Sonya Haskins

This weeks posts are going to focus on free or low cost prgrammes/software that could benefit your museum. 👇👇 Do you work in a small/medium sized museum? do you rely on emails to communicate with volunteers to update them on museum operations? Do you have your own membership scheme? Are you struggling with engagement? Meet Mailjet! a free online marketing tool that allows you to craft personal newsletters. Mailjet is a free marketing platform that allows you to craft professional newsletters with its intuitive drag-and-drop editor. It's perfect for museums looking to engage. Mailjet's features make it easy to: 1. Design visually appealing emails with ease and by dragging and dropping. 2. Understand your audience, see who's opening emails and clicking on your content. 3. Add a free newsletter sign up to your website! The free package gets you 200 emails a day, and 6,000 a month. Perfect for small and mid-sized museums. Ready to elevate your outreach? Give Mailjet a try! ✉️ https://www.mailjet.com/ #emailmarketing #newsletter #marketingtools #Mailjet #smallbusiness #marketing

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The Evolution of Museum Audiences in the Digital Age: A Decade of Dramatic Change (part 3) Social Integration The integration of social media within the museum experience has transformed visitors from passive observers to active participants. Museums encourage visitors to share their experiences online, broadening their reach and engaging with audiences beyond their physical walls. This not only amplifies the museum's presence in the digital sphere but also fosters a sense of community among visitors. Challenges and Opportunities This shift has not been without its challenges. Museums have had to adapt quickly, allocating resources to digital innovation and wrestling with the balance between technology and tradition. However, this evolution presents unparalleled opportunities for museums to expand their audiences, engage with visitors on new levels, and redefine the cultural landscape. As we look to the future, the role of museums as custodians of culture remains unchanged, but how they fulfill this role has to change rapidly. Museums must become dynamic spaces where history, art, and technology intersect, offering experiences that are as informative as they are engaging. The last decade has changed our audiences to which museums have to respond by providing suitable methods to disseminate information educate, and entertain. Provded that these changes are made, the future of museum experiences is bright and boundless. In conclusion, the dramatic change in museum audiences over the past decade, driven by the rise of smart screen technology and a demand for dynamic media, marks a pivotal moment in the history of museums. As institutions navigate this digital frontier, their success will hinge on their ability to blend tradition with innovation, ensuring that the museum of tomorrow can captivate the audiences of today. Let's talk and demonstrate some of the methods with which we can help you accomplish that essential transformation, #madsystems #alice #lory #quicksilver #av++ #MANY2024 #nextin2024

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#Rockfordians, my colleague Rachel León is seeking submissions for The Rockford Anthology as a part of Belt Publishing's city anthology series. Please share the submission guidelines with anyone you think might be interested in contributing: We want your Rockford story. We’re building a collection of stories written by current or former residents of Rockford, Illinois, offering a snapshot of the city. Stories can take different forms: essays, poems, photos, hybrid work. Rockford is full of history. There’s triumph: Bing Liu’s Minding the Gap and Fred VanVleet’s NBA championship win. On the Waterfront and South Main Mercado. Cheap Trick and Michelle Williams. But also injustices and tragedy: the People Who Care race discrimination lawsuit. Mark Anthony Barmore’s murder by police at the House of Grace daycare. The faces behind reports that Rockford continually has a higher per capita crime rate than Chicago. Share your stories of pride in this city. Or your shame. Memories of growing up in Rockford—from your involvement in the arts and music scene to your old schools. What would you tell someone who has never been here? Where would you show them? Would you tell them any city history or local folklore? We want stories of dreams and disappointment. How have you reckoned with the crime impacting your neighborhood? What are your frustrations about the city? What about your hopes for the future? Do you have a local hero, your favorite neighborhood, or a place that holds meaning? Is there a memory that defines your Rockford experience? A moment of fear so stark it still wakes you up at night? A day of joy so intense that it can still make you laugh throughout the day? To accurately capture this city, we need a variety of voices. We are actively seeking work from people of all ages, abilities, gender identities, sexualities, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds who have personal connections to Rockford. We want the story only you can tell about this city. Length We have no formal word limit, but we are looking to keep essays to five pages or less. Shorter is better.  You may submit up to three poems for consideration, but likely only one will be selected for publication. Formatting Double-spaced, 12-point serif font is preferred, but don’t stress about it. We’ll take your submission in whatever format works best for you. Questions & How to Submit Email: [email protected] Submission Deadline October 15, 2024. #anthologysubmissions #RockfordIllinois

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Greetings! We're getting close to being able to relaunch the website for my indie press, Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc. Two of the key additions to the new site are: Author Services and Visit Our Store. At Author Services, you'll see examples of how I've used my decades of expertise as an author, editor, and publisher to facilitate the development of a book and/or the sale of a book to a major indie or top five commercial publisher as well as foreign sales and so many other services -- I recently learned of a first time author who paid $13,999 to get her/his self-published book. Our Author Services division can help you get your manuscript from final draft (or even blank page) to self-published for a lot less! A second exciting new feature to the relaunched site is Visit Our Store. In addition to highlighting some of the products that have helped me as I've accomplished a massive decluttering -- going from more than eight four-drawer filing cabinets to only four -- including a high speed scanner -- I share about just some of my favorite books and I also invite visitors to contact me if they'd like to be considered for inclusion in the store -- we're open to books, other products, and/or services. I"ll share about details such as cost and what information or image I/we would need. I'll announce when our new website goes live. It will have these domain names associated with it: hannacroixcreekbooks.com and hcbooks.com FYI: I'm considering rebranding the company from Hannacroix Creek Books to the much shorter HCBooks.com with the associated, shortened URL! Direct message me here or send an e-mail and I'll personally keep you posted as well! At the new website, there are also five catalogues that share information on all of our titles with one catalogue for nonfiction and another for fiction including cihldren's books. I'm hoping to be able to expand the company so I can open it up to new submissions! I'll keep everyone updated about that as well! Best wishes, Jan (Who's appeared on OPRAH, THE VIEW, TODAY SHOW, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, on behalf of one or more of her books including FRIENDSHIFTS, WHEN FRIENDSHIP HURTS, VICTIMS, CREATIVE TIME MANAGEMENT FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM, and so many more.) http://www.drjanyager.com

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Today's museum question: Would you expand the definition "Museum experience" off-site/outdoors? Or would you prefer the term "Heritage experience"? And what would DMO:s catch onto? What would audiences embrace? I am referring to more complex museum-led experiences than f.ex. guided tours or trekking with a heritage pod in your ears. :) (AI-image for attention)

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Baltimore-area readers: SAVE THE DATE! July 6, 2024, from 6:30-8 pm, at Snug Books in Baltimore, author John Maly will read from his debut novel, JURIS EX MACHINA. Audience discussion about the implications of AI will follow. Register today for free tickets at www.snugbooks.com Here's a teaser: With a click, the bread fell into the toaster. One circuit fired the heating coils. Others monitored bread temperature and color. Yet another circuit was quite unlike all the rest- as exotic as it was sinister; when it activated, 368 people would die. In the 22nd century, the justice system is airtight in the domed city of Arcadia. Human error has been removed. Yet somehow, a well-intentioned young kleptomaniac named Rainville falls through the cracks and is wrongfully convicted of mass murder. He is exiled to Wychwood Prison, a crumbling necropolis beyond the dome where the dead outnumber the living, where the inmates are also the guards. News of the crime follows him, and he becomes a marked man. Rainville's only hope for survival is becoming the first inmate in history to escape Wychwood. Can he do it? The fate of Arcadia depends on it. Can't make the event? You can grab your copy today at https://lnkd.in/ewRP8SP4, which also benefits Snug Books, an independent, woman-owned bookstore. #whattoread #ai #artificialintelligence #scifinovel #cyberpunk

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I have difficulty getting people excited about #LinkedData and the positive impact for both libraries and end users. As a profession, we often resist big changes to established rules, standards, and workflows. This piece by OCLC does a phenomenal job of outlining the benefits of linked data in a very succinct way and is very much worth the read: https://lnkd.in/ew3uEhYB

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There was so much to learn about #PVC in this episode of the #iands podcast "I Hear Design." Biggest eye-opener 👀 was the lively and thoughtful discussion about carbon impact, with factors I hadn't considered. Click through to listen👂!

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Social studies teachers, check out this resource!

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If you are wondering how #AI is impacting #Education right now, you need to spend time with this diagram created by #edtechinsiders. Kudos to Alex Sarlin and others on this incredibly useful #infographic.

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The December/January issue of C&B News is now at the printer. That's the 10th and final issue of 2024. Hmm. Better find something else to do now! #magazine #communitynews #localnews

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"Ricky Miller, cofounder and publisher of the U.K. small press Avery Hill Publishing, signed on with Comics Plus as a way to raise awareness among U.S. readers. Miller would like to see more Avery Hill titles in U.S. libraries, but that’s a challenge with physical books. Digital publishing allows the company to offer its books to a wide audience and makes it easier for readers to discover them, including early works by Tillie Walden and Zoe Thorogood." via Publishers Weekly While too many traditional publishers still remain leery of ebooks and libraries, a steadily increasing number of comics and manga publishers value the combination of discovery and revenue Comics Plus [LibraryPass] provides — partly because their print editions still offer a unique experience for readers and/or collectors. Miller gets it. #comics #manga #libcomix #ReadAllTheComics https://lnkd.in/ekqXGfu2

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Just finished the course “Equality & Equity in the World of Product” by Imani Dunbar. Thanks for sharing this with me, Ellen Bailey. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/epsxdMmv #productdesign.

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A flurry of presentations this month: one on TITANIC, one on JOHNSTON/SBR, and two on KIDD. Did you know that you can minimize PowerPoint files sizes by first reducing the size of imported images? Reducing an image size in PP does not reduce the image’s file size and therefore can make a presentation unwieldy. And you usually don’t need large image sizes in PP.

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Even with a detailed update from the Alabama Public Library Service, questions on how the code changes will be implemented surround the situation. My latest for AL.com. Link in the comments.

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