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Tech Tools Working Together: How Text-To-Donate Paves the Way for Text Message Communication

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Spamming is illegal, and often goes straight to a junk mail folder. In contrast, text message spam is almost always viewed, making it more annoying to donors. Give by Cell offers a suite of mobile fundraising tools to organizations, higher education, and museums and cultural institutions.

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4 Ways AI is the Next Big Game-Changer in Museum Membership & Attendance

Connection Cafe

From filtering email spam to offering up personalized Netflix recommendations, AI already underlies many routine aspects of our lives in ways we don’t even realize. Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments.

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An Open Letter to Museums on Twitter

Museum 2.0

Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. So here is a list of suggestions that hopefully will improve the way your museum thinks about using Twitter. Don't use Twitter to spam me about visiting. Or it's rainy so you suggest I visit the museum? Respond to people.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. Spam, obscenity--they just aren't an issue at all.

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10 Ways to Build a Better Community Brainstorming Meeting

Museum 2.0

For example, when we held community meetings about the development of a new creative town square next to our museum, a group of middle/upper-class moms talked about not feeling safe downtown. We use the Pop Up Museum --inviting small groups to build artifacts from the future--in many of our community meetings.

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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rik wrote a great post this called Global Poverty Death Counter: good cause, @!#(*@() implementation (Rik used another word in the headline, but I don't any trackback spam). I stopped by his location on enroute to the Museums and Second Life meeting dropped some lindens in his donation box. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

Museum 2.0

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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