Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. People are now coming to the library to see it as it includes content by all the 500 participants from that night. When we first started babycastles, we had no idea there was any kind of community in NY for it.

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Game Culture Museum Change 140

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. How does it help the Exploratorium to listen to these environments if they can't be controlled? A community provides insights.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Instead of trying to get EVERYONE in a community to give, target people who are most likely to care about your nonprofit’s mission. From there, reach out into the community, but be smart about it. They volunteered in their community. If your ideal donors care about the environment, focus on nature-oriented festivals.

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Fundraising Fund Teen Newsletter 120

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. People are now coming to the library to see it as it includes content by all the 500 participants from that night. When we first started babycastles, we had no idea there was any kind of community in NY for it.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

But in the case of Tech Virtual, it also caused conflict as I tried to balance being a friendly, caring community manager with being the "boss" of the participatory process. Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. When you think of MySpace, what is the first thing that comes to mind?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

But that would be a lot of content! Mozilla Week of Service Begins September 14th: Mark your calendars and sign up to offer your geek skills to your local community for a service project this week. They're encouraging folks to submit proposals. (I'll be delivering the keynote, my first in a virtual 3d environment.).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Or is it worth more because the museum content is reaching people in distant lands who would otherwise never have engaged with the institution? Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So if you have to leave early, maybe you just want to review the content, don’t worry. Everything you’re doing in your communities is too important to lose. Secondly, community foundations, which, in the U.S., most areas have a community foundation that covers your area. Grants are still out there.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

It's the one place where visitors can offer direct, open-ended feedback on the institution's content and services. These third-party applications provide a ready-made environment for comment cards to become more useful and usable to visitors and staff alike. that the signal-to-noise ratio is low.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Mustard Seed Communities. Donor-focused content. Top Nonprofit Website: Mustard Seed Communities. Since 1978, Mustard Seed Communities has cared for vulnerable populations across the globe. North Shore Animal League. Gooley Hemophilia Center. Project Open Hand. Darien Nature Center. Save the Children. Ontario SPCA.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Strangely, exhibitions have become incredibly successful at creating immersive environments that tell broad conceptual stories--but not so good at telling tight, focused stories. They had a very simple exhibit of single-page laminated stories, transcribed from oral interviews with elders in the community.

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