sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With the first wave of lockdowns in Spring 2020, the primary value proposition of membership vanished overnight, and closures caused many museums to reinvent their benefits and programming in digital formats. How did virtual membership offerings emerge? The Rise of Virtual Membership. These included: Virtual Member Events.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 9, 2021

With hours of mindless scrolling available with just a few swipes and taps, it’s crucial for museums to get savvy and creative with social media campaigns to stand out. Posts from visitors and/or followers about museums always appear more genuine than organizational marketing messages. Black Country Living Museum TikTok.

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Charity Village

JULY 7, 2023

Digital Museums Canada invites eligible museums and heritage, cultural and Indigenous organizations to apply for up to $250,000 in funding to create a range of bilingual digital products, including virtual exhibits and tours, web-based games, and educational resources.

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Volunteer Hub

JULY 26, 2021

Holocaust Museum Houston needed a volunteer management solution to help them recruit, engage, and manage volunteers, following expansion. Opened in 1996, Holocaust Museum Houston has become a valuable resource for community residents and people around the world. Expansion led to an increased need for volunteers and software.

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Forum One

MARCH 30, 2021

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. Conversational Marketing: Can Chatbots Increase Engagement with Your Museum? How-to Session – Friday, April 16, 2021, 11:00 am-12:00 pm.

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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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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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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Gen Z wants to be part of a community, so think virtual. Susan Neyman, US Marshals Museum Foundation Deliver a Newsletter Boomers Will Love “A high percentage of our donors are also members. Then pass it on. Best Fundraising Tips for Donor Engagement What works for one supporter does not necessarily resonate with another.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Visionaries worldwide are attending bbcon—Blackbaud’s Tech Conference for Good — virtually October 17–18 to learn from thought leaders in fundraising, marketing, technology, and more. Embrace virtual networking: Throughout the conference there will be plenty of opportunities for attendees to network with peers and with Blackbaud staff.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

So before you cancel any events, consider whether you can turn it into something digital or virtual. You could either turn an existing event into something virtual or create a completely new virtual fundraising event in its place. Virtual Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. Virtual Live-Stream.

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Digital Trends

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Try these virtual tours that will take you to famous landmarks, great art and history museums, backroads, and space. Want to get away but can't leave home?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Often used at fundraising events, both in-person and virtual, people text in a keyword like “DONATE” to a unique short code and make a credit card donation through their phone. Give by Cell offers a suite of mobile fundraising tools to organizations, higher education, and museums and cultural institutions.

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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. Offer a tour of your building or events or activities virtually for donors who can’t come in person and send to them as a link in a thank you email or text. Access to a virtual VIP lounge.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Players will have the option to freely switch between virtual and mixed reality as they wish. Per the release: In virtual reality, players are transported to an ornate museum as they look out onto a vista personalized to their leader; in mixed reality, the Command Table adapts to its placement in a player's physical space.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2008

During my time in Sydney, I spent a day with meeting with the staff at the Powerhouse Museum and Seb Chan who writes the Museum's blog, Fresh + New(er) and who I have had many virtual conversations with via our blogs but have not met face-to-face. She took excellent notes about our session and blogged it here.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I started the Museum 2.0 can be applied in museums to make them more engaging, community-based, vital elements of society. that are authoritative content distributors--like traditional museums. I believe that visitors can become users, and museums central to social interactions. I'm Nina Simon. What do I mean by 2.0?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Last year, Alan invited me to keynote the New Media Consortium ’s virtual conference to talk about the future of social and nonprofits. It was my most memorable virtual presentation as my avatar was June Jetson and I made a flying entrance into the auditorium to the tune of the Jetson’s theme song. I struck out.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Simply plug in your nonprofits’s website URL and you can seen cached versions of your site going back to 1996. oneforty :: oneforty.com.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Google is ending support for its Expeditions virtual reality app. Google launched Expeditions for its Cardboard VR viewer in 2015 , and classrooms could get boxes of Cardboard headsets for “virtual field trips.” Its tours included 360-degree panoramas capturing museums, festivals, and far-flung wonders of the world.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

I was reminded of Ali’s video last week when I led a class for volunteer managers on creating virtual volunteer roles. One of the participants had to take an onsite museum role, where volunteers staff educational carts and engage with visitors, and transform it info a remote position. The challenge here is the cost.

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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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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

MARCH 5, 2024

This Women’s History Month, we celebrate the work that the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum does each and every day to bring women’s stories alive and into focus. Forum One worked with the Museum to create the 10-minute digital experience, which will be available this Friday on the Museum’s website. January 30, 2024).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2011

I have a confession to make: I've never cared much about museums on the Web. When smart people talk about digital museums and virtual experiences, I nod and compartmentalize it as someone else's bailiwick. And it breaks a lot of conventional rules about museum homepages. Is this the future of all museum websites?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2013

Over the past three years, the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) has served as the museum poster child for the debate on the public value of the arts. Last year, the DIA was saved from financial crisis by voters in its three neighboring counties who elected to take on an additional property tax to support the museum.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

10) Mike Hogan Accomplished Auctioneer and Emcee, Mike Hogan (fundraisersonly.com) has an energy and enthusiasm for fundraising that has helped him raise over $250 million dollars for amazing nonprofit organizations and schools both in person and virtually. 32) Fred Northup, Jr. Fred Northup, Jr.

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CauseVox

MARCH 24, 2022

But, even before the virtual shift, this approach was creating significant barriers for smaller nonprofits as well as wear-and-tear on traveling major gift officers. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, major gift work revolved around in-person donor visits – and for many of us, that’s how we would prefer to make those big asks.

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Association TV

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Have you ever been to a restaurant, museum or shopping mall and needed to use the bathroom? There’s virtually limitless opportunity to remind your audience why they took a liking to you in the first place. You begin by looking up and around for any sort of signage. You halt the conversation and break away from your loved ones.

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Forum One

MAY 28, 2024

These awards honored Forum One’s work in building websites, digital tools, and virtual experiences for our clients. Forum One partnered with the Museum to develop a visual brand system for the event in addition to visual assets that were used across the Museum’s digital channels and in person at the event.

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CauseVox

MAY 25, 2021

A year into the pandemic, admission-based organizations all over North America have pivoted from the original shutdowns to leverage virtual programming capabilities. Some admission-based organizations stayed afloat during the worst of the shutdowns by pivoting to virtual events.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

This new hierarchy model is the basis for my exploration of virtual media as a delivery mode." She is using the virtual media capabilities in Second Life , among others, to navigate her continued research. The Rise of Virtual Libraries. Virtual libraries aren't a new phenomenon. Success in Second Life.

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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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Forum One

JULY 20, 2022

Watch our discussion about creating a successful virtual event. The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) was planning the next installment of their already-successful and well-attended event, “A Seat at the Table.” Taking “A Seat at the Table” virtual. It was March 2020.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In this age of increasing hacks and cybercrime, the Norman Rockwell Museum has a lot of digital assets, museum operations data, and private patron data that need to be protected. Find out why Frank Kennedy, IT manager at the Rockwell museum, chose Veritas Backup Exec to be a key part of the museum's security strategy.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Monday, May 18th is International Museum Day , the mission of which is to raise awareness of the fact that, “museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”. 2019 saw more than 55,000 museums across 150 countries participate.

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