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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Part of my job was to evangelize about the Internet and later the web - how artists should harness its power by getting an email address instead of using their fax machines! 09 was the first version I used).

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How To Facilitate Effective Virtual Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire. Use phone line with audio clarity and stability. See slide 30 for a simple recipe for doing this exercise as part of a virtual meeting. Here are some more tips for making audio-only conference calls more impactful.

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Adventures in Artist-Driven Public Engagement: Machine Project at the Hammer Museum

Museum 2.0

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Impressions of the Palm Pre

Robert Weiner

It's easiest to open if you slide the keyboard out. You can select albums, artists, genres, songs, or playlists -- so far so good. But when you choose an artist with multiple albums your only choice is either a single album or Shuffle All, which plays all the tracks in random order. But no one seems to offer that. Web Browsing.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

Is it video and audio? We've done audio, we've done video, we've done text, and we've done some photo slide shows. And what about if there are people who are journalists or reporters listening, how can they submit ideas? And are stories only written? What are the mediums? We do all kinds of multimedia. graphic, or a map.

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What I Learned From @Sree Sreenivasan Chief Digital Officer of @MetMuseum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sree delivered the lunch time keynote about “How Institutions Go Digital” ( Slides and Curated Tweets ) which was a funny, engaging, and insightful talk about digital transformation of a staid institution. Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art. Everything we do is in service of the art.

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100+ Fundraising Event Ideas to Try in 2021 and Beyond

Qgiv

Depending on your budget, you may be able to get a popular artist, but you can also reach out to local musicians. Art show – Are there any local artists in your area? And, with their permission, you can even sell some of the pieces with a portion going back to the artist and the rest going to your organization.

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