Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2015

Engineering taught me to be a tinkerer, a builder, and a problem solver. Diane calls it "Beauty Class," but it really seems to be about aesthetic valuing: identifying beauty in its many forms, and developing a personal aesthetic sensibility. Start here , and get ready to spend a lot of time with each post. Too personal?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I''ve been curious about this question for a long time. CON: can make people feel like second-class board members instead of equal leaders in the organization. CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. But there was a problem: it wasn''t a consistent body.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

This problem is nothing new. It can be easy for front-line staff to feel like second-class citizens; they can''t make it to regular staff meetings, they work on days when other people are off, and their work, while deeply important to our overall mission, can be repetitive and deeply unsexy. Would enough people use it to make it work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Before the appointment, I decided to go to my favorite belly dance fitness class, ShimmyPop! I wanted to go to one last dance class before the doctor told me I couldn't anymore; a last meal sort of thing. I asked Heather for the class playlist, so I could share it with you. at Hipline. It’s about making ideas happen.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

What made the game so unique is the social element – the game designers spent a lot of time writing about the participants and their visions for the future on postcards and distributing them throughout the night, giving them to random participants so they were prompted to seek out others. It lasted for four months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. Here’s what’s pissing me off: The reason I have to fight every time to do these stories [like Darfur] is because the truth is that it’s hard to get the majority of Americans…to care. ” (not in video). That’s the fuckin’ problem!…I

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

Ready for a math problem? We held a free yoga class in the plaza outside the museum and invited artists to come and draw/paint the yoga-doers in motion. And so I've spent a lot of time piloting exhibits and programs that invite people to critique, to join, to collect, and to create. How many people participated?

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Have each homeroom teacher set up a Board with fun pins from their class and share the Boards by email with parents so they can follow along and repin they are proud of and want to share with their child's family and friends. Navy Imagery 22. Just use your beard!".

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

At the time, I was a program director for an arts education program and a facilitator of career counseling workshops for artists. A co-worker recommended that I go to the Green Festival and hear Van Jones, who was the Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights at the time, speak about, "Green Jobs, Not Packed Jails."

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

For the first time, I didn't feel like a crazy person for wanting to have an alternative vision for my career. You have to take action either by taking a class, doing an informational interview, volunteering, interning, going to an event, or taking a job in the field that interests you. Look for a volunteer position on Volunteer Match.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

What made the game so unique is the social element - the game designers spent a lot of time writing about the participants and their visions for the future on postcards and distributing them throughout the night, giving them to random participants so they were prompted to seek out others. It lasted for four months.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

My friends all commented that they love bringing new friends to their favorite secret places; it makes them feel cool and magnaminous at the same time. Of course, the problem with all of this is that it sounds crazy from a business perspective. As he put it , "I also think people connect with my stuff because it flirts with failure.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

"I think about how many times I didn't like the color of my skin, because I didn't see myself in any art. I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? Other times, the differences come down to social conventions. The Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. From CUL’s perspective, if you’re reading to other writers, that’s not a problem, it’s a community.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? Other times, the differences come down to social conventions. The Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

As researcher Danah Boyd has pointed out, teens spend time on Facebook, MySpace, and other social networks because that's where their friends are. I suspect that one reason teens are often a core audience is that museums are already comfortable providing participatory experiences to youth in the form of camps, internships, and classes.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

THE CHALLENGE Carnegie Museum of Art director Lynn Zelevansky challenged us to find a way to overcome a major practical problem with our Forum Gallery space: how to get visitors to enter a gallery that is often obscured by a large wall that blocks the light from the large lobby windows nearby. Would it work without full-time staff support?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

And while there's lots of good stuff in these sections (including an introduction for me to some wild net artists ), it's the last chunk that interests me most, where Karen explores the question of how and where Internet art should be exhibited. But other times, it's not clear where the content belongs. Citizen science programs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

BB: Your whole book, Loyal to the Sk y, is a memoir, and it's your entire path to becoming an activist and an artist. And then spending more time here, and getting a bit more acquainted with the lies of this society regarding race and class and all kinds of issues. Of course it's been done before. This is what Gandhi was about.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

You get ongoing support that is not on a limited time basis, but is on an ongoing basis. Kind of like artists, a lot of passion and drive can create great things, but they aren't necessarily sustainable over time. They're artists so they think big. They don't have time to raise a stink and go to city hall meetings.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

You should have it by dinner time, that’s my promise to you. We’re going to try to save a little bit of time for Q&A at the end, but don’t be shy about that. dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. So how do we know what to track?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Two or three times a year, I publish a president's update for Benetech. She’s currently working on “spatial quantile regression” and has learned at Benetech how to use statistics to address real-life problems. In her spare time, she updates her Twitter and Facebook feeds and engages with her Kindle, iPod and other assorted tech toys.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2013

I've always assumed that slow-moving, big, traditional, white- and upper-class-serving arts organizations are buoyed in their practices by funders who tacitly approve of their activities with their donations. I don't think the problem is the Irvine Foundation's approach, or even their communication around it. So what's missing?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

For example, “Nazi science” came up several times as a “can’t”—but the Holocaust Museum’s Deadly Medicine exhibition was a successful project that didn’t bring the walls down. Science is political, and science museums have a hard time grappling with that fact. And so my question is, why are we keeping them away?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

I thought, "What would happen if we began the process of aligning our heartfelt intentions, our energy, our time, and also our money to be able to benefit some particular causes?" But every time I would leave a workshop, I would leave with this haunting feeling of, "Now what?" I knew that the work that I was doing was effective.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I hope you'll take the time to read it, because they all have some great advice. So they'll each tell you a little about that, and we'll have time for questions and answers at the end. Like there'll be times where I'm really interested in food issues, and I'm interviewing and talking to people about that. Can I just see?

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