Futurism

APRIL 13, 2025

Using a clever system of elastic bands and rapidly projecting images, a team of researchers in Spain have created three-dimensional virtual objects that you can physically manipulate, allowing you to directly poke and prod at them without the need of a boring controller.

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

Museums, archives, and libraries share many goals and functions. The items that museums, archives, and libraries collect reflect the human spirit. In archives, libraries, and museums, curators use their judgment to select and arrange artifacts to create a narrative, evoke a response, and communicate a message.

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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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Forum One

DECEMBER 3, 2024

One of the most effective tools we’ve developed to achieve this is Gesso, an open-source front-end starter kit and design system, built entirely in-house by the Forum One team. It’s a comprehensive design system that integrates best practices in accessibility, flexibility, and performance optimization. What is Gesso? starter kit.

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sgEngage

JUNE 12, 2023

What is your CRM System’s purpose? Organizations that use a Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) system will typically rely on it everyday. The health of the CRM system needs to be prioritized. A reliable CRM system can still be accomplished with proper steps. We have your 5 keys to a healthy CRM system here: 1.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I learned it’s now possible to give immunizations and antibiotics with a needle-free injection system; to capture a blood smear on a small device, called a CellScope, send the image over a cell phone and get a diagnosis; to generate clean electricity for lights and gas for cooking from rice husks and that it is possible to change the world.

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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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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Is your museum running on interns? It is a strong, museum-focused complement to an excellent three-parter on Createquity about the ethics and future of unpaid arts internships. One of the most poignant signs I saw waved during the Occupy Movement was held by a young woman who politely advised The System to " F**k your free internships.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2019

Or maybe hello museum world! 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. Hello World! The metaphor certainly works in terms of filling big shoes.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Excurio For bringing virtual reality experiencesand audiencesto museums Excurio builds immersive, historically accurate installations that feature a shared virtual reality for up to 100 simultaneous attendees. In 2024, the company released support for new digital protocols, operating systems, and 5G network emulation.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In 2010, the Children''s Museum of Tacoma was getting ready to move to a new, bigger facility. When they moved to the new facility, they decided they wanted to radically expand access to the museum, AND increase revenue. The Children''s Museum of Tacoma is two years into their "pay as you will" model, and it looks like a success.

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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. You can use your Donor Management System to keep track of grants from donor-advised funds along with the recommending donor with these helpful features: Soft Credits for Charitable Sponsors .

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

These two adages were both in my mind last week when I asked people for the worst museum trends. On social media, it's hard to get into systemic issues effectively, but maybe people did start to touch on some of the big, bad issues in our field. In this decade museums worst trends were in labor and tech: 1.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We ended up with a gallery in the museum instead. That is more curated.

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The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2022

Neural networks were reportedly used to check each image for color and sharpness, and an AI system helped stitch these photos together into a single image. 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 The result is a 717 gigapixel image that’s 5.6

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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

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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Forum One

MAY 28, 2024

Forum One partnered with the Museum on a full website redesign and upgrade, to welcome more diverse audiences and provide a space to discover our shared American history through a modern, inclusive, and forward-looking digital experience. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Using factory-built units, like facades, bathroom pods, patient rooms, and mechanical systems, the effort has thus far saved $100 million in construction costs and 20% to 50% in construction time. In Whittier, it installed interior partition walls, colorful finishes, and new electrical and mechanical systems.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Virtual tours can be surprisingly pleasurable and rejuvenating while not having to travel anywhere — just let a tour guide show you around a museum, ancient site, city, or gallery while live streaming to a group of people. You may place individual gamers head-to-head and compete against one another or set up a points system with teams.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

Rather than just doing an activity, visitors should be able to contribute in a way that provides a valuable outcome for the institution and the wider museum audience. This week, I saw a great example at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum that blew me away with its power and simplicity. It is this station that grabbed my attention.

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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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The Verge

MAY 22, 2020

Credit: World Video Game Hall of Fame / The Strong Museum. Grabbing virtual cards and dropping them in place taught the basics of drag-and-drop in Windows, which we still use today in many parts of the operating system. Microsoft’s Solitaire game is turning 30 years old today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2012

Hopefully in time content management systems will make it easy and affordable for most nonprofits to publish content visually-compatible with multiple devices. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art :: sfmoma.org. Either way, both options are difficult to implement for nonprofits with limited budgets. WildAid :: wildaid.org.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In 2020, Myechia joined 18 other Black and Brown executives in Massachusetts as a founding leader of The New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund (NCF) to provide philanthropic support to community groups and coalitions fighting systemic racism and racial inequity in the Commonwealth.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

This year, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Information Systems Research released a study that showed just how much companies in the commercial sector benefit from having a tech-savvy board. I recently discussed what it means to be a “museopreneur” in a feature article published by American Alliance of Museums.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While many American museums require 37.5 The whole issue of wages gets at the heart of the faulty systems of capitalism, the culture of women’s work, and museums as privilege-concentrating institutions. They had the committee decision-making structures from universities and the collections-authority systems of libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I'm here in Chicago for a very brief trip on a panel about metrics and measurement for museums called "New Spaces, New Measures." Types of tags assigned to it, the terms used, the authority of the taggers, the authority of the tagging system. " My slides and resources are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

My colleague, Devon Smith, a self-described data nerd who loves benchmarking pointed out this glorious example from the museum world from Sean Redmond , a Web developer at the Guggenheim. Documenting value and finding meaning are important commodities in new systems of engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2011

Many customer relationship management systems, for example, like Salesforce and Raiser’s Edge , include dashboards to make it easier for the development staff to track fundraising activities, donations, and other performance measures. Google Analytics , with its robust dashboard system displaying key web site metrics, is another example.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. MoFuse :: mofuse.com. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 14, 2024

However, most don’t consider point of sale (POS) systems as a contender for their tech toolboxes. Generally, POS systems are associated with businesses — just think of clothing stores, cafes, and grocery stores, which need POS tools to run successfully. What types of nonprofits can benefit from a POS system?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2011

In early January, the American Museum of Natural History announced that it would hold a Brain Tweetup for 75 of its Twitter followers. The event promised an after-hours look at their special exhibition Brain: The Inside Story , a chat with its curators, a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum, and an opportunity to meet other fans of AMNH.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

Photo: Bikeshare Museum. Photos of thousands of Jump bikes destined for the scrap heap first surfaced on the Bike Share Museum website , a digital repository for shared bikes that have since been retired. pic.twitter.com/zT3nRhYNAs — Bike Share Museum (@bikesharemuseum) May 26, 2020. The extent of the waste is unfathomable.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

How Have Content Management Systems Evolved? Content management systems or CMS platforms have been the foundation of digital experience for over two decades. Over the last few years, weve seen the more monolithic content management systems starting to reinvent themselves to look more like their headless-first counterparts.

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VQ Strategies

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

collections or exhibit tours at museums, a fire fighting training center for a city, and the control tower at the – you guessed it – the airport [by now, we were all ready to sign up to volunteer at the airport!) Denver International Airport. CREATIVE GRATITUDE MESSAGES Social media posts Kudos cards (i.e.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

LevelUp is a mobile payment system that allows users to register their credit cards to make purchases at participating merchants with a simple scan of a QR code. MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog. LevelUp :: thelevelup.com.

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