Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2023

The dotComm Awards are judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), and are an international competition celebrating excellence in web creativity and digital communications. March of Dimes Platinum for Nonprofit Website March of Dimes is dedicated to leading the fight for the health of all moms and babies.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For museums, gardens, zoos, and aquariums to serve all people in their communities, staff must be aware of the societal disparities and gaps that interplay with their operations, decisions, and programs. In addition to our highly anticipated super session, bbcon includes breakout sessions for organizational and professional development.

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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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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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Museum Culture Professional Training 21

Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Davey Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts , a top-tier body of select professionals from the “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. The City Health Dashboard ’s goal is to improve the health and well-being of people in communities throughout the United States.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. Naming our goals and our culture. We wrote engagement goals.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. The museum gets better the more people use it.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 18, 2013

We all have aspirational social impact goals for our organizations. These goals are expressed in mission and vision statements. This is the second year that the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) is hosting Museum Camp. evaluation professional development' Igniting compassion? But how do we measure them?

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

Organized by the International Awards Associate (IAA) , a group of industry innovators, creators, designers, and communications professionals deeply committed to recognize and honor the outstanding performance, talent, and effort of the best digital and creative professionals around the world. National Air & Space Museum.

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Award Colorado Drupal Museum 88

Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

Dear Museum 2.0 As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). This is a big change for me--professionally and personally--and I'm thrilled and humbled by the opportunity to take on this position in the city I call home.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2018

While on vacation or a professional conference, you are probably exposed to innovative technology, increasing your engagement level. Some common motivators that prove technology can be healthy for audience engagement are: Technology can strategically help develop a path to obtain goals and sustain your organization’s mission.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. The Brown Foundation aims to support organizations dedicated to ambitious goals, excellence, and exceptional impact. Areas served: Texas. The Brown Foundation. Areas served: Grand Rapids/Michigan.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 6, 2024

When creating thank-you videos, you don’t need to be a professional filmmaker. Nonprofits like museums, art groups, and sports camps can offer donors exclusive perks in exchange for their support. Assess your audience’s interests, preferences, and goals to determine what appreciation methods are likely to resonate with them.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2012

Once there was a project to design a national history museum in the Netherlands. While not wholly explored, that question reverberates throughout a new book, Blueprint , that shares the plans for the Dutch Museum of National History. I chose this book for our next Museum 2.0 What happened? It's about Europe.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2008

At the last ASTC, in a session on "Museums 2.0," I heard just as many muddled explanations of doing the same old thing (and wrapping it in new words) as truly interesting, relevant projects. Core Museum 2.0 Ideas professional development. And so, for this weekend's Web 2.0 session, I'm going to focus more on the what of Web 2.0

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Museum Professional Web Philadelphia 27

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

Earlier in 2013, I was amazed to visit one of the new “Studio” spaces at the Denver Art Museum. The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. Some community artists even helped install the space.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. and "why?" to "how?". This choice was strategic.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2016

Five years ago, I left the consulting world to take the helm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) at a time of crisis and change. We have spent the past three years planning and raising money for a project to build a creative town square for our city on the front porch of the museum. We started bootstrapping growth.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Museum Computer Network has become my Shangri-la, in a way. In some ways, museum work has this illusory aspect. Or museum work is like atomic theory perhaps. I'm pretty open to a number of possibilities in museums. In every museum, we find different values, language and work practices.

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Team Museum Australia Language 34

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

For the past five years, each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has hosted MuseumCamp. MuseumCamp is a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp. Come to this two-day bootcamp to: Articulate your goals for community participation at your organization.

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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). Donorly Website: [link] Donorly provides a powerful team of fundraising professionals with experience across sectors to get results.

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Consultant Campaign Fundraising Phoenix 52

Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2023

While you should leave explicit financial or estate planning advice to the professionals, there are other steps you should still take. Try using this language on your Ways to Give page or planned giving microsite—here’s an example from the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

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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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Public Build Museum Detroit 40

Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. The Brown Foundation aims to support organizations dedicated to ambitious goals, excellence, and exceptional impact. Areas served: Texas. The Brown Foundation. Areas served: Grand Rapids/Michigan.

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Arts Grant Culture Fund 73

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). Donorly provides a powerful team of fundraising professionals with experience across sectors to get results. Website: [link]. Brian Lacy & Associates.

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Consultant Fundraising Phoenix Atlanta 52

CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2022

She has served on the boards of The Food Project, Fuller Craft Museum, and Cambridge Family & Children’s Service. She is also a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and the Planned Giving Group of New England. The goal for a Zoom meeting is simply to get it on the calendar. 10,000-$100,000).

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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. The goal was to explore new ways to measure "immeasurable" social outcomes like connectedness, pride, and civic action. To be playful.

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Experiment Impact Social Museum 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. " Indeed, her first post summarized some observations from her research on how museums were using Twitter for her masters thesis. I'm fascinated by social networking and am interested in finding ways for museums to appeal to all types of people.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The W³ Awards competition honors creative excellence on the web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, videos, and marketing programs. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website. Support Children’s Colorado Foundation. Silver – Health Care Services Website.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The W³ Awards competition honors creative excellence on the web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, videos, and marketing programs. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website. Support Children’s Colorado Foundation. Silver – Health Care Services Website.

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Award Colorado Washington Children 46

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Guided fishing trip In a guided fishing trip, an experienced professional takes participants out on a boat to catch fish with the help of their expertise. Private cooking classes Connect with a professional or celebrity chef to ask if they’d be willing to donate their time to a private cooking class.

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Artist Classes Arts Music 74

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

Increased donor diversity results in revenue goals exceeded, and team diversity creates access to new networks and better, broader perspectives among teams. This can include incentive structures, remembering DEI in programming, speakers, professional development, etc. Workstream priorities should reflect this knowledge.

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Strategy Fundraising Philanthropy Nonprofit 81

Museum 2.0

MAY 11, 2010

While it hasn't happened here in awhile, a new Museum 2.0 Many museum and library professionals use the concept of the third place to describe the idealized vision of a cultural institution as a place for community use and civic engagement. For four weeks starting June 1, each Tuesday there will be a Museum 2.0

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Virtual tours for museums. Your local museums may not be open for admission, but that doesn’t mean you can’t explore all they have to offer. Partner with your local museums to offer virtual tours to your donors, complete with fun, educational facts and some behind-the-scenes action. Student art show. Gaming fundraiser.

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Media Cause

JULY 21, 2021

It took me some time to work up the courage to act on this interest professionally. I worked with Katey, Amy, and Rob Shaw (Art Director) to come up with design goals that I could work towards in order to build a strong foundation. My goals evolved throughout the year+, but they all revolved around learning, and gaining experience.

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Change Design Arts Attitude 59

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. The recharger wants a mental break in a relaxing setting.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

and with it flocks of museum studies / education / exhibit planning graduate interns. I’m always curious when I meet these folks, who are about my age, choosing a different entry path into the museum world. The value proposition of museum grad programs is cloudy in my mind. Sure, it’s great to learn museum theory and history.

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