Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Part of my job was to evangelize about the Internet and later the web - how artists should harness its power by getting an email address instead of using their fax machines! But, there were great questions.

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Achieve

AUGUST 5, 2022

This guide will help you consider all the important questions you need to answer and follow the right steps to start off on the right foot: Determine your goals. Here are some questions that you should answer as part of the goal-setting process: How much money do we want to raise? Leverage your brand. Step 2: Leverage your brand.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

In his question to create the storage battery, he conducted 10,000 experiments before arriving at a method that worked. Some participants got frustrated along the way, but part of the learning was to make time and space for reflection to get to deeper insights and improve practice. What were some tactics that you tried?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

It was terrific to have a packed room and a long, open conversation (we split the session into half presenting, half audience discussion) about these issues. And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

I don’t always get a chance to sit in the audience and simply listen at conferences where I am keynoting because I’m also preparing my talk, but Peter’s keynote was after mine on the following day so I have a rare opportunity to immerse without being distracted because I was going to be speaking soon. Was it anticipated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I begin with the instructional goals and finding out as much as possible about the audience. Audience Research. My job was the network weaver.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more? Here are three of my favorites.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

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? Alas, for designers then, "the imagined audience" is both blessing and curse.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

It happened because we: partnered with local artists and community organizations whose passion and generosity made it possible for us to create incredible events. These collaborators brought their own audiences along with their abilities, which introduced a lot of new people to the museum. design new programs with a focus on history.

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See3

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Each video features a young, critically-acclaimed spoken-word artist – Shira Erlichman, Alvin Lau, and Deja Taylor – as well as renowned musician, DJ Spooky. We even re-skinned their MySpace page to reflect the microsite creative!). And the timing for this initiative couldn’t be better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

In some ways, we do a good job engaging people who reflect our whole County. Our audience’s income diversity matches that of the County. If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Here's a site that already has the audience everyone wants: women and moms who make most of the household buying decisions.” Create categories that reflect what users are looking for. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Be prepared to field some teacher questions. Pinterest Guidelines.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When you find a bar with your favorite song on the jukebox, or a museum room that feels like your grandmother's living room, you suddenly feel a strong affinity and are able to see yourself reflected in the space. If there's a fabulous mosaic in a dusty third floor reading room, why would you let it sit there unadmired by the masses?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. " He describes what Ian observed what happened with his youth audience.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Make sure the game is targeted to the right audiences. The struggle for the jury was to find how the simple gameplay reflects the game’s goal of empowering women to believe that they are capable of solving hard problems through teamwork and leadership. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. Yet, the art world does not reflect that.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Audience segmentation and research has become a hot topic in museums, especially when it comes to crafting appealing offerings that are customized to different kinds of visitors. So we wanted a membership segmentation that reflected their individual needs. Kristen will be responding to comments and questions here on the blog.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attendees will enjoy themed trivia questions, compete for prizes, and contribute to your cause while having a blast. And you don’t need famous musical groups either: Local acts with local fan bases are a great way to attract audiences and put on a great show. Art Exhibition You can never go wrong with highlighting local artists.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I learned to appreciate the audience reach of a big institution while vastly preferring the diversity of work and lack of bureaucracy of a small one. Like slam poetry, blogging is writing for an immediate and hopefully vocal audience.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

Which leads to the question of people: who is getting involved? Our proto-users are artists, architects, university professors, mathematicians, engineers who have already been experimenting with creating interactive environments and objects within the virtual world. Instead, we are building things around and with each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

In my reflection post about the panel, I was musing about one of the points raised: ”How Can We Visualize Data If We Can’t Draw?” The major problem or block to using visualization is that many people think drawing is just for artists and if you can’t draw well, than you shouldn’t bother to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

During this reflection, many new ideas on how to pivot and iterate rise up. California arts organizations conducted 28 experiments to achieve new relevance for audiences, communities and professional artists with support from The James Irvine Foundation. Global Giving’s Honest Loser Award. 5. Sector-Wide Examples.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

the question of how cultural objects are defined and valued and 2. So the value of the mechanisms is to let people find and reflect on what natural heritage is—how it can be defined, represented, and shared. And that will probably happen when the kind of artistic production that uses new media will become predominant in the museums.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

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. This coincides with the identification of 20- and 30-year-olds as an audience targeted for growth in attendance. Reassert the "forum"?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

We are being hurt by leadership that has fostered a totalitarian, oligarchic system, which is currently extinguishing our best efforts to be reflective and meaningful in what we do. The label did not address that the artist sexually abused her, gave her syphilis, and colonized her home. And it shows. And that makes us complicit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

" I asked him if would share a screen shot of the report and reflect a little further on his comment. I remember serving as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and had to quantify artistic merit. It is also a great reflection of your content creating a level of engagement with your target audience.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This essay, written in 1991, reflects Elaine's experience on the planning staff for the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) on the Mall as an "insider/outsider"--a "hired gun" with museum know-how facilitating the creation of someone else's museum. She was an intended insider--someone who NMAI was supposedly both "by" and "for."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

As part of the session, Tom led live drawing ( click for high-res image ), and we invited the audience to add their own “can’t dos” to a large map of things that are “safe,” “iffy,” and “no way”--more on that later. Focusing on youth audiences can lead to heavy and sometimes inappropriate self-censorship. The audio starts noisy.

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Forj

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Many of our curricula reflect what we used to value in the workplace: mastery of domain knowledge. How do we best convey this information to our audience? For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula.

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Forj

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Many of our curricula reflect what we used to value in the workplace: mastery of domain knowledge. How do we best convey this information to our audience? For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

As James comments in the attached podcast (scroll down), Shelley’s team did something that he thought was “too hard” to do in his work—tackle the effect of crowds on the subjective question of art evaluation. I asked Shelley if she received any negative feedback from the artists about their work being treated like data rather than art.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

So they'll each tell you a little about that, and we'll have time for questions and answers at the end. But it's a much broader audience than just your family. it doesn't have to be completely narrow, but you're going to get more of an audience if it's about a particular issue, rather than just everything. Can I just see?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

What’s the emotional reaction you want your audience to have? Start by answering those questions, then start thinking about the visuals you want to create (and how you’ll make them). That can save you a lot of wasted effort, and you’ll avoid wasting your audience’s time and attention.

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