Forum One

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Museums and cultural organizations, like the family of Smithsonian institutions and others we’re fortunate to work with at Forum One, have a wealth of opportunities when it comes to digital engagement. Consider all the ways that museums engage online. We help museums create these campaigns.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Susan Neyman, US Marshals Museum Resurrect Events Planned Givers Can’t Forget “We reinstated a beloved event, the 1892 Society Luncheon, which brings together planned giving donors and prospects for an afternoon of a delightful lunch, a brief history of the Society, a presentation about current projects and future plans, and questions and answers.”—

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Anderson Cancer Center Children’s Art Project :: View Collection. The Children’s Art Project began focuses on providing cheer and comfort for young cancer patients and helps fund college scholarships and educational programs that prepare patients for successful lives after cancer. Museum of Modern Art :: View Collection.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

This week we’ve found apps from museums. Mobile apps are an interesting way for museums to advance their educational missions beyond people’s expectations. ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. iOS/Android: ArtClix enhances uses mobile to enhance the museum experience. MoMa by the Museum of Modern Art.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2012

Field Museum :: fieldmuseum.org. Project Aware :: projectaware.org. Amnesty International :: amnestyusa.org. CARE :: care.org. Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) :: glaad.org. London Symphony Orchestra :: lso.co.uk. Media Matters :: mediamatters.org. Nature Conservancy :: nature.org.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

This month, we're thinking about the way we do work in museums. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. Sharing articles that work is a great reason to stay on Museum Twitter by the way. Exposure to all sectors of museum work is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

You can also look for colleague organizations that done a great job in a particular area and learn from them. Stowe Boyd wrote about this “ bench learning ” and there are a few examples from Aquariums and Museums. Social Media Benchmarking: Gauging Success for Project and Organizations in Global Health and Development.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Do you have an idea for a world-changing project that could bloom with some seed money? The new Pollination Project is giving $1,000 seed grants to individual changemakers, every day, 365 days a year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

National Museum of American History :: @ AMHistoryMuseum. Trevor Project :: @ TrevorProject. National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy :: @ TheNC. National Coalition for the Homelessness :: @ NTL_Homeless. National Council of La Raza :: @ NCLR. National Parks Conservation Association :: @ NPCA. UNICEF :: @ UNICEF.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2019

They build wings in museums, sponsor new research at hospitals, and provide large amounts of financial support for special projects. During your solicitation meeting, make sure you communicate: How much money the project needs. By Emily Rose Patz , Senior Copywriter at DonorPerfect. What you expect the end result to be.

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Big Duck

JUNE 3, 2024

Related Content BrandsBlue EngineBuilding a brand for change CampaignsParent Project Muscular DystrophyEngaging the community to raise funds BrandsKeys to ChangeCreating clarity about vital community services BrandsThe Newark Museum of Art Attracting visitors with an updated vision and brand BrandsKeshetBuilding a brand for a thriving organization

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk. What do you do?

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

What do Millennials want from a museum experience? Museum development officers and marketing professionals are all wondering if members of the Millennial generation (born after 1979) will support museums like our parents did. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) seems to think we won’t. The New York Times.

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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. Even though the museum is now open, the Museum Without Walls will continue.

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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. Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

And Flash mega-portal Kongregate partnered with a museum to preserve its library of projects. An open-source emulator called Ruffle will enable old Flash files through a desktop app or web browser. The Internet Archive is using Ruffle to preserve over 1,000 games and animations on its site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Before the session, I spent some time reviewing Museum Facebook Pages – luckily the MIDEA project has them organized into this handy list. I had hoped to find a good example of a museum or an arts organization with a custom landing tab. Take for example the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland or Yerba Buena Center.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In 2024, Forum One partnered with the Smithsonian to launch Kaleidoscope , a cross-museum experience focused on resilience, designed to engage Millennials and Gen Z. Whether you’re building a small website or a complex portal, Gesso offers the versatility to scale. starter kit. Another key benefit is faster time-to-market.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2022

The scan is of Rembrandt van Rijn’s 1642 masterpiece The Night Watch , a roughly 12 by 14 foot painting which is currently the focus of a massive research and restoration project called “Operation Night Watch.”. The museum notes that it’s four times sharper than the last scan that was put out by the museum, which was only 44.8

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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. David describes himself as a "museum brat."

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Where do museums fit in? Here is our statement.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. institutional change Museum of Art and History'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I met James Leventhal via Twitter and we ended up working together on a project. Recently, James wrote about some interesting ways museums are using Twitter for offline/online engagement. The San Francisco Bay Area has seen some extraordinary museum openings over the past several years.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

A man walks into a museum. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Better yet, the graduate student who led this project, Anna Greco, documented the whole project and did in-depth analysis of the visitor contributions.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2014

They recall other artistic work that breaks fourth walls--classically in theater, and more recently in new media projects. This makes me wonder: how do we break the fourth wall in museums? How do we use the essential tools of museum-ness to disrupt, surprise, and delight people? interactives Unusual Projects and Influences'

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

The annual shareholder meeting was originally scheduled for July 7th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The meeting will be held in person at the company’s vehicle factory in Fremont, California, though it will presumably also be live-streamed. Only people who are shareholders of the company’s stock can attend.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

American Jazz Museum Best Arts Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room and Gem Theater.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

She uses the word “curate&# which makes me imagine nonprofits as museum curators. Museum curators have expertise in a particular area of art, they know the ecosystem around the art – the artists, the patrons, other collectors, and other museum curators interested in that art form.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 3, 2024

If you’re a museum, zoo, cultural organization, aquarium, garden, or any nonprofit with a physical presence people can visit, you have a great opportunity to raise money and boost your membership sales by marketing your membership as the perfect gift. Updates on conservation projects close to home and invitations to special events.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

American Jazz Museum Gold – Cultural Institutions Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

A month or two ago, museums and galleries around the world participated in a Twitter event called Ask a Curator. I asked Jim Richardson, who blogs at the Museum Next Blog and is the brainchild behind the event, a couple of questions: How did #askacurator come about? How did you get 340 museums to participate?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. You can create small posters for sponsor businesses to show off that they are giving back and sponsoring your org, team, project, or campaign. This can include museums, archives, galleries, etc.

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2021

Its first project involved building those 20 original Beeple works into a digital museum, then effectively selling shares of that museum as digital tokens so that a multitude of buyers can have a stake in these works. Let’s project it on the side of a f **g building,” Winkelmann said. “It We can do that.

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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. And for those who have, they quickly understand that the Museum has much more to offer than can be absorbed in a day.

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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. These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Learn more at the link above. Areas served: Worldwide. The Andrew W.

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