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The Benefits of Having Digitally Savvy Board – for Museums & Nonprofits Too!

Connection Cafe

This year, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Information Systems Research released a study that showed just how much companies in the commercial sector benefit from having a tech-savvy board. I recently discussed what it means to be a “museopreneur” in a feature article published by American Alliance of Museums.

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Instead of Selling Objects, Build Public Trust

Museum 2.0

You run a regional museum. This is the plan that plunged the Berkshire Museum into hot water. In July, the Berkshire Museum released its $60,000,000 New Vision , along with a funding mechanism: selling 40 of its most valuable artworks. It states that museums can only sell objects to purchase or care for other objects.

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WWHKD? (What would Helen Keller do?)

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

The Perkins History Museum has an impressive collection on the history of education for people who are blind and deafblind. However, they are also planning to create an online museum and archive that will be fully accessible to all. (I Can the various systems allow for data sharing or possibly even interoperabilty ?

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Happy Holidays!

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The February launches will include the Program for Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University, The Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham Massachusetts, and the ARC/Michigan. These organizations are working in diverse areas and show at a glance the wide contribution non-profits are making.

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How Can a Museum Best Protect Its Assets?

Tech Soup

In this age of increasing hacks and cybercrime, the Norman Rockwell Museum has a lot of digital assets, museum operations data, and private patron data that need to be protected. Find out why Frank Kennedy, IT manager at the Rockwell museum, chose Veritas Backup Exec to be a key part of the museum's security strategy.

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Juneteenth Resources

Media Cause

While slavery may have ended on this day many years ago, we at Media Cause are aware that its lasting impacts stay with us in the form of systemic racism. The holiday has been celebrated since 1865 and was officially made a federal holiday in 2021. Attend Events .

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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

Bloomerang

But don’t do that right now because one of my favorites joining us from my hometown of New Bedford, Massachusetts, one of the many reasons why Robin and I get along. Yeah, the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. I’ve been to the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. Many mail houses and data systems. You doing okay?