Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2017

TechSoup offers many donated and discounted products for nonprofit museums and history organizations, such as historical sites and societies, of every type. Here's our guide to what's most popular with our over 8,000 museum TechSoup members. Our museum members particularly like Microsoft Project and SQL Server.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

American Jazz Museum Best Arts Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room and Gem Theater. The post Forum One Takes Home 8 WebAwards!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. 6) Field Museum Store :: store.fieldmuseum.org. 18) SFMOMA Museum Store :: museumstore.sfmoma.org. 8) Getty Store :: shop.getty.edu.

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Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2017

Websites, blog posts, social media, online news — all of these are part of your community's history, but all are ephemeral in nature. This program is offered in partnership with WebJunction and with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

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Neon CRM

MAY 23, 2023

Whether you’re looking to contact your congressional representatives or donate to a local nonprofit, here are four groups you’ll love (plus a resource for finding tons more). Their website also includes tons of resources like printable assets, advocacy materials, and educational resources. Who would you add to the list?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. This resources is always good for a laugh. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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DipJar

APRIL 14, 2022

Behind an unassuming Woolworth’s storefront in Greensboro, NC, Civil Rights history was made on a February day in 1960. The story of that day, the movement it spawned, and its lasting impact are told at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. Museum programming, which included films and lectures, was also moved online.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Talking About Race is a widely referenced and shared section of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture ’s website. Our team partnered with the Museum to bring the resources to life visually. American Jazz Museum.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2021

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. To provide tools and guidance to empower people’s journeys and inspire conversation about race, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) developed “Talking About Race.” The Natural Resources Defense Council.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2015

The Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library (MBWML) was established in 1958 and named to honor the mother of America's first president. The museum and library preserves the rich history of the Northern Neck through its collections, exhibits, tours, and educational programs. Celebrating a Region Rich with History.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2014

This week, I''m celebrating three years on the job as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. This spring marked a big conceptual shift for me and the museum. We are now squarely out of turnaround and into growth mode.

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Qgiv

MAY 1, 2023

This is a month dedicated to celebrating the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and their many contributions and achievements throughout history. May is set aside every year to celebrate the achievements and contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to American history and modern society.

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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. Heavily reliant on volunteer labor as it is, museums cannot afford to squander valuable staff resources on membership tasks like envelope stuffing.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. The outcome was an immensely successful event that attracted audiences from all corners of the country.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Where do museums fit in? Here is our statement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

And while the bulk of nonprofits put most of their resources into Facebook ( whether Facebook is perfect or not ), there are many nonprofits effectively using Twitter and leveraging the platform for social good as well as their staff and leaders. One museum said they have dinosaurs; the other said they have robots.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Examples of recent products we’ve collaborated on include: March of Dimes App for Caregivers As part of expanding the March of Dimes digital ecosystem, Compass by March of Dimes is a mobile application that provides supportive and valuable resources for post-partum and NICU families.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Since 1970, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. The Frist Art Museum. The Frist Art Museum is a destination for art, culture, and community in the heart of Nashville, TN.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. 6) Field Museum Store :: store.fieldmuseum.org. 18) SFMOMA Museum Store :: museumstore.sfmoma.org. 8) Getty Store :: shop.getty.edu.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Honoring the Pioneers: Dedicate time to spotlight Latino figures from history, highlighting their enduring impact on American society. Resources for Recognition: Compile and disseminate resources that educate on Latino history, contributions, and more. Want to learn more about Hispanic Heritage Month?

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. Forum One worked with the NMAAHC team to design and launch the Talking About Race section of the website, extending our design system and inviting user experience to share relevant and engaging resources for diverse audiences.

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2022

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) was planning the next installment of their already-successful and well-attended event, “A Seat at the Table.” For NMAAHC, the idea of “A Seat at the Table” happened conceptually before the museum even opened in 2016. It was March 2020.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

And I bet, many of you, like me, need resources, comfort, validation, and guidance. We've morphed ourselves into an alternate history. 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. ??:

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. A year ago, I put my consultant hat on the shelf and decided to jump into museum management (a sentence I NEVER would have imagined writing five years ago). I'm open to any questions you want to raise in the comments.

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Kindful

JANUARY 5, 2022

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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. The museum gets better the more people use it.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

When my sister first started working with a nonprofit museum, she had a lot to learn about the fundraising process for the organization. The museum had notes saved in their donor management software about the seating preferences for their major donors and that particular donor preferred their regular seat toward the front.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Museums have used games to engage visitors for decades. SR: I came to games before I came to museums. My grandmother cheated at Candyland and uno. :) Games, I think, have a nice Venn diagram of overlap between museum lovers. I love thinking we're getting new museum lovers through games. How did you get into museum games?

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Donate to or Buy Native this holiday season. Use this tool to find out about Native communities in your area and understand the issues that affect them today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

National Museum of American History :: @ AMHistoryMuseum. Natural Resources Defense Council :: NRDC. National Coalition for the Homelessness :: @ NTL_Homeless. National Council of La Raza :: @ NCLR. National Parks Conservation Association :: @ NPCA. National Wildlife Federation :: @ NWF. Ocean Conservancy :: @ OurOcean.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Syed Salahuddin – Babycastles.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. Given TCG''s multi-year Audience (R)evolution initiative, I took the opportunity to write a new talk about what revolution has looked like at our small museum in Santa Cruz. At the same time, our community relevance was limited. More audience.

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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

Support – Next time that board member calls, saying they are unable to find a specific information on your website, you can review their viewing history to determine what pages they were looking at. These could be articles, resources or documents.

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