{"id":945,"date":"2012-06-06T15:32:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T22:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/?p=945"},"modified":"2012-06-08T09:10:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T16:10:38","slug":"bright-idea-united-museum-renewal-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/2012\/06\/bright-idea-united-museum-renewal-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright Idea:  United Museum Renewal Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/2012\/06\/bright-idea-united-museum-renewal-tracking\/membership\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-948\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-948\" title=\"membership\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/membership.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a bright idea from Peter Van Allen of Bryn Mawr, PA&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I am a member of a number of museums and nonprofits &#8212; maybe 8 or 9 all together. So throughout the year, I&#8217;m getting an almost constant stream of renewal notices. I can&#8217;t keep them straight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Why can&#8217;t there be one company or organization that keeps all your membership information in one database? It could keep track of all your renewals, plus it would remind you of your membership level (individual, family, etc.). It might also send out weekly emails with information (exhibits, author talks, calls to action) customized to your memberships.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Great idea, Peter!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>It has been said that the best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.<\/strong>\u00a0 In that spirit, AUDIENCE WANTED dedicates this summer to stirring up a potpourri of creative notions &amp; half-baked thoughts around the purpose of growing audiences for the arts &amp; cultural sector. \u00a0Suspend practicality &amp; judgment for the moment. \u00a0We are just brainstorming here \u2013 with an emphasis on BIG thinking and CREATIVE efforts. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Together, let\u2019s see if we can amass an absolutely HUGE number of wild &amp; crazy ideas. \u00a0Got a\u00a0<strong>Bright Idea<\/strong>\u00a0to contribute? \u00a0Write it up in less than 500 words (along with a brief self-introduction) and send it to: \u00a0<a href=\"mailto: matt@audienceavenue.com\" target=\"_blank\">Matt@audienceavenue.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And if <em>this is an idea that you\u2019re already doing (or if you know somebody who has the power to make it happen) please get in touch, too!\u00a0<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a bright idea from Peter Van Allen of Bryn Mawr, PA&#8230; &#8220;I am a member of a number of museums and nonprofits &#8212; maybe 8 or 9 all together. So throughout the year, I&#8217;m getting an almost constant stream of renewal notices. I can&#8217;t keep them straight. Why can&#8217;t there be one company or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bright-ideas","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}