Computer History Museum Releases Original AlexNet Code
TechRepublic
MARCH 27, 2025
Google and the Computer History Museum release AlexNets original 2012 source code on GitHub, offering a rare look at a pivotal moment in AI history.
3 Unforgettable Reasons Arts and Cultural Organizations Need Pinterest
NetWits
MAY 9, 2012
In March 2012, Pinterest had over 4 million daily unique page visits. As Arts and Cultural Organizations (museums, zoos, galleries, festivals and foundations), you have so many powerful images to choose from. Museum of the Moving Image. Clyfford Still Museum. Hands On Childrens Museum. Laguna Art Museum.
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Living Computers Museum closes permanently
TechSpot
JUNE 27, 2024
The Living Computers Museum, which first opened its doors in 2012, is shutting down permanently. The museum initially closed in 2020 when the Covid-19. If you were hoping to get another chance to geek out over Paul Allen's incredible collection of vintage computers and tech artifacts, there's some sad news. Read Entire Article
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Three Ways Mobile Wallets Could Transform Fundraising
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
We do already have the Google Wallet in beta, and the Isis Wallet, the Visa Wallet, and the PayPal Wallet are in the works, and many more mobile wallet services are likely to launch in 2012 – perhaps even the much-speculated Apple iWallet. The ideas below are merely speculative, but completely possible. Point of Sale Transactions.
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5 Interesting Facts from the Giving USA 2012 Report
sgEngage
JUNE 21, 2012
The Giving USA 2012 report is out and it gives us a look at philanthropic trends from 2011. Fundraising growth in the arts subsector was helped by an $800 million cash gift to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas from the Walton Family Foundation. To get the full report go to the Giving USA 2012 website.
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Microsoft Solitaire turns 30 years old today and still has 35 million monthly players
The Verge
MAY 22, 2020
Credit: World Video Game Hall of Fame / The Strong Museum. That means it has shipped on more than a billion PCs, and it only stopped being a dedicated part of Windows with the release of Windows 8 in 2012. Microsoft Solitaire only got its first major update back in 2012, coinciding with its removal from Windows 8 into a standalone app.
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Make the Most of the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference!
NTEN
MARCH 8, 2012
There’s less than a month left before the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco, are you ready? Are you interested in digital scrapbooking with seniors, planting flowers, or training kids as museum tour guides? Here are a few ways you can prepare to make the most of your NTC experience. Create your agenda in myNTC.
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Image Beats Text: Good for Museums, Tough for Me
Museum 2.0
JULY 3, 2013
Visual content motivates more responses than text, engages younger participants, and is often cited as a major trend of 2012 and 2013. At our museum, Pinterest is a primary tool for brainstorming and sharing ideas. But what''s awkward for me is actually probably very good for museums. Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects'
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Nonprofit Technology Conference Withdrawal
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 6, 2012
The 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) was the 12th conference that I have attended (it had earlier reiterations). Every year it is like attending a family reunion. I have some many friends and colleagues that I only get to see once a year at the NTC. Several individuals in the nonprofit technology community were recognized.
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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum
Museum 2.0
JULY 11, 2012
I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).
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From 2005 to 2015: The Radical Effect of Social Media on Nonprofit Web Design
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 2, 2015
And yet despite limited budgets, the early adopter nonprofits began using responsive web design in 2012 in order to adapt quickly to the new realities of Internet browsing. Hermitage Museum 2015. Hermitage Museum 2005. They began actively using Myspace in 2004 and YouTube in 2005 – years before the Fortune 500 companies.
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The Nonprofits That Rule Social Media & The Web
ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 16, 2012
Invisible Children (Shot from 26th to 1st in under 2 weeks after release of the Kony 2012 video). Museum of Modern Art. Museum of Modern Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. For a legend explaining how the rankings are computed, scroll down past the lists. Top 10 Organizations in Terms of Facebook Likes. Livestrong.
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85 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 27, 2012
It combines everything a good social media manager knows to maximize on the Social Web in 2012 i.e., graphics, images, statistics, and inspirational quotes. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Infogr.am :: infogr.am.
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70 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 27, 2012
It combines everything a good social media manager knows to maximize on the Social Web in 2012 i.e., graphics, images, statistics, and inspirational quotes. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Infogr.am :: infogr.am.
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A Tribute To Simone Joyaux
Bloomerang
MAY 11, 2021
Then in 2012, Ross Hendrickson and myself decided to start Bloomerang based upon the premise of bringing proven best practices in professional fundraising to life. I still tried to attend every single one of her sessions because her mission of equality struck a chord with me.
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100 Low-Cost or Free Web-Based Tools for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 8, 2013
It combines everything a good social media manager knows to maximize on the Social Web in 2012 i.e., graphics, images, statistics, and inspirational quotes. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Infogr.am :: infogr.am.
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Weekend Reading: 2012 Trends and Young Adult Programs
Museum 2.0
MARCH 16, 2012
Two great museumy reports to brighten your weekend: TrendsWatch 2012. The folks at the AAM Center for the Future of Museums have been experimenting with sharing ideas in several ways over the past couple of years--through their blog , their weekly newsletter , and a series of research reports.
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33 111 Low-Cost or Free OnlineTools for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JULY 28, 2013
Named one of TIME’s 50 Best Websites of 2012 , Outlook.com is Microsoft’s new Web-based email service. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Outlook.com :: outlook.com. npCloud :: npcloud.org. Infogr.am :: infogr.am.
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280 60 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JUNE 3, 2012
Named one of the six start-ups to watch in 2012 by Mashable, it’s unclear at this point whether mobile wallets, QR codes, texting, or a tool yet to be released will dominate mobile fundraising in the near future, but all nonprofit fundraisers should be watching the rapdily-evolving mobile payment technology very closely.
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277 The Content Curation Issue: NTEN:Change Six is Live
NTEN
JUNE 7, 2012
When our editorial committee decided on “Content Curation” as the overall theme of this issue when planning back in 2011, we knew that it would be an important topic for the nonprofit sector, but we didn’t anticipate that, in some ways, 2012 would turn out to be the year of content curation , as Beth Kanter predicted in January.
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Elon Musk reaches first Tesla compensation award worth nearly $800 million
The Verge
MAY 28, 2020
Musk does not collect a salary at Tesla, and the company originally categorized the compensation plan — which replaced one from 2012 — as an “at-risk performance award” that “ensures [Musk] will be compensated only if Tesla and all of its shareholders do extraordinarily well.” The full plan could net Musk tens of billions of dollars.
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Attention #NPdataNerds: Report back from the first-ever Do Good Data Conference
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
Many of you, especially those in greater Chicago, may be familiar with the Data Analysts for Social Good group that Andrew Means founded in May 2012. Report back from the first-ever Do Good Data Conference by Julia Smith.
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Learning in Public Challenges and Actions
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 14, 2012
I am excited to bring the Indianapolis Museum of Arts model to the table to see what our board’s reaction would be to sharing ours as it is developed. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.
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93 How We Doubled Attendance in a Year: One More Post about How Events Changed Our Attendance
Museum 2.0
JULY 17, 2012
But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (our fiscal year ends on June 30), and several people have written to me asking for the numbers behind our turnaround. The busiest day in both 2011 and 2012 is our longtime community program, Free First Friday.
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IC tomorrow gave nearly $1.5m to UK startups last year, but you’ve probably never heard of it
The Next Web
JUNE 6, 2013
The organisation works with a range of companies from different industries such as EMI, the BBC, Channel 4, MTV UK, Samsung, YouTube, Lionsgate Films, the BFI, HarperCollins, Random House, Tate, The Design Museum and a host more. One of the requirements of our funding is that a company owns 100 percent of its IP.
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120 Museum 2.0 Flashback: Threshold Fear
Museum 2.0
MAY 6, 2015
This week, I was on the radio talking museum inclusion (with Michelle Obama!) A review of Elaine Heumann Gurian's essay on threshold fear and architecture program and planning from her book, Civilizing the Museum. Come on in and Make Yourself Uncomfortable (2012). Threshold fear has interested me for a long time.
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Social Media Benchmarking: Gauging Success for Project and Organizations in Global Health and Development
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 4, 2013
You can also look for colleague organizations that done a great job in a particular area and learn from them. Stowe Boyd wrote about this “ bench learning ” and there are a few examples from Aquariums and Museums. But bench learning can be richer than simply collecting numbers. By: Rebecca Shore.
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Challenges, Rules, and Epic Wins: Using Game Design to Build Visitor Loyalty
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
Last week, as part of my museum's year-long Loyalty Lab project , we hosted a workshop for Bay Area museum professionals with special guests Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne of the game design firm Situate. At the end of October, we started handing visitors business cards with all the Fridays through the end of 2012 listed on it.
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44 The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation: Build Staff Expertise and Reduce Information Overload
NTEN
JUNE 27, 2012
[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an article in the June 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. If you think about what a museum curator does, it is very similar. Read the rest of the article, and the complete issue on Content Curation, when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] What is content curation exactly?
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Back to Blogging with a Roundup of Terrific Articles
Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 9, 2013
And thanks to you for engaging with their posts and with the reruns from the Museum 2.0 She knits together nostalgia and activism with a level of nuance rarely found in debates about the value of museums, libraries, and other cultural spaces. NAKED, BLEEDING THIEF BREAKS INTO MUSEUM, SPENDS THE NIGHT REARRANGING ITS STORAGE FACILITY.
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Rethinking Community Advisory Boards: the Story of C3
Museum 2.0
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
I''ve mostly seen museums employ one of two methods for formal community advisors: Create special "spots" on the board of trustees for certain kinds of community representatives. CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. I struggle with both these options.
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Fifteen Random Things I've Learned about Design for Participation This Year
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 28, 2011
We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I'm not sure whether this is the ordinary churn of the museum or if we need a more thoughtful "deaccessioning" plan for collaborative work. Here's to a 2012 filled with more experiments, dialogue, and surprises.
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End of Year Smatterings and Inspirations
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 26, 2012
Way better than that video at Museum X where the director drones on about the new initiatives of the year. This article sparked some interesting discussion online with colleagues from natural history museums, which deal with damage and touching very differently than art institutions do. How should (and do) we treat them?
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33 Community Broadband: Coming to a City Near You?
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
[1] White, Charlie (2012, Feb 5). Libraries,” [link] Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2010. ”Digital Divide: If You’re Reading This, You’re One of the Lucky Ones [INFOGRAPHIC],” Retrieved September 3, 2013 from ” [link]. [2]
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Peer to Peer – It’s Not Just For Races Anymore
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 15, 2013
The Museum of Science and Industry encouraged their 2012 Columbian Ball attendees to become “deputy development directors” on their behalf. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising arts and cultural event fundraising fundraising strategy multichannel fundraising Online Fundraising Peer to Peer Fundraising Tech Savvy Museums'
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44 What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts
Museum 2.0
APRIL 2, 2014
In December of 2012, the rock musician Beck released his latest album, Song Reader. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. That''s expected.
Why I Blog
Museum 2.0
JULY 31, 2013
I spent the weekend queuing up posts for my forthcoming blog-cation--nine weeks of guest posts and reruns from the Museum 2.0 I went to several big museum conferences in 2004-2006 where I identified and started admiring heroes in the field. As the readership for Museum 2.0 To me, Museum 2.0
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Nonprofits and Instagram: The Ultimate Curated Collection of Best Practices, Examples, and Tips
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
Users can share them on Instagram while also choosing to share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). Ten Inspiring Nonprofits (2012) on Instagram by Mashable. As of September, 2015 , Instagram had 400 Million users.
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Taking Local Currency Digital: A New Experiment Emerges
Non Profit Quarterly
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
As a platform for such local activity, more participatory forms of engagement are already envisaged—an area “culture pass” for museums and arts institutions is one exciting example—to further stimulate local activity. Rather than banking being decentralized after the malfeasance, the opposite ensued.
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116 7 Nonprofits that Inspired Us in 2013 and How Your Favorite Nonprofit Can Make the List this Year.
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 4, 2014
Best Interactive Campaign – Heifer International – Heifer International needed to develop a fundraising campaign that would stand out among others and engage donors during the busy 2012 holiday season. They created a series of customized communications with constituents and potential donors, and increased holiday donations of 28 percent.
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Building a Digitally Literate Community
Tech Soup
JULY 16, 2013
century skills have been adopted throughout the Common Core State Standards Initiative by 45 states as of November 2012. According to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a staggering 100 million Americans don't have a broadband connection in their households. According to the ALA report, 21 st.
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Musicians are hooking up synthesizers to plants for new sonic possibilities
The Verge
MARCH 8, 2022
In 2012, Data Garden was invited to create an installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Joe Patitucci, the CEO of Data Garden, the company that produces PlantWave, is a musician and artist himself. He says that PlantWave is the product of more than a decade working in the space.
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The 2013 Charitable Giving Report
Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
This was an increase over the 2012 growth rate and points to positive signs that giving in the United States is returning to pre-recession levels. compared to 2012. ” – Ford Bell, President of the American Alliance of Museums. Overall Giving Trends . Overall giving in 2013 grew 4.9% Online Giving Trends.
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39 Seven Nonprofits That Deserve a Standing Ovation
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 7, 2013
Here are the other winners of Nonprofit Impact Awards: Best Interactive Campaign – Heifer International – Heifer International needed to develop a fundraising campaign that would stand out among others and engage donors during the busy 2012 holiday season. Read the case study.
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