Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In 2011, in the name of raising money for the Special Olympics, I participated in the Polar Plunge. After jumping in, you swam across the short length of the hole (about 10 yards), and emerge, wet and freezing, only to get to race through temps in the teens to try to warm up in a lukewarm hot tub. But here I am, still alive.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

YMCA of Greater Seattle's Kirkland Teen program was one of our test sites. It serves an estimated 84,000 children and teens, so we hoped that this lab would be a serious test of a MultiPoint Server lab's resilience. The Kirkland Teen program in Bellevue, Washington is run by Emily Smith who is their Youth Development Director.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. I arrived in 2011 with the explicit directive to execute a turnaround. How do we share our bifurcated story as both a place to engage with art and history AND a place that builds community? In the meantime, here are some.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

Read more about retaining members: 7 Ways for Arts & Cultural Organizations to Retain Members. The teens coming into adulthood are more likely than adults (57% vs. 49%) to pay more for brands that support the causes or organizations important to them. In 2011, 26% of people had at least one visual arts membership.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

I’m at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. The total readership from 2010-2012 was more than double that of 2007-2009 (and has been flat since 2011). As the readership for Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then. Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. Now, I look back on the book and the biggest thing I see missing are the people inside that box. That participation is powerful and scalable.

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