sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

bbcon 2021 Virtual , happening October 13–15, will bring together thousands of arts & cultural professionals from zoos, museums, aquaria, performing arts organizations, gardens, and beyond for three days of cutting-edge thought leadership, virtual peer networking and unforgettable experiences.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

When you look at more niche nonprofits—like those focused on arts and culture —fundraising plays a critical role in enabling your organization to make a positive impact on their communities. The arts are important to modern culture and society, yet competition from other causes can encroach on the ability of your nonprofit to raise funds.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Once upon a time, there was a beloved children’s museum in the middle of a thriving city. The brilliant team at the museum set out to find a bigger space and ran a successful capital campaign to expand to a much larger location. Like the set of the movie Night at the Museum , these guests had the whole museum to themselves.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

SFMoMA Museum Store. Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop. Either way, give back this holiday season and shop for good. UNICEF Market. Syracuse Cultural Workers Store. Stand Up to Cancer Store. Smithsonian Store. Society B. Skatistan Store. Serrv Store. Pura Vida Bracelets. PETA Store. PBS Kids Store. ONEHOPE Wine. ACLU Store.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Customizability and Flexibility: The Art Behind Gesso Gesso is named after the primer artists used to prepare a canvas for painting. Just as gesso in the art world creates a foundation for creativity, Forum One’s Gesso is designed to be a flexible framework that can be built upon and customized. starter kit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community.

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sgEngage

JULY 22, 2024

The last few years have been exceptionally hard for arts and cultural nonprofits. Just as organizations started to see patrons coming back to museums, live performances, and art classes, this year saw state governments from Florida to California severely reduce financial support for arts and cultural organizations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The Los Angeles-based Certified B Corp describes itself as a B2B financial technology company that is on a mission to give employees — and their families — free access to financial support in the workplace as a benefit. The company plans to use its new capital in part to grow its sales, engineering, and customer success team. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Using the right virtual events software and also with a little hardware, you can recreate many of your favorite fundraising activities over a livestream to give an experience that’s as close to the real thing as possible while also providing plenty of new and unique benefits. A Gala is a well-known charity fundraising event.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2011

This is the casual attendance data from my first full month as the Executive Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz. This graph is making me change the way I think about what our museum is for and how we should market it. First Fridays are raucous and fabulous events. Events have an urgency to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2024

Lots of nonprofits have membership programs—art organizations, cultural institutions, advocacy groups, parks, clubs, and YMCAs , to name just a few. In short, a membership program offers members exclusive benefits and perks for a recurring fee. Are there benefits they want that you don’t currently offer? We’re all ears!

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

NFTs can really be anything digital (such as drawings, music, your brain downloaded and turned into an AI), but a lot of the current excitement is around using the tech to sell digital art. A lot of the conversation is about NFTs as an evolution of fine art collecting , only with digital art. GIF: NyanCat on OpenSea.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

This month, we're thinking about the way we do work in museums. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. Sharing articles that work is a great reason to stay on Museum Twitter by the way. . Exposure to all sectors of museum work is important.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2012

million volunteers making things happen in the arts and cultural space. In order to sustain this type of impact tech savvy art museums, zoos, historical sites, botanical gardens and many other types of arts and cultural nonprofits understand that technology is key to sustaining their growth. YouTube - [link].

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

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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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Is your museum running on interns? It is a strong, museum-focused complement to an excellent three-parter on Createquity about the ethics and future of unpaid arts internships. I got my first real job in a museum (at the Guggenheim) after a life-changing internship. It''s probably a path you had to navigate too.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

This year, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Information Systems Research released a study that showed just how much companies in the commercial sector benefit from having a tech-savvy board. I recently discussed what it means to be a “museopreneur” in a feature article published by American Alliance of Museums.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Imagine this situation: You go to an arts event, one of a type you rarely or never take part in. Maybe it's a live music concert, or a museum visit, or a play. There's been a lot of innovation in arts programming in the last few years. There's been a lot of innovation in arts programming in the last few years.

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Candid

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Heres what we are learning: Be culturally competent Weve learned that Latinx leaders benefit when theres a high level of cultural competency and comfort. I also heard that fundraising training is not for us, meaning it was designed for large nonprofits like universities, museums, and hospitals. Our most recent survey finds that 80.5%

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2014

By Jen Leavitt, Arts and Cultural Consultant. . About a year ago, the Dallas Museum of Art did something truly innovative. The museum’s memberships have tripled in the past year. Dallas Museum of Art has taken the concept of website and email marketing metrics and made them analogue.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Schools and other arts organizations are rising to the challenge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 25, 2011

Musical Instrument Museum. At the 2010 retreat, we benefited from the guidance of two fantastic facilitators in Raquel Gutiérrez and Cassandra O'Neill , who asked participants to bring with them an object that represented the reason they became involved with the nonprofit sector. Maureen Baker , Manager for Individual Giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

The Indianapolis Museum of Art has done an amazing job of integrating a social media strategy into its communications strategy. Whether it is managing their Facebook presence or encouraging conversation on their blog with art lovers, their social media strategy is a team effort. What makes them a success?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Davey Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts , a top-tier body of select professionals from the “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. Gold – Arts for Websites. Silver – Features, Art Direction for Digital Content. National Endowment for the Arts.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 28, 2025

The benefits vary a discount to your local art museum, a branded T-shirt, a gift card. But once the benefit is exchanged or used, whats left to keep a one-time donor coming back? They dont necessarily care about what their money supports they simply want the benefit.

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Forum One

MAY 10, 2023

With a deep background in the arts and a passion for work that impacts the world, Jasmine brings in-house and agency experience to her role. Jasmine holds a BA in Advertising, Art Direction from Temple University. I am thrilled to introduce Jasmine Patel, who has joined the Forum One leadership team as our Vice President of Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

The benefits of hosting a Tweetup include deeper relationships, lead generation, or more exposure. It can be a good way to meet your Twitter followers or identify who in your existing audience is using Twitter. How Tweet Ups Can Benefit Your Marketing Strategy. There is no right way to do them. How To Host Successful Tweetups.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 27th annual awards includes over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. Excellence – Website for Art. The Frist Art Museum. Without further ado: the winners!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation. Nina Simon is an independent museum exhibit designer and publisher of the Museum 2.0

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2013

.” In it the authors discussed how you should use social media at a nonprofit and it made me curious about how museums are using Twitter. It’s discouraging to see organizations missing out on the benefits because they aren’t using Twitter effectively. Gull Wings Children’s Museum does a good job of tweeting about their programs.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The digital storytelling approach powerfully illustrates all that NRDC has accomplished—from landmark legislation to practical changes that benefit the environment and local communities every day—to inspire audiences to support its work into the future and continue to grow its impact. The Frist Art Museum. Outstanding Website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

Some of the entries of what you can read on the Walker Blog, may appear at first glance to be mundane details of cube life , but then you remember that it is a museum blog and it makes the institution seem more human. This Walker Blog let's us peer into the inner workings of the art institution. I saw your posts on Art Mobs.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

Margaret shared these thoughts about "museums for use" on her blog , and I asked her to adapt a version for the Museum 2.0 Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use? During my time at RISD studying industrial design, I developed relationships with two museums on campus: the Museum of Art and the Nature Lab.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap.

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Bloomerang

JULY 29, 2024

Culture, arts, and environmental organizations live and breathe memberships. Your constituents are the people you serve, advocate for, or organize—and who directly benefit from your work. Create engaging and shareable content like videos, testimonials, and graphics highlighting the unique benefits of membership.

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