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How Do You Capture Compelling Visitor Stories? Interview with Christina Olsen

Museum 2.0

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. There hasn’t been a history of collaboration between the museum and the film center and we wanted the chance to partner more deeply, and build a platform where we could continue to do so.

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Those whacky wikis

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

We all know how challenging collaborative writing is: Jefferson carried around a copy of his original draft of the Declaration of Independence until his dying day, so people could see how it read before Franklin and his committee ruined it by putting it in the form we know today. Self-evident, indeed!

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

The NTC brings together the best and brightest nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness with technology. Each year, the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is the nonprofit industry's signature technology event, and 2016 will be no different. Technology / #16NTC / @NTENorg.

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Creating a Community Supported Kitchen: Interview with Jessica Prentice of Three Stone Hearth

Have Fun - Do Good

Our conversation began with Jessica describing what a community supported kitchen is: Jessica Prentice: The idea behind the community supported kitchen is that we are modeling a new way of preparing and processing food on a community scale. How do they stay in touch and maintain collaborations?" It's been fairly informal.

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Observations and Reflections on #TakeBackThePink

Amy Sample Ward

Breast Cancer has impacted my family, like many others, and I grew up participating in Komen’s Race for the Cure in Portland every year with my mom. An interesting model to use for comparison is Occupy Wall Street. Defining success in a very fluid situation was also very challenging. Five hundred people? Five thousand people?

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Nonprofits Imagine a Better Sharing Economy

Tech Soup

" According to Wikipedia, the sharing economy (sometimes also referred to as the share economy, shared economy, mesh, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption) is a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical assets. But Botsman overlooks some of the tensions found in the collaborative economy.

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