Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! We were asked to listen to a PPT presentation that shared the history, mission, goals, challenges and opportunities. But, there was a twist – we were asked to do critical or active listening. What is Human Centered Design?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We sent weekly Membership Monday emails; created a new space online and on social media with story time, art activities, curatorial walk throughs; provided holiday meals for purchase from our café each month; and hosted Zoom talks with artists from our collection. Timed tickets will be available two weeks in advance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Connect the Dots with hundreds of artists as we Illuminate and innovate together to weave new networks. Structures of artistic expression in every medium will be linked and combined to tell new stories on how we bond within our shared new worlds. This will take place over multiple sims on some of NMC's new land.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

No matter if you’re representing a school, church, nonprofit, or other public-facing organization, flyers are a simple, yet smart way to spread the word about your activities. In this section, we’ll cover tips for structuring information about your fundraiser on your flyer so that your viewers are satisfied.

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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. Siembieda-Gribben structured the hackathon to maximize learning and shared knowledge. A Winner Emerges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Creating a sustainable engagement platform within your existing structure takes time, creativity and dedication. But there's a difference in how you influence previously disengaged participants vs. active participants. So there is great worth in storytelling to raise awareness and promote activism. People tend to tune out.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see. The magic isn't by design.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

How can you grow your email list to activate and build your organization’s power? Sometimes an organization can look to its own programs and mission-related activities for perks. If you have activities at events (photo booth, step and repeat, silent auction) see if there is something special you can do for donors.

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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

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

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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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Let donors see how you are making a huge difference: we saved 5 historic structures, we helped 5000 people, we staged 12 performances, we launched 25 rescue boats. Artists in your community? Her Fired-Up Fundraising Board Workshops have inspired thousands of board members to get actively involved in fundraising.

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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." CON: can make people feel like second-class board members instead of equal leaders in the organization.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2016

A few months ago, the MAH board and staff started discussing whether and how to create a formal policy for advocacy activities. We wanted enough of a process to provide clarity and structure without too many hoops. We partner with thousands of artists and organizations, providing staff support and engagement in their work.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank. We came up with a system that was much more structured and is based on audio, not video. We have four stories up now: from a guard, a curator, a longtime museum lover, and an artist. So what did you do next?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

So many of the activities available in interactive museums--exploding toothpaste, liquid nitrogen ice cream, collage-making, robot wars--are just as interesting, educational, and fun for adults as they are for kids. Most hackerspaces have very transparent legal structures and operate on a consensus model. This isn't just a geek thing.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. Making co-creation sustainable and powerful.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. My first reaction was skepticism.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao. So you weren't targeting "Brooklyn artists" or some other demographic group. T he Twitter Art Feed features a new artist every month. How are you selecting and rewarding these artists?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank. We came up with a system that was much more structured and is based on audio, not video. We have four stories up now: from a guard, a curator, a longtime museum lover, and an artist. So what did you do next?

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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. On stage, she acknowledged the activity she saw online, whether that was joking around about the ways fans talk about her online , correcting the record on her own personal favorite albums, or telling fans to be kind to a certain famous-ex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

As part of the context setting, participants were tasked to do “active listening,” taking note of a strengths, challenges, and opportunities in what the speakers shared. I facilitated the discussion with the design lab participants and experts. Making: Ideation and Rapid Prototyping. New Technology for New Power Movements.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

As Peter wrote: If someone enjoys Arts Event A because it’s social, informal, energetic, fun, and hip, why should we expect her to also enjoy Arts Event B if B is individual, formal, quiet, serious, and traditional (at least in its presentation, if not artistically)? Dias de las Muertos or Chinese New Year to attract new audiences.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums. QUESTIONS ABOUT WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES 8.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums. QUESTIONS ABOUT WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES 8.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

I think the reason we hold onto the idea generation part is because it's fun, not because it's the activity in which we have the most specialized expertise. Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. In the case of MN150, staff historians worked actively to verify and connect with contributors on any contentious topics. This was particularly true for Click!,

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

When I’m in MOMA, at least I know that as I go from room to room of the main collection, I’m not “missing” any particular era, genre, or artist. We usually think of rules as confining the realm of possibility, but Carson argues that strong structure and adherence to rules enhances guest comfort to "play" within the imagined environment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world. So women cook, clean and take care of their children, and these are all uncompensated activities. BB: What is the biggest challenge of your work?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

However, unfortunately, our strategies have gone only partially used — Instead, many of us have struggled to understand how leadership is managing the digital efforts, and to gain active support for something as basic as commitment to a comprehensive accessibility approach, despite having the funds and internal expertise to do so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Collective activities are not new to social media. The Audubon Society organized the first Christmas Bird Count to inventory all the birds in the Western Hemisphere in 1900. But now using social media enable the Society and ( anyone else ) to increase this activity with less effort and less cost.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year! Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year! Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 19, 2006

The 3rd Annual Artivist Film Festival & Awards ' mission is to strengthen the voice of international activist artists and raise public awareness of global issues. Youth Network My country was at war for 36 years and community structures and resources have been destroyed. artivist art activism film Barbra Streisand.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

Inside the museum, there are many opportunities to wander and watch in a safe space (no cars, communal monitoring of activities). Is it okay for people to express themselves artistically or musically in the galleries? They are lively, active, and social. Museums are naturally tuned to some of these but not all.

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