Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2013

Over the past three years, the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) has served as the museum poster child for the debate on the public value of the arts. Last year, the DIA was saved from financial crisis by voters in its three neighboring counties who elected to take on an additional property tax to support the museum.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

ArtPrize , the grandaddy of visitor voting, just completed its fourth year in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Brooklyn Museum just finished the public stage of GO , a "community-curated open studio project." Fascinating (and long) article about the Mohn Award here. 1,708 artists participated. Full stats here. In LA, only 4% voted.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Residents in the three counties that pay the millage will receive special benefits : free admission to the museum and expanded educational programming. This perspective was rampant in Michigan. Successful argument: Great museums improve quality of life and the value of the region. Several Detroit comments were in this vein.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Last week, I attended a workshop on Creating a Vision of Greatness at ZingTrain , the training arm of Zingerman's Deli, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. If you want to know more, I recommend you check out the related ZingTrain articles on visioning, or even take their two-day course. So here are a few notes on how to write a vision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

I grew up just outside of Detroit Michigan, daughter of a police officer and nurse. When I graduated in 2003, I moved out here to California and worked with the San Jose Museum of Art before getting a job with Linden Labs. I learned a lot from San Jose Art Museum. How did you end up working in a virtual world?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

For examples of text-free avatars, see the United Way of Southwest Michigan and Amnesty International : Instagram Bios. If you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum or zoo, then also add your address. They do read and often will read very long captions, even articles or blog posts copied and pasted directly into Instagram.

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