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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some of the tools needed to do this work are obvious: a camera, microphone, headphones, tripod, laptop, and maybe a light. As an independent producer, I can tell you that these are merely a fraction of the tools that one needs in order to properly document and later tell a story. January 21.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

I’m at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. For years we have been producing digital media to fulfill our mission of educating the public about science and history.

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8 Museum Apps Doing Good

Care2

One of the app’s best features, Project FishMap, which allows users to find nearby restaurants and businesses serving sustainable seafood and contribute new establishments to a growing database, was added in an early 2011 update. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum. ArtClix - iTunes App Store. ArtClix - Google Play.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Stacey Marie Garcia came to the MAH first as a graduate intern in the summer of 2011. To apply the results of my analysis to produce a community-driven program design specifically for implementation at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (the MAH). You can download and read the full version of my thesis here.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

Museum 2.0

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. I arrived in 2011 with the explicit directive to execute a turnaround. We''ve developed program formats and tools that allow us to slot in and support partners without constantly reinventing the wheel. To work for my community.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then. Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. But this choice also belied my background as an engineer and designer--someone trained to think of tools as apolitical.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

NTEN

I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! During the period that the 500 were selected, they learned a lot about how various social networking tools could be used as they saw participants start partnering up and organizing themselves for the game. Tracy : Games are about subverting a system.

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