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5 Reasons Why You Should Make Mentoring A Priority

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One way to give back is by mentoring or sharing your experience with others. Some of the mentors and the mentees shared their experiences and five reasons why you should make mentoring a part of your life follow: You Can Fit Mentoring Into Your Schedule. She shared, “The experience with the teens was amazing.

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Let's Stop Talking about What People Need

Museum 2.0

It''s really important to be able to articulate what we need to achieve our institutional missions. In my experience, the "needs" of audiences often look suspiciously like the "wants" of the people speaking. I don''t hear this phrase accompanied by evidence-based articulation of "needs" of audiences. But what do they need?

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression. When they saw the results of that expression, they struggled with the content and eventually integrated it into their project in a way that diminished the teens’ involvement and hard work.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

Part 2: It's How Aggressive You Are My first year in museums, I tried to get as much broad experience as possible. At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. The blog started with a conference experience. Anna accepted my proposal.

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Betting on Braincake: Interview with Jen Stancil

Museum 2.0

Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. The content starts with the teen team.

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One-Man Bands and Museum Labor as an Access Barrier

Museum 2.0

I hope to hear you articulate your thoughts in comments or on social. If you have a teen program running, there are no second teen programs person out drumming up business. As a field, we spend a whole lot of time evaluating patron’s experiences (hopefully). There are plenty. Today, I’d like to call out a huge one.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Diane told me several stories about teens who came in thinking of themselves as dumb but changed their perspective as their confidence grew in two areas they associated with intelligence--knowing science and being able to teach. YES students defy expectations.