Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Speakers: Douglas Thomas, USC Center on Public Diplomacy Hardy Merriman, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict Stephen Friedman, MTV U Douglas Thomas: We're closet gamers. Stephen Friedman - MTV U We started with activism - pushing and questioning authority. We decided to follow our artists and engage the audience on this issues.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

International Day of Yoga (June 21). Or do what Planned Parenthood did and partner with local tattoo artists who may have a connection to your cause to donate a portion of their bookings to your organization. Bonus points if the artist does an entire custom flash related to your cause. International Day of Friendship (July 30).

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. Newsletters : AI writers can help nonprofits design and write newsletters that keep donors and supporters up-to-date on their latest activities and achievements.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Stacey Marie Garcia came to the MAH first as a graduate intern in the summer of 2011. Assess and Respond to Community Assets and Needs If you want to activate community engagement in your programs, you first need to work together with your communities to determine their diverse needs, assets and interests.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2012

He is currently a PhD student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Santa Cruz, researching how digital media foster civic engagement, informal learning and activism. Josephine Dorado, ( @funksoup ) is a social entrepreneur, educator, artist, producer, and skydiver.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In particular, we want exhibition collaborators--artists, researchers, historians, collectors--to understand our goals and how we intend to steer the exhibition development process. We see our visitors as partners in actively interpreting and exploring exhibition content. But we weren't explicitly making those goals public.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

Check out the descriptions and how to apply here , and learn more about the MAH intern experience on their blog here. Participatory Performing Artist-in-Residence program. We are funding four residencies per year at $2,000 apiece so that performing artists can partner with our staff to co-create meaningful, community-centered work.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Photo by CLoé Zarifian, MAH Photo Intern We're working with a guest curator, Wes Modes , on an upcoming experimental project at our museum. Wes is an artist, and this is his first time running a museum exhibition development process. He asked staff and artist friends for feedback on the concept. Developing new staff policies.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

For example, for the Brooklyn Museum's recent exhibition on women and pop art, Seductive Subversion , curatorial intern Rebecca Shaykin was assigned to improve (and write) Wikipedia articles on the 25 artists profiled in the show. Institutions can do so actively, as Brooklyn did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

As courageous citizens connected with each other to express dissent and organize public actions, social media tools spurred activism and social change in unprecedented ways. Chalk up my vote for 2011’s “Best Debut Artist” and “Best Supporting Actor.”. originality, empathy, integrity and courage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. The internal team is led by a non-curator. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

This is the last week to apply for MuseumCamp 2014 , a professional development experience in which diverse people from the arts, community activism, and social services will measure the immeasurable together. We are also expanding paid opportunities for local artists. Time to stop dreaming and start doing. The demand is very high.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 6, 2011

Our Pre-Festival Summit, (Monday, June 20), will feature a day-long series of case studies focusing on hyper-local community building, national civic engagement, international development issues, and psychological health concerns. and Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski, the Head of Web at the World Food Programme.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2014

To actively weave together cultures across differences instead of accentuating the distinctions among them. But they also present exhibitions like Destination X , a thematic exploration of forced and voluntary international travel and migration. This was the first time I''d heard the term intercultural.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

If you don't have a sense of an outcome--whether that be internal research, community conversation, or something else--you can't decide how or whether contributions should be documented or archived. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

With that in mind, Zero1's community engagement manager Danielle Siembieda-Gribben organized HackFlux : a weekend hackathon bringing together a mix of coders, developers, designers, artists, and thinkers this past June. The goals of the hackathon were twofold: To build a community around mobile development and art. The Teams Get to Work.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

From 2006-2011, I focused almost entirely on #1 and #2, playing with ways to invite visitors to actively participate with professionals to co-create powerful experiences around museum objects. We invited local artists and community groups to perform. We make room for interns and artists and people who walk in the door with crazy ideas.

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Care2

JUNE 15, 2011

Over the course of her career, she has made the transition from marketing “artist&# to marketing “scientist&# by uncovering ways to measure the impact of marketing in the organizations serves. Prior to her work at UCS, Karla worked for nine years at Boston-based Corporate Accountability International.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

First, there is the individual and what that person can do for themselves, even if the organizational culture or internal policies do not reinforce the importance of self-care. This concept was acted out by artists that brought the game to life in a very funny way and it prompted some fun (non-scarcity mindset) thinking.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Launched in 2006, Adobe Youth Voices is designed to provide youth in underserved areas with the critical skills they need to become active and engaged members of their communities and the world at large. Youth Voices: Creating with Purpose. By doing this, they can direct funding and people to the areas they’re trying to improve.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? The common museum knowledge on this issue is that adults are timid, that we have lost some of the wonder, impulsiveness, and active creativity of childhood days.

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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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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

I’m writing from Amsterdam today – where I’ve had an amazing week at the International Fundraising Congress with fundraisers from all over the world. Artists in your community? Gail Perry , MBA, CFRE, is an international fundraising consultant, trend-spotter, speaker, trainer and thought leader. Hungry children in Brazil?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

By inviting people to actively participate with us in co-creating programming, we empower them as creative agents, cultural producers, and people for whom the museum is a relevant, compelling partner. We use a clear logic model to relate our activities to their intended outcomes and impacts (here''s more about what a logic model is ).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I want to invite local artists, crafters, and people who practice historical folkways to come and demo/make/perform in the lobby on a regular basis. Right now, we have monthly family art activities. When we have events, it's fabulous, but other times it can feel a bit cavernous and dead. It could be an exhibit jam. Family days.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. What should be our role–as institutions that claim to conduct their activities for the public benefit–in the face of ongoing struggles for greater social justice both at the local and national level? There is hardly a community in the U.S.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 26, 2015

Even though the process might seem intense, Gerken said it’s proven to be effective as the volunteer is engaged in their activity, whether it is teaching woodworking classes or helping with administrative work. Gerken said volunteers and interns make up 83 percent of their organization. We are a part of their lives,” she said. “We

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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." We''re working on the internal and external language, always trying to be as clear and concrete as possible.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

She is a fabulous and thoughtful artist. The same day we opened the Creativity Lounge, we opened new exhibitions throughout the building, including a paper collage show in the 3rd floor lobby by local artist Lisa Hochstein. Note: Thanks to Lisa Hochstein for allowing me to quote her emails in this post.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Joe also shared some great Pinterest use-cases for nonprofits to experiment with including a Pinboards of fashionable used clothes available in Goodwill stores and beautiful images endangered frogs Conservation International is working to save. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Just use your beard!".

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 30, 2023

Nowadays, Pride Month is celebrated all around the world with parades, educational events, and other activities aimed at raising awareness of LGBTQ+ rights and fostering a sense of equality, acceptance, and love for everyone. Share information and resources on your social media platforms to raise awareness and show your ongoing support.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2014

Over the past eight years, Michael has been specifically focused on the Arts and Cultural marketplace and is an active participant in delivering speaking engagements and contributing to trade publication articles. . How do you internally define arts and culture? Many will never get there. Ask for Feedback.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

Last week, the international press lit up with a story from Paris : the city is removing the "love locks" from the Pont des Arts bridge. The "love locks" are not a project with an institutional or artistic director. And so, one of the most successful, accidental, and fraught participatory projects of the past decade comes to an end.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. Nonprofit Success Story: The American Childhood Cancer Organization has raised over $43,000 through several successful campaigns, featuring the international symbol of support for those living with childhood cancer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

Last Sunday each of us wrote a post to answer the question, “Who is your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer or musician) and why?” Institute for Social Ecology : "A ten-day program for artists, performers, activists, and media makers who wish to create and examine socially engaged art and media projects."

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M+R

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In recent years, we have seen artists like Beyoncé and U2 experiment with new ways to launch music. For example, consider looking internally! Do you have a successful internal newsletter? Are you putting a lot of time into a donor event?

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