Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. The Knight Foundation believes arts and culture are at the core of community, connecting people to place and to each other. Areas served: US. Knight Foundation. Areas served: Houston/Texas.

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EveryAction

MARCH 2, 2017

More to eat: Mintwood Place (Columbia Heights). Songbyrd may seem like a coffee place, but it brings a lot more to the table, including a robust live music and event calendar. The hottest ticket in DC has to be the National Museum of African American History & Culture. US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

The Washington Post covered the MAH's transformation as part of an article about museums engaging new audiences. The whole second half of the article was dedicated to our work: Smaller museums can be especially scrappy in finding ways to connect with the community. It’s something that any museum, of any size, can work toward.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

When we say we want our museum to be "audience-centered," what do we mean? My career first got moving at a brilliant example of the customer-centered museum: the International Spy Museum. Many of my favorite museums, libraries, and zoos are customer-centered places. They care about visitor comfort.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 25, 2011

Musical Instrument Museum. Several people were inspired by passion for a cause that sprang from personal experience. I grew up in a musical family, was fortunate enough to attend schools with excellent arts programs, majored in music in college, and still perform frequently today. Like this article? Get another!

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Phoenix Work Music Museum 95

Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. The Knight Foundation believes arts and culture are at the core of community, connecting people to place and to each other. Areas served: US. Knight Foundation. Areas served: Houston/Texas.

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Arts Grant Culture Fund 73

Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

Margaret shared these thoughts about "museums for use" on her blog , and I asked her to adapt a version for the Museum 2.0 Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use? The Rhode Island School of Design was established in 1877 alongside its Museum of Art, an important resource for RISD students.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In the most extreme cases, I've talked to folks from museums that are government-mandated to provide all content in multiple languages who say they are unable to invite visitors to make comments because they'd have to translate all of them and simply can't dedicate the resources to do so. use digital interfaces.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. Sheet music is a beautiful analogy for this.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Spring is a time that sees more people with a tidy sum of cash thanks to their tax returns, itching to go outside, and looking for things to do around key holidays like Easter, Passover, Nowruz, and Mother’s Day. By mid-spring, the sun is shining and people are eager to spend some time outdoors. BBQ for Good. 3 = $30 bet).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. Part-website, part-smartphone app, this tool enables free group texting between small groups of people. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. BrainyQuote :: brainyquote.com.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

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. EMPSFM is one of a handful of museums worldwide for which the death of the King of Pop is a very big deal. Are museums only relevant when they can serve our most pressing needs?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Membership cards: Some people like being card-carrying members of a group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , with Aliza Sherman. Studies confirm that creative activities – painting, drawing, dancing, playing music, theatre, or singing – can improve employee productivity and skills.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

People from across the country will gather at the. Museum of Contemporary Art. in Chicago to experience MCON in person and over 20,000 people will stream the event online. We purposely hold MCON in a room that only holds 300 people, so we’ve created an intimate, hands-on experience for those attending the event in person.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

In the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s four part series on comfort in museums, we get down to the basics: creature comfort. So for this last piece, we look at going the other way: making museums more physically comfortable. There was funky music. There were people working and eating and chatting and reading.

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Museum Denver Arts Design 30

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I like to ask myself this question periodically, challenging myself to find substantive ways for visitors to contribute to our museum. And when I think back on the past year, some of the most magical things that have happened at the museum have NOT been designed by us. We don't have to convince them that it's their museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

at the Brooklyn Museum, where you could track how people of various levels of art expertise rated crowd-contributed photographs. Instead, I'd like to see us asking broader questions about process, like: How do different people arbitrate the value of a piece of art, a historical artifact, or a piece of scientific evidence?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Last Friday night, my museum hosted a fabulous (in my biased opinion) event called Race Through Time. It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. Late night mixers at museums for young adults.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

As a kid, I was saturated by symphony performances and choral music. I’m looking for a place to donate in honor of my mother’s 90 th birthday, and a gift made to the local symphony orchestra in Myrtle Beach seemed like the right thing to do. So, how can we use family or experiences to get people to donate? Fast forward to 2017.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Luckily, the NTEN Community is full of advice on places to go, things to do, dishes to eat, and how to navigate NTC like a pro. NTC champs, Farra Trompeter and Chris Tuttle , suggest making a list of at least three new people to connect with before the conference. And don''t miss the after parties ! Experience uniquely Austin sights.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Events are many people’s favorite thing about charity fundraising. Many people love to eat, but many of us aren’t as close to being culinary experts as we would like to be. Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. And despite the fact that I've enjoyed being at the museum for 12 hours plus for ten days in a row, I'm quickly realizing that if I want to really get some fun participatory projects going, I need some help.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. It is an incredible museum experience. The visitor is given a copy of her poster and the museum keeps a copy as well.

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Care2

AUGUST 9, 2011

You may have also seen QR codes when travelling and visiting tourist spots such as museums, walking tours, etc. Great, tag on a QR code in a visible place on the direct mail piece to encourage people to make a donation on your website. So, should nonprofits be experimenting with QR codes as another marketing vehicle too?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2008

Which is more inclusive: the place where staff curse constantly or the place where they ignore you? Which has more social impact: the place frequented by educated art lovers or the one populated by blue collar joes? People ask questions. People tell stories. The music was loud and angry. I'm not so sure.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

You’ve come to the right place! Livestream some 60s music and entertainment. Music can always add a fun touch to any decade-themed event! How about creating a virtual auction event themed around a type of collectible, like sports memorabilia or music memorabilia? You might also provide food! A Memorabilia Auction.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

Slots on the list were first-come first-served, though newbies were usually placed early in the set so they would have a gentle onramp (and so seasoned poets could skip the kiddie pool if they chose to). Dan writes about the explicit and implied "rules" of participation for musicians that create great music both onstage and for the crowd.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

As a result of recent fighting, millions of people are living in diaspora, migration is the trademark of this generation; what is it like to start a new life in a new place? Some people express themselves through the style of clothes they wear. stories story museum women international How do you express yourself?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2007

Louis City Museum's amateur video contest. And therein lies an essential problem with this and other similar museum forays into Web 2.0: It sounded like a great project from an innovative, creative place. For those who haven't visited, the City Museum is part obstacle course, part art city, part shoelace factory.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Trivia Night @ P&H Originally uploaded by Sean Davis Yes, these people are filling out worksheets. I got my copy of the fall issue of Museums and Social Issues this week. Yes, bars have always featured live music, comedy, and spoken word. The bar is a relaxed place, a place to have fun and chat and argue.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Dear Museum 2.0-ers, ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. The paper is the easy part.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. One of my favorite places for a long time now. Skill-sharing free schools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

I always use sticky notes or index cards to get people to ask questions before, during, and after a workshop. Here’s some of the advice that came through Facebook: It takes a while to motivate the musicians, because they are busy people and often on the road away from internet. This posts shares a few insights.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Surely this doesn’t apply to zoos, museums, and theaters does it? Obviously you have people with different interests coming to your organization so the key is to identify those core personalities, or personas, and make sure you’re shaping your content strategy to include those individuals. Absolutely! Know your Constituents.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

The site doesn't link them with foundations or grant applications; instead, it makes it easy to reach out to regular people for donations of as little as $1. But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

She writes for Elephant Journal, The Nervous Breakdown, Jack Move Magazine and has been published in a variety of other places both online and in print. Music, walking, running, happy hour with girlfriends, yoga, living by the ocean, and the way the internet bends time and space so I can meet people anywhere at anytime.

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