Forum One

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Here at Forum One, we have been busy helping organizations prepare for GA4 , and even though our partners have now had time to test it out, GA4 still poses a steep learning curve, and frankly, prompts a lot of complaints. As a free, relatively easy tool, it was used almost universally by nonprofits and all the organizations with whom we work.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While many American museums require 37.5 But, on the other side, as Phillip Thompson said in our panel last week, our business model sets up problems, as we are always trapped by the amount of money we can raise. In the last twenty years, or so, professionalization has changed museum work. In an old life, I took plenty of stats.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Designed to assist and support an organization (and most commonly hospitals, museums, libraries, and arts organizations), these groups historically focus on raising funds, sometimes manage the volunteer corps, and nearly always maintain their own governance system. A Path to Change. Those recommendations are then presented to leadership.

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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. How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project? Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

Last week, I sat down on a toilet in our museum and found myself looking at an interactive station intended to test a “Legends of the Stall” sign concept for the restrooms. Some of my happiest moments as a director come when I encounter awesome things in our museum that I had absolutely nothing to do with. Sorry for the delay.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. A year ago, I put my consultant hat on the shelf and decided to jump into museum management (a sentence I NEVER would have imagined writing five years ago). The possible determinism of cultural geography.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

For the last, some help with the path forward, I was recently asked to speak on a webinar. That’s the kind of ordinary bravery that will help us survive. The last ten years saw our work move toward the service sector as rentals become a very real part of our business model. And we will be able to help guide that.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments. Nonprofits and museums depend on dedicated, but oftentimes limited, development staff to sift through countless prospects to determine which ones are priority.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2013

Over the past three years, the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) has served as the museum poster child for the debate on the public value of the arts. Last year, the DIA was saved from financial crisis by voters in its three neighboring counties who elected to take on an additional property tax to support the museum.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2016

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. Kathryn will help you ensure that your funding proposals have a greater chance of rising to the top!

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 14, 2024

In this guide, we’ll discuss whether your nonprofit should consider investing in a POS system and how these systems can help your organization. Arts and cultural organizations. Nonprofits such as museums, aquariums, theaters, and more may sell merchandise through gift shops, making POS systems extremely beneficial for them.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

An exhibiting artist approached me recently at an evening event at the museum. But it's a question that many museums seem to address inadequately. It's interesting to me that so many museums debate admission fees but don't get comparably riled up about open hours. he said, "I have some feedback for you. He's right. They aren't.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2011

Many people ( Paul Orselli , Linda Norris , Pete Newcurator ) in the museum field have written about the question of museum "tribes"--based partly on Seth Godin's book , partly on the longstanding fan culture that pervades our lives through sport , celebrity, and shared experience of mass events.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 24, 2024

Fundraising is a HUGE field and there are many great organizations that help improve the quality of the sector like the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). Given this competitive landscape it can make a lot of sense to look for fundraising consultants and firms to help your nonprofit. Katherine Ngaruiya, Ph.D.

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sgEngage

APRIL 28, 2022

Another frequent tip from Blackbaud Champions was to help volunteers see the bigger picture by involving them in brainstorming, strategic planning, and crucial meetings so they are in the loop and can execute tasks with a sense of shared purpose. . . – Rebecca Barnes, volunteer manager at Tellus Science Museum .

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fundraising is a HUGE field and there are many great oranizations that help improve the quality of the sector like the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). Given this competitive landscape it can make a lot of sense to look for fundraising consultants and firms to help your nonprofit. List of Nonprofit Fundraising Companies.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Each of these women push the boundaries of cultural institutions in different ways, with digital and physical manifestations. Ravon and Amanda are using several social media channels to explore and share museum exhibitions, programs, and projects. She writes about race, history, parks, culture, and politics.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Our county board of supervisors had brought their official meeting to the museum. The supervisors toured the exhibition with some of the 100+ local partners who helped create it. Then, for an hour, former foster youth who helped design the exhibition shared their stories with supervisors. Nine years later, I still believe this.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

For the past five years, each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has hosted MuseumCamp. This new, experimental training is a hands-on deep dive into the MAH’s model. I'm excited to share the MAH's community-first model and to invite you to this in-depth, immersive learning experience.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Our goal is to help civic and cultural institutions become more representative OF, co-created BY, and welcoming FOR their diverse communities. We've see this model succeed at the MAH and at other community-centered organizations around the world. The model we landed on was movement building. Publishing toolkits.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Last week Ginny Fitzgerald, the Director of Visitor Services and Membership at Chicago History Museum, joined us to host a webinar about how she prepares her team for peak attendance times. Chicago History Museum defines their summer season as June 1 through August 31. Ginny has over 17 years of experience in visitor services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The book looks at how individuals can avoid burnout through self-care and how nonprofits can support it – through activities that promote well-being, cultural cues, or an overall strategy. How cultural norms influence participation. A team culture that prioritizes collaboration and excellence. ½ Have story?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2018

You run a regional museum. This is the plan that plunged the Berkshire Museum into hot water. In July, the Berkshire Museum released its $60,000,000 New Vision , along with a funding mechanism: selling 40 of its most valuable artworks. It states that museums can only sell objects to purchase or care for other objects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

It takes you through the technologies and tools for each channel for different goals and offers up lots of case studies from organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Red Cross, AARP, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, American Museum of Natural History, SEIU and others. The book offers some recipes for culture change.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Fundraising is a HUGE field and there are many great oranizations that help improve the quality of the sector like the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). Given this competitive landscape it can make a lot of sense to look for fundraising consultants and firms to help your nonprofit. List of Nonprofit Fundraising Companies.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Help take some of this stress away by auctioning off concert tickets for famous acts coming through town. Travel-related live auction items People often attend auctions to discover unique experiences or opportunities that help them check off bucket list items. Throw in a few travel mugs so supporters can take their coffee on the go!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Well, exposure of failures helps us learn and helps us lead. As a leader, sharing failures helps normalize fallibility. 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.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I often think museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested adults, alien and overwhelming to newcomers. What is the appropriate way to evangelize cultural institution use to the unconverted?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. Given TCG''s multi-year Audience (R)evolution initiative, I took the opportunity to write a new talk about what revolution has looked like at our small museum in Santa Cruz. We heard again and again that the museum was cold and uncomfortable.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2014

These places help us strengthen bonds with the people who matter most. I''ve been reflecting a lot recently on our museum''s work on " social bridging "--bringing people together across cultural, ethnic, geographic, generational, and socio-economic differences--and how to take it outside. We don''t have a business model for it.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2011

It's a rough week for cultural practitioners. When I came to become the director of The Museum of Art & History two months ago, we were on the financial brink. This is the first time I've really grappled with the reality of "the museum as a business." What has helped you grapple with these issues? Let me explain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Trying to do everything, a scarcity model, is such an exhausting way to work. Networks can help us build the capacity to take advantage of different institutional skills. What needs to change in the way that nonprofits are structured and their culture to make this happen? Or are we talking about all curation?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2017

Dear Museum 2.0 friends, I want to share two great opportunities to get involved at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in 2017. Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp.

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