Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

In two weeks, several hundred arts leaders from around the country will gather on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University to discuss the role of technology in the arts field at the Technology in the Arts Conference. Tell me a little bit about how you got into arts management? Was that your progression? Actually, I???m

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Within our exhibitions, we have a focus on creating very dynamic, interactive opportunities. In painted wood and styrofoam, it was a masterful and whimsical refusal to answer that pesky question of whether games can be art.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

George is a stranger I met last week at SFMOMA’s new show, The Art of Participation:1950 to Now. The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. Here are two pictures. The first one is me. The second one is George.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Riding the art couch through downtown Santa Cruz with two visitors and a dog while blasting the Jackson 5 was one of the highlights of my year. What started as a fun personal project for her will hopefully become part of our permanent history gallery--a space we are trying to make more interactive over the coming years.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

People from across the country will gather at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to experience MCON in person and over 20,000 people will stream the event online. They’re facilitating Q&A sessions and panels, including the media panel with Matt Higginson from Medium and Sarah Harris from Incite. In-Person Learning Labs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I did my first presentation about the Internet when I started working with Arts Wire in 1993. Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Or participating in the online conversation on Arts Wire. 09 was the first version I used).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. I facilitated online forums, provided technical support the 500 members, and training. Onlne Facilitator. online facilitator? Social media coach?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus. At the same time I discovered places like the Well, ECHO (east coast hangout) and Meta Network (where arts wire has hosted). I also discovered the gopher!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. An ecosystem where its members connect, interact, and support not just the people in their circles but people they ‘bump into’ based on some ‘random’ interest and connection. Crowdsourcing killed punk rock…Crowdsourcing kills art…It’s bullshit.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question. In Your Face ).

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JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Thanks to Kyle Evans, who forwarded me the fascinating, lengthy master’s dissertation.art: Situating Internet Art in the Modern Museum by Karen Verschooren at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. In it, Karen provides a survey of the evolving relationship of Internet art to art museums. while at the computers.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Unlike typical events driven by in-person interaction, guests can be engaged with interactive polls, live shoutouts, and rotating break-out rooms ( Zoom and similar services offer all or most of these features in one). At the bottom of this post, we’ve also listed additional resources for setting up virtual events.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Unlike typical events driven by in-person interaction, guests can be engaged with interactive polls, live shoutouts, and rotating break-out rooms ( Zoom and similar services offer all or most of these features in one). TUTORING ART. For performances, your best bet is using a livestreaming platform such as Twitch (free to use).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition. Reassert the "forum"?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. It's easier to talk about interactivity by asking, "what can I do here?"

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. We cut it in the first week after opening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

I had the honor facilitating a session on measuring impact with Greg Baldwin and Jay Backstrand from VolunteerMatch discussing how their approach to measuring impact over the past decade. 6. Irvine Foundation Arts Innovation Fund. The report is presented as an interactive infographic.

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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). Basically, they will renovate their space and incorporate an interactive table that allows visitors to access this content.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

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? Why do we count participants in an art activity for families at a community center but not members of the Rotary Club to whom I give a presentation about the museum? Louis count it.

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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. They were roped to very specific locations and activities.

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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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. “Well, thanks to this $20,000, there are 12 local artists who have a place to hang their artwork.”

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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. Community Organizer.

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