Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Their program includes about teaching artists. Then we had the whole staff brain storm together. Erika’s organization is a small to midsize arts organization, with six full time staff members and an operating budget of less than $1 million. Opening Acts executive director then shared a list of ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

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. She did so in the first few minutes. It was before we did anything else.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The Tools Artists Need Geeks To Create Join us to discuss the digital tools being used and abused by theatre makers, dancers, musicians, crafters, wordsmiths, cinematographers, photographers, painters, and other multimedia artists. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork? What’s new? What works?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

June 1-22: My Juicy Blogging E-course: The Art and Play of Blogging for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders. August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and leading the idea generation portion of The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

These artists are all great examples of how media can be used for social change - as a vehicle for storytelling. KRS1 was the brains behind Boogie Down Productions, and he was a master storyteller. Last week I was listening to some old school hip-hop - you know, Eric B and Rakim , Public Enemy , Boogie Down Productions , etc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2011

This picture is from the "Chalk Art Phase" last summer in which we would write loving messages on chalk - Lilly is the artist, I'm the lookout and embellisher. We've done this numerous times and it's taken different forms.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

The positioning and size of the text immediately draw the viewer’s focus to the call to action, planting the seed in their brain for taking action and helping your cause. The crux of minimalist design is converting seemingly simple design elements, such as lines, shapes, and colors, into an artistic and attractive product.

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

Back to the actual fundraising event, don't wrack your brain for ideas, but put your own twist on your fundraising. Consider reaching out to the artist community and within your organization (children in particular) seeking artwork to sell. Here are a few fundraising ideas that I have seen work in the past.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2017

We had 2,000 t-shirts to give away, 850 balls to drop, and over a hundred artists, accordionists, salsa dancers, taiko drummers, and bubble ladies ready to go. But my realist brain never got the full attention of my cheerleader brain. We sent out hundreds of flyers with the eight-night Opening Week schedule. We lined up press.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

How does this change our brains and the way we process information or even learn? Rob Cottingham, one of my favorite stand up comics, cartoon artists, and social media/nonprofit gurus, got to attend the Real Time Web Summit. Constant stream of information - where do get a chance to reflect? Or does that happen in real time?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

Supporting art and artists, writers and books. Music, walking, running, happy hour with girlfriends, yoga, living by the ocean, and the way the internet bends time and space so I can meet people anywhere at anytime. Feeding people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2011

Through coaching, workshops and a variety of online events, Jamie helps women find the confidence and courage to discover and express their creative spirit, whether that means exploring their artistic self, or bringing more of their creative capacity to their life and business.

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JUNE 21, 2011

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. The goals include learning made personal, extension of experience onsite and online, and access for all learning and lifelong learning – underlying all of it is innovation in learning.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We invited local artists and community groups to perform. We make room for interns and artists and people who walk in the door with crazy ideas. There are plenty of times I have silenced the exhibit designer in my brain who wanted everything just so, or the museum director who wanted to make our visitors happy all the time.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Inspired by The Artist's Way's Morning Pages , I committed to free-writing three pages in my journal each day. Inspired by a Speaking of Faith interview with Stuart Brown , the author of Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul , I committed to playing every day, which took many forms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2005

" According to the @rt Room , it is an idea that excites the synaptic nerves in your brain and stirs your imagination. Great - artist books for kids - we made a book out of a paper bag. It is a snow day and with two young children at home, we need something to do after the snow man is finished and we have painted in the snow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This concept was acted out by artists that brought the game to life in a very funny way and it prompted some fun (non-scarcity mindset) thinking. Scarcity captures the mind. The mind orients automatically, powerfully, toward unfulfilled needs. Scarcity is more than just the displeasure of having very little.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. We ran with it and have since generated data about decision-making, cooperation, competition and negotiation for scientists (and also some artists) to play with. One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Maybe, but our brains are trained to go with what we know. We particularly appreciate search bar suggestions, like how Spotify invites users to search not only a song title but an artist or a podcast too. If you want to place your “contact us” email address on a page, make it make sense!

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. You've created two very interesting products, The Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit and The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

I met one of these data artists last year while visiting a friend/journalist at the New York Times. Sure, a lot of artists can express those kinds of intentions. And herein lies the power of data visualization: no matter how artistic it gets, it remains truthful to the core content.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

The Brooklyn Museum has an open call for artists who want to use Twitter to communicate with 1stfan members , but you don't need to be an artist to create quality content on Twitter. So please, get together with the most creative (and concise) brains in your institution and find the idea that will work for you.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. The goals include learning made personal, extension of experience onsite and online, and access for all learning and lifelong learning - underlying all of it is innovation in learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? re not creating a billboard, but rather starting a conversation -- you have to be willing to respond." " Taking it a little deeper, organizations should not go in the other direction - and be strategic in friending people.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

This style of game play connects the brain and body to the game’s experience. Jeff has been a DJ, music producer, graphic designer, illustrator and consultant to independent artists and small business owners. Simply put, your body’s motion can create the clouds needed for rain or wind needed to pollinate plants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. That's where I learned about a Twitter hashtag called #2amt - a channel for theatre artistic professionals to discuss their craft and trade and support one another. After hearing a story from a peer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2011

The first post is by Jennifer Lee, author of The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success. Jennifer is a certified coach, writer, artist, yogini, and the founder of Artizen Coaching. I love seeing their visual plans (which look quite a bit like a Right-Brain Business Plan!) Women here in Oakland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

Almost ten years ago, I used to teach a workshop called " Digital Information Coping Skills " for artists and arts organizations as part of a series of workshop on the theme of how to integrate the Internet into your (arts) organization's mission. I asked him, on Twitter, if he thought his brain had evolved. Photo by VaxZine.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. The introductory label talks about "strangeness, mystery, and oddity" and comments that, "when things are strange, the brain sends out feelers for meaning." I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. At that point, I researching and organizing resources for artists on Arts Wire on how to use the web. It reminds of how I used to feel exploring gophers and the early web in 1993.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Others are artistic projects—Jonathon Coulton’s popular Thing a Week (he writes a song each week), Scott McCloud's " Morning Improv " comics. And then of course there are blogs, in which millions of people are airing their brains out daily or weekly for everyone—and anyone—to watch and comment on.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

And while there's lots of good stuff in these sections (including an introduction for me to some wild net artists ), it's the last chunk that interests me most, where Karen explores the question of how and where Internet art should be exhibited. Why do that at the museum when I can do it at home?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

And it has occurred to me that it almost seems like journalists need, from the way the things are right now, to re-imagine themselves as artists, and that they almost have to have a different mentality, "I'm an artist, I've got to find funding." It is a public service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2016

This information was given to artist Paulina Correa who created a visual from the interview which was presented to us upon our departure from Israel. I’ve just returned from week-long leadership development program in Israel called “ Reality Storytellers ” hosted by the Schusterman Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Here is an example of an artistic program or creative process undertaken as a crowd and it isn't a cheap publicity stunt. Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain to describe this. Now wonder some arts organizations - museums, orchestras, and now operas - have embraced crowdsourcing as a creative technique.

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