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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. They hired me and it turned into a decade of learning and teaching others (artists, arts organizations, and arts educators) how to integrate this technology into their work and organizations. Told the room that nonprofit capacity building was my calling.

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Making Alternative Meaning out of Museum Artifacts

Museum 2.0

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. You can (and there is - the unparalleled Museum of Jurassic Technology ). In the Museum of Jurassic Technology, you feel as though you are in a funhouse. They model the requested visitor contributions.

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Khan Academy and the Revolution in Online Free Choice Learning

Museum 2.0

Its funding has skyrocketed as major foundations and technology companies have made multi-million dollar grants and investments in its growth. More importantly, it means that we should be looking to their model to push ourselves in how we think about delivering the most engaging, powerful content possible.

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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

Museum 2.0

To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. The result is a beautiful animated video that composites together alternative frames created by participants all over the world. But overall, this is a model project that starts with an outcome, not an activity.

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Guest Post by Lina Srivastava: Building Cultural Engagement for Change Through Media and Narrative

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it's also easier to disseminate information than ever before, since the internet, web and mobile technologies allow for more connectivity and access. In the two frameworks I've been co-creating, Transmedia Activism Modeling Global Change, we've based the frameworks on the core value of putting the social change issue first.

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Another Exclusivity Paradox: Secret Gardens, Hidden Museums

Museum 2.0

And then there's the Berkeley Ace hardware store, which has a basement lair devoted to model trains. I know I feel that way about the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles; I feel a bit of pride every time I usher a skeptical friend through the non-descript storefront and into a world of strange wonder. What's going on here?

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75 Top Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

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It’s also very easy for just about anyone to put on due to modern portable karaoke technology. One huge benefit of technology is that these are no longer cash-only events. You can either use a pay-to-enter model or turn it into a bit more of a gamble, where participants get a basket of eggs that may or may not contain a valuable prize.

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