International Spaceflight Museum

The ISM Balance Sheet has been replaced by a new Google spreadsheet because of a technical glitch with Google Docs. There is a shortened URL available, xrl.us/ismmoney1.

If you look at the bottom of the new spreadsheet, you’ll see we received a huge donation (L$30,000) from an avatar in the past day, which effectively saves Spaceport Alpha for this month! Many thanks!! (I am not revealing the avatar’s name at this time, since we don’t have permission to do so. If consent to let us acknowledge this generousity is given, we will publish it here.)

Now we just have to raise at least US$152 by the end of next week, and Spaceport Bravo will also be with us for at least one more month.

Thanks again for all your support since we started this museum, in 2005!

Do you Twitter? Even if you don’t, you can see what people are “tweeting” about the ISM by going to http://hashtags.org/tag/sl-ism. If you do have a Twitter account and want to discuss the musuem there, please use “#SL-ISM” somewhere in your message so it will get indexed.

Some examples of tweets using this tag:

This image is from a Twitter client called iTweet.

To find out more about hashtags, see the Twitter Fan Wiki entry. For more ideas on using Twitter and other online social network tools for nonprofits and education, visit Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog.

Thanks to Earth Primbee and Paradox Olbers (one of the ISM Corporation directors), we have a promotional video about the ISM on YouTube now.

Once you see this, be sure to come back here and make a donation, so we can keep this marvelous place going! For more info about our finances, see our balancesheet.

We have closed the online ISM giftshop at CafePress.com due to problems with their interface and lack of sales. But watch for our new shop at Zazzle.com, coming soon!

April 2009