Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As a trainer, one of the most exciting parts of working on a book is developing instructional materials based on the content and leading workshops to help put the ideas into practice. Over the past six months, I have been developing and piloting workshops on self-care and we-care as part of the leadership development training I do.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I had the pleasure of serving as Principal for a Day at Arizona School for the Arts (ASA) on October 27 via a program put on by HandsOn Greater Phoenix. I came away from the day inspired and invigorated to see so many students receiving rigorous academic instruction and also passionately pursuing their study of the arts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. I’m always on the lookout for good icebreakers that don’t suck and was delighted with her movement icebreaker, although it might might work best with artist or activist audiences.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 2, 2012

This recent holiday season, Benetech began supporting an innovative organization that helps people with disabilities develop their creative abilities and become working artists. During our holiday party, we displayed thirty pieces of art provided by Creativity Explored , a San Francisco-based nonprofit arts organization.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. And it ended with this: No wonder it [MOMA] ends up showing shallow, label-dependent art rather than work that offers deeper, more contradictory encounters. The review was harsh.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I said yes. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. SETUP Cut your instructions down to as little text as possible. Accolades are more inspiring than instructions. Artists work incredibly hard to produce their work. Please share yours in the comments.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Khan Academy, the free, nonprofit online source for educational instructional videos, is a young powerhouse in the online learning space. Salman Khan's videos give people access to good instructional content on standard (and often confusing or poorly taught) educational topics. How to solve a quadratic equation. How to titrate an acid.

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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

MARCH 24, 2011

After some silliness, engagement, and confusion, they were instructed to leave. These "historically hardcore" images attracted a lot of attention on the internet, and when Jenny contacted the Smithsonian about it, she was instructed to remove the Smithsonian logo. Without the formal institution, there can be no deviance.

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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 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." Instructional. There is a link to the download and the written instructions. Editing is done to the music and works well.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

Last week, the international press lit up with a story from Paris : the city is removing the "love locks" from the Pont des Arts bridge. The "love locks" are not a project with an institutional or artistic director. And so, one of the most successful, accidental, and fraught participatory projects of the past decade comes to an end.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

She was given lots of instruction and support as she was costumed and asked to help present a slow dance. They repeated their actions and instructions over and over. The artistic power of what I saw came from the palpable sense of risk--for the participants, for the dancers, and for the entire audience in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

In my opinion, websites need to have more instruction on how educators can make use of the site." " Over the years, I taught many workshops for arts educators on how to integrate the web into the curriculum, although not as much recently since I have two small children. At least for artists/arts educators.

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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. Here's a few I played with from 1992-2002 during my time working with NYFA/Arts Wire. Citizen instructional mediamaker? Electronic Bulletin Board Sysop.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

As an educational consultant, I offer nonprofits instruction on best practices around their technology. I also think you should steal like an artist. TJ also enjoys coaching people who are starting out in the field and has taught introductory courses at University of the Arts and Girl Develop It.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2005

Not for the non-technical user if using blogger, although there are half-decent step-by-step instructions. For the ctcs that are don't have a lot of resources to spend $12 per kid, they could download the pdf and print/bind it themselves -- like a computer arts and craft project, but darn the document's print command is locked.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Still a perfect venue for cultivating sponsorships, you can offer creative rewards like a mention in the event credits or, for an extra high touch, offer breakout rooms to mimic backstage VIP passes to meet and greet the artists. You can incentivize higher contributions by offering a recording of the event at higher donation levels.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Still a perfect venue for cultivating sponsorships, you can offer creative rewards like a mention in the event credits or for an extra high-touch, offer breakout rooms to mimic backstage VIP passes to meet and greet the artists. TUTORING ART. Hands for Hunger raised over $12,000 in donations through its first Online Virtual Concert.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

And their unique structure and bottom-up approach offers some instructive lessons for museums that want to really embrace visitors and members as co-creators of the institutional experience. In some cases, such as AS220 labs , they are part of larger community art spaces. This isn't just a geek thing.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

He had no instructions to give or laugh lines to hit. Ze Frank recently posed this question to several designers, filmmakers, and artists here , asking: When you make things with an audience in mind, do you have internal representations of that audience to help guide you in the process? Usable art. His show was wordless.

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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. Just when I was beginning to feel totally overwhelmed, I decided to dive and not worry about any logical or instructional order! It reminds of how I used to feel exploring gophers and the early web in 1993. Oh, and my point was.

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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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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Our tech team comprises five focus areas: Backend Development Team: Backend developers create integrated digital experiences and web applications using state-of-the-art open source technologies such as Drupal and WordPress content management systems. The strength of our team is in the diversity of our experiences. Build all the things!

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Once they’re all sold, instruct everyone to pop their own balloon and see what they’ve won. Depending on your budget, you may be able to get a popular artist, but you can also reach out to local musicians. Art show – Are there any local artists in your area? Then, put each slip into a balloon and fill them with helium.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

Peter writes about Casey’s work in Little Bets as a Colonel in the US Military and as head of instruction at West Point Academy. 6. Irvine Foundation Arts Innovation Fund. There is also Admitting Failure , to encourage people working in international development to share their stories of failure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. I’ve found drawing Zentangles , a form of meditative art work that you can do in 10-15 minutes, has helped improve focus. Artist Tiles. Zentangle Pens and Pencils. Organize tasks and Guard Your Calendar.

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence Sue Lawty. It launched in October of 2007 with a very simple and understandable idea: to produce a global map of pieces of art made with stones on beaches. The World Beach Project does not exist in the V&A Museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 19, 2009

At the physical museum, visitors who wished to provide feedback on the skull were instructed to leave the building and walk into a temporary structure that served as both a For the Love of God gift shop and feedback environment. It’s no coincidence that Hirst is known for art that aggressively courts and plays with hype.

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