The Future of Museums with Brent Glass
As we enter a new era driven by the rapid evolution of technology, museum operations and management will be forced to adapt while at the same time balancing traditional roles as collection and preservation institutions.
The Future of Museums, featuring Brent Glass, Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, will examine prospects and offer recommendations for successful museum management in the 21st Century. The talk, organized by Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Glass will lead a discussion on the role of museums in this new era, what partnerships, and strategic advantages and opportunities are necessary to remain effective and, most importantly, how do museums continue in their traditional role as research institutions when faced with dwindling economic resources.
As director of the National Museum of American History, Glass led a two-year, $87 million renovation and development of 20 new exhibitions for the 2008 reopening, including the major exhibitions on The Star-Spangled Banner; Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life and On the Water: Stories from Maritime America, and 80 public programs and 2,500 theater performances. Since 2008, more than 13 million people visited the Institution, a 50% increase over previous years and the Museum’s web site has an additional 8 million visitors.
Practically Using Place-Based Applications
How are organizations using place-based applications like FourSquare or Facebook Places? Could these tools be useful for my organization? How might they integrate into what I am already doing with social media? We all have lots of questions about these relatively new marketing tools. In this webinar, we'll take a look at the potential of place-based applications.
Choosing a Low-Cost Donor Management System
Donors are the lifeblood of your small organization, volunteers the strong backs upon which it is built. You rely on them, and on the partners and other constituents who interact with your nonprofit on a daily basis. Tracking them all involves creating and maintaining a lot of data.
But that data also needs to be accessible. A database is like a First Aid kit—it doesn’t matter what’s in it if you can’t get to it when you need to. For example, if a donor calls, you want to be able to instantly access their donation history, their personal information and any other relevant data. Good luck doing all that with an Excel spreadsheet.
Getting Started with Mobile Outreach-Webinar
It's easier that you might think to broadcast text messages to your supporters' cell phones, to ask them to respond to a quick question, or even to ask them to donate right through their phone. Mobile applications – programs that run on your constituent’s iPhone or other phone -- can also be a useful tool in a nonprofit communicator’s toolbox. We'll talk through the principles, software packages, and best practices that can help.
What's included?
- Why might you want to use mobile?
- What's possible?
- Phone viewable websites
- Broadcast texts
- Subscriptions and two way conversations
- Connecting texts with a database
- Mobile giving and mobile pledges
- The complex world of mobile
- Understanding mobile apps
- What is a mobile app?
- Examples
- How to implement one
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