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These 3 Types Of Nonprofits Spend The Most On Advertising According To This 2021 Study

Kindful

These three nonprofit types are: Performing Arts Companies, Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events, and Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions. Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions. Pella Historical Society and Museums. Let’s start with the highest median annual ad spend. .

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

Museum 2.0

Imagine you've just been tasked with developing an innovative, future-thinking national museum for your country's history. Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). The Museum directors released Blueprint as a showcase for these plans. Where would you start?

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Balancing Engagement: Adventures in Participatory Exhibit Labels

Museum 2.0

We’ve been doing a little experiment at our museum with labels. The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum recently loaned us some fabulous surfboards that tell the co-mingled history of surfing and redwood trees in Santa Cruz. We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way.

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Navigation by Recommendation: Lessons Learned from a Little Experiment

Museum 2.0

How do you find your way around a multi-faceted museum? I spent some time playing with this question last week at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a large general museum that is moving toward redesign of the permanent galleries. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent. Do you interrogate the map? Get deliciously lost?

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An Interview with Jeska Linden about Nonprofits in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We created and ran the web site for the Liberal Arts College in an atmosphere which, upon reflection is a lot like Linden Lab. When I graduated in 2003, I moved out here to California and worked with the San Jose Museum of Art before getting a job with Linden Labs. I learned a lot from San Jose Art Museum. Of course, once you???re

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Preservation in Action: Ambition and Excitement at Zealandia

Museum 2.0

And yet earlier in the week, at the Zealandia nature sanctuary in Wellington, I’d seen some hints of how to do just that. I hope that I will one day walk into an archive or history museum and feel the same sense of urgency, purpose, and progress that I felt at Zealandia. But let's get back to the good stuff.

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Not On Our Watch: The Least Depressing Book About Darfur You'll Ever Read

Have Fun - Do Good

Before speaking at a STAND rally at UCLA he reflects: It is a perfect--yet to me often strange--example of the power of "celebrity". And the Five Helpful Hints for Advocacy Initiatives 1. The book is interspersed with personal anecdotes from Cheadle and Prendergast. Cheadle's stories reveal the reality of being a celebrity activist.

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