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APRIL 21, 2022

Like last year, the summit will be completely virtual and free of charge, so this is going to be the perfect time to grab a cup of coffee and settle in for an inspirational couple of days with a community chock-full of change-makers. . From Spreadsheets to Solutions: How Changing Tech Helped to Scale Impact. 2022 Nonprofit Summit .

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

The team at EdVenture Children’s Museum is spreading the value of play. EdVenture Children’s Museum increased donor retention from 29% to 46% after it was able to implement technology to support its staff in stewarding existing donor relationships. Personalize communications. Leverage technology. Think global.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who didn't rely on Zoom during times of restriction: We used it for everything from conferences to virtual happy hours to catch-ups with friends. For libraries, heritage organizations, museums — and any other organization whose work is at its heart extremely physical — Zoom became a lifeline.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The Tech Virtual is a project that allows people to conceptualize and prototype exhibits online. A contractor, Involve Inc.,

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. You can read other posts about this project by clicking Tech Virtual in the "Past Posts By Topic" sidebar on the right.)

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

This new hierarchy model is the basis for my exploration of virtual media as a delivery mode." She is using the virtual media capabilities in Second Life , among others, to navigate her continued research. The Rise of Virtual Libraries. Virtual libraries aren't a new phenomenon. Success in Second Life.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. I've been working for The Tech on this project since November of 2007, and it has been an intense and exciting three months. What's it like to work in a virtual exhibit workshop?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I started the Museum 2.0 can be applied in museums to make them more engaging, community-based, vital elements of society. that are authoritative content distributors--like traditional museums. I believe that visitors can become users, and museums central to social interactions. I'm Nina Simon. What do I mean by 2.0?

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

From large in-person events to a more casual virtual gathering, a fundraising silent auction can bring in much-needed revenue and provide supporters with a fun-filled night. Silent auctions can be hosted in-person or virtually, meaning participants can bid for prized items from the comfort of their homes.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

The exhibition I'm curating for The Tech Museum of Innovation is opening and we are hosting a summit on June 4 (in real life and in Second Life ) for museum professionals to discuss the process by which it was created. In March, we selected the best of the virtual exhibits for translation into the real world.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. On many levels, The Tech Virtual experiment was a success.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Tech basket Many people prioritize keeping up with the latest tech releases or having the best new gadgets. Museum passes Offer a local museum bundle for those looking to explore more of the cultural and historical opportunities your city has to offer.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

When my sister first started working with a nonprofit museum, she had a lot to learn about the fundraising process for the organization. The museum had notes saved in their donor management software about the seating preferences for their major donors and that particular donor preferred their regular seat toward the front. QuickBooks.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2007

But there are other businesses—significantly those in the tech sector—that not only allow but ENCOURAGE instant messaging. But what about the unique challenges and opportunities of museums? Here are some creative ways I could imagine museums using IM: Direct Line to the Info Desk. Are these businesses run by teenagers?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

specializes in designing museum experiences and exhibitions that are community informed, socially stimulating, technologically ambitious, and intriguingly experimental. I am available for consulting and strategic development, and creative design and leadership of exhibition, technology, and museum planning projects.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. Recently, I learned about an innovative, super-low tech tagging pro ject in a library that does this beautifully. Projects Core Museum 2.0 Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2015

The Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library (MBWML) was established in 1958 and named to honor the mother of America's first president. The museum and library preserves the rich history of the Northern Neck through its collections, exhibits, tours, and educational programs. Images: Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Simply plug in your nonprofits’s website URL and you can seen cached versions of your site going back to 1996. oneforty :: oneforty.com.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

This is what makes augmented reality different from virtual reality. In virtual reality, you wear goggles (for now) that completely immerse you in an entirely new reality. The tech giants are engaged in a venture-fueled war to see whose AR will stick. Can AR be an Engine for Social Good? Don’t miss out on bbcon 2017.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

I’ve received a few inquiries over the last year about museums and geocaching. to ask him all the dumb questions about geocaching and museums you can imagine… and a few more. Some people use a higher-tech logging system by tracking the items online to see who has found them and where they’ve gone. I sat down with Seth!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

It provides a complication of nonprofit tech and social change blog feeds. For example, just take a look at the explosion of mobile apps for museums. I'm happy to announce that our Zoetica iPhone application , is now live on the iTunes store. Content feeds on the application include: The Zoetica Link Feed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2022

Organizations that pivoted to virtual fundraising during the stricter lockdown months are now thinking about how to encourage their donors at in-person events by ?incorporating with the virtual. For example, a small art museum held an? The advantage of this model for the museum was threefold: . art auction ?this

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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. Offer a tour of your building or events or activities virtually for donors who can’t come in person and send to them as a link in a thank you email or text. Access to a virtual VIP lounge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

James Leventhal facilitated a workshop in Portland last month along with Adam Rozan of the Oakland Museum of California and Stephanie Weaver of Experienceology. I met “ichi&# virtually when he let me know about a Netsquared Japan meet up featuring the Networked Nonprofit. Flickr Photo by James Leventhal. A Few Events in November.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

means, ways museums are and can use Web 2.0 style design, The Tech Virtual open exhibit design project, and the challenges museums face as they try to grow into--or against--future technologies. interview Core Museum 2.0 Ideas Tech Virtual. In 43 minutes, we discuss what Web 2.0 Your comments welcome!

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2017

Additionally, these tech savvy supporters want to fundraise using the technology and communication channels they use on a daily basis. Virtual Events. Virtual Events allow you to extend your traditional fundraising event to a larger group of people. Participate virtually! Source: Millennial Impact Report ]. No problem!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums. framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. It must be working for them--they have over 2000 virtual "friends."

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I've added a fourth model to this citizen science typology, one may be more appropriate to facilities like museums than to scientific organizations: co-option. In this model, the public uses institutional facilities or resources to develop and manage projects of their own devising. Contribution, collaboration, co-creation, and co-option.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2007

Today I joined Second Life , a virtual 3-D world built by its residents. Like in January when Mia Farrow spoke in Second Life about Darfur at a virtual event sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience. At first I really didn't want to.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum invites community members to participate in the development and creation of an exhibit. Museum staff create an exhibit by a traditional internal design process, but the exhibit, once open, invites visitors to contribute their own stories and participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. TechSoup's Virtual Office space was pretty busy last night, hosting an earlier mixed reality event in Cambridge and SL , featuring Pathfinder Linden , head of educational activities for SL.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. In both MN150 and Tech Virtual, it led to us being more dynamic and flexible in our production of exhibits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. on July 18th and subsequently had a chance to interview her at her fabulous virtual office in Second Life. Mixed Reality Event ???

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Goldman relied on user-generated content for Imagining Ourselves at the International Museum of Women. Available through TechSoup, BetterWorld Telecom products support organizations' work and virtual team collaboration. Asking for What You Want.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors." This is the opposite situation of the previous design goal, one typical in science and children's museums.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Today, Museum 2.0 I started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 I started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 and watched the Museum 2.0

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