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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. They hired me and it turned into a decade of learning and teaching others (artists, arts organizations, and arts educators) how to integrate this technology into their work and organizations. Told the room that nonprofit capacity building was my calling.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

Community science workshops. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students.

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What Should Happen to Underperforming Nonprofit Organizations?

Museum 2.0

In the course of the conversation, Devon Smith, a social media consultant from Threespot, started talking the problem of arts organizations that are no longer relevant or useful to their communities. They closed for capricious financial reasons, and they left disappointed artists and participants in their wake. Absolutely.

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Khan Academy and the Revolution in Online Free Choice Learning

Museum 2.0

More importantly, it means that we should be looking to their model to push ourselves in how we think about delivering the most engaging, powerful content possible. We often talk about museums as leaders in providing substantive, essential alternatives to formal schooling. But there are other content models we can explore.

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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

Museum 2.0

If you don't have a sense of an outcome--whether that be internal research, community conversation, or something else--you can't decide how or whether contributions should be documented or archived. To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song.

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Guest Post by Lina Srivastava: Building Cultural Engagement for Change Through Media and Narrative

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the two frameworks I've been co-creating, Transmedia Activism Modeling Global Change, we've based the frameworks on the core value of putting the social change issue first. It's important to build your platforms to both create and demonstrate impact. This post originally appeared on Lina's blog Strategy for Social Change.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." The paper gives examples of different forms of participatory culture: - Affiliations (memberships - formal and informal - in online communities). each of various qualities. More here ). *