Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. I saw for myself that history was unfolding in front of me. In 2008, I raised money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It can be helpful to lead a planning process within your own organization that examines your organizational assets and access so you can translate them into benefits. History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. These exist already!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Salman Khan's videos give people access to good instructional content on standard (and often confusing or poorly taught) educational topics. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. This is an epic moment in the history of education, who wouldn’t want to be part of it?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2015

Visitors in front of the African Elephant Diorama at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC photo) This guest post was written by Karen Wise, Vice President, Education and Exhibits at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. “I History exhibits with hundreds of objects and no coherent story.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

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. What makes Machine special is its brand of humor and accessibility, combined with a real dedication to experimenting on the borders of art, science, and ideas.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. Our new catalog and website will be up within the next two months.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

There hasn’t been a history of collaboration between the museum and the film center and we wanted the chance to partner more deeply, and build a platform where we could continue to do so. We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank. Why did you choose this format instead of video?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. Everyone is entitled to art in their life.

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Allegiance Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Crowdfunding Platforms Crowdfunding campaigns are becoming increasingly popular among individual ventures, independent artists, and nonprofits. These systems are intuitive, so you can access data quickly and easily. Pricing: Pricing follows a subscription model and is based on the number of constituent records your organization has.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Areas served: California. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. Areas served: Vermont.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Last month, I heard a talk by author Jonathan Salem Baskin about his soon to be published book, “ Histories of Social Media.&# The book looks at social media concepts and ideas, asks is this really new? The technology tools certainly are, but history provides a context for every behavioral quality of new media.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Areas served: California. Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. Areas served: Vermont.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Typically, if you’re starting a pilot program and you do not have your own history of success. You know, if you’re starting a business or you want a credit card or something like that, they’re going to look at your credit history. . So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Summertime concerts at the history museum? visitors business models' Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Louis count it. There''s quite a range. Those count. What do you think?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Women are walking hours each day to access clean water; therefore, they're not getting access to education, and an opportunity to create a livelihood for themselves. The greatest challenge we face is the challenge of access. billion people are without clean water. More than half of those people are women and girls.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

This is not to say that science centers are more censored than art or history museums—every kind of museum has its own hang-ups. And while narrative-based museums have long dispensed with the concept that museums present a neutral point of view, science centers still feel that their trustworthiness rests on their objectivity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

It seemed to be a really good and sustainable model, and we raised around $300,000 doing that kind of work. The other thing that Off the Mat, Into the World does is that we create and model our own outreach projects, but on a grander scale. We brought in survivors of the genocide.

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