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Digital Membership Cards by MuseumAnywhere

What’s in our wallet? Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Drivers Licence, Health Insurance Card, Auto insurance card and more! Simplify life for your members.

Simplify life for your members and reduce your costs. Let them carry your membership cards on their smartphone. One less card to carry. Less time at front desk verifying membership. Our eMembership Card solution integrates with Blackbaud Altru and Raiser’s Edge systems!

For More Information visit http://museumanywhere.com/emembership-card

  • Members will always have the card and updated card as it renews.
  • Don’t have to worry about replacing lost cards. Save hassles for members and save your staff time spent fulfilling replacement card requests.
  • Reduce costs related with mailing, printing, supplies and staff time.
  • Quick e-delivery of Digital Membership. Member need not wait week or more for the cards.
  • Go Green. More environment friendly as compared to other traditional paper or plastic cards.
  • No data entry, scanning or work required from you!
  • We take care of solution hosting, support and maintenance.
  • Our eMembership Cards are scannable using most bar code scanners

eMembership Card features:

  • EMembership card gives automated renewal notifications-even if app is not open
  • A notification on the phone has way higher visibility and action possibility than paper or email reminders
  • Once eMembership card expires it marks itself as expired, if not already renewed!
  • NEW Security Module: Complete tracking history of card downloads.
  • NEW Remotely block or wipe a eMembership Card.
  • NEW Remotely wipe eMembership Card or remotely block the device from downloading eMembership Card.
  • NEW Option to limit number of card downloads.
  • Besides autiomated reminders, use the push notifications module to send offers and events info to some or all members.
  • eMmembership Card shows all benefits available to its user and new or upgraded membership options.
  • Users can personalize card by adding their personal photo (if allowed by you).

    • If you have special requirements like Guest Passes, Caregiver Cards, Guest membership or have another membership system other than Altru or RE, let us know and we will take care of those. Feel free to get to us via email sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or 703.652.6630, 703.371.9263 www.MuseumAnywhere.com

Museum Collection Online

Most Museums, Historic Sites, Art Galleries, Science Centers have more artifacts than they can put on display. Space is usually biggest constraint and a limited number of artifacts can be displayed at a time.

Most Museums, Historic Sites, Art Galleries, Science Centers have more artifacts than they can put on display. Space is usually biggest constraint and a limited number of artifacts can be displayed at a time. Museum Collection Online integrates with your Collection System it allows you to showcase your artifacts creatively on your own website, thereby making it available for audiences across the world to see. MuseumAnywhere team has already built integration connectors to TMS collection management software that can be integrated with any other collection management system. Museum Collection Online will increase visibility as well as awareness and attract students, educators, researchers and public to your website. In addition, this Online Collection generates rich analytics of most viewed, most popular and most shared objects, thereby helping you with your future plans. Here are some interesting features of Museum Collection Online:

  • Easily connects to your existing collection system: TMS integration is already built. We can integrate with your collection management software.
  • You can bring an artifact online, right from your existing Collection Management System controller: You get to decide the type of objects/artifacts and related information is to be made available on your website.
  • Provides advanced web search capability: Users get multiple ways to narrow down the results to get what interests them the most.
  • Social media integration: Visitors can log in to your Collection Online website through their
    Facebook and Twitter accounts. They can also scroll through your content without logging in.
  • Ability to push objects into Favorites: It allows visitors to push the items they like into their respective favorite lists. They can recall this list at any point in time.
  • PDF Reports Capability: It allows visitors to download a PDF file containing information and image of any object they like. This feature can be restricted based on your museum’s policy
  • Museum Analytics: Museum Collection Online provides you with visitor stats and behaviors. It also provides you with relevant data that you can use to assess the popularity of your displays on a more granular basis.

Our Museum Collection Online solution is very cost-effective, innovative and feature rich as compared to other solutions from Collection Management Systems. So, what are you waiting for? Call us today for a demo and bring your museum collection to your website now!

Blackbaud Technology Partner

MuseumAnywhere becomes a Technology Partner of Blackbaud, Inc. Our E-Membership Cards and Member FastLane solutions integrate with and extend Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge and Altru capabilities.

MuseumAnywhere becomes a Technology Partner of Blackbaud, Inc. Our E-Membership Cards and Member FastLane solutions integrate with and extend Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge and Altru capabilities. E-Membership card allows Membership cards complete with barcode and Membership details on smartphones and also generate electronic notification for renewals.

MemberFastLane solution is quick self service Kiosk on an iPad with a staff companion to prioritize member entry. Get to MuseumAnywhere team for a demo. Serving the nonprofit, charitable giving, and education communities for more than 35 years, Blackbaud (NASDAQ:BLKB) combines technology solutions and expertise to help organizations achieve their missions. Blackbaud works in over 60 countries to support more than 35,000 customers, including nonprofits, K–12 private and higher education institutions, healthcare organizations, foundations, and other charitable giving entities, and corporations MuseumAnywhere based in Washington DC metro area, focuses on mobile
apps, web apps and integrations for Museums, Science Centers, historic sites and more.

Teacher App for field trips

Teacher App is an Education App for Museum, Science centers and others. Your Teacher App allows planning of the trip to your facility, provides age appropriate suggestions of interactives.

Teacher App is an Education App for Museum, Science centers and others. Your Teacher App allows planning of the trip to your facility, provides age appropriate suggestions of interactives. Teachers can include information on students and chaperons and assign groups as well as track student emergency contact info, photo-restrictions, medications, spending money and other key info. App includes a repository of age appropriate questions and answers for chaperons that their group can answer. It tracks group scores and even issues e-trophies to the group making entire experience great learning experience and fun.

E-Membership cards from your Blackbaud Altru system

Provide E-Membership Cards on your members smartphones! Electronic cards are huge convenience to members.

Provide E-Membership Cards on your members smartphones! Electronic cards are huge convenience to members. MuseumAnywhere team has built connectors to Blackbaud Altru system as well as Blackbaud Raisers Edge to provide E-Membership cards a) In your Museum’s App  or b) As part of custom app that we will do for you or c) E-membership cards App for your museum without doing a full custom app. We can also integrate with other membership systems.

Things you must do before Raisers Edge to Altru Migration

As museums move from onsite systems to hosted platforms like from Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge (RE) to Altru, there are certain considerations that will ensure smooth your transition.

As museums move from onsite systems to hosted platforms like from Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge (RE) to Altru, there are certain considerations that will ensure smooth your transition.

  • Review records. This this is the time for cleanup of things like 7 digit local contact numbers from decades ago that should be put in as ten digit phone numbers.
  • Get counts of active and inactive members
  • Decide with your executive team if you would be bringing to new system records where membership has lapsed, those that passed away or have been inactive for years
  • From our experience, we suggest you bring entire data. That way if a member comes back years later, you will have history on that member and quickly acknowledging an appreciation for being member is past will go long way in strengthening the bond for longer term association with your institution in years to come.
  • In Raisers Edge, make sure every constituent that has a partner record attached has a Constituent # of its own. This is very critical and your Blackbaud rep will surely tell you that.
  • One way to assign constituent ID to partner records is to go into each member record, click on partner records and check that. However, if you have thousands of members this could be a very time consuming process. Get help from someone who understands the data structure of Raisers edge to be able to go into your live system to do that at the back-end and is very sure of not to mess things up!
  • Assuming you have success taking care of that; now you may have one last challenge before you are ready for migration. Check if there are any “orphan records” that won’t migrate to Altru. These will be records that are not partner records and do not have a ConstituentID assigned. Yes they do exist even if you did previous step correctly and you will find them if you were to open each member record and check. Other option again will be to seek expert help and to go into tables and find those out.
  • Once this is done you are good to go for migration. Enjoy your new Altru system! Do check new system records against old system.

About us: MuseumAnywhere is a division of InfiCare Technologies located in Washington DC metro area since 2001. Our team has a good understanding and experience on Blackbaud’s Raisers Edge, Altru and TMS. We can help making sure that your system is ready for migration, take away pain of having to manually checking thousands of records and take care of things in just a few days so your system will be ready to migrate to Altru. We will even check Altru post-migration. If you are looking for getting more value out of Raisers Edge by doing integrations to other systems and offer cool things like E-Membership cards, then we have “connectors” that we can quickly deploy.

About Author: Sumer Mathur is founder and president of MuseumAnywhere based in Dulles VA

Social Media Hub

A Social Media Hub is an exquisite addition to any kind of website on the internet. Whether an individual is preparing to run his or her current hash tag campaign or simply trying to create a commercial website that promotes fans with commercial products, a social media hub is the best way to connect with both present and upcoming brand enthusiasts.

A Social Media Hub is an exquisite addition to any kind of website on the internet. Whether an individual is preparing to run his or her current hash tag campaign or simply trying to create a commercial website that promotes fans with commercial products, a social media hub is the best way to connect with both present and upcoming brand enthusiasts. Even when an individual is promoting any kind of recreational event that enables fans to entertain themselves with all the hype that seems to be surrounding the event, the true solution under such circumstances is a social media hub.

With the increase in number of social networks, business companies or organizations have opted to go for any such method that will enable them to join all their social networks into their company purchased websites. Social Media hubs tend to offer potential both and existing customers a perfect picture of their activities that have undergone in any one of the social networks. There seems to be a rising trend in between the multi-national companies which always possess integrated social posts and these multi-national companies have a habit of bringing forth such social hype and buzz into their self owned websites.

A social media hub may be defined as a content aggression page that exists in a company’s website; it is essential to attract any kind of social feeds from any kind of blogs to the company’s website that eventually leads to the company’s own benefit. A social media hub is necessarily not some sort of a content editing hub, it is a different typical blog where any kind of content is at first updated and then such kind of content is usually synched or rather shared to various other networks; hence, there are major differences between the two of them.

The need for a social media hub, however significant it might be because of the reason that they offer to integrate the multitude of different social networks into a single website on the internet, is actually less promising. This is due to the presence of many CMS that do not support the essence of a social media hub. Hence, a need arises for a CMS to create a webpage that actually feeds all the social activities relating to a specific nature, although it is time consuming and costly process, especially if the cost for separate designing and styling is considered.

Precisely speaking, a social media hub serves various useful and significant purposes as per as social activities across various social networks is concerned. It provides an easy an attractive solution to witness any kind of social outpost or activity relating to a particular brand. Moreover, a social media hub also serves the purpose of combining various networking sites from one place; it even offers integration between own organization communities that reflects any kind of outside or external activity. A social media hub also offers an easy method to follow recent social conversations and also the opportunity to connect with them.

Intelligent Messaging -Advanced Add-on

The term “intelligent Messaging’’ has quite a complex meaning, in relation to a computer’s ethics definition, to begin with; it can be defined as a historic messaging system, that was initially introduced by Banyan Systems, that ran its course through NetWare and VINES servers,

The term “intelligent Messaging’’ has quite a complex meaning, in relation to a computer’s ethics definition, to begin with; it can be defined as a historic messaging system, that was initially introduced by Banyan Systems, that ran its course through NetWare and VINES servers, that was further accompanied by an incorporated popular directory service from Banyan’s, known as Street talk. In simple terms, Intelligent Messaging contained a basic mail program, which could be further advanced to the more integrated Beyond Mail system. There are several brands or companies that further the cause of Intelligent Messaging in a world wide fashion.

The main purpose or aim of the concept of Intelligent Messaging is to bring together all the various texts or messages and alerts of a user into an easily manageable solution or outcome. As a result, by following such an efficient prophecy that Intelligent Messaging has to unfold, an individual is able to fulfill or rather benefit from his efforts of reducing his or her overall Information Technology costs, that otherwise, is sure to be an irritating burden to carry on. To be precise, a two way communication is established between a user and his or her fellow beloved companions.

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Intelligent Messaging can also be achieved by means of a fax featuring facility. For instance, by implementing the fax featuring facility, an individual is able to access his or her mailbox and go through all his or her messages or e-mails. Moreover, the fax featuring facility also enables a user to play any audio or video containing message. To add to its cause, the purpose of Intelligent Messaging can is enhanced even further through its fax featuring facility, for an individual is also able to simply record and send a message to any other user of his or her choice.

Intelligent Messaging, being a two way actionable conversation, enables the customers or its users, to interact or communicate with new customers, which in return, leads to the birth of new conversations between them. It enables to decrease costs of smarter interaction. Intelligent messaging is very essential for a user to decrease the chances of any kind of fraudulent activity by restricting use of any unauthorized monetary account or card. Intelligent Messaging is a user friendly concept because it can be implemented on any device or channel. Any kind of call-centre payments is generally reduced through the provisions of effective communication.

By utilizing Intelligent Messaging, an individual finds it very easy to simplify his or her messaging network service. Not only that, Intelligent Messaging is enriched in a large set of magnificent features. For instance, a user can manage and create alerts in his or her self preferred way that eventually suits the individual’s business activities. There is also the possibility of a multi-channel delivery system. Also, the presence of a complete suite of alert aggregation is tremendously beneficial to the customer’s requirements; be it online banking alerts or bill pay alerts, increase alert procedures provide a conventional powerful service channel.

Advanced add-ons of museum app development

Museum Anywhere is a partition of InfiCare Technologies a source of IT solutions and amenities to the government, non-profit and commercial customers in United States, Central and South America, Europe and Asia for about 14 years.

Museum Anywhere is a partition of InfiCare Technologies a source of IT solutions and amenities to the government, non-profit and commercial customers in United States, Central and South America, Europe and Asia for about 14 years. Our corporate office is in Dulles, VA in Washington DC metro area. The various add-ons of the museum app covers the following areas.

Intelligent Selective messaging uses the supremacy of iBeacon solution and reveals advanced features of Messaging feature already included with Museum App merchandise. Messaging feature already comprised with the Museum App permits you to conduct declarations that go to all the users of the app. visualize an occasion in the lawn and by means of their smartphone/tablet your staff can send message to persons inside the museum to join Otherwise an presentation on 4th level and being able to direct a gentle notice about the exhibition to persons in the museum but not previously there. Would not it be great to produce automatic messages about a fresh artifact in a gallery when the individual enters that gallery? The Intelligent Messaging add on is a property you will love!

Social Media Hub for Museum App seizures your museum’s social posts, tweets and Instagram. Most folks do not “follow” museum. Social media Hub is an exciting technique to bring continually refreshing posts in one place for users to concern and include them with the Museum. Form the connection and have them return with friends and family. Users may not “follow” you or be friends with Museum’s social account. Social Media Hub for Museum App can display up as another tab in the drop down menu inside app. Another function of Social Media hub is to seize social chatter about the Museum. That feature can be enabled as well, so it can also fetch tweets, Instagram posts related to the museum. You can also combine your PR properties with the social posts.

Museum staff regularly takes pictures of occasions to put on social media and museum’s website. How many people actually go to the website to see them? Event Pictures Display and Social Share is an awesome way to showcase your occasion pictures. People like to see and share their images and it can bring huge P.R. and social media thrill to the Museum. Photographs can be majority uploaded using the Admin portal. Pictures highlight the Event in a Tiled, Wheel or film strip arrangement. User can flip from side to side and select their desired pictures and then in one step share on their Facebook, Twitter or send through email.

Puzzle is available as free choice in Museum App for objects in the Gallery view of the app. Add slight more animation and entertain with Shake to puzzle capability. When looking at an artifact in the Museum App Gallery view shaking the device changes it into puzzle.

Last but not the least, where is my car parked? This feature permits a visitor to spot car location so they can effortlessly walk back to it. This is an awesome features for bigger museums or if they have more than one entry and exit point.

MUSEUM TOUR APP

Handheld and mobile tours are made simple and on your fingertips nowadays. There are many scientific organizations that make and create these apps for museum maps and tours. Nowadays maximum people carry smartphones and so the preference of apps is very high.

Handheld and mobile tours are made simple and on your fingertips nowadays. There are many scientific organizations that make and create these apps for museum maps and tours. Nowadays maximum people carry smartphones and so the preference of apps is very high. These apps provide with the information about what to see in the museums and also they give an idea about the maps of the respective museums. Videos are uploaded so that one can get interested in going there and find it really easy to watch what they want. Images, offline maps, multilingual content, audio and custom branding are all put into the apps. One finds it very easy to roam about in the museums and to learn about artifacts present there. Even persons from other countries find it easy and helpful as they can see the content in the language they are comfortable with. All the hard stuff like format conversion, app store submissions, development and designs, hosting are taken care by the company creating the apps. The heritage organization’s authority can have control of what is being implemented in the apps and they can edit or delete or update the gallery contents as well. The museums can be brought to life by using these apps.

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The multimedia tours can be accessed from any smartphones and tourists or visitors can have video guide tours and audio guide tours to increase their educational experiences regarding the museums. GPS enabled maps can be added in the museum tour apps and the visitors can find absolutely what they are looking for very easily. Offline maps are also put into these apps. Proximity beacons are used indoors for creating interactive experiences in these apps and the visitors get interested as they walk within the museums. These apps are updated very quickly. Any changes in the exhibitions or events in the museums are updated real quickly and this is one of the unique features of these apps. Scavenger hunts or games can also be added according to the needs or wish of the museum authority. The audio and visual additions to the apps always tend to enhance the interests of the visitors and it adds to their interest when they find exhibits very easily. Tours can be conducted by the museums through cell phones. So there will be no hassle of conducting audio tours within the museums. The expenses of the community are cut down in this way.

On the other hand, surveys can be made on museum visitors for immediate feedback. The apps run almost on every platform like the iOS, android, windows etc. The accessibility to these apps is very easy and also there are other helping options for the visually impaired or hearing impaired persons. These apps can help both the museum authorities and the visitors in many more ways. There are no hassles of typing URLs and wasting time. Visitors can rather just download these apps and get all the information they need at their hand’s pace. Museum tour apps are real guides to your next tour to museums.