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JANUARY 15, 2010

Want a way to make sure your nonprofit organization is represented -- artistically, that is? Beth reflects on the lessons learned from this year's online success in a thorough blog post , including slides and tips you can use for your own organization or advocacy efforts. And a green solution! Thank you, Gavin.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

They reflect the soul of the community and can be responsive to its unique interests and needs. The institutions that seem most prey to a "cookie cutter" approach are science centers and children's museums. They may employ local artists to help create visitor experiences. They are akin to local news organizations and charities.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Children of the Lodz Ghetto ). They also want to avoid stories or perspectives that reflect hateful or offensive views toward other people. Finally, many art museums do fabulous, highly participatory projects that are led by participatory artists who work specifically in the realm of dialogue or active social participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Art Exhibition You can never go wrong with highlighting local artists. Arts-based nonprofits can employ local artists to teach any number of art forms; environmental nonprofits can teach gardening; food pantries can host cooking classes; the possibilities are endless! In this image, children enjoy a trunk or treat Halloween event.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2010

Three examples: In the late 1980s, the Brooklyn Children's Museum created an exhibit called Send a Letter to Snoopy. As Kathy McLean noted in Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , while staff were afraid that typing on the typewriter would be too hard for some young children, "kids lined up to carefully and slowly type their letters."

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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. Jenkins points to some barriers to acquisition and makes a case for pedgogical interventions.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

The Odditoreum is a temporary gallery for the summer school holiday in which the Powerhouse is displaying eighteen very odd objects alongside fanciful (and fictitious) labels written by children's book author Shaun Tan, schoolchildren, and visitors. I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum). together on one large panel nearby.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2006

She has a deeply spiritual bent, thinks deeply about leadership issues, writes reflective personal narratives about her life experiences. So in that respect, all the essays relate to social change. She's an idea person, and it shows in her posts. I'm just getting to know JoyfulWoman by a woman named Ginger, at. Her blog is hard to pin down.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I might not go to a children's museum for a recharge, nor would I necessarily see myself as a good facilitator if I dragged my friends through a crowded mega-museum. How does it reflect your personal identity? And the facilitator wants his friends and family to have a good time. How do you spend your leisure time?

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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. In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator. So I packed up and moved down the East Coast. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

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. I can talk to an artist about her digital storytelling piece while watching two engineers experiment with a sensor-rich dance floor.

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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. How about break it down for younger children?" Reassert the "forum"? She did it anyway.) Visitors really looked at and responded to the art.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

I am an artist and I was getting my Masters of Fine Arts at the time from John F. Another garden, also in India, has put money into either retirement funds, because the government doesn't give that to them, and funds for parents with disabled children. Britt: Your training is as a fine artist. Kennedy University.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. The sole gallery holds extraordinary paintings by Joan Brown, mostly reflecting her deep love of cats.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

It also includes reflections from the exhibit team on the project. There is also a final evaluation report available for download, which offers lots of great quantitative and qualitative content about what visitors did in the exhibit. I recommend you check out the wiki and evaluation report to dig deeply into the content.

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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. Add to these challenges the particular challenge of creating a national institution.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland. First of all, who identifies with the word "activism"? Can I just see?

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