effect positive change in the child welfare system in Florida. A member persona may look something like this: This may seem like a simple, made-up person (because it is!),

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 2, 2018

Here are a few toxic signs of ego to watch out for that will invade your sacred meeting space and derail leadership development: Steamroller: To steamroll a conversation is to take the focus off a subject and turn it into being all about one person. This person may get good clean results, however, to their team they feel like control hogs.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I often think museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested adults, alien and overwhelming to newcomers. What is the appropriate way to evangelize cultural institution use to the unconverted? Help people understand why you do what you do.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

I'm trying to reposition our museum as a cultural hub supporting creative and intellectual community growth. Our conversation made me reflect on the museums that most inspire me from a public service perspective--institutions with missions that stretch far beyond their walls. These museums work differently.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

There were many, covering the personal and the professional (which, as this community knows well, is also personal), but I kept looking for some elusive grand unified theory to tie them all together. Cultural institutions aren’t always the best at this—we are often all in or all out. as if that is what everyone needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away. I’ve added one more category to the mix called hosted.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Encourage your networks to set up personal fundraising pages through CauseVox and fundraise for your nonprofit. Pensacola Habitat For Humanity’s Women Build initiative encouraged folks to set up their own personal fundraising websites to raise money for the cause. Make some decisions about what to keep and what to chuck.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

We are interested to hear your personal experiences, your thoughts on media stereotypes of certain religious and ethnic groups, and your views on how violent conflict has affected your life. These days women are having children later and some are not having children at all. Join us in exploring the world of self-expression.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. No small task for a museum exhibition.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

We willingly provide retail systems with loads of personal information. There’s no reason that arts and cultural organizations can’t do the same thing. The same is true for your museum. If they dropped their children off at parents-night-out be sure to mention the current promotion on family memberships.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. And yet in the museum world, we still see interactives as being mostly for kids.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2010

Last week, I took in the new Galileo science show at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. I used to perform these kinds of shows at the Capital Children’s Museum, and I was impressed by the whole production. I can’t imagine seeing a show like this in any other cultural context. It also drove me nuts.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. By calling ourselves a museum, we respond to those cultural institutions that have separated practice from production, exhibition from process, and work from play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Don’t let the discomfort of the learning curve for new technology tools get in the way of adopting social media or mobile tools as a personal and organizational leadership tool for your organization. Leadership Organizational Culture' To be sure, it’s an investment of time, but I actually think it’s a more efficient use.”

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions. Why should cultural and arts organizations care about Kickstarter? Kickstarter is a symptom of changes in donor culture.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. During the ensuing discussion, one woman asked, "Which audiences are least interested in social participation in museums?" So what's a museum to do--especially one that is funded to encourage youth and teen participation?

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Kristen Hadeed imagines a world in which all organizations have cultures that. Kishshana Palmer is your go-to advisor as you think of growing your organization, taking the next step as a professional or finding causes that align with your personal brand. Kristen Hadeed. kristenhadeed.com. Kishshana Palmer. kishshanaco.com.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. First published in Curator magazine in 2002, this essay presents five different museum "types" and their distinct opportunities and challenges.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

AUGUST 11, 2011

What inspires me about its organizational culture is the unusual degree of dedication, creativity, and harmony among the employees. The Perkins History Museum has an impressive collection on the history of education for people who are blind and deafblind.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. And what if a person, regardless of age, could learn anything from typing to HTML to using an iPad without any cost or accessibility barriers? The Role of Nonprofits. More Resources.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And, dang, you’re busy and you’re a super-smart person. I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. Now personally, I would like to see this 52 be like 82 but I will take the 52.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This month we’ve been thinking about “What is a museum?” (I'm I’ve been visiting museums my whole life. Does that make me the best judge of museums? People are the defining characteristics of museums. I’ve worked with and at plenty of museums that can sometimes feel empty. I'm not alone there.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

There are many folks who've written about the problems with "value" membership and have recommended that cultural institutions reorient toward offering "affinity" or "relationship" memberships. Unsurprisingly, museums are loathe to cut or alter membership programs that successfully serve visitors' needs and generate revenue.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole. This project took home six awards this year!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Exhibit labels in science centers ask more questions than any other kinds of museums, and yet the questions are often awful--teacherly, overly rhetorical, and totally meaningless. asked by a cop or mother, garners the full attention of asker and askee alike, museum questions like "what is nanotechnology?," Download my slides here.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

We brought our first product to market in July 2000 working with a local children’s museum as our first client. The year 2003 was a big year of change for me personally. We succeeded in building a culture of mutual respect, strong ethics, and client focus.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

This year, Forum One took home one platinum, four gold, and six silver awards in the categories of cultural, non-profit, science, health, and school/university websites, as well as digital branded content, arts and culture virtual experiences, and family and kids apps and software.

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