Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. 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.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2015

Referrers include staff from nonprofits, community centers, public libraries, and other organizations that work with youth during the summer months. Many larger public library systems (such as Washington, D.C. Range is designed to be a tool for "referrers," meaning people who connect youth and families to social services.

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Mobile Tech Library San Francisco 36

Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. I''m sufficiently externally-driven to realize that having a public place for my learning helps me stay focused and keep producing.

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Museum Participatory Reflection Conference 35

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It has been almost three weeks since we concluded bbcon 2018 in Orlando, and we’re still wrapping our head around the terrific content seen and inspiring conversations overheard amongst over 2,000 attendees from across the social, private and public sectors. With over 275 sessions over three days, opportunities for learning were plentiful.

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Organization Disaster Boston Blackbaud 26

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them. Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta Strategic Plan 2021-2025 Boys & Girls Club of America is dedicated to providing enriching after-school programs for kids and teens.

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Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 117

Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

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. And of course it is a reflection of certain haves and have nots in society. I’ve known Bob for 15 years now.

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Museum Generation Interview Donor 54

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

But since so many years of work have gone into the TRC’s report, it is also useful to reflect on the broader role of the TRC in Liberia as well as truth commissions around the world. In contrast, the data suggests that young men, particularly teens 15 to 19 were at the greatest risk for forced recruitment as combatants.

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Liberia Statistics Analysis United States 100

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. Our grassroots campaign involves all ages from teens to seniors.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

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. The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens. Once acquired, the data could have been placed in a public site such as Freebase.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. SOS_Slaves is part of the transmedia project “Sands of Silence: Fighting Sexual Slavery and Trafficking.” JURY FEEDBACK.

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Game Change Classroom Machinima 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Second Life can be the aggregate of public good - we'll give people the tools what they want to see or not see but not control what people see. Following the event, I summarized the reflections and analysis in this post: Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals. Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage.

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Virtual Philanthropy Foundation Second Life 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Her writing is reflective and brilliant. Subject To Change is written by a recent Yale alum, Vanessa Mason, who is just starting out a career in public health. Enviroblog blogs about latest science and news on toxins in your food, water, and air, and what government agencies should be doing to protect public health.

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Blogger Change Social Philanthropy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. META REFLECTION as it Relates to Nonprofits: -One of the points mentions that this is a new field - digital learning and media and that it was a cross disciplinary field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

She suggests that if organizations are targeting young people, particularly teens and 20 somethings that platforms like Myspace can be a good tool. to post public events hosted by your organization under "Events I'm Attending" on MySpace and similar areas on other platforms.

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Afghanistan Program Offline Profile 50

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

In short, it limits museums from being places that are trusted as institutions of public engagement and interaction--the places many museums claim they want to be. They reflect individual voices and stories, and the more diverse voices are engaged, the more trustworthy a source is as a true "voice of the people." Be personal.

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Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

Where else can you find Pakistani bathroom signage or Mexican biker teens while researching a project? And you can make it private or public, flexibly. This isn't a set of proprietary or stock images. It's photos taken all over the world by pros and amateurs. Tagging makes photo search flexible and powerful. Now I always use Flickr.

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Flickr Work Photo Teen 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

By understanding what individuals are highlighting about the Exploratorium experience, the museum can craft its own messaging--and programming--to reflect and enhance the elements seen as most valuable. How does it help the Exploratorium to listen to these environments if they can't be controlled? Museum emails are almost always shouting.

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Museum Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. The content starts with the teen team.

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Interview Museum Teen Myspace 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

But there’s another kind of threshold fear I care about: the one that keeps museums from fully embracing and jumping into new ways of engaging the public, new ways of including visitors. Which reflects a more basic question: who are museums serving, and how does their design support that customer?

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People Museum San Jose Chapter 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. Many YES teens don''t come in with confidence about their own abilities.

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St. Louis Museum Audience Teen 45

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. While now the blog's a big part of my life, at the time, it just felt like an experiment--a place for me to develop my ideas in a public setting. The blog started with a conference experience.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. Many YES teens don't come in with confidence about their own abilities.

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St. Louis Audience Teen Museum 53

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?” Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

We also like to believe she was one of the first proponents of the "shine theory" with her quote, " There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ". Murasaki Shikibu. Future Sheroes. Jazz Jennings. After her interview with Barbara Walters, Jazz Jennings' rise has been nothing short of meteoric.

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Story Angola Sierra Leone History 133

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision. We invited a private art school to fill a very public wall with paintings made by students in response to the question, "How would you depict love?" We spent a long time prototyping this one.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. And so their job is a reflection of that. Do y’all know what that is?

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Management Work Video Slides 89

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Our desire to "protect kids"--which reflects twenty years of clamping down (at least in the U.S.) Use expert-only vocabulary – stop making entry points for general public, students, families Social science of war. Imagine an art museum that allowed patrons to bang on the exhibits the way you can in a science center.

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

If you had one youth educator, would you expect them to develop and run overnights AND scout programs AND teen programs AND toddler programs AND outreach AND… of course not. How will the endeavor reflect on the museum’s brand image? Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. It’s not acceptable to say “we want to do it all.”

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

It's very simple to calculate: you take the total operating expenses for your public-facing efforts and divide by the number of people who walk through the door. Others produce publications and media for global distribution. Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners.

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Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20

DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2022

Ah, public libraries! A recent conversation with Erica Busillo Adams of Providence Public Library is a perfect case in point! Providence Public Library first opened to the public in 1878. Unlike many public libraries, Providence Public Library is a private 501(c)(3) that is chartered as a free public library.

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Library Public Local Reflection 105

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

For example, consider two independent arts organizations in Los Angeles -- Machine Project and The Public School. In contrast, The Public School has a democratic framework--anyone can use their website to propose a class she'd like to take or teach. There are terms like "cosmology of the intangible" that raise my high art hackles.

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Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

These themes of race and class were not lost on ethnographer danah boyd , who gave one of the most provocative presentations of the conference – quoting both Habermas and inner-city teens! She talked about how online social networks mirror off-line social dynamics, and described the phenomenon of “white flight” from MySpace to Facebook.

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Grant Personal Reflection New York City 90