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Free Webinar on February 27: 10 Online Communications and Fundraising Best Practices for NGOs

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The foundation of a successful online communications and fundraising campaign is built upon a well-designed, well-written website and e-newsletter. Participants will: Gain knowledge of best practices for website and e-newsletter design. System Requirements on a PC: Internet Explorer 7.0 System Requirements on a Mac: Safari 3.0

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How to Design from Virtual Metaphor to Real Experience, and an Example

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This post explains that project and suggests a process by which you could approach this kind of “virtual-to-real” design. Patrons don’t have to opt in to some complicated system, log on to the Web after returning books, or add anything to their standard library use. Ideas design. Sounds complicated? What’s missing?

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Blueprint Book Club Part 1: How Do You Create a Future-Thinking History Museum?

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Immersive design. It's hardly a model for an entirely new approach to museum design. a national competition in which 8,000 people submitted photographs to represent the iconic image of the Netherlands. A mixture of chronology and thematic approaches. Hooks based on popular culture. Few objects surrounded by supporting media.

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What Could Kill an Elegant, High-Value Participatory Project?

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Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. These tags would be added to the books in the catalog to build a kind of recommendation system. To do this, the library didn't create a complicated computer system or send people online.

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Blueprint Book Club Part 3: The Future of the National Vending Machine

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This guest post was written by Geert-Jan Davelaar and Anna Tiedink, educators at the Zuiderzee Open Air Museum in the Netherlands, the museum that "adopted" the INNL's National Vending Machine project after INNL's closure. Zuiderzeemuseum is an open-air museum that focuses on a specific region in the north of the Netherlands.

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

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From the institutional perspective, the best way to deliver good participant experiences was to constrain contributions through the Flickr uploading system. They partnered with 46 institutions in the Netherlands to produce Wikipedia Loves Art / NL , which took a different approach to the project. Projects design.

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5 Key Insights from the 2010 Global State of the Nonprofit.

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Responses were received from 2,383 individuals in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Face-to-face fundraising is mentioned most frequently by respondents from the Netherlands, major donor cultivation is cited by respondents from Canada, India, and the U.K.,

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