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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

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One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. My answer: neither.

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Relativism, Multiculturalism, and Myth: New Stories about Modern Museums

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What if witty cultural commentators reviewed museums the way they do music and restaurants? If Anthony Lane turned his cutting tongue from movies to museums? If Stephen Colbert "reported" on museums at times other than during the TV writer's strike? It's painful. And instructive. And revelatory. And painful.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

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For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. I spent an hour this morning "brand listening" to what the online world says about one of my favorite museums, the Exploratorium.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

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posted by Maureen O'Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum. It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language. As the development director at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM), which celebrates the music of every country in the world, my team has a platform to fundraise internationally.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Maureen O''Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers).

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100+ Fundraising Event Ideas to Try in 2021 and Beyond

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You can procure items that encourage residents to explore the city in a fun way, such as local restaurant gift certificates or tickets to museums or sports games. Then, each attendee will wear the headphones and start dancing to the music! Guitar lessons – Have any musically inclined staff members or volunteers?

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111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits

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Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages. It can also translate your messages in multiple languages. The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate and enhance the world’s visual language by serving as a portal to unique icon sets.

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