Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2011

They collaborated on this photo essay that demonstrates the simplicity and power of their vision. We found one of our favorite photos on Flickr, taken by Austrian photographer Thom Trauner, who captures the essence of the issue. Or this one by Lacey Criswell, of Bike Night at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Nothing new here!"

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Forum One

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Selecting photos for your brand in a deliberate and thoughtful way makes your organization more inclusive. It also has the power to make our culture more equitable for everyone. Every day, we constantly see photos of people—in social media, on websites, on television, in advertisements, in print, and in our daily environment.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

We''re grateful for the articles, blog posts, videos, photos, and more from the 14LCS community. All of us all NTEN are amazed (but not too surprised, really) by the degree of engagement at the 14LCS, and by the movement of individual ideas into actionable projects during the Idea Accelerator. Did we miss anything?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Our curator writes labels about licking the art. And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution. Merilee Mostov and the Columbus Museum of Art. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009. The Wikimedians asked if the museum would coordinate a project in which people could photograph artworks in cultural institutions to illustrate Wikipedia articles. I hope you'll share your thoughts in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Flickr Photo by AstridWestvang. The book looks at how individuals can avoid burnout through self-care and how nonprofits can support it – through activities that promote well-being, cultural cues, or an overall strategy. How cultural norms influence participation. Our values reflect this commitment.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. It really reflects what we're trying to do here to transform our institution into as relevant, dynamic, and successful an organization as possible. Lots more on this in the months to come, but I thought you might like to read the article.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Just over a year ago, musician, Olivia Greer , was commissioned by Culture Project , a New York City theater company, to write a song for the Women Center Stage Festival. Culture Project's mission is to present work that is socially relevant and that calls attention to issues of human rights and social justice around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. That's the cultural norm in the nonprofit sector, with a couple of exceptions. The Indianapolis Art Museum has been doing just that by sharing its institutional dashboard out for everyone to view. Many of us have a love and hate relationship with nonprofit dashboards.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Utilize photos that invoke feelings of empathy and joy to help your donors develop drive and energy to support your cause. Your website should reflect your current campaign(s), and your donation button or page must be highly visible. Personalization is a must for all major gift solicitations. Online Giving.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2014

What if we used art to activate space in a different way? I''ve been reflecting a lot recently on our museum''s work on " social bridging "--bringing people together across cultural, ethnic, geographic, generational, and socio-economic differences--and how to take it outside.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Matthew had more than 40 volunteers to plan shifts for, along with a method for encouraging participants to reflect on and share their experiences the next day. Members of the Online Community and Social Media team also captured impressions of the day, keeping a running stream of photos and videos on Facebook and Twitter in real time.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I’m here with our Art Director, Devyn Taylor. This is our reflective moment, Devyn. The campaign rebuked and said they had no ill intent with this design, that they’d simply dropped the photo down to black and white to show contrast between the candidates and that the point of the flyer is to contrast them. How are you?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Hundreds of unique, hand-made art postcards, containing words of compassion and solidarity are hand delivered to individuals and communities all over the world, bringing connection, hope, visibility and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence or repression. Each card is a piece of art in my mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I met Janet Salmons many years ago while I working on various arts and technology projects in New York State for the New York Foundation for the Arts. I started in the Cornell University Center for Theatre Arts , where I founded and directed two programs: Cornell Theatre Outreach and the Community-Based Arts Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

One of the themes I’m going to discuss is the Art and Science of Engagement. The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. Register here. Let’s take a look at some of the specific tactics for engagement or conversation starters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr Photo by Sugarpond. Note from Beth: Last month I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at Association of California Orchestras with Marc van Bree , an arts and social media blogger I met in 2007. The lessons for arts organizations. In addition, I created Web banners for those bloggers to use. All are captured here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. Since 1997, the Packard Foundation has awarded 1,392 “organizational effectiveness” grants to an array of groups, most of which have annual operating budgets of $1 to $10 million, and operate in the human services, environmental conservation, population, and arts fields. In a vacuum, it can be marginal.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I honestly think the only kind of cultural institution that cannot support audience participation is one in which staff members don''t respect visitors or what they have to contribute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

Net2 Houston, August Photo by Eschipul Nonprofits in Second Life Gala Opening Photo by RubyJi By looking at the photos tagged with NpTech, nonprofit techies were either on vacation or attending events. Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ? Maybe next week we'll see photos from BarCampBlock ?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 10, 2020

Utilize photos that invoke feelings of empathy and joy, increasing your donors drive of support. Update your website to reflect your #GivingTuesdayNow campaign. All digital communications should be in sync and reflect your current focus. Embed it in an email and post the save-the-date to your social media pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Flickr Photo by Key Lime Pie. This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Dave's most recent critical friend post offers some thoughts about community.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace is reflection of the society in which we live. MySpace is primary used to participate in pop culture. Music and arts organizations, probably. As far as ads and Spam, that just a part of MySpace and the price to pay for having a social networking site with very little rules or censorship. MySpace is not dangerous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

A few months ago, I created a workshop called " Arts 2.0 " which was a strategic social media for arts organizations workshop. Marc contributed some knowledge to the ROI section and also contributed some reflections about why he participated. (I Does this story illustrate the art of network weaving ?

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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? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question. In Your Face ).

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. So strategy really focuses on organizational direction, establishing values, mission, ensuring the organization embodies its cultural ethos.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 30, 2018

Utilize photos that invoke feelings of empathy and joy to help your donors develop drive and energy to support your cause. Your website should reflect your current campaign(s), and your donation button or page must be highly visible. Personalization is a must for all major gift solicitations. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Looks like Zen and the Art of Technology scored the Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops. The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. He blogged his slides, a video , and some reflections. There's also dogooder.tv What did you learn? New (to me) Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

Photo by Jeska Linden in flickr Jeska Linden (Jeska Dzwigalski) is the Community Manager for Linden Lab , the creators of the virtual world Second Life , where she has worked since the summer of 2004. We created and ran the web site for the Liberal Arts College in an atmosphere which, upon reflection is a lot like Linden Lab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2018

Utilize photos that invoke feelings of empathy and joy to help your donors develop drive and energy to support your cause. As your plan develops, reflect on your donors’ likes and dislikes, utilize feedback from your members and asses your presence in the community. Include imagery to enhance the connection.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 14, 2017

Select photos that invoke feelings of empathy and joy to develop drive and energy to support your cause. Your website should reflect your current campaign, and your donation button or page must be highly visible. Personalization is a must for all major gift solicitations. Imagery – People naturally look at pictures before reading text.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? Third, you need to align your idea with institutional culture. Ask leaders to be accountable to the mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

” The Failure Bow (Click for Photo for More Information). Talking about risk-taking and potential for failure is difficult in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, but having it part of an organization’s culture so it is free of stigma and that everyone learns is even harder. What are some examples? Here’s a few.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Flickr's Commons project - Flickr is offering up its powerful community tools for museum photo collections.

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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. Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution.

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