Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Arts and Cultural organizations are capitalizing on this giving movement by creating a clear call-to-action attached to customized campaigns. Resources: Blackbaud’s Giving Tuesday site has a whole host of resources to help you be successful such as the toolkit, a webinar series, podcasts, blog articles and giving trends data.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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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 added one more category to the mix called hosted. What do these categories look like outside of the science environment?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. So here is a list of suggestions that hopefully will improve the way your museum thinks about using Twitter. Or it's rainy so you suggest I visit the museum? I am a museum of Native Cultures and Art!"

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Farms and Community Supported Agriculture: Families can tend crops and harvest food to be donated to a local food pantry, thus helping the environment, learning new skills, learning about issues related to hunger, and feeding the hungry all at the same time. Remember, a family can be many things.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Ever wish for a low-cost, energizing professional development experience where you can work intensely with diverse colleagues in a risk-tolerant environment? Three of them are being hosted at my museum , and one at a mystery location. You Can't Do That in Museums Camp - July 10-12, 2013. This camp will be a 2.5

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2018

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History keeps growing and experimenting in our quest to build a stronger, more connected community. The positions are: OFBYFOR ALL Communications Catalyst : to fuel the OFBYFOR ALL movement by organizing civic and cultural professionals online and at conferences around the world.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Blackbaud hosted its annual conference for nonprofits from September 29 through October 1 in National Harbor, MD. Competing departments does not create an environment conducive to a good customer experience. Rosita Bradham lives in Austin, Texas and has over 10 years’ experience working with or at arts and cultural organizations.

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Conversation Rate New York City Arts 35

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

I once asked Eric Siegel, the Director of the New York Hall of Science, why museums are rarely innovative shining stars on the cutting edge of culture. He commented that as non-profits, museums are built to survive, not to succeed. Is it true of your museum too? To make it, museums need to survive AND succeed.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I got my copy of the fall issue of Museums and Social Issues this week. The theme is "Civic Dialogue," and the journal includes articles on the historical, cultural, media, and museum practice of getting people talking to each other (including one by me about such endeavors on the web). A place many museums are not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

is a new art form that re-uses commercial video-game environments to make animated films. Combining aspects of animation, game development, puppetry, graffiti, fan fiction, and improvisational theater into a moving image art form, machinima represents the latest frontier of digital popular culture.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2016

The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History used Giving Blueday to raise funds to begin development for their Wooly Mammoth Exhibit. U-M saw it as an opportunity to engage with their audience, make them aware that they’re a nonprofit organization, and build a culture of philanthropy with their students. Advanced Planning.

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Michigan University Giving Student 20

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Definitely, my favorite thing because I’m the host. I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. It builds a culture of trust and respect. Second or third is committing to building an inclusive and welcoming culture.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

I spent Saturday in beautiful Monterey, ocean pounding outside the window of a conference room, where about 40 museum folks were pondering a question more elusive than the origin of the waves: can museums change the world? In two months, 10,000 visitors sent postcards (and fortuitiously, the government acted in favor of protection).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Andrea has been a leader in the museum technology field. I cannot identify a single strategy-level decision maker with visitor-centered expertise and enough cultural competency to develop and apply successful, proven methodologies in-house, let alone share with other institutions nationwide and beyond.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Of course, a lot goes into hosting a successful silent auction event. Or perhaps you’re hosting an auction for a school. While you don’t have to put the latest gadgets and popular items into all of your baskets, being aware of cultural trends can help you find unique additions for your gift baskets.

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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. After all, people visit museums in their own pods for a reason. There are two ways I think we can be using this in museums. First, I think we should support the proliferation of museum-based "I saw you's."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Let’s look at the nonprofit environment and why that’s so important. All the work we’re doing, whether it’s the environment, no matter what your mission is, we’re doing this. Host a donor at a special event. So here we go. And then we’re going to say, “Hey, why care about your brand?

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Money Personal Relationship Raise 102

NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

We tweet, checkin, google, blog, instagram, post status updates, yelp and a host of other things from our handheld devices. I don’t have an identity grounded in an single culture, nation or land. With the arrival of smartphones, it’s amazing how much data we are collecting and consuming on our mobile devices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

I’ve just returned from week-long leadership development program in Israel called “ Reality Storytellers ” hosted by the Schusterman Foundation. exploration of the issue, environment, local population, culture, political and religious context and additional relevant content that provides an authentic narrative to follow.

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