Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2023

Dilenschneider : I like Honor é Daumier because he not only offered criticisms of the art establishment in France, but provided on a regular basis serious look into the politics of what was taking place – almost as good as a newspaper. He eventually developed into a prolific portrait, landscape, and genre painter.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 21, 2016

My new book, The Art of Relevance , is now available and ready to move from my computer to your hands. We put a lot of work into developing ways to expand local relevance--to make meaningful connections with diverse people in our community. The Art of Relevance is not a how-to. Kid-tested, nonprofit-approved. It's official.

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Bloomerang

JULY 29, 2024

Culture, arts, and environmental organizations live and breathe memberships. Develop partnerships with local businesses that can offer discounts or special deals to your members and, in return, promote your membership program to their customers. Let us know in the comments. Nonprofit membership models are all around us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Arts and Social Media View more presentations from kanter. This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. It was one of the first examples I've seen of customer service for an arts organization. customer service , .

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2023

Moving away from a previous Grav website that Forum One developed for USDA to a new 2021 site created directly in Drupal 9, the Drupal 9 platform allows them to feature previously static PDFs in interactive and expandable detail pages so that users can easily print data and results they are most interested in (e.g.,

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

Nonprofit arts organization Zero1 needed a way to help people make sense of its biennial, Seeking Silicon Valley, scheduled for September 2012. As recently noted by Frank Barry of Blackbaud, technology plays a key role as the art and culture sector engages its audience. To tackle the challenge, Zero1 decided to create an app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

Chris Brogan reminded us that he declared today as World Comment Day. I'm thinking, for example, of the roundup of Arts 2.0 There more and more posts (and comments) on blogs about the new form of fast conversation taking place on Twitter. And a post from Commetrics about Developing Metrics for Conversation for Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What should we be building to help artists make and sell art, engage their audiences, and connect to other artists? What lies just beyond the current state of the art, for the arts? If your panel isn’t on the list, add a link and title in the comments. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork?

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2024

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to build a nonprofit mailing list: Dear Charity Clairity, We’ve relied in the past on government and foundation grants, but since many of these sources are drying up we need to develop an individual fundraising program. Let us know in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Arts and Social Media View more presentations from kanter. This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. It was one of the first examples I've seen of customer service for an arts organization. customer service , .

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more? Here are three of my favorites.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2016

Knowing that those three days are so jam-packed with content, I often get asked what bbcon offers for arts administrators, and the answer is…a lot! So I went ahead and picked out some of the top sessions for Arts & Cultural organization to make planning your conference journey just a little bit easier.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. Classic modern and cutting edge design products for adults and kids, including items produced exclusively for the Museum of Modern Art (New York).

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

Smithsonian Associates (SA) , which annually presents 700+ classes and other educational and entertaining programs, made a hard fast pivot in June 2020, when it began to present all of its lectures and art courses as livestreamed programs on Zoom. I also learned to keep my own comments short.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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. SILVER – Virtual & Remote Experiences-Arts & Culture for Virtual & Remote. We helped the Harry S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Arts and Social Media View more presentations from kanter. This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. It was one of the first examples I've seen of customer service for an arts organization. customer service , .

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 18, 2021

The art of persuasion is a science that everyone has the ability to improve upon, according to psychologist Dr. Robert Cialdini. Read on for what to keep in mind when developing your reputation through the influence of testimony. Please let us know in the comments! The long and the short of it is, testimonials work!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 26, 2021

That question generated 603 comments and 690 book recommendations. Covey Developing the Leader Within You – John C. Years ago when I started my leadership and management blog, I posted the question “ What’s The First Leadership Book You Would Give To a New Manager ?” within a leadership discussion forum on LinkedIn.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Dilenschneider : I like Honor é Daumier because he not only offered criticisms of the art establishment in France, but provided on a regular basis serious look into the politics of what was taking place – almost as good as a newspaper. He eventually developed into a prolific portrait, landscape, and genre painter.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The W³ Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) , an assembly of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. NMAAHC: A Seat at the Table Event.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 1, 2011

This Friday, March 4, I'll be moderating a panel discussion about experiencing art in virtual environments at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (4pm, 1 hour, free). Our guests are two of the people behind the Google Art Project - Anna de Paula Hanika and Kai Kewei. What would you like me to ask?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The W³ Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) , an assembly of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. NMAAHC: A Seat at the Table Event.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 2, 2019

It’s so easy to get caught in the day-to-day of our jobs and think of “professional development” as something that only happens at work or that requires a lot of extra time or money (or both). Have you discovered other great free or low-cost professional development opportunities that others should look into?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

Earlier in 2013, I was amazed to visit one of the new “Studio” spaces at the Denver Art Museum. The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 4, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! We welcome your comments and feedback. Ashcraft, Ph.D.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

I hope you'll share your thoughts in the comments. Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009. The museums developed careful rules about what could and couldn't be shot, and how participants could upload their images to Flickr for use by the project.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

As a software product manager, the best part of my job is meeting with customers to understand how they manage their nonprofit, which helps inform our direction for new development. The solution is one that challenges software developers as well. I’d love to hear in the comments below. Our answer?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 15, 2021

Fundraising is both an art and a science. These scenarios could include: an Executive Director or CEO inviting the board to meet and give feedback on the final slate of Development Director or Major Gift Officer candidates. . Drop them in the comments below! . More than half said they would leave their job within two years. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

Ask your development staff or executive director about additional fundraising tasks, especially those that always get pushed to the bottom of staff members’ to-do lists. Then, this board member can occasionally pitch newsrooms about your events or other developments.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. The guiding principle is uncovering relationships between the works of art themselves rather than explicating information or theoretical concepts.

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sgEngage

APRIL 28, 2022

When they do succeed, they will return to volunteer again. – Mark Guncheon, development IT analyst at Bon Secours Health System . . – JoAnn Strommen, database administrator at South Dakota Mines Center for Alumni Relations & Development . . Appreciate, Appreciate, Appreciate! .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 10, 2014

That question generated 603 comments. Covey Developing the Leader Within You – John C. Blanchard On Becoming a Leader – Warren Bennis The Anatomy of Peace – Arbinger Institute The Art of Possibility – Benjamin Zander and Rosamund Stone Zander Within the Top 35 list of the book recommendations, you’ll find four more John C.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2015

This is the first in a two-part series about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s new theory of change. This week, Ian David Moss and I are each writing blog posts about our collaborative process to develop a theory of change at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We didn’t know how to develop a theory of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2005

the blog of Barry Hessenius, executive director of Alonzo King Lines Ballet in San Francisco, and former executive director of the California Arts Council takes an interesting twist on a group blog. The blog is being hosted by Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) at www.westaf.org/blog and join in the dialogue!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2011

I'm reaching the end of my consulting days, with just one more day on the road before I dedicate myself to Santa Cruz and The Museum of Art & History. On Monday, April 25, I'll be participating in an online video chat with Andrew Taylor and James Undercofler to explore new business models for arts organizations.

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