Forum One

MARCH 30, 2021

We are very excited to connect with the amazing people who work hard to amplify the online museum experience at this year’s virtual MuseWeb 2021 conference in April. The Cultural Institution as a Brand: A New Way of Thinking. How-to Session – Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm. Read the full description.

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

Museums, archives, and libraries share many goals and functions. Their mandate is to exhibit and preserve the collection of the best assets that represent the story and chronology of a culture or a society. The items that museums, archives, and libraries collect reflect the human spirit.

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NetWits

MAY 9, 2012

Pinterest for Arts and Cultural Organizations, really? So what does all this mean for Arts and Cultural Organizations ? Check out this infographic from Tamba and see if Pinterest attracts your target audience. (P)interested Museum of the Moving Image. Clyfford Still Museum. Hands On Childrens Museum.

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AUGUST 23, 2024

Fundraising is all about connecting with your audience with personal and relevant messages. For instance, a large nonprofit focused on preserving arts and culture might segment its audience by location and focus its stories on the most well-known museums or cultural landmarks in a donor’s state.

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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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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2021

Arts organizations serve as a vital heartbeat for local communities, infusing creativity, transforming spaces, and bringing together diverse audiences. The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts: Elevating a world-class cultural landmark. The Frist Art Museum: Inspiring cultural curiosity in Nashville.

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Forum One

MARCH 5, 2024

This Women’s History Month, we celebrate the work that the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum does each and every day to bring women’s stories alive and into focus. Forum One worked with the Museum to create the 10-minute digital experience, which will be available this Friday on the Museum’s website. January 30, 2024).

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Forum One

MAY 28, 2024

Forum One’s 11 awards included two platinum, five gold, and four silver awards across focus areas, including cultural institutions, health and wellness, environmental awareness, and government. This work has empowered NRDC’s content managers, further engaged audiences in the mission, and amplified the organization’s impact.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The Western Museum Association was kind enough to invite me to speak on a panel about engagement at their annual meeting in Boise. Phillip’s early remark about museums was an invocation for everyone. As an outsider, he immediately saw that museums were operating “under a business model that doesn’t work.”

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. The outcome was an immensely successful event that attracted audiences from all corners of the country.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 15, 2024

One critical success factor in planning an engaging auction is securing high-quality, unique items that appeal to your target audience. To help you get started, this guide will discuss four proven tips for procuring auction prizes your audience will want to bid on while sticking to your event budget.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 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. That’s almost 4 million people!

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sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2021

Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN. NMAAM is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced, and inspired by African Americans. Even though the museum is now open, the Museum Without Walls will continue.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Monday, May 18th is International Museum Day , the mission of which is to raise awareness of the fact that, “museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

Read on and take inspiration from these creative membership fundraising ideas and their potential to connect with your audience this year! Philadelphia’s Please Touch Museum lets you choose a single-day pass for a day of play or a gift membership that keeps the adventure going for an entire year.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The Davey Award winners have been announced, and we’re proud to say that Forum One and our amazing clients have officially won 10 awards in website and app design for nonprofits, health, government, cultural institutions, and more. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Audience engagement is the easiest and hardest thing about our work. And our museum change rate is glacial. The clash is basically the thing that keeps museum leaders up at night. How do we make the right changes to make the most of audience engagement given our museum culture? Let’s start with the easy.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

This year, Forum One took home one platinum, four gold, and six silver awards in the categories of cultural, non-profit, science, health, and school/university websites, as well as digital branded content, arts and culture virtual experiences, and family and kids apps and software.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Unfortunately, not all of our donors are themselves professional fundraisers — so creating a special, attention-grabbing Giving Day that gets your audiences excited and engaged can be a big boost during an otherwise quiet time of year. Pi Day, celebrating math and science, is the Museum’s signature day of giving.

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Forum One

AUGUST 6, 2024

Drawing over three million visitors per year, Trinity Church Wall Street has an online challenge that’s probably familiar to many mission-driven organizations: a wide range of audiences, each with their own interests and needs.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 6, 2020

First up is Colleen Dilenschneider, the Chief Market Engagement Officer for IMPACTS, a global leader in predictive market intelligence and related technologies, and the publisher of one of our team’s favorite websites, Know Your Own Bone , which shares data and analysis about how cultural audiences think and behave.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One worked closely with the AARP Livability Index team to meet the needs of its audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Have you ever been to a museum with no permanent exhibits ? On a recent trip to Chicago, I checked out the Museum of Contemporary Art. Plus, I know the next time I’m in Chicago, the museum will be a totally different experience, so I’m highly motivated to go back. Engage New Audiences with Tailored Special Events.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Why does your museum open its doors each day? Every arts and culture organization has a brand and that brand has a purpose. By pinpointing your organization’s purpose, you can unlock a powerful marketing tool that will enable audiences to connect deeper with your messaging. What other museums do they follow/enjoy visiting?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Not only did we make the list one time – we made it eight times with two gold wins for non-profit and cultural institution websites and six silver wins for apps and websites in non-profits, health, families and kids, the environment and sustainability, science, and education.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Forum One received 11 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website and app design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of non-profits, cultural institutions, science, health and wellness, and education. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Audience-centered for me is a subset of human-centered. Audiences are a portion of the humans in the museum ecosystem. The reason I think of a museum as human-centered is that to become audience-centered your organization has to center people. We did what we could to foster audiences who thought like us.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We have large audiences at our events that enable us to regenerate our list often. Email communication still has its place, but with the challenges that social distancing has brought to in-person events, organizations must include other ways to communicate and connect with their audience in order to spread their message.

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Forum One

MARCH 16, 2023

[Workshop] Creating Powerful Digital Campaigns That Engage and Inspire Monday, April 3, 2023: 8:30 – 11:30 am Successful digital campaigns create the buzz you need to get awareness about your cultural institution’s mission. Your museum may even be planning some audience research in the near future. Find out more here.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

The Washington Post covered the MAH's transformation as part of an article about museums engaging new audiences. The whole second half of the article was dedicated to our work: Smaller museums can be especially scrappy in finding ways to connect with the community. It’s something that any museum, of any size, can work toward.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In today’s digital age, creativity and impact are more vital than ever for organizations that aim to connect effectively with their audiences. This achievement highlights our commitment to providing top-tier digital solutions for nonprofits, cultural institutions, and other mission-driven organizations.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While many American museums require 37.5 The whole issue of wages gets at the heart of the faulty systems of capitalism, the culture of women’s work, and museums as privilege-concentrating institutions. In the last twenty years, or so, professionalization has changed museum work. This transformation has brought some good.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Written by Seema Rao Last month, I shared some of my thoughts about the best of museums over the last decades. (I I'll mention now, Kate Livingston, listed Museum Twitter as one of the best things, and I definitely thought this as I read people's responses. Many respondents talked about a fundamental shift in museums from them to us.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

After graduating with a BFA in drama & music from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ellen spent ten years bringing joy to audiences nightly as one of only ten lead performers in the longest running musical revue in the world—San Francisco’s “Beach Blanket Babylon.”

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Forum One

MARCH 30, 2023

Forum One’s recent design work with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) Simmons Talks series was a dream come true: an opportunity to put passion behind a design that I believe in and honor the work of others who inspire me. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 This post is even more relevant today to the broader conversation about audience diversity in the arts than when it was published three years ago. Let''s say you work at an organization that mostly caters to a middle and upper-class, white audience.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One helped the AARP Livability Index meet the needs of its audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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