Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops. Streb Labs (Brooklyn, NY).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Last month, I had the good fortune to join a few brilliant people for a " Dinner-vention " about the future of the arts in America. In the course of the conversation, Devon Smith, a social media consultant from Threespot, started talking the problem of arts organizations that are no longer relevant or useful to their communities.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. We often talk about museums as leaders in providing substantive, essential alternatives to formal schooling.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

It's a little living room in a lobby area that invites people to lounge on comfortable chairs, leaf through magazines and books related to art and Santa Cruz history, and generally hang out. The area that houses the Creativity Lounge also shows art. Teenagers are curling up with art magazines.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). They were “preaching the museum gospel” in NYC via alternative tours at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

While many of their examples came from history and natural science, one of my favorite examples is from art. Whose soul is stamped on a work of art? And when it comes to art, a forced focus on "the real thing" can mean less access to cultural artifacts. They arbitrated replicas, reproductions, models, and props.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. I tried to picture an alternative with AleiaBrown and Adrianne Russell ’s # MuseumsRespondtoFerguson and LaTonya S. But I couldn’t get there.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 7, 2023

Applying for grants is an art form in and of itself, and research and preparation are key. To apply, you’ll need to seek out foundations with a history of supporting causes like yours, strive to make a professional impression on the application, and, if you receive the grant, be able to prove that you used funds effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). I like this alternative to sticky dot voting! Here’s a quick video. Each camper had three sticky notes where we added our names.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

Let's say your organization has a mission to increase X (art, healthy kids, clean water, community cohesiveness, etc.). On the other hand, in onstage mode, we could present more highly visible opportunities for people to be empowered and connected through art and history.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. It’s a thrilling challenge to the traditional form of art museum exhibit design, and better yet, visitors like it.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. We saw Race Through Time as an opportunity to share our mission around engaging with history with a new and highly desirable audience of young professionals.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2011

But on social media, creating a small active community of supporters that is engaged and active provides an alternative. From child abuse to local community to arts programs, small nonprofits have been finding they can have success at fundraising online. But reach is not nearly as important as engagement on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2008

The title of this post is a play on a book I read The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith in 1998 when I was working with arts educators on integrating technology into their lesson plans. Smith's book explains the history of learning theories and practice. Sue Waters send me a tweet about an alternative to hastags.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

After years of staging events, you may feel like there’s nothing you haven’t covered, from art auctions to wine tastings to trivia nights. Here are some to consider: Art: Art auctions serve a valuable purpose because they don’t just raise funds, they also spread awareness and appreciation of the works being auctioned.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2007

This week, I heard about a neat renegade art/museum awakening project in Providence, RI: Urban Curators. The project achieves its goal by elevating common, overlooked objects and spaces within the city of Providence, Rhode Island to the level of high art. Hats off for including white foamcore "labels" on the "pieces."

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Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2017

Identify a company that has a history of working well for nonprofits. Check out @Pay’s GoFundMe Alternatives for a list of great sites to use! There’s a sea of crowdfunding platforms. Understand how to ask for donations. If you can offer them, incentives are awesome perks for donors and help encourage involvement.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

For over 20 years, EveryAction has provided technology to support nonprofits working to make the world a better place, and we’re honoring that history through our product roadmap and commitments. Education, art, and culture can receive the support they need to flourish. Animals and the earth are protected and respected.

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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. One lives a double life as a soul music collector and DJ.

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Neon CRM

JULY 20, 2023

While this is particularly prevalent in historical or arts nonprofits, you’ll see it in almost every sector. This might include state-of-the-art machinery, computers, software, or other tools designed to improve operations and further the cause. During the meeting, you should have a specific ask amount in mind.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

Or alternatively, what kind of culture are you trying to build, and what indicators reflect that? I’m glad to see critical questions alongside the encouragement and recommendations on Legends of the Stall. That’s what pushes us to improve. How does experimentation play a role (or not) in the culture of your organization?

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

The board meetings alternated between the United States and the UK. Here are a few photos of a few of the myriad of fun activities we had from the Welcome Banner to Indy to visiting the Art Museum to Symphony on the Prairie at Conner Prairie to celebrating a birthday! Part Two – Personal Friendship.

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Care2

DECEMBER 4, 2007

The rest is history, but in the next few weeks, the story was in several local newspapers and blogs. The SRWA is just getting started, but soon enough it will be providing grassroots greening and alternate transportation programs for residents and children in Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, and Brooklyn Waterfront communities.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By Institutions tying their online and onsite activities, as the Ontario Science Centre did when it hosted a YouTube meetup , or the Smithsonian American Art Museum did when they developed an alternate reality game.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I''m glad to see coverage about art museums involving visitors in exhibitions. I struggled to present my own alternative frame ("community involvement"). The metaphor for traditional art museums is the temple. What is the metaphor for participatory arts? Ideas Museum of Art and History Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

No one would contest the idea that most museum exhibitions, art shows, films, books, in short, most content experiences, have value both for the new and return user. In the past, I’ve talked about this as an alternate newcomer experience: you want to make a video, I want to put them in a meaningful order. Let’s go back to the shoes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought August 6, 2007 Blackbaud , which is one of the big gorillas in the CRM/Fundraising space bought a littler guy, eTapestry. Jim 4 admin 08.07.07

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

The more data points you have on your donors—from email and street addresses to job titles and company names, giving capacity, philanthropic history, contact preferences, and general interest—the more you will be able to target your asks and create fundraising campaigns that speak directly to them.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Nguzo Saba translates as the seven principles which are broadly defined as: Community cohesiveness, purposeful endeavor, gathering of skills, cultural vitality, dance or musical performance, communal meals, and being inspired to create art of any kind. However, the importance of his day has been lost in American history.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2015

In the 1970’s, the idea of a “season ticket” in the arts really took off. Arts organizations were able to bring ticketing revenue and cash in ahead of the performance (which is when they actually are incurring the cost of the production), encourage loyalty and reduce risk. It seemed like a win/win.

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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. . consider impact reporting kind of like your credit score. Ask “So what?”

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

History of Thanksgiving. Some take issue with the narrative of Thanksgiving for the way it obscures the long history of war and massacre of European settlers against Native Americans. As a result of that long history, there are many features our language today that are rooted in genocide of Native Americans and remain insensitive.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

and Humanity Cash , a tech venture focused on alternative digital currencies. As a platform for such local activity, more participatory forms of engagement are already envisaged—an area “culture pass” for museums and arts institutions is one exciting example—to further stimulate local activity.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. But what if the "traditional" arts experiences is a myth? What if historic arts experiences were actually a lot more participatory?

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Neon CRM

JULY 27, 2023

With the right CRM system, you can adjust your messaging based on their giving history, interests, professions, and other interactions you’ve had with them. An alternative option is to use a content calendar app. Segmentation enables highly personalized email messaging for your constituents.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

History certainly plays a role, but by your logic newspapers should be thriving today despite the fact that people have been predicting their decline since radio "news" burst onto the scene in 1920.and Ive seen a lot of trends in more than three decades in this industry, and read a lot of history about advertising media.

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