Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

The Little Golden books from my childhood, non-fiction books that revolutionized my perspective of the world and novels that I rarely take the luxury of reading. Dollars help make independent projects possible. And, this month, Sam is raising money to support a new documentary called Wisconsin Rising on the kickstarter platform.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

The common museum knowledge on this issue is that adults are timid, that we have lost some of the wonder, impulsiveness, and active creativity of childhood days. For example, one of the little participatory projects we're doing now is on the butterfly effect. But I don't think that theory holds up.

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Interaction Design Museum Participatory 47

EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Despite her family's affluence, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood in Chicago during the 1930s was not without hardship, discrimination, and segregation. Artemisia Gentileschi, a shero of the ancient times, was an Italian painter and is considered one of the greatest and most progressive artists of her generation. Fund their work!

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Story Angola Sierra Leone History 133

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2007

But today I had an experience that reinvigorated my love for and belief in tangible projects that can fill museums with content that is user-generated, shared, and explored. Each secret can be a regret, hope, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, feeling, confession, or childhood humiliation.

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Generation Content Lesson Museum 30

Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2017

This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (brief video clip from opening night here ). There's lots to explore about this project, but today I want to dive into this last element: inspiring visitors to take action. How have you measured it?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Historians can narrate stories of a city’s development or you can tell your own story of fond childhood memories. Interactive artist, Jonathan Harris is an amazing story teller. " We Feel Fine " is the project he is best known for. But his Whale Hunt is an incredible project in many ways.

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Storytelling Story Mobile North Korea 87

Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Raising money to support various projects, groups, and programs can be tough, especially with a small congregation. And with remote learning still in full swing, you can bet grownups would be willing to pay big bucks for a little extra help with school projects! Hold a work-a-thon. But work-a-thons are a little different.

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Ideas Fundraising Fun Money 98

Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2008

You enter a seed artist or song (or several) and Pandora starts playing music that it interprets as related in some way to your selections. It doesn’t just group artists together and play music by similar musicians. Users of Pandora are protective of the Music Genome Project experts.

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Collaboration Music Museum Articulate 20

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2007

They received over 4,000 submissions from all 50 states, which were judged by a panel of seven—including museum staff and outside artists. Perhaps the most well-thought-out piece of this project is its web component. Some of these artists, regardless of the status of their submission, continued contributing to the site for a year.

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