Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. Elsewhere Collaborative (Greensboro, NC).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it. Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2018

The positions are: OFBYFOR ALL Communications Catalyst : to fuel the OFBYFOR ALL movement by organizing civic and cultural professionals online and at conferences around the world. We hire high-performing people who are ready to work hard, collaborate, experiment, and get s**t done in a fast-moving, fun, community-minded environment.

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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. I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. Naming our goals and our culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. Susan was doing these amazing collaborative, user-generated content projects over the Internet. How much has our environment, culture, or information overload changed?

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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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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 30, 2023

By supporting Pride Month, you can help create a more inclusive environment for your staff, volunteers, and beneficiaries, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Collaborate with local LGBTQ+ organizations : Team up with local LGBTQ+ organizations to support their initiatives, share resources, and amplify their voices.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Ever wish for a low-cost, energizing professional development experience where you can work intensely with diverse colleagues in a risk-tolerant environment? We're working with participatory online artist Ze Frank on an exhibition at the MAH this winter that features the missions, creations, and explorations of his current web series, A Show.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

People use it to share surprises in the archives, inspiring meetings with artists, dead birds in the lobby, and free food in the fridge. We''re an institution that focuses intentionally on being transparent and collaborative with our community members. Connectedness builds staff culture.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. Arts Wire, a project of NYFA, was originally intended to be a place for artists from all over the country to meet, exchange ideas, and talk about their work via the Internet.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Peer-to-Peer Events Arts & Culture Events Community Events Educational Events Events for Grown-Ups Events for Kids & Families Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Events Peer-to-peer events raise funds and generate buzz by having your supporters and participants get their networks involved in your event.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

A large number of the collaborative projects of which I'm aware (in which staff partner with community members to co-develop exhibits or programs) are initiated with teens. The other three are cultural, and I'm not sure how accurate they are. The first of these reasons is practical.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

On Spot.us, we're trying to bring in a culture of transparency in journalism, where we say, "Invite the public into the reporting from day one. They have a magazine called Race, Poverty and Environment Magazin e. The other one I'd say is, I'm a big believer in collaboration, and the future of journalism is collaboration.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

In the other case, the institution was unwilling to engage in the conversational environment and ended up isolated, fueling the fire. Here’s what happened: an art critic named Jerry Saltz posted an incendiary note on Facebook about the very low representation of women artists on the 4th and 5th floors (painting and sculpture) of MoMA.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Elisa’s focus is interactive arts, media design, and cultural management, and she has been involved in many pertinent projects, such as MUVI (the Virtual Museum of the Collective Memory of Lombardia). the question of how cultural objects are defined and valued and 2. My favorite pieces of this conversation dealt with 1.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

5 Macon Money Macon Money is an innovative project that aimed to unite social, racial, cultural, gender, and economic gaps - all while boosting the local economy! 1 Evoke Played over 10 weeks, Evoke had participants all over the world solving problems with "super powers" like collaboration, courage and resourcefulness. Everyone wins!

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

This funder invests in and strengthens the capacity of women-led movements to advance meaningful social, cultural, and economic change in women’s lives, specifically across three areas: Economic Justice, Safety, and Women’s Health. Foundation is to build women’s collective power in the U.S. to advance equity and justice for all. Mary’s Pence.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

This funder invests in and strengthens the capacity of women-led movements to advance meaningful social, cultural, and economic change in women’s lives, specifically across three areas: Economic Justice, Safety, and Women’s Health. Foundation is to build women’s collective power in the U.S. to advance equity and justice for all. Mary’s Pence.

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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. Both projects received awards by AAM.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. And that might involve collaboration, saying, “We acknowledge that there are others in the community that do this better or more effectively. So, obviously, going to be a really great presenter for you. So you raised $20,000.

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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

APRIL 29, 2009

It could be the environment, it could be educational issues, political issues, international, national. It's a model to show other people how to work together in community, how to collaborate ideas, how to create a vision, and then how to work towards that vision coming more from a truth and love aspect, than from fear and attachment.

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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. We got about 75 applications and one of them came from Global Resource Action Center for the Environment, which is called GRACE. That's what we're trying to do now.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

We'll be taking with arts activist Alli Chagi-Starr, the Cultural Arts Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ' Reclaim the Future Program. In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now.

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