Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

A year ago, I wrote a post speculating about whether events (institutionally-produced programs) might be a primary driver for people to attend museums, with exhibitions being secondary. Many museums, big and small, thrive on events. At our museum, about 68% of casual visitors (non-school tours) attended through events this year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

One of the first schools was launched in Bangalore, catering to working parents in its technology industry who are seeking high quality pre-school. The profits from the daycare support the school. The teacher introduced me as a visitor from America and asked if there the children wanted to ask me any questions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Novakid’s ESL app for children raises $4.25M Series A led by PortfoLion and LearnStart investors. But if you look at the industry in the bigger picture, guys like Oxford, Cambridge, Pearson who provide content for the language learning industry, their product basically sucks. It’s really bad.”

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The w3 Awards are judged by an illustrious panel of industry leaders in websites, advertising, mobile sites and apps, video, social media, podcasts, and emerging technologies and showcase the best work in these fields for a given year. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

They are presented by the International Awards Associate , and judged by a group of industry innovators, creators, designers, and communication professionals. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Those of you who have watched Simone mesmerize a large audience should see her work with a small crowd of energetic and knowledge seeking children. ” Author information Jay Love Co-Founder & Chief Relationship Officer at Bloomerang A 30+ veteran of the nonprofit software industry, Jay Love co-founded Bloomerang in 2012.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

When we talk about museums or cultural institutions as vehicles of social and civic change, what does that really mean? Museum work is mostly non-contact. Meanwhile, arts industry leaders worry about " oversupply " of organizations in the face of dwindling demand. We all work for nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Candid

MARCH 27, 2024

Have you ever wondered what the funders, donor advisors, and other industry professionals who use Candid nonprofit profiles are searching for? It’s one way to get inside the minds of people who use Candid’s GuideStar to discover organizations aligned with their values.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

AUGUST 11, 2011

My new (and highly affectionate) sobriquet for Perkins is The Educational-Industrial Complex. The Perkins History Museum has an impressive collection on the history of education for people who are blind and deafblind. However, they are also planning to create an online museum and archive that will be fully accessible to all.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 21, 2022

The mainstage will feature new product demos, the highly anticipated Nonprofit Cloud keynote, along with tons of other segments featuring some of the latest innovations in the Salesforce nonprofit industry. How ChildFund Leverages a 360-Degree View to Make a World of Difference for Children.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. By calling ourselves a museum, we respond to those cultural institutions that have separated practice from production, exhibition from process, and work from play.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

Museums have shifted the focus of their fundraising to better address demand from donors who want to know the difference their gift makes, said Ford Bell, president of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). ” Those outings can include activities for families and children, and can pave the way for additional gifts.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2020

Treasury Industry Stabilization Loan Program. Children and Family Services Programs – $1.9 Institute of Museum and Library Services – $50 Million. The remaining 50% of the employer’s portion of the 2020 payroll tax is due December 31, 2022. These loans could come in the form of direct loans or guarantees of private loans.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 4, 2023

Specialization To differentiate themselves, providers often specialize in particular industries and corresponding features. For example, a CRM designed specifically for museums might emphasize their ticketing features, whereas a CRM for general nonprofits might have some registration tools but lack a built-in ticketing component.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Exhibit labels in science centers ask more questions than any other kinds of museums, and yet the questions are often awful--teacherly, overly rhetorical, and totally meaningless. asked by a cop or mother, garners the full attention of asker and askee alike, museum questions like "what is nanotechnology?,"

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Elizabeth Merritt is the director of the Center for the Future of Museums , a new project of the American Association of Museums (AAM). When I was given the opportunity to found the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM) I had been working for nearly 10 years with Museum Assessment and Accreditation at AAM.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Author: Ellice Engdahl When Seema asked me to write a post “ taking stock of the industry ,” I started to run through all the things that have been bouncing around my mind since the world changed. It’s been informative to see the range of museum responses to a world in which people cannot physically visit our campuses.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

A little known fact is that, before starting Convio, I was exploring three very different concepts: yield management for airlines; supply chain management for the automotive parts industry; and nonprofit fundraising after participating in a PBS pledge drive.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Credibility: With more visibility comes increased credibility, presenting the organization as a thought leader and credible voice in its industry. Trade Associations A trade association is an organization where members are professionals in a specific industry. What does your audience get out of joining forces with your organization?

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving. Most digital marketing agencies work for a variety of different customers and industries. The initial study was focused on how Millennials engaged with causes and charities and how they contributed.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

She has worked with organizations in a variety of industries including healthcare, education, retail, real estate, non-profit, hospitality, aviation and consumer products. Paul is also a children’s book author who collaborates with his twin brother and NY Times #1 Best-Selling Author/Illustrator, Peter H.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

But it was still fun to see how many of my Blackbaud colleagues serve on arts boards, perform at theatres and orchestras, or regularly take their children to their local zoo, museum or aquarium. More than almost any other industry, the arts and cultural industry has the ability to be extremely visually captivating.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2017

But this doesn’t tell the real story of the P2P evolution happening across the industry. One of my favorite examples of this is a guy who decided to dawn a Stormtrooper outfit and walk across the continent of Australia raising funds for the Montash Children Cancer Hospital. No one at the hospital asked him to do this.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Today, an interview with staff from a museum with an incredibly healthy attitude towards experimentation with social media. Three things stand out in this interview: Like the Brooklyn Museum , COSI’s social media strategy is focused on local community connections, not national outreach. I think, sadly, that we all know the answer.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Again, how many of you have attended an event or go to a museum? And then again, inviting people to attend events that are in your network, your professional, personal, religious, children’s networks, invite friends, invite prospects. Connect with me on LinkedIn. It’s Elizabeth Berni Able.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. First published in Curator magazine in 2002, this essay presents five different museum "types" and their distinct opportunities and challenges.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. Museums no longer showed human horns alongside historic documents; theaters made differentiations among types of live entertainment. I can't wait.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Dr. Howard is the founder and president of the board of directors of Zyrobotics, a Georgia Tech spin-off company that develops mobile therapy and educational products for children with special needs. Her inventions are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and she holds over a dozen patents.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

How-To & DIY (Video Series & Channels) : Showcase by Tastemade; Adam Savage’s Tested One Day Builds by Whalerock Industries. Art & Culture : BBC Culture; National Museum of Women in the Arts Instagram. Best Visual Design – Aesthetic : Sky: Children of the Light by thatgamecompany. National Geographic Social Media.

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