Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Once upon a time, there was a beloved children’s museum in the middle of a thriving city. The brilliant team at the museum set out to find a bigger space and ran a successful capital campaign to expand to a much larger location. Adults had as much fun as the children. It was tiny and well-loved. There was just one problem.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Using her musical abilities and skills as an entertainer while donning one of her signature sequined jumpsuits, Ellen helps nonprofits across the country raise millions of dollars annually and engages donors in a fun, engaging, joyful, unique, memorable and authentic way with huge heart. You were born to do this!”

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

Here are a few of the hashtags I''ve seen applied to photographs of museum objects on Instagram lately: #heytherebigfella #biggysmallistheillest #forbrightfuture #myfavorite #instagood #bestday #withmyhomies #whatever #learnedfromthebest #revolutionary #nowicandie These tags all do a great job capturing the magic of exploring a museum.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 27, 2011

A list of some of the people, things, and events that inspired me, or added fun to my week. Reading about "Happiness Hacks" in Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal. It's been super fun. Museums and Gardens initiative evolves. Having Skype Tea with Amy Sample Ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

While Twitter and other platforms can amplify the under belly of the world, they can also connect people with nonprofit organizations and spread social good, joy, and even fun. Take for example the # AskACurator hashtag created by a digital expert who works with museums almost five years ago and still active today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

QR Codes: fab or a fad for Museums? View more presentations from Museums Computer Group. Museums have been using them to enhance the visitor experience and have been early adopters of the technology. Can you embed game design or make it fun? Joe Waters shares an example used for Cause Marketing.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

And if you’re searching for fun and engaging ways to raise money, auctions and simple online events will get your donors excited to support your organization. Check out our comprehensive list to keep your fundraising campaigns fun and fresh for all of your donors. Virtual tours for museums. Gaming fundraiser. Bingo night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I so happy to sneak into last night’s 501Tech Club New York City gathering last night to hear Shelley Bernstein, Brooklyn Museum, and Naveen Selvadurai talk about Nonprofits and Foursquare. For the Brooklyn Museum , they see the competition of mayorship as a source of identity and pride. say about you?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Netflix’s latest game is an addictive trivia title from the creators of Bandersnatch — an interactive experience called Cat Burglar where correct choices help move the story forward. More of this hybrid game-based storytelling is on the way, and Netflix thinks it could help push more of its users to think of the service as a place for games.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2010

When a technologist calls me to talk about their brilliant idea for a museum-related business, it's always a mobile application. There are lots of wonderful (and probably not very high margin) experiments going on in museums with mobile devices. Most visitors to museums attend in social groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

  I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership. 

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

After the International Committee on Museums spent some time debating the definition of museums, many folks took up the charge on social media to give their own definitions. I know I’m missing early innovators of interaction in museums; feel free to tell me who in the comments.) We need new #MuseumVerbs.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

And because we love rapid ideation and an excuse for a fundraiser here at Whole Whale, we’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. Get a selection of your breakfast favorites and a variety of milks — make it extra fun with a pajama party vibe for your supporters. Enroll Now.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Was it while playing a game? Last week, as part of my museum's year-long Loyalty Lab project , we hosted a workshop for Bay Area museum professionals with special guests Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne of the game design firm Situate. A Challenge to Overcome Every game has a central challenge or mission.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

NFTs might put the “fun” in Nonfungible, but they come with plenty of significant challenges as well. Fun fundraising with gamers. Not all fun and games. Finally, the gaming itself can be potentially problematic. Tiltify is the fundraising platform that can be used with Twitch, YouTube, Facebook Live, and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

This month I'm exploring the topic of digital games for social change. In two weeks I'm headed for The Games for Change Annual Conference in NYC (and I'll live blog it, too) The conference brings together nonprofits, game designers, foundations, and academics around the world to explore best practices for social change gaming.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. And that's just the fun stuff. Yes, I feel that museum workers should be paid and paid well for their efforts. Ever wanted to build a museum website from scratch? It could be a game show.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

Britt Bravo's Have Fun, Do Good Blog. For example, just take a look at the explosion of mobile apps for museums. Content feeds on the application include: The Zoetica Link Feed. The Case Foundation Blog. Chronicle of Philanthropy Give and Take. Great NonProfits. Allison Fine's Blog. Social Edge Blogs. Care2's FrogLoop. Working Wikily.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum had 1100 pictures of children who were victims of the Holocaust. The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College wanted a fun way to have users talk about what being Jewish means to them. The solution was the Most Jewish card game - a social way to start the conversation. Remember Me.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

NFTs are also called crypto collectibles, and are the digital assets that are used in the popular game CryptoKitties. For a little history here, the game CryptoKitties was the first major use case for NFTs and has been a huge success. In fact, the game was so popular that it slowed down the Ethereum network when it launched.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

Let’s play a game. Are you having fun yet? But is it fun? The ESP Game , and its related game, Phetch , are two games that create a framework to make tagging fun. The games take the game I posed in the beginning (Tag this image!) and make it fun by adding another player.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The company’s suite of services are built around two principles: First, that it can immerse early-age learners into the world of English at scale, and second, that it can actually be fun to use. So, Novakid puts most of its energy into rebuilding a curriculum that works with better design, and includes games. Students are clicking in.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When you find a bar with your favorite song on the jukebox, or a museum room that feels like your grandmother's living room, you suddenly feel a strong affinity and are able to see yourself reflected in the space. It may be great for a natural refuge to remain hidden, but that sounds like a disaster for a restaurant or museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

"Putting Fun into Functional" is a really fabulous powerpoint presentation by Amy Jo Kim of shufflebrain , a unique game design company. Each one of these amplifies the extent to which the player/user feels connected to the game or experience offered. There have got to be some great ways to apply these mechanics to museums.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2007

I read recently about an awesome project at the San Jose Museum of Art in 2001, Collecting Our Thoughts, in which visitors were invited to write the labels for an art exhibition (more another time). But it's a lot of fun, and it could be a great way to construct a personalized takeaway from a museum experience. Then a number.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

Two very interesting articles today by Ian Bogost , courtesy of Gamasutra , about the potential of games as a more generalized medium for interaction with content. In the first article, Why We Need More Boring Games , Ian argues for a wider application of gaming to our daily experience. Serious games offer one example.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. When mobile wallets go mainstreaam, this simple tweak in text-to-give fundraising will be a game changer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Nina Simon, a long time colleague and author of the Museum 2.0 blog and executive director, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History , told me about this amazing and fun co-created card game to help you think about self-care activities called the The Space Deck.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Here’s a look at the Faurschou Foundation’s Virtual Tour of their Museum in Brooklyn, NY: [link]. Unrelated speaker: Have a standup comedian, yoga instructor, mindfulness coach, etc join for a fun activity. It’s an awesome idea that’s low-cost for you, fun for participants, and easy to manage. Live Gaming Fundraiser.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. When mobile wallets go mainstreaam, this simple tweak in text-to-give fundraising will be a game changer. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2007

Last month, the second annual TOJam (Toronto Indie Game Development Jam) was held. Over three days, 60 programmers/artists/composers/pranksters worked all hours to create finished computer-based games from scratch. No more half-architected, partially-coded snippets of games that you've rewritten 4 times.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Between high-altitude hijinks, run-ins with wildlife, and very long days of hiking, I finished John Falk's new book, Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. In other words, if you are a curious person, you will go to museums to learn new things.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. They're playing video games. But I don't think that theory holds up.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

This expresses itself most powerfully in museums when we talk about building relationships with visitors over time. If I go on a date with you and we have fun, I develop some expectations about what will happen the next time I see you. But museums are one-night stand amnesiacs in the relationship department. We hang out.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions. game and the Neversink Valley Museum's capital campaign launch materials. Jim's is a fun game involving sock puppets.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

So, before you stuff your baskets full of fun items, don’t forget to add a few all-inclusive trips or weekend getaways into the mix. Golf – For those who like to spend their weekends out on the green, this golf basket has all the tools they need to up their game, whether they’re playing for fun or prepping for a tournament.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. Two groups dove into the work at the MAH on social bridging - one with the Karma Hat game, and one with a photobooth project. Taking photos.

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