Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Note From Beth: Yesterday, I attended a convening called “ Beyond Dynamic Adaptability ” for arts organizations about cultural participation in the arts. But there is also a quiet revolution taking place in the field of documentary film. Guest Post by Vincent Stehle.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. I'm also always interested in how the national media portrays changes in the cultural sector.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When basketball players are offering more cogent commentary on racial issues than cultural institutions, you know we have a cultural relevance problem. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Colleges are addressing greater cultural and racial understanding in various courses. Things must change.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. It's not unusual for me and our public programming staff members to have several short interactions every week with newcomers who walk in the door with idiosyncratic visions for cultural engagement. We don't have to convince them that it's their museum.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

While much of the branding and design inspiration we run across is either from consumer brands or individual artists, it all provides us with the opportunity to discover new principles, practices, and approaches that we can incorporate into our nuanced nonprofit world. Community is key: working with, not for.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

Any place with people working different schedules in different parts of the building suffers from it. People use it to share surprises in the archives, inspiring meetings with artists, dead birds in the lobby, and free food in the fridge. It''s also the one place we can get away from the constant dialogue with the community.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

We were discussing the potential for cultural organizations to have significant impact across communities: on planning, health, education, and quality of life. Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. "The arts are future-making."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. I also believe that small and mid-sized museums are the leaders when it comes to innovation, particularly around participatory engagement. I knew we were moving somewhere nice.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

She is a fabulous and thoughtful artist. The same day we opened the Creativity Lounge, we opened new exhibitions throughout the building, including a paper collage show in the 3rd floor lobby by local artist Lisa Hochstein. For me, the goal is for people to have an enjoyable, educational, cultural, social experience.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

Major research studies by the NEA and others demonstrate that adults well into their 60s are highly motivated to participate actively with cultural experiences. There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. But I don't think that theory holds up.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection. We all know Santa Cruz is such a creative place," she said.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. We work hard to name and build our culture in many ways. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. That something may be a place, an identity, an interest, a worldview. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. We're a place you can work off your traffic ticket.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

All of a sudden, I looked at my town as a place teeming with scientists in need of play. We ran with it and have since generated data about decision-making, cooperation, competition and negotiation for scientists (and also some artists) to play with. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. We've continued to do this for future exhibitions.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

He noted that many institutions I talk about that successfully foster personal relationships with visitors are small places. The sense of intimacy that comes with the relationships you can form in a small place is hard to match in a large one. It required a certain kind of place and feeling that visitors manage (mostly) on their own.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

The popular option at this time is to try to beat the experiential competition and ignore the Web-based cultural shift. The good news is that there are hundreds of thousands of people debating the content of every book, scientific principle, and artistic movement on the Web right now. They want expert support, and we can provide it.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. The rules are clear: anyone who lives in Minnesota and considers her/himself an artist can contribute one piece. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A way to bring people on opposite sides of an issue to a fruitful, positive meeting place? They are often one-offs for events but are increasingly included in the regular slate of programming at major libraries and cultural facilities (but at my count, only one museum). What is the Living Library? well, you know.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

On Spot.us, we're trying to bring in a culture of transparency in journalism, where we say, "Invite the public into the reporting from day one. The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. Again, that is very different from the traditional culture of journalism and journalists.

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