Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Launched in 2006, Adobe Youth Voices is designed to provide youth in underserved areas with the critical skills they need to become active and engaged members of their communities and the world at large. Youth Voices: Creating with Purpose. By doing this, they can direct funding and people to the areas they’re trying to improve.

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2011

In this webinar, fundraising experts from Union of Concerned Scientists, Blackbaud and Care2 will analyze the most significant results of the newly released 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmark Report. Join us on Wednesday, June 29 from 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET for Multi-Channel Fundraising: Magic or Myth?

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Channel Fundraising Blackbaud Advocacy 58

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

From 2006-2011, I focused almost entirely on #1 and #2, playing with ways to invite visitors to actively participate with professionals to co-create powerful experiences around museum objects. We invited local artists and community groups to perform. We scrounged for free couches.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. Right now, we have monthly family art activities. Board committee meetings. Film festival openings. Historical landmark ceremonies.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

When I came to the museum in May of 2011, we were on the brink of closure financially. By inviting people to actively participate with us in co-creating programming, we empower them as creative agents, cultural producers, and people for whom the museum is a relevant, compelling partner. We believe in fearless experimentation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank. We have four stories up now: from a guard, a curator, a longtime museum lover, and an artist.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I arrived in 2011 with the explicit directive to execute a turnaround. Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

By November of 2010, I had a business plan for the cafe and intended to start raising money in 2011. But I didn't know how much I would come to love the city, the mountains, the beach, and the people--hippies, surfers, students, anarchists, artists, geeks, farmers, dreamers of all kinds.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2013

If you asked me a month ago what the biggest barrier was to American arts organizations adopting practices that support active engagement in the arts by diverse participants, I would have said two: money and legitimacy. But secondly, and more importantly, it meant validation for active participation in the arts.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. In the case of MN150, staff historians worked actively to verify and connect with contributors on any contentious topics. This was particularly true for Click!,

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

They have also been very active on Facebook and Twitter along with a few entries on the Jumo blog. In the very early days of the website they had visitors answer a series of questions about interests, skills, and cause activities. Will millions of people sign-up, actively participate, and help drive change?

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Trend New York Blackbaud Argentina 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Collective activities are not new to social media. The Audubon Society organized the first Christmas Bird Count to inventory all the birds in the Western Hemisphere in 1900. But now using social media enable the Society and ( anyone else ) to increase this activity with less effort and less cost.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Favianna Rodriguez Activist printmaker and digital artist. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (September 7, 2011) 7. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (May 31, 2011) 9. Naomi Natale Founding Artist, One Million Bones. Listen: Big Vision Podcast interview (July 23, 2011) 12. Jensine Larsen Founder, World Pulse.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 27, 2011

." - Naomi Natale, One Million Bones Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones , a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2010

There is a whole range of recyclers, hackers, metalworkers, weavers, builders, circuit benders, and artists up and down the East Coast that NYSCI connected with through the Maker Faire planning. These people are now eager to collaborate on projects and participate in our community maker activities.

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