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The Winamp Skin Museum lets you relive the wonderful chaos of late-’90s computing

The Verge

Image: Winamp Skin Museum. If any of that is triggering a nostalgic response, then you’ll probably enjoy the Winamp Skin Museum. The skins were previously collected on the Internet Archive but assembled into this new accessible format by Facebook engineer Jordan Eldredge. Just a taste of the riches that await you.

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Arkive is building the world’s first decentralized museum

TechCrunch

What if museums were curated and funded by the internet, and allowed pieces to stay close to their cultural roots, displayed in a context that made sense? Native art in native museums, religious artifacts shown in temples, mosques and churches, and so on? This idea evolved into having an on-chain Museum,” says McLeod.

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30 Virtual and Hybrid Event Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You might try reaching out to businesses, artists, or other people in your neighborhood to see if they’d be willing to list things on your store (either as a donation or for a share of the profits) or produce branded items like mugs and hats based on popular products. 8) Digital download donation rewards. 10) Hybrid concerts.

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Boosting Your Association's Revenue with Attractive Microcopy

Association TV

Have you ever been to a restaurant, museum or shopping mall and needed to use the bathroom? Click here to begin the process of searching publicly accessible internet pages for instances of your choice keywords” is a long-winded way of saying “Google Search.” You begin by looking up and around for any sort of signage. Keep it concise.

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Pranksters in the Museum

Museum 2.0

Two recent events have got me thinking about pranks and unauthorized activities in museums. Improv Everywhere staged an event at the Metropolitan Museum in which an actor posing as King Philip IV of Spain signed autographs in front of his portrait, as painted by Diego Velazquez in the 1620s. I feel like it's more complicated than that.

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NFTs, explained

The Verge

But NFTs are designed to give you something that can’t be copied: ownership of the work (though the artist can still retain the copyright and reproduction rights, just like with physical artwork). That really depends on whether you’re an artist or a buyer. I’m an artist. Thank you, internet. What’s the point? I’m a buyer.

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Networked Learning Loops Through Benchmarking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My colleague, Devon Smith, a self-described data nerd who loves benchmarking pointed out this glorious example from the museum world from Sean Redmond , a Web developer at the Guggenheim. The original data set was collected in a google spreadsheet , using a manual and time consuming data collection process.