Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

Generation Z, the heirs to the digital empire built by Generation X and expanded by Millennials, is made up of people who don’t just spend time online—they live there. And despite their youth (its oldest members are only now leaving their teens), kids in Generation Z are regularly rocking social media for social good.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. One of my favorite places for a long time now. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. Our grassroots campaign involves all ages from teens to seniors.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Spend more time in the community to whom you wish to be relevant. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. It's rooted in the assets and needs of creative teens in our County. The program works because it is teen-centered, not museum-centered.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. “It’s actually a blast so far.&# – The New York Times. Elaine : We invited some people in to create a game about the museum, Accomplice, that is like real-time Clue. It lasted for four months.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary. I helped them find funding and partners and time to make amazing work happen. Three years later, we''re out of turnaround and into growth mode.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They were there for artist talks. It is unfinished, unassuming, and whimsical, and at the same time, deadly serious. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Last Friday night, my museum hosted a fabulous (in my biased opinion) event called Race Through Time. We created Race Through Time in partnership with a local networking group called Santa Cruz Next , whose primary aim is to support and celebrate ways that young professionals can and are changing our community for the better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Here's the key takeaways for me: * The capacity to be successful is an investment in time. "While none of these approaches cost a lot of money, they certainly require staff time to support. This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago. Go read it.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After jumping in, you swam across the short length of the hole (about 10 yards), and emerge, wet and freezing, only to get to race through temps in the teens to try to warm up in a lukewarm hot tub. A young artist program you hope to get off the ground? But here I am, still alive. Are there works of art you want to restore?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

I don't usually fist-pump while reading the New York Times. But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. Half the time, I’m the one who doesn’t know what I’m missing. Did the artist like it? Is this enough?

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. A game like Climbing Sacred Mountain has a very timely niche. CLIMBING SACRED MOUNTAIN. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. But almost ALL of those opportunities are facilitated by people.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Finally, many art museums do fabulous, highly participatory projects that are led by participatory artists who work specifically in the realm of dialogue or active social participation. Ironically, art museums often present the most radical participatory experiences for visitors--but only when led by an artist, not by internal staff members.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. There's not much I can tell you about this game because I'm confused completely," said Paul Cox, a first-time visitor to Babycastles, as the attempted to navigate a game called "The You Testament," based on Noah's Ark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

It will be interesting to see if this advice holds true for the voters of the future based on Dannah Boyd's post " What i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens. "Do young people have email accounts? Do they login to them semi-regularly? " If you have thoughts about Second Wave adoption of Web2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2005

Teens as Good Samaritans The November/December issue of Psychology Today has a brief article called, "The Making of a Good Samaritan", about the benefits of community service requirements in schools. The CD features music and spoken word by Bay Area artists such as Aya de Leon and Michael Franti.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. About 2/3 of user-submitted data entries are found to be inaccurate, which is either a good number (these users are amateurs) or lousy (the verification is incredibly time-consuming).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

This seems like an appropriate time to share the story. I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

A group in their late teens/early 20s were wandering through the museumwide exhibition on love. At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

I’ve been fan for a long time, but never had the chance to meet or hear him in person. Later, when were chatting with a small group of people in the lobby, we noticed a group of teens walking by looking a little sad. Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art. Informative. Actionable.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. - Leonie Allan, Goddess Guidebook Buy art from artists. My main takeaway from their rainbow of stories is that there are *so* many ways to have fun and do good.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

We''ve seen surprising and powerful results--visitors from different backgrounds getting to know each other, homeless people and museum volunteers working together, artists from different worlds building new collaborative projects. Programs that emphasize bringing diverse people together are more popular than those that serve intact groups.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2011

Let's say you spend a year working with a group of teens to co-create an exhibition, or you invite members and local artists to help redesign the lobby. Community processes are both exciting and time-consuming. In many cases, once the final project is launched, it's hard to detect the participatory touch.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Gary Hamel, a strategy professor recently wrote "If you're a CIO, you need to spend a lot of time out on the fringes of the Web because that's where the innovation's taking place. You need to spend a lot of time with people under 25 years old." . The Teen Party. Are we ready for that in the workplace? . Are we paying attention?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly. Every time we repaint, I'm sad to see many of the stories go--but then I'm always overwhelmed with the quality of what replaces them. A DIY wedding!

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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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Paul home over time, or the Boston Museum of Science's beautiful theater experience about Nikola Tesla, or an incredible single artist show, it stands out. I've experienced many excellent thematic exhibitions that gave me an overall sense of a story, but few that really dove into a particular object or incident. It's unforgettable.

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