Mashable Tech

JUNE 9, 2022

Digital tools allow artists to simulate a variety of mediums using the same tools: a stylus, a touch-sensitive pad, and some creative software like Adobe Fresco. The quality of the artist, not the technology, dictates the final product." No matter which software you choose, you probably need some kind of a tablet and a digital pen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

And I think it’s good that we’re building such a fun, vibrant community…but not good enough. They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. How can we develop audiences, cultivate care and empathy, and find alternate funding that doesn’t require public popularity so that important stories get told?

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Karaoke Karaoke is more than a fun bar night activity—it can be a nonprofit event with multiple revenue streams. Comedy Nights Comedy nights are a good way to bring some lighthearted fun to your organization. Yard Sales A yard sale is a fun way to get to know your supporters while also raising funds for a cause.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Here are 31 fun, unique fundraising ideas that will support your programs without exhausting your members. Youth Group Fundraising Ideas Small Church Fundraising Ideas Easy Church Fundraising Event Ideas Fundraising Ideas for the Church Choir Fundraising Ideas for Your Church Building Fund Fun Church Fundraising Ideas. A cook-off.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. We love the New York Public Library’s Anti-Proms , which provide an alternative, safe space regardless of sexuality, gender identity, and any other reason for NYC teens. Host a Prom for a Purpose. LGBT Pride Month (June, US).

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Duolingo is a fun and easy way to pick up a new language with just a few minutes of practice a day. Artists can use the free program to make 3D models in addition to 2D creations, with all kinds of textures, filters, and lighting options. Check out Google Drive for a cloud-based alternative to Dropbox. Image: Duolingo.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Taking inspiration from Jim Henson and Shigeru Miyamoto With the rise of NFT artwork over the past year, many artists have floated my way through the Twitter content rivers. When do you have the most fun making your work? That’s probably the most fun part. I’ve already seen artists make their own pieces of him.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

iOS/Android: Seafood Watch offers recommendations of ocean-friendly seafood choices including health warnings, consumer notes, and sustainable alternatives for individual species. You can read seafood guides including one for sushi lovers, browse a full list, or view seafoods categories for Best Choice, Good Alternative, and Avoid.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Get local businesses involved for prize sponsorships, and make it a public, fun event that everyone can come and watch. Alternatively, you can also pre-record your live-stream. Reach out to a talented volunteer or local artist to lead the class, and purchases the necessary supplies. You can make this virtual too!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Race Through Time was designed specifically for this audience of 30 and 40-somethings looking for fun social events with a Santa Cruz bent. But we also saw something else: parents and teenagers, grandparents and grandkids, elderly couples, out for a fun scavenger hunt evening. I love hanging out with those people in those hip venues.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Gateway to the Arts is a Pittsburgh-based organization that exposes young people to the arts through performances, classroom visits by professional artists, and integration of arts into school curriculum, all with a staff of six. Gateway spent some time researching various CMSes and decided that Joomla was the best alternative for them.

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2020

How MSCHF managed to dominate the internet — with fun! It’s here where MSCHF founder Gabriel Whaley and his motley crew of artists, designers, and product developers have decided to make their mark on the internet, by which I mean the world. Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / Alex Castro / The Verge. But lately, the format has shifted.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. People are having fun with this experience, and who can blame them? We use these stories to try to understand objects and the people who own and use them, and to poke a little fun while we're at it.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

If you’re looking for a creative, fun fundraising idea to engage supporters and boost your funding, you’ve come to the right place! While virtual fundraising events were simply a quick alternative, they actually proved to be a convenient and effective way to engage with donors. Fashion show – Everyone loves a good fashion show!

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

These alternative routes are positioned in plain sight, but theyre integrated into the landscape off the beaten path, so theyre easy to miss if youre not paying attention. At times Hazel uses magic to turn ghostly objects into tangible platforms, and her double-jump and glide combo is particularly fun.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Charity Races like marathons, 5Ks, fun runs, or walkathons invite participants to register with your nonprofit and collect donations from their community, making every step count for your cause. Themed Costume Party A Themed Costume Party is an opportunity for supporters to dress up according to a chosen theme and enjoy a fun night out.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

He said he’d had a lot of fun putting faces to names he knew well and was enjoying meeting many of his online friends for the first time. This is without a doubt the most fun thing I’ll do this month,” Polis said. Polis racked up points with the crowd by making fun of cash. The parties are the same.” He paused, then smiled. “I

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. I spoke with Nikki this week to learn more about the Ministry and their fun and games. How did this project come about? How did the museum staff respond to this experience?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

It was designed by veteran artist Colie Wertz , who worked on the upcoming Dune , The Mandalorian , and the recent Star Wars movies. The one notable absence is Thunderbolt, but I’ll forgive that given the myriad alternatives here. That’s why I waited to review the DragonShield edition, which literally looks like part of a spaceship.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

The author of Social Software in Libraries hosted an Alternative Book Cover contest. You can email me your question (please keep it to 50 words) about the do-good, or artistic work you are doing, or want to do, to britt@brittbravo.com. Send bloggers copies of your book to give away as prizes for their own contests. *

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

For the first time, I didn't feel like a crazy person for wanting to have an alternative vision for my career. Creating a Life Worth Living: A Practical Course in Career Design for Artists, Innovators, and Others Aspiring to a Creative Life by Carol Lloyd. It's fun, it really is. A the end of the day, it's a fun job."

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The challenge was simple, understandable, and for the right person, pretty fun. If we can offer understandable alternative goals that they haven't considered, we might be able to powerfully reframe the experience. branding, blacking out the windows, and generally making it feel like an underground venue.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Not only do I get to experience the fun of opening the door to something mystical, I get to play porter and grant my friends access as well. In 2007, I interviewed digital artist Jason Nelson about his work creating strange games and he talked at length about the beauty of working with hidden things and creating intentional "weirdness."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2009

Give them something rewarding, some meaty bit of fun and engagement and concentrate on designing what that experience could and should be. The goal of the experience was to interview selected artists and give visitors some insight to their efforts and process. If you want a more detailed tour of the Select-a-Chat, check out this video.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

I think the bathroom wall made this possible by being an alternative for those who wanted to be a little less focused and just have fun with sharpies. In the end, the Advice exhibit offered four main experiences--two that were facilitated, and two that were unfacilitated. They were totally focused on the questions and answers at hand.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world. I am the CEO and co-founder of World of Good , and also World of Good Development Organization , which is our non-profit sister organization.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

Our proto-users are artists, architects, university professors, mathematicians, engineers who have already been experimenting with creating interactive environments and objects within the virtual world. I can talk to an artist about her digital storytelling piece while watching two engineers experiment with a sensor-rich dance floor.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so, for sure. “Well, thanks to this $20,000, there are 12 local artists who have a place to hang their artwork.” I personally love using bookmark-type magnet postcard-type, I guess, handouts or alternative needs lists. So you raised $20,000.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Today let’s talk about another of them: a startup called Royal that hopes to upend the traditional relationship between music labels and artists, with potentially significant implications for the kind of culture that gets created. Occasionally, an alternative artist would strike out on their own and start an independent label.

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The Verge

APRIL 1, 2021

The pitch is that it can feel “as real as if you are there at a live concert or with the artist recording in a studio.” It remains unclear how involved and invested most artists really are when it comes to these 360 mixes, so I’m skeptical of any claims that this is how songs were meant to be heard. No, not really.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

So while it's starting out again now with people who are online, I think we are starting to see the trend migrate outwards into other communities -- whether it's artists, writers--I've heard about some lawyers actually, and I guess other folks who can do a lot of their work online. BB: Can you talk about how your space works?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Her nerdy, entertaining videos about math evoke the power of free choice learning while poking gentle fun at the drudgery of how math is often taught in school. We often talk about museums as leaders in providing substantive, essential alternatives to formal schooling. We are reminded of how much fun learning can be.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 19, 2006

The 3rd Annual Artivist Film Festival & Awards ' mission is to strengthen the voice of international activist artists and raise public awareness of global issues. Barbra Streisand. This year's festival is November 9-12, 2006 at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, California.

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

The 2010s are when I started getting into alternative investments as well. If you talk to my business manager, you’re supposed to work at a triangular business model, where your private equity and all the alternative investments are at the top end of the triangle, and all your safe investments are at the bottom. The pyramid, yes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Louis is a traditional artist and I was in the journalism field. I think that we really succeeded also in making it kinds of consumable, fun and funny without trivializing the issue. And one day that would be so mainstream that people wouldn't even be thinking of it as an alternative kind of thing.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

So in other words, this was an alternative route to become a modern woman." By the 1890s, the author says, Carr was not only an artist's model but was suspected of crimes ranging from pickpocketing to fencing stolen goods to child kidnapping (really). They spent their money on high fashion and fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Rob worked with us as we developed each chapter to pick out the key idea and poke of at it – we wanted to write a book about measurement that was accessible and fun to read. By the way, at least one of these artists actually can draw very, very well. Just be sure you aren’t running afoul of anyone’s usage rights. (By

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