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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. The themes are less about exploring something new, but to commit to continuous learning and improvement.

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10 Commandments of User Experience

Connection Cafe

Access is for everyone Keep in mind everyone's needs for example: be ADA compliant, think about if children visit your site, and what various backgrounds and cultures make up your audience Don’t forget about mobile - large screen vs. small screen 8.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Get ready to learn from some of the best analytics minds out there. It will bring together the practitioners, scientists and creative minds of behavior change to discuss the science and technology of change. Grantmakers In Health (GIH) / San Diego, CA / $1,400. NTEN / San Jose, CA / $650. Fundraising. Technology.

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Missed Connections and Matchmaking: A Case for the Desire to Socialize in Museums

Museum 2.0

Witness this posting placed on craigslist yesterday: Lovely Blonde at The Tech Museum on Sunday - m4w - 46 (san jose downtown) Date: 2007-10-14, 9:05PM PDT We chatted briefly while attending the Body World exhibit at The Tech on Sunday in downtown San Jose. Matchmakers have a mixed portrayal in our culture.

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Goodbye, Game Friday. Hello Open Source Museum.

Museum 2.0

But last week, I took a new job with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, working on a very different kind of project involving collaborative distributed exhibit design. All of this is sweeping many new questions into my mind. Ultimately, the biggest question in my mind is about value propositions.

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

We got some really tough questions--how to deal with grants that were written with specific technologies in mind, how to deal with board members who want shiny objects, what role technology should play relative to curatorial, education, and marketing in the institutional hierarchy. What did you get out of AAM?

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