Tech Soup

JUNE 6, 2011

Representatives from the National Endowment of the Arts, UK's Channel 4 and Littleloud, PBS Kids, and New York City's Chief Digital Officer will be giving presentations on government funding to artists, youth, and innovation, and how New York City is using technology and games to aid its citizens and public workforce.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Please note that because the conversations take place over six years, some people's work and lives have changed. Organizer, Bakesale for Japan listen Naomi Natale, Founding Artist, One Million Bones listen Halle Butvin, Founder and Director, One Mango Tree listen Carinne Brody, Doctoral Candidate in Public Health at UC Berkeley.

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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. s Blog about?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Of course, for every one of these enchanting surprises, we also have many of more variable quality: people who walk in with their paintings on their back asking about display opportunities, people who send us poorly-produced videos of their bands or projects, and lots of speculative, odd conversations.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts. As one Detroit Free Press commenter wrote: "You are not getting it. Several commenters in the Detroit Free Press in support of the millage tried their best.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Social media is not the place for private conversations. " Social engineers are basically con artists. The most pressing software update is to upgrade from XP to a supported operating system like Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. The sensible precaution? Use Strong Passwords. Millions of PCs worldwide are still on it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Please note that because the conversations take place over five years, some people's work and lives have changed. You'll be able to scroll through, and play the shows that peak your interest. I've also listed all of the interviewees with photos and links below. They have new job titles, work someplace else, and in some cases, have new names!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Below are links to conversations with 48 big visionaries who I've interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast over the last four years. Please note that because the interviews take place over four years, some people's work and lives may have changed. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt! Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The GiveList is great idea from Allison Fine and Marnie Webb that is encouraging conversation and other ways to give contributions that aren't cash to charitable causes. The idea is that even if times are bad, you don't have to be stingy.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). But in my conversations with staff, trustees, and the larger Santa Cruz community, I have become convinced that we are ready to overcome these challenges with some bold thinking and action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

that Mike Seyfang and I did a couple years back from a conversation about the least restrictive creative commons licensed. The press release describes it as: A free service allowing bloggers and individual content creators to understand how their work is shared across the Web. The cover is from a remix mashup.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

There is a strong community of Oaxacan artists, dancers, and musicians in Live Oak. At the same time as you are learning about this community, stumbling into new conversations, your existing community is right there, loud and in your face, drowning out the new voices you are seeking in the dark. These new voices don't exist yet.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 13, 2008

What came up in conversation was, "Where is 'away?'" As the conversation evolved, by the end of dinner I said, "You know what? AD: I originally found a couple of artists that were interested in turning it into a piece of art. The artists that I was going to work with are great, amazing people, and they're very busy.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We also sent out a weekly press release about the new countdown and announced the new number one on Twitter. And there was the phenomenon we called the Thomas Creswick Effect: after four weeks of it receiving no votes at all, I wrote a press release about Worcester’s Creswick painting and our local newspaper ran it as an article.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 3, 2007

The staff brought in Darcie and artist Michael Brown to help them create "An experiment that provokes questions about art and its presentation in museums." As Darcie put it: "In the museum field, we know that learning happens when there is discussion and conversation. Above, I linked to a press release and a news article.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Art Exhibition You can never go wrong with highlighting local artists. Arts-based nonprofits can employ local artists to teach any number of art forms; environmental nonprofits can teach gardening; food pantries can host cooking classes; the possibilities are endless!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

We got a lovely bit of press on the first four exhibit selections, and I'm thrilled by the diversity of participants and novel creations that have been submitted thus far. Some of these people are professional artists or exhibit designers, but most are just talented folks with an interest in museums.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

We started our conversation by David explaining what Spot.us It's actually pretty quick and simple in terms of the buttons that you have to press. On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us for the Big Vision Podcast. Below is an edited transcript of the interview which you also can listen to online , or subscribe to via iTunes.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2009

Earlier this year, the New Museum and Creative Time commissioned a traveling piece by artist Jeremy Deller called "It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq." Why would I want to sit on a couch and engage in an open-ended, messy conversation with a stranger? Why would I want to talk about Iraq on a visit to an art museum?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting? You might do this with news or press releases and radio interviews, you may be looking at the reach and the listening audience to say, “How many people did you engage?” Press releases, human interest stories, things like that are really great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). Word Press users can use General Stats plugin. I remember serving as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and had to quantify artistic merit. Conversation Rates. The conversation rate is the average number of comments per post. Technorati ???Authority???

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Below is an edited transcript of our conversation for the Big Vision Podcast which you can listen to online , or download from iTunes. If you look around the world at some of the most pressing environmental challenges, you see women on the front lines of those challenges. The problem that we are addressing is a great one.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

You can listen to all of the interviews, plus 55 more conversations with Big Visionaries on iTunes. Cristi Hegranes Executive Director and Founder, Global Press Institute. Favianna Rodriguez Activist printmaker and digital artist. Naomi Natale Founding Artist, One Million Bones.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Some states, such as Colorado, have started official employee-ownership commissions and dedicated new funding to support business conversion to employee-owned cooperatives or ESOPs (employee stock ownership plans). Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2017). Freelancers predicted to become the S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Because of the combination of humor and brevity, cartoons are a great way for your organization to share information and ideas. Cartoons can encapsulate an idea or message with a single image, people pressed for time can absorb them quickly and share them more easily. It’s to say this: everyone has limits.

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