Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2014

Make sure you have a signup sheet, flyer, tablet, or laptop at the event. Offer visitors a discount on tickets to visit your museum, zoo, or aquarium. If you have created an opportunity for discovery by having an event downtown, a website may not be the best place to put your call to action.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

You might auction off laptops, school supplies, and other similar items. Engage your guests on social media and encourage them to post their own content. Art & History Museums Maitland is planning a virtual 3-day online art auction for summer 2021. Choose auction items that relate to your event theme.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

The nonprofit creates books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Orangutan Outreach used a donation of Adobe Creative Suite to produce and electronically distribute high-quality digital content for thousands of "adoptive parents."

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Forum One

MARCH 16, 2022

Since before the first iPhone was released in 2007, organizations have been discussing the importance of making their content more accessible on mobile devices. Content beyond websites. Partnering for Betting Content Distribution. Mobile-First. Mobile-first was already becoming a popular topic in 2014 ( Google Trends ).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

Two very interesting articles today by Ian Bogost , courtesy of Gamasutra , about the potential of games as a more generalized medium for interaction with content. The kinds of connections people make when playing games or looking at comics are different than those made with film, text, or any number of more traditional media used in museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. on the interplay of newspapers and internet content.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2007

Museum 2.0 for anyone with out-of-control web bookmarks suggestions for blogs, podcasts, and other content of specific interest to the intended iGo power adaptors for anyone working off the grid or powering laptops in the car What’s your favorite tech tool gift? is on semi-vacation this week. I’m writing this from Lake Tahoe.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

For those who have an exercise bike at home, you can also encourage them to, set up their laptop or mobile camera and cycle together. If you’re struggling to think of content for a livestream fundraiser, a great option is to make it an awards ceremony. Can you include Zoom content to keep them feeling connected?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Why focus on that instead of content, or knowledge or information or anything else? Whether it’s social media platforms or content that has captured the interest of the community – from citizen journalism to video storytelling. Why Community? So, why community? I’d love to be able to use my library as the network hub. Innovation Today.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Despite the shortcomings in Apple's v1 product, I believe that the iPad — and successors from other vendors — will change how people interact with online content. Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I've been thinking recently about the "why" behind encouraging social interactions among strangers in museums. I've been arguing that "visitors as participants" means participating BOTH with content and with other visitors, but that begs the question: do visitors really want to have social experiences with each other?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 2, 2009

Many museums are experimenting with “back channel” platforms that allow visitors and staff to chat and share content while onsite at the museum. To investigate a content experience more deeply using a different set of tools than those used to convey the content. The back channel isn’t just a social space.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2007

Live facilitation has a varied role in museums. In children’s and science museums, explainers are everywhere. From a financial and management perspective, however, many museums try to minimize live facilitation as much as possible. Many peoples’ most memorable museum experiences come from interactions with staff.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

s Hawaiian son as applied to museums. Consider these two stories of museum-related wikis that struggled. In May of 2007, Woody Sobey released a wiki for science museum educators to share their demos. Woody had seeded the site with about 12 demos from his own museum, but the wiki never took off. What's a wiki?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

With YouTube’s resources behind the project and tablets changing the way donors and supporters consume Web content, you’d be wise to spend two minutes reserving and protecting your nonprofit’s Zeen username. Upworthy is a content filtering tool that features the most read, shared, and buzz-worthy content on the Web.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

We had a really great custom content management system (CMS) built for us by one of our teammates, Dylan Fareed. We called upon our personal networks of trusted San Francisco-based editors to come in and read onsite during the weekend (with everyone working on their own laptops using the CMS). The content was all over the map.

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