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Guest Post by Seema Rao: How Museums Can Resist Racism and Oppression

Museum 2.0

Like Seema, I've been looking for ways to increase active resistance of racism, hate, and bigotry--both as an individual and as the leader of a museum. Seema and I have started an open google doc to assemble ideas for specific things museums and museum professionals can do to resist oppression. Museums are ideas.

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Museum Work Today: All the Feels All the Time

Museum 2.0

The museums of the world are collaborating to bring you #MuseumGames every Sunday, with a new crossword puzzle each week featuring clues from all sorts of museums. ??: While donations are going down, global interest in museums seem a boom industry. Do we refer to Mar a #museum social media guru, maven, connoisseur?

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Do You Inform Donors Of These 2 Giving Opportunities?

Bloomerang

For example, last year I was delighted to receive an email from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco including information informing supporters about new tax deduction benefits made possible through the CARES Act. Download Donor Letter (DOC). Write to your donors. Develop a special campaign to encourage $300 donations.

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We've Gotten This Far

Museum 2.0

This month, I’d planned to have a celebration of the fellow people in museums, including your coworkers and colleagues you’ve never worked with. In this time when convenings have become treacherous, museums, zoos, and aquariums, as a collective, possess much of the affordable public space in the world. Then, a pandemic descended.

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Nonprofit Engagement: Why Website Logins Matter

NetWits

Think about the websites you most visit: Facebook , Google’s Gmail , Calendars and Docs , Yahoo , Netflix , NYTimes , Friendster –what, you don’t use Friendster anymore? Well, my point is that all of these sites have user logins.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. It is a must download! GreatNonprofits :: greatnonprofits.org.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere

Tech Soup

Read the transcript of the Nonprofit Commons meeting, featuring Dr. Valerie Hill of Texas Woman’s University School of Library and Information Science discussing libraries, museums, and immersive learning. From the TechSoup Global Network. From TechSoup Global. Pacific time. TechSoup Canada. From TechSoup for Libraries.

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