Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

At that point, I researching and organizing resources for artists on Arts Wire on how to use the web. When I find a blog by serependity or if referred to in another blog I'm reading, I'm now asking myself: Is the blog content of interest to me for my npo/ed tech work or Cambodia work or personal reasons? Oh, and my point was.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Ten or eleven years ago, when I was learning HTML and Web site creation (in the very early days) and teaching arts organizations, I always started with an exercise called " Critical Browsing." " Basically, looking at lots of web pages and analyzing/evaluating their design, navigation, and other criteria. Instructional.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

I often get asked questions about how a nonprofit’s website should look and behave and what benchmarking or evaluation tips I might have. And being able to get that feeling from more than just the content itself. How should a nonprofit balance website content and calls to action ?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In the past year, I've seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation. How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies? I frankly think this is ridiculous.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The groups can use three different approaches: physical, artistic, or traditional word presentation. Not only does the activity support local artists, it challenges how outsiders and insiders engage with each other and share knowledge in a conference setting. Where do our eyes go to in art?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Research and assessment is rare in the arts, and it tends to focus on "proving" our value. Studies of how arts participation affects student test scores. And given what I''ve seen on micro and macro-levels in arts funding and power, I don''t think this strategy is working. Economic impact studies.

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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. Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content? This was particularly true for Click!, Neither Click!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Elisa’s focus is interactive arts, media design, and cultural management, and she has been involved in many pertinent projects, such as MUVI (the Virtual Museum of the Collective Memory of Lombardia). We will engage volunteers to evaluate the technologies for how usable—and socially adaptable—they are. There are two strategies.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2015

I’ve always been inspired by the creative ways the Brooklyn Museum uses technology to connect visitors to museum content. We began with a series of internal meetings to evaluate our current visitor experience and set a goal for the project. Our visitors were telling us they wanted personal connection and they wanted to talk about art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. What do you track? What domains of impact should be considered (e.g. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, if you have to leave early, you just want to review the content later on, share with a friend or a colleague, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff in your hands later on today. Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective. Does that make sense?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation. Not so for the post-its.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2009

Earlier this year, the New Museum and Creative Time commissioned a traveling piece by artist Jeremy Deller called "It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq." Both times, the central square in which it was situated was well-trafficked with people enjoying art, hanging out with friends, and working.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

people who engage with your content online? Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. Outdoor movies at the art museum? If someone has an epiphany about art outside the museum, do they count? people who rent the facility for private events? volunteers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Our mantra has been (and will continue to be) that each page of content. We also keep hammering that content needs to be content -. not solely navigation -- just related links that are directly related to the content. Unique Blog Readers (content consumption ??? Search drives visitor behavior. needs to standalone.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

Most people think this requires designing more sophisticated content (and it can). We don’t need to design new content; we have to change the way we invite visitors to use the content we already have. They also lock content into non-transferable settings. Avoid Flash for presenting content you want to spread.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail Note from Beth: In 1993, I worked as the "network weaver" for an online network for individual artists called "Arts Wire" where I facilitated online conversations, provided technology support and training. In the last few years, the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Their stories are the museum.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

This is not to say that science centers are more censored than art or history museums—every kind of museum has its own hang-ups. Imagine an art museum that allowed patrons to bang on the exhibits the way you can in a science center. So how do we evaluate and make decisions about self-censorship?

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