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The 2019 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

The Corps Network National Conference is an annual gathering of national, state, and local leaders in the fields of workforce development, community service, and conservation. State/Local / #DCNP2019 / @DMANF. State/Local. State/Local / #NPSummit19 / @TogetherSC. State/Local. State/Local / #AFP19PP / @AFPFL.

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4 bbcon 2019 Takeaways to Help You Maximize Your Foundation’s Impact in 2020

Connection Cafe

bbcon 2019 last month in Music City was the biggest and best one yet, breaking the record with over 3,000 attendees from close to 1,700 unique organizations. If you were unable to join us last month, we hope that you’ll join us next year at bbcon 2020 in Seattle. In addition to the above, they also….

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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

Have Fun - Do Good

It also built up a wonderful market to the point where over six for-profit galleries opened up, and began to do business, all the way from Seattle to Annapolis to Newport, Rhode Island. He went around the world collecting traditional contemporary folk music, assembled those into themes on CDs, and began national distribution.

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Museums and Relevance: What I Learned from Michael Jackson

Museum 2.0

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. Michael Jackson belongs at EMPSFM (and visitors knew to find him there) because that museum is about pop culture and specifically music. Where were you when Michael Jackson died?

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon: Design Techniques for Developing Questions for Visitor Participation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). The Denver Art Museum's Side Trip poses many specific questions about visitors' experiences with psychedelic rock music, concerts, and drugs. Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0

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Meditations on Relevance Part 5: Relevance is a Bridge

Museum 2.0

This summer, we opened two exhibitions at my museum that are highly relevant to local culture. Princes of Surf is about the young Hawaiian princes who brought surfing to the Americas 130 years ago--relevant because they did it in Santa Cruz, with boards shaped from local wood, on waves I bike by every week. Killer content.

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