Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. Artist Blogs.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Photo by CLoé Zarifian, MAH Photo Intern We're working with a guest curator, Wes Modes , on an upcoming experimental project at our museum. Wes is an artist, and this is his first time running a museum exhibition development process. How can people--staff, volunteers, community members--help make this project better?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. We encouraged teams to think like artists, not researchers. You can check out all twenty research projects here. The teams delivered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

This post is to share my deck and comments from my lighting talk about failure at Good by Global at SXSW. ” An AAR is an assessment conducted after a project or activity that allows everyone the team to discover and learn what happened and why. The team looks at some questions: What was the goal of our project?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

For comparison’s sake — Apple’s Ping had 2,000 artists two months out of the gate.)&# I’ve been playing around with the new social platform this morning and wanted to share some of my early reactions. (So So have others – here’s a blog post from Beth Kanter and Steve McLaughlin on Jumo.). Facebook Requirements.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

The Hack Artist suggests that it’s important to marry direct mail efforts and a web presence. at 11:56 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michael 07.31.08 at 11:56 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michael 07.31.08 She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 27, 2011

McKinney , Project Specialist. So, in June, when one of our blog posts sparked a heated discussion in the comments section, we were all caught off guard. As the first negative comments rolled in, one of my coworkers told me he was concerned and believed we should delete them. ASU Lodestar Center. What happened, you ask?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

This list is by no means exhaustive: please add your favorites (especially non-American ones) in the comments. Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 12, 2012

We're turning over the whole museum to projects that invite visitors to connect with the behind-the-scenes in the making of art and historical research. Our goal with the project is two-fold: To help visitors engage with the creative process as well as the end result. Thanks in advance for sharing your comments!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In particular, we want exhibition collaborators--artists, researchers, historians, collectors--to understand our goals and how we intend to steer the exhibition development process. It's a working document, and we mean to put it to work planning new projects with our partners. I think it was a little unclear what the mandate was.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The DAM is one of several large art museums that is embracing making in a big way—first, through their event-based programming and open art studios tied to temporary exhibitions, and now, through a 1,200 square foot studio in which visitors can do art projects tied to the permanent collection.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. The result was a true experiment in designing the future--right here, right now--with artists and planners and civic leaders at the helm together. Market Street is a central artery of San Francisco. They were open books.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

It's the ability for me to work with my CFO to be able to budget and align the right kinds of resources for new projects. Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. Working with the CFO, we went through my budget and found ways to realign funds to find the money to do the project.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

When I first heard about OdysseyWorks, I thought their projects were indulgent novelties. OdysseyWorks' projects get to the heart of the fiercest debates in the arts today. As artistic director Abe Burickson described their work to me, I imagined Theseus walking deeper into the labyrinth towards the Minotaur.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

My long time colleague, Jeff Gates, an artist and museum professional said: I wonder about this emphasis on number of followers, change in percentage of followers of this list rather than focusing on strategies for engagement. Have you conducted a benchmarking study of best practices? Let me know in the comments!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2008

Last week I taught a social media workshop for artists and arts nonprofits and did some research on different arts organizations using social media effectively. The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition (Nina Simon wrote an analysis of the project here ). did Shelley have a dog.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

While there was evidence of plenty of community engagement work across museums and galleries, most of it was funded project by project. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. And consider sharing a comment here with a takeaway that is meaningful for you.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

Two students, Jenny Burrows and Matt Kappler, created an unauthorized ad campaign for the Smithsonian as part of a school project. These unauthorized projects were engaging and attractive. When assessing these kinds of unauthorized activities, here are the three things I'd consider: What's the quality of the project?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2008

Building Community -The commenting in Utterz, Jonny's Haiku Project. How to get people to avoid feeling scared and not wanting to make fools of themselves - e.g. how can artists leverage this tool.& Utterz - breaking news opportunities - from a journalist. Can have some private Utterz - talk to family/friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here how collecting data and displaying aggregate might enhance learning: (Add in the comments if you think I missed anything). I’m always on the lookout for good icebreakers that don’t suck and was delighted with her movement icebreaker, although it might might work best with artist or activist audiences.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. George will respond to comments on this post and is also reachable here. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

Here are just three participatory processes I think are in serious need of improvement: Public comment at city council meetings. Even more rarely, you will receive panel comments directly. The whole process of grant applications would be improved if providing panel comments was a matter of course. Exhibition proposals.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

With that in mind, Zero1's community engagement manager Danielle Siembieda-Gribben organized HackFlux : a weekend hackathon bringing together a mix of coders, developers, designers, artists, and thinkers this past June. The goals of the hackathon were twofold: To build a community around mobile development and art. The Teams Get to Work.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. Please share yours in the comments. Artists work incredibly hard to produce their work. I keep visitor comments in my office. And the crayon drawings on the fridge door in an exhibition of award-winning local artists?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2017

We had 2,000 t-shirts to give away, 850 balls to drop, and over a hundred artists, accordionists, salsa dancers, taiko drummers, and bubble ladies ready to go. Leading an entrepreneurial project requires a lot of optimism. For years, I’ve been a cheerleader, fundraiser, and spokesperson for this project. We lined up press.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. How did this project come about? What were the City Gallery goals for the project? I really wanted visitors to make this their own project and their own space; not mine.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We attentively respond to requests and purposefully use different modes of feedback to inform program design from our comment board, social media outlets, conversations and observations both inside and outside the museum, creative feedback at events such as our Show and Tell Booth and online visitor surveys specific to our programs.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

In this post, she writes about Experimonth, an intriguing set of crowd-sourced projects that connect scientists with research participants in surprising ways. The project blew away our expectations. Beck will be checking in to respond to your comments and questions here. Experimonth started out as play.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

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? And the projects themselves are brilliant.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They were there for artist talks. They were there for project brainstorming. It encourages process-driven performances and art projects. They live their mission, working in questions and projects rather than exhibitions and programs. This makes Temple Contemporary excel at responsive, relevant projects.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

National education organizations and individual teachers are developing relevant curriculum resources, including the #FergusonSyllabus project initiated by Dr. Marcia Chatelain. Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. inclusion'

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

The trip is being organized by the Artistic Director of Women Center Stage, Olivia Greer , who I interviewed last year, as part of Culture Project's EMANCIPATE program. You can follow news from the eight women's travels on the EMANCIPATE web site and leave a comment in their Guestbook. women musician New Orleans art activism

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

If you have suggestions for people I should interview in 2011, please let me know in the comments. The way they're titled below is how they were listed at the time of the interview. 2011 Aneesha Raghunathan, Owner, Hope Line Fashions Coming soon!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

For the past two years, I''ve been working on a project to activate the concrete space adjacent to our museum as a vibrant, community plaza. The ideal candidate has a good grasp of our local artistic assets in Santa Cruz County, a knack for participatory placemaking, and enthusiasm about putting on a show. multiple times per week.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

We also have 75 new friends, slightly bleary from the experience, which felt like one part intense work project, one part marathon, one part hallucinogenic love-in. I felt lucky to be able to dip into the various project teams, though that also gave me a completely aberrant perspective on camp.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

This week Beth Kanter and I finished our week being mentors for the Young Caucasus Women Project. Last Sunday each of us wrote a post to answer the question, “Who is your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer or musician) and why?” The project will continue through the spring and into early summer.

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