sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2021

The “Q&A with sgLEADERS” series on sgENGAGE aims to provide readers, including the next generation of social good leaders, with valuable insights from executives across the social good community. Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2021

While the pandemic has had a significant impact on artists and cultural institutions, it has forced many to take a fresh look at how they are building immersive, innovative digital experiences for arts and culture. The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts: Elevating a world-class cultural landmark.

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Forum One

MARCH 5, 2024

This Women’s History Month, we celebrate the work that the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum does each and every day to bring women’s stories alive and into focus. Forum One worked with the Museum to create the 10-minute digital experience, which will be available this Friday on the Museum’s website. January 30, 2024).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

By shopping at any of the 64 online stores listed below, socially conscious and ethical consumers can channel some of their spending power this holiday season into the nonprofit sector and the Greater Good. 4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. 8) Field Museum Store :: store.fieldmuseum.org. billion in 2021.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2021

TL;DR A lot of really shitty people hate museums and hate that museums would even attempt social justice therefore museums are okay, maybe. It is well documented that most jobs in museums pay poorly. Gainful, full time museum employment is also notoriously difficult and competitive.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Monday, May 18th is International Museum Day , the mission of which is to raise awareness of the fact that, “museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2019

Or maybe hello museum world! Previously, I had worked at the same museum for 17 years.) So, when you visit more than 300 museums, parks, and historic sites, what do you learn? This week, I wanted to start with us, museum and cultural workers. Hello World! The metaphor certainly works in terms of filling big shoes.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

These two adages were both in my mind last week when I asked people for the worst museum trends. On social media, it's hard to get into systemic issues effectively, but maybe people did start to touch on some of the big, bad issues in our field. In this decade museums worst trends were in labor and tech: 1.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We are excited to share that the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal , NYU’s Congressional District Health Dashboard , and March of Dimes have been named Anthem Awards finalists. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 6, 2020

First up is Colleen Dilenschneider, the Chief Market Engagement Officer for IMPACTS, a global leader in predictive market intelligence and related technologies, and the publisher of one of our team’s favorite websites, Know Your Own Bone , which shares data and analysis about how cultural audiences think and behave. Robert Gilmor , Jr.”

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The Davey Award winners have been announced, and we’re proud to say that Forum One and our amazing clients have officially won 10 awards in website and app design for nonprofits, health, government, cultural institutions, and more. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. During the period that the 500 were selected, they learned a lot about how various social networking tools could be used as they saw participants start partnering up and organizing themselves for the game.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

By shopping at any of the 48 online stores listed below, socially conscious and ethical consumers can channel some of their consumer spending power into the nonprofit sector and the Greater Good. 4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. 6) Field Museum Store :: store.fieldmuseum.org.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

It’s 2019, and a whole lot is changing in the museum and nonprofit world. That’s not to mention how strained museums already are in terms of resources. According to the American Alliance of Museums, the average museum has 6 volunteers for every paid staff member , a ratio which s oars to 18:1 in museums with budgets under $250,000.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

After the International Committee on Museums spent some time debating the definition of museums, many folks took up the charge on social media to give their own definitions. I’m inviting people to share their definitions, here and on social (and tag me); I’ll summarize your thoughts next week. We need new #MuseumVerbs.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Written by Seema Rao Last month, I shared some of my thoughts about the best of museums over the last decades. (I I'll mention now, Kate Livingston, listed Museum Twitter as one of the best things, and I definitely thought this as I read people's responses. Many respondents talked about a fundamental shift in museums from them to us.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2021

The “Q&A with sgLEADERS” series on sgENGAGE aims to provide readers, including the next generation of social good leaders, with valuable insights from executives across the social good community. Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2020

Nina Simon, Lauren Bentua, and many others would host us in the halls of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art. When we think about mapping these ideas onto an organization I think about how museum leadership can take these on personally as individuals (CEO, COO) and as departments (Human Resources, Education) and so on.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2020

As an arts and cultural organization, you are among the most trusted sources of information in today’s world. There is an overwhelming amount of information about COVID-19 on social media , and not all of it is factual. A rts and cultural organizations rely on people visiting them for much of their income. Conclusion: .

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2014

People often complain that social media can become an echo chamber to reinforce pre-existing beliefs and expectations. Earlier this spring, I decided to go on a mission to use social media to increase my cultural competency around Latino experiences, issues, and interests. It''s true. It''s focusing my attention differently.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The Anthem Awards were launched last year in response to the prevalence social good has taken within the national conversation and cultural zeitgeist. Talking About Race is a widely referenced and shared section of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture ’s website. American Jazz Museum.

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Everyaction

JULY 5, 2018

Arts and culture organizations such as media companies, magazines, public radio stations, museums, theaters, and arts advocates have unique needs when it comes to data management. Database and CRM systems for arts and cultural organizations should offer the capability for several key tasks: 1.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Why does your museum open its doors each day? Every arts and culture organization has a brand and that brand has a purpose. For arts and culture organizations, brand purpose is often about facilitating learning and engaging visitors in unforgettable experiences that provide educational and social value. open rate, CTR.

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Forum One

JANUARY 30, 2024

By amplifying the voices that ignite global change, these awards honor work across seven core causes: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Education, Art & Culture; Health; Human & Civil Rights; Humanitarian Action & Services; Responsible Technology; and Sustainability, Environment & Climate.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

After our complete closure on March 16, 2020 due to COVID-19 , our museum staff was busier than ever preparing to navigate these uncharted times. Download the free eBook from Blackbaud and Cuseum: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving & Thriving As A Cultural Organization. Co-Author: Carey Calhoon.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

During a workshop on museum visitor participation, someone spoke up and objected: "this might work in California, but it will never work in Texas." I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. It is not culturally-determined. Cultural differences can play out on local levels as well.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Email communication still has its place, but with the challenges that social distancing has brought to in-person events, organizations must include other ways to communicate and connect with their audience in order to spread their message. In fact, 51% of consumers trust text messaging over phone calls and emails.

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Forum One

MARCH 30, 2023

Forum One’s recent design work with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) Simmons Talks series was a dream come true: an opportunity to put passion behind a design that I believe in and honor the work of others who inspire me. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2020

I n her blog post “ What Will Make People Feel Safe Attending a Cultural Entity Again? ” Colleen Dilenschneider listed some of the factors that will make people feel comfortable visiting cultural organizations in a post-COVID-19 world. Zoos, aquariums, museums and gardens can look at their online ticket sales process.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When basketball players are offering more cogent commentary on racial issues than cultural institutions, you know we have a cultural relevance problem. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Colleges are addressing greater cultural and racial understanding in various courses.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The Western Museum Association was kind enough to invite me to speak on a panel about engagement at their annual meeting in Boise. Phillip’s early remark about museums was an invocation for everyone. As an outsider, he immediately saw that museums were operating “under a business model that doesn’t work.”

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sgEngage

APRIL 28, 2022

I [have] several volunteers who do not use any of the social media or latest technology. – Rebecca Barnes, volunteer manager at Tellus Science Museum . The post Volunteer Smarter, Not Harder: Tips from Your Fellow Social Good Pros first appeared on npENGAGE. Ursula Academy . .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Field Museum Online Store. The Field Museum is an educational institution concerned with the diversity and relationships in nature and among cultures. Paul Getty Museum Store. Metropolitan Museum of Art Store. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art museums.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Bridging cultural differences? We all have aspirational social impact goals for our organizations. These are the questions that underpin Museum Camp 2014 , a professional development experience in which diverse people from the arts, community activism, and social services will measure the immeasurable together.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. The popular reference point for what a museum is--a temple for contemplation--is based on a Euro-centric set of myths and implies a white set of behaviors.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

This fosters a culture of open communication and empathy within the team. While I was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art working on a website redesign, we recognized the need to be transparent with our internal audiences and started hosting a series of monthly open forum presentations called “Website Wednesdays.”

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2019

While we’re still calculating how much of that total cultural organizations raised, here are some campaigns that stood out: . The donations collected will contribute to Broadway Cares’ support of The Actors Fund’s safety net of social service programs and its own annual National Grants Program. .

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