Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

Games structure participation in vital civic actions like voting, budgeting, advocacy, movement-building, solving major challenges, and simulations for disaster preparedness. (BS). Real world games include game dynamics for civic learning, play and performance, and crowdsourcing social change. (BS). 60% of casual gamers are women. (MB).

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Game Lesson Create New York City 55

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

How do you find out what's important to different communities, and how do you change your plans based on their needs? We had about thirty participants ranging from MAH trustees to artists, educators to architects, moms to grandfathers. Moving from community needs out to possible projects/collaborators.

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Program Community Design Museum 49

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

As one African-American artist on a prominent museum board told me, "I felt even more tokenized than if I had been part of some kind of Artists'' Council or African-American Council." Our work would become more relevant, our collaborations more timely, our network more diverse.

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Community Story Museum Map 39

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. Community members, artists, and organizations increasingly see our museum as a place where they can advance their own goals, and so they approach us. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see.

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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In a lot of ways, our successful turnaround at the MAH has been driven by both embracing incremental change and opening up clear opportunities for community organizations and individuals to "plug" their cultural brilliance into our space. We invited local artists and community groups to perform. We scrounged for free couches.

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Museum Artist Remix Professional 47

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. That said, the fact that we work with contemporary artists can also create a lot of stress in our institutional systems.

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Arts Interview Teen Artist 46

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3. In this approach, the Brainerd Foundation would focus on fostering sharing and innovation by thinking differently, funding differently, collaborating with other funders differently, and sharing differently—all starting tomorrow. Making: Ideation and Rapid Prototyping.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers. Consult with an attorney if you plan to do this. Get creative.

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Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 343

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. My first reaction was skepticism.

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao. 1stfans is an attempt to change that by providing specific benefits targeted to those audiences' needs. So you weren't targeting "Brooklyn artists" or some other demographic group.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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. QUESTIONS ABOUT RESISTANCE TO CHANGE 5. The first thing you have to tackle is fear of change. QUESTIONS ABOUT WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES 8.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. They don't like things to change. Of course, if you have a big dream, that's really going to change things in their world, and they don't like that. I know you particularly work with entrepreneurs and artists, yes? I tend to attract that.

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Brain Life Artist Advice 41

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

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. QUESTIONS ABOUT RESISTANCE TO CHANGE 5. The first thing you have to tackle is fear of change. QUESTIONS ABOUT WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES 8.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At the intersection of digital and mission-driven work, 2023 was a year of significant changes, big decisions, and growth for many organizations in the nonprofit and government space. As you can see, while it was a busy year full of changes, it was also one of growth and great success. For us, it was no different!

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 67

Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For many at the intersection of digital and mission-driven work, 2023 was a year of significant changes, big decisions, and growth. This long-standing client and Forum One team won two awards this year and is a great example of the impact that can be made when great teams come together to collaborate! For us, it was no different!

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 46

Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

At large, I am proud of the countless hours of cross-departmental and community collaborations that will inspire me forever, hand-in-hand with colleagues who have invested their best efforts on behalf of the people we are committed to serving. I have been told that if we stay quiet and play the system, eventually things will change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

While it is probably difficult to absolutely prove cause and effect, implementing a crowd artistic creation requires a discussion about letting go of control or at least being explicit about how creative contributions will be accepted or curated or added to the work. Do you accept everything or is there curation? .

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

One of the most arresting sessions I attended last year was Exhibitions that Changed My Life. Several were created or conceived by a single person, often an artist/non-museum professional. Yes, an individual can bring clarity of vision to any project that might otherwise be sullied by the ups and downs of collaboration and compromise.

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Life Create Change Museum 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

One of my mentors, Michael Brown, told me, “The only way to get better is to change.” So now, after almost a year of Game Fridays, it’s time for a change. Why the change? So what does this collaborative platform look like? How much structure is motivating and how much becomes a chore?

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Open Source Museum Game Open 22

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2006

We also work with groups like Oxfam and their Make Trade Fair Campaign , Doctors without Borders , the ACLU , Global Exchange and this summer will be collaborating with Witness , Greenpeace , the NRDC and others. I’m responsible for the building and maintenance of relationship with artists, artist management and tour production crews.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. I guess I got involved in coworking originally because I was working out of cafes and wanted a more collaborative, productive environment to go to and work around other people in.

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Green Interview San Francisco Environment 40

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. Museums are changing. Collaborator. Nevertheless, together we made change possible.

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Museum Arts Artist Conservancy 82

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

We've been friends since we were seven, so we already had a very long collaborative history. Louis is a traditional artist and I was in the journalism field. That really changed the way the diamond trade worked in this country. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have changed the world the way that you ultimately hope to.

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Storytelling Causes Interview Free 40