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How We Doubled Attendance in a Year: One More Post about How Events Changed Our Attendance

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But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (our fiscal year ends on June 30), and several people have written to me asking for the numbers behind our turnaround. The busiest day in both 2011 and 2012 is our longtime community program, Free First Friday.

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A Revolution in Documentary Film

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the Producers Institute , Yates worked with technologists to create Granito: Every Memory Matters – a mobile interface that will invite anyone who experienced the war in Guatemala to upload their own experiences and recollections for posterity. But that is only the jumping off point for the inquiry.

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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

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I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I invited her to share her experience in crowd funding. I saw for myself that history was unfolding in front of me. Now, fast forward to 2012. If we are successful, we’ll join over 15,000 artists, filmmakers, activists, and entrepreneurs who have collectively raised over $125 million using this innovative “crowd-funding” model.

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Khan Academy and the Revolution in Online Free Choice Learning

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She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history.

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Fifteen Random Things I've Learned about Design for Participation This Year

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We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. Artists work incredibly hard to produce their work. And the crayon drawings on the fridge door in an exhibition of award-winning local artists? People will talk about what they are writing or making.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

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Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary. I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. Sometimes it is.

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