Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. But there was no such program focused on the arts.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

In the article, David discussed ways that several large art museums are working to attract major donors and board members in their 30s and 40s. By the time my mom was at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, I was in my late teens/twenties, and I started to know the board socially, including Bob Fisher, who is now very involved with SFMOMA.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The chairs were cast-off art, reclaimed as art, available for people to take off the hooks and use. What kind of an art institution is this? It encourages process-driven performances and art projects. It takes the kind of risks that a university art gallery should take. The question drives the work.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. I happened to be at DAM for work and got to experience this amazing exhibit. We’re all together, man.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

million to the winning ideas across six categories, including: Health, Arts & Culture, Food & Shelter, The Planet, Neighborhoods and Education. Global Giving will vet contest applications to ensure they meet the requirements — for example, grant proposals may not contain profanity or involve political advocacy for a particular party.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

Here in TechSoup’s San Francisco office, we use audio and video conferencing every day to talk with people working remotely in the Bay Area, New York, or Seattle, as well as with our partner nonprofits around the world. Teen Outreach Pregnancy Services. " —Laura Pedersen. Executive Director.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. " Braided River's director of development and communications, Lace Thornberg, told us, "We work really hard with a very little budget to have the highest impact possible.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

After 34 years in the Navy, Rick Koca "retired" - and started StandUp For Kids (S4K) , a nonprofit that works with homeless and street kids. She grew her program so it now serves 700 people of varying abilities and allows them to express themselves through the art. She lives for what she does and adds meaning to many individuals lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

The top 100 included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, health care, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. . For example. Organizing Offline and Online.

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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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Kimberly has authored two books: Hip Tranquil Chick: A Guide to Life On and Off the Yoga Mat , and Tranquilista: Mastering the Art of Enlightened Work and Mindful Play. Do you have any favorite Tranquil Teens success stories? Below is an edited transcript of my November 3rd interview with Kimberly for the Big Vision Podcast.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The end of a conference is often a time of great enthusiasm quickly followed by a gaping maw of inability to act on that enthusiasm back at work. 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.” It’s nice to have both. That’s fine.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. Which source of traffic worked the best? As you can tell, the interview is pretty long. Sometimes more!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. Which source of traffic worked the best? As you can tell, the interview is pretty long. Sometimes more!

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Causes Facebook Challenge Social Media 38

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I met lovely people in engineering, but I found the work to be too detail-oriented and microscopic in scope to satisfy me. There's not a lot of work in pinball, and I had a deep secondary interest in unschooling and free-choice learning. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

There is the Art Gallery of Ontario's portrait exhibition In Your Face , for which the museum solicited and displayed thousands of visitor-created self-portraits. In the above examples visitors were responding to a call by the museum for a specific type of content. First, museum content. On the Ontario Science Center's 2.0

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Many people would love to do the front-line work of making a difference, just like your nonprofit does. Fundraising 101: Getting Started The key to Fundraising 101 is finding and keeping wonderful donors who love the work your organization does. Maybe they love the food bank but don’t care about the arts. Or the knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A photo of meeting Jayne Cravens face-to-face after following her work for ten plus years online. I've been a big fan of Jayne Craven's work at Coyote Communications since the mid-1990s. She worked in with UNDP's Volunteer Programme from 2001-2004 and is a subject matter in virtual volunteering, among other topics).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." I once worked on a project where the main goal behind our community-based participatory model was to make our exhibit process faster and cheaper. The answer (for me) is both. It consumes stuff.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects. This spanned all the projects.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

I’m thinking of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which is trying to be a museum for people, but is also a national and collection-based place. In Puerto Rico and Chile, there are museums made out of posters so that kids in parks can come and visit real art—well, it’s not real art, but you’re getting access to Picasso for $5.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Work with communities that relate to your content and reach desired audiences. meetup for Elite Yelp! Other person: Nope. Me: Me neither.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

There was a wonderful example at the Ontario Science Center in their Hot Zone area, which features several voting and commenting kiosks popular with teens. What have you seen work well, and what have you seen fail? What design techniques do you use to create successful visitor dialogue experiences?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? I can just imagine the headline: CHILD MOLESTERS CALL ON ART, VICTIMS. This can be as simple (and potentially problematic) as the whiteboard phone example, can involve signing up in some way, or just entering a specially marked space. The irritating design?

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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. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking. I don't know what formed the bridge between the artists and the teens in this circumstance. Kyle had brought his baby with him.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

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. Everything Is In Service of the Art: The met has over 70 staff members on its digital team. Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art. They go where the audience is.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Its focus on exciting and compelling imagery and video that supporters love has seen it used by millions of brands around the world – and it works for nonprofits too. How does it work for nonprofits? Nearly 70% of users are under 35 , and 72% of teens use Instagram. As above, Instagram really has become an art form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

A few examples - TwestivalDC , BostonTwestival , SFTwestival , and so many more. Projects working in the U.S. With the onslaught of information and greater complexity in our work, visual diagnostics are more and more important. Emily Troutman has just launched a new online art/journalism project with a social conscious.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I worked in that field for 20 years, and I was writing grants at times there too. When I think about all the important work you all are doing. I work with clients from mainly in New York, but also all over the country with my “All About Grant Writing” online course. I also have some funny initials after my name.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Let’s walk through a selection of unique nonprofit websites that not only incorporate these elements but go above and beyond to impress visitors and inspire donations: Interlochen Center for the Arts. Top Nonprofit Website: Interlochen Center for the Arts. North Shore Animal League. Mustard Seed Communities. Gooley Hemophilia Center.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project. Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. If your goal is for art lovers worldwide to identify with your institution, the opposite is true.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Steven: see if it works. But the way I like to work is just put your stuff in the chat, put your questions in there or the Q&A, that’s even better, because it doesn’t get kind of lost and then everyone can vote things up. .” So some examples are like Audubon Bird Songs. Julia: Let’s share my screen.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. For example, consider two independent arts organizations in Los Angeles -- Machine Project and The Public School. I was focused on framework.

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