Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. We are trying to change the visitors’ experience at the museum as well as ownership of what is in the museum, break down the walls between the public and the museum.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Facebook aka Meta, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and TikTok have become integrated into how people communicate with one another and access culture. With hours of mindless scrolling available with just a few swipes and taps, it’s crucial for museums to get savvy and creative with social media campaigns to stand out. METTWINNING.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Start small and work your way out.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Museum shops can and should be more than just walls of collection postcards and bins of branded pencils. With captive audiences, a link to the creative, and consistent footfall, shops in museums have ample opportunity to maximise retail potential by offering products that appeal to visitors and have a clear connection to collections. .

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

This month, we're thinking about the way we do work in museums. Also, being flexible about work times, as both Jennifer Foley and Emily Lytle-Painter amongst others mentioned. Work isn't prison; don't make them feel like they're doing time. Sharing articles that work is a great reason to stay on Museum Twitter by the way.

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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. Conversational Marketing: Can Chatbots Increase Engagement with Your Museum?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

Without it, your nonprofit can’t operate and do the important work that fuels your cause. 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 3, 2014

Over time, I learned more and more about her work and background. She would bring books especially for children and women, and conduct a couple of days of workshops on wide-ranging topics about enterprise, culture, history, poetry and books. We learn from each other, and try to help each other when we can.

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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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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Or, if one of your volunteers works at a local museum, have them ask their boss about contributing an annual museum membership as an auction prize.

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Tips Nonprofit Sponsor Audience 103

sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A genuine social media shout out from a happy visitor is fantastic for marketing your arts and cultural institution; consider it like a testimonial but not as arduous to solicit. According to The Art Newspaper’s annual survey in 2021, visits to the world’s 100 most-visited museums plummeted by 77% in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

What if museums were curated and funded by the internet, and allowed pieces to stay close to their cultural roots, displayed in a context that made sense? Native art in native museums, religious artifacts shown in temples, mosques and churches, and so on? This idea evolved into having an on-chain Museum,” says McLeod.

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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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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Start small and work your way out.

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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. How are we doing this?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

To fight back against the plagiarism and dispossession of Indigenous art, Mexico has approved a law meant to protect and safeguard the cultural heritage of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples and communities. Whether the law actually works is another question. Cultural works are continually being recreated and revised.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

One of the very first bloggers I started reading and having conversations with about social media was Alan Levine (aka CogDog Blog ). Over the years, we have supported each other’s professional work and personal fundraisers before ever meeting in person. I’ll look forward to read any reflections from Alan on how this worked.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The majority” of its tours will be migrated to Google’s separate Arts & Culture app, letting users view them via web or mobile device. As Arts & Culture will offer many of the Expeditions tours, we’ll no longer support the Expeditions app.”. You can even view some Arts & Culture content in Cardboard.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Squint For training manufacturing workers with AR/VR and AI Squint, which launched in 2022, works with manufacturing companies to generate AR demos of common procedures. The system can detect in real time when trainees make a mistake, reducing the risk of them making dangerous errors when working with real-life patients. In the U.S.,

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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. The results have been outstanding, and the work is rewarding. .

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. The popular reference point for what a museum is--a temple for contemplation--is based on a Euro-centric set of myths and implies a white set of behaviors.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It gave me a chance to really think about how we have been opening up our museum and what it means for our community. Museums can be incredible catalysts for social change. We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2014

Kara Walker, The Emancipation Approximation (Scene 18) This guest post was written by Porchia Moore, a third year doctoral candidate in Library Science and Museum Management at the University of South Carolina. I was first exposed to Porchia’s work in the fall 2013 issue of Exhibitionist. Henry is not the typical museum professional.

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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. are beginning to adopt social media.

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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). It is incredibly rewarding work. I feel lucky.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2019

Or maybe hello museum world! The metaphor certainly works in terms of filling big shoes. Previously, I had worked at the same museum for 17 years.) So, when you visit more than 300 museums, parks, and historic sites, what do you learn? This week, I wanted to start with us, museum and cultural workers.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

During a workshop on museum visitor participation, someone spoke up and objected: "this might work in California, but it will never work in Texas." Then in Australia: "this might work in America, but it will never work in Australia." It is not culturally-determined. The objections started in Texas.

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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. These awards honored Forum One’s work in building websites, digital tools, and virtual experiences for our clients.

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NetWits

JULY 2, 2009

In my job, I work with Arts & Cultural organizations to ensure they are fulfilling their online goals and functionality needs. Through these conversations and having studied several museum, zoo, and aquarium sites, I began to realize that the same offline membership incentives need to take place online too.

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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.

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M+R

MARCH 14, 2024

Launching a Giving Day at a cultural institution is particularly special because you can invite your community inside the building to participate in your philanthropic mission. We’re going to look at two very different Giving Days to show what works! When we started working with the Museum, Pi Day was in its fifth year.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

Last week''s New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons. In the article, David discussed ways that several large art museums are working to attract major donors and board members in their 30s and 40s.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We are excited to share that the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal , NYU’s Congressional District Health Dashboard , and March of Dimes have been named Anthem Awards finalists. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

In fact, we know that storytelling done right is a multi-tiered process that requires working with staff, donors, and beneficiaries, oftentimes with additional effort to organize, produce, and publish assets to the web. first installment of our 2013 TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge webinar series, Creating a Culture of Storytelling.

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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. A Seat at the Table It was March 2020.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2021

While the pandemic has had a significant impact on artists and cultural institutions, it has forced many to take a fresh look at how they are building immersive, innovative digital experiences for arts and culture. The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts: Elevating a world-class cultural landmark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. That's the cultural norm in the nonprofit sector, with a couple of exceptions. The Indianapolis Art Museum has been doing just that by sharing its institutional dashboard out for everyone to view. In October, the Indianapolis Art Museum Dashboard celebrated its' second year.

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