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Using Social Media to Bring Museum Exhibits to Life

NetWits

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. As part of understanding the need for technology , the more than 17 thousand museums in the U.S. Not sure how?

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The most influential design book you’ve never heard of

Fast Company Tech

During this time, he published a simple manual, called Lettering , which laid out his approach to crafting letterforms, letting students learn about proper technique and trace and copy letters directly inside the book. Walter Kch was a calligrapher and educator at the Zrich School of Arts and Crafts in the late 30s and 40s.

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Flashy exotic birds can actually glow in the dark

Ars Technica

As if this didnt attract enough attention, weve now learned that they also glow in the dark. She and her team studied a treasure trove of specimens at the American Museum of Natural History, which have been collected since the 1800s, and found that 37 of the 45 known species of birds of paradise have feathers that fluoresce.

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Computer History Museum Releases Original AlexNet Code

TechRepublic

Google and the Computer History Museum release AlexNets original 2012 source code on GitHub, offering a rare look at a pivotal moment in AI history.

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How the Air and Space Museum is Using Virtual Docents

The MatrixFiles

Anyway, Project Hail Mary inspired me to take the boys to the Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum. This museum is full of all types of vehicles that fly: planes, helicopters, amphibious ships, missiles and drones. What the museum instead was probably just as good. And Jim, who was next to the SR-71.

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11 Must-Follow Nonprofits on Instagram

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Finally, to learn more about Instagram and other photo-sharing tools, please see the upcoming webinar How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use Pinterest and Utilize Digital Photography for Nonprofit Storytelling. Brooklyn Museum :: web.stagram.com/n/brooklynmuseum. Greenpeace Australia :: web.stagram.com/n/greenpeaceaustp.

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MuseWeb 2021: Amplifying the Museum Experience

Forum One

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. In this workshop, participants will learn about what it takes to run a strong digital campaign. Digital campaigns have many moving parts and often have crazy schedules.

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