Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? New Technology for New Power Movements.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

As one African-American artist on a prominent museum board told me, "I felt even more tokenized than if I had been part of some kind of Artists'' Council or African-American Council." While C3 is open for any staff members to participate, they have to make that same time commitment too to be part of the group.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. The gallery staff wanted half-term activities as part of their learning program and they invited me to lead these through what evolved into a residency format.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. I avoid them.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" Because of the incredible popularity of genealogy as an activity, history museums are also excellent places for visitor-generated or -supported research projects (e.g. This means that an activity construed as educational (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Claire Rice, from Theatre Bay Area, was live blogging the whole day and captured their opening remarks. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I do believe that social media as part of your training can enhance learning, help facilitate social learning. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process." The guards interpreted the labels in strict ways and intervened anytime visitors deviated from the prescribed activities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Oakland-based performance artist, Aya De León , shared her secrets for a healthy relationship: Being in a relationship, particularly as a black woman with a black man, just means that we are each bringing our own land mines to the relationship. Leadership Institute of Arts and Activism. Performance Piece.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

Joe explains some of the planned intentional dialogue events: First, for the opening night dinner, we hired a local dance company that is putting together pieces about visiting museums, punctuated by an actor/dancer asking provocative questions to the group. At each table there will be an envelope with questions inside.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. I think so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

For anybody who might fear that the loan recipients were scam artists or would run off with the money, this Lend4Health group on Facebook demonstrated that these people were real people. So, instead of an annual report summarizing the activities of an entire previous year's work, I am giving these updates real-time, as they happen.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Still a perfect venue for cultivating sponsorships, you can offer creative rewards like a mention in the event credits or, for an extra high touch, offer breakout rooms to mimic backstage VIP passes to meet and greet the artists. You can open up your event to a wider audience of people around the world, and save costs on travel and venues.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Still a perfect venue for cultivating sponsorships, you can offer creative rewards like a mention in the event credits or for an extra high-touch, offer breakout rooms to mimic backstage VIP passes to meet and greet the artists. You can open up your event to a wider audience of people around the world, and save costs on travel and venues.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. One of these artists, a graffiti artist named Dan, had such a good time that he a.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent. A month ago, I invited you to join this project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Having fundraisers that happen outside of Sunday morning services helps fund important church activities. But talking extensively about church fundraising activities aside from the Sunday offering can overwhelm your members. Painting classes are a popular activity for small groups of people. Hold a work-a-thon. A 50/50 raffle.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition. Inspire visitors to look, think, and respond actively to the works on view? We provided a guide to these locations for visitors at the activity table.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly. With one exception, no single activity cost more than $30 to produce/maintain. We cut it in the first week after opening. Some are conceptual (i.e.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

We have the City of Boulder naturalists, who are involved in organizing field activities for the community—bringing the community into the open spaces—to facilitate that collection. One major barrier is a difficulty in opening up the deep conversation of what the role of the museum is today.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

CFRE will explain how fundraisers can persuade ‘powers that be’ that they should actively promote legacy giving, even (especially) now. In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. ” So you can open your eyes. Claire Axelrad, J.D.,

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

. “We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. There are still some job openings , including a Monetization Director to help Jumo “achieve financial self-sustainability through the development of revenue-generating products.&# Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

For us, annual attendance includes programmatic activities onsite and off. Why do we count participants in an art activity for families at a community center but not members of the Rotary Club to whom I give a presentation about the museum? If someone comes to an exhibition opening for the free food, do they count?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Now, the exhibit is closed and we're throwing open the doors on what was created. Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. I love facilitated experiences, but I worry that they aren't scalable to every visitor.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. So when you think about impact, think about the fact that people don’t want to just support your existence just because, you know, keep those doors open, keep the lights on. I’m going to open it up to questions.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This essay, written in 1991, reflects Elaine's experience on the planning staff for the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) on the Mall as an "insider/outsider"--a "hired gun" with museum know-how facilitating the creation of someone else's museum. active use of artifacts?) an "uncharted adventure."

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. lower- quality homes), and job openings that the companies have deemed “appropriate” to their customers’ social position.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2021

website pages visited, time spent on the page, emails opened, click-throughs, articles, blog or social media posts shared, replies, comments)? To learn what your audiences actively search for today, not yesterday. A blank or muddled canvas is a bore (okay, not if you’re an artist, but you get the idea.). Closing Thoughts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. So I really didn't know what I was doing, and sometimes still don't know what I'm doing, but I'm still trying to build bridges between the world of art and activism.

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