Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. I learned an incredible amount from collaborating with arts teachers. Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Why am I excited about this project? It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos. It’s our way of embracing and spreading the abundance that working a networked way offers. Photo by Dkurpaptwa. There is an added benefit to learning communities.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Her nerdy, entertaining videos about math evoke the power of free choice learning while poking gentle fun at the drudgery of how math is often taught in school. She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. She would be the best science center educator ever.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Museum programs need to then actively respond to their communities through a variety of ongoing discursive, collaborative and inclusive formats that address needs and assets but also invite communities to be active participants in this process. Furthermore, how can museums and communities work together to share strengths in the community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Chalk up my vote for 2011’s “Best Debut Artist” and “Best Supporting Actor.”. MiACLU is a one-of-a-kind project born from this framework. As courageous citizens connected with each other to express dissent and organize public actions, social media tools spurred activism and social change in unprecedented ways.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Skill-sharing free schools. Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. It's the ability for me to work with my CFO to be able to budget and align the right kinds of resources for new projects. Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Read the rest of the article, and the complete issue on Content Curation, when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] The museum curator does research, is an expert in the particular artistic style, selects the best examples, puts them together in an exhibit, provides important context with annotation on the labels, and so on.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We scrounged for free couches. We invited local artists and community groups to perform. and we've tried to internalize a mindset of perpetual beta and modular support for community collaboration. We make room for interns and artists and people who walk in the door with crazy ideas.

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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. Lots of research shows that donors don’t want the organization to spend money on free merchandise. Design them free on Canva. Offer signage talking up your donors at free events.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In July of 2013, the MAH will host our first You Can't Do That in Museums Camp (or better name to be suggested by you), inviting 80 creative people to collaborate on an experimental exhibition. The Arts Dinner-vention Project - date TBD. Read more about the project and how to participate here. This camp will be a 2.5

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

March 2-6, four women arts activists ( Cris Williamson , Vicki Randle , Alix Olson and Pamela Means) will travel to New Orleans to collaborate with four local women musicians ( Asia Rainey , GaBrilla Ballard , Sunni Patterson , and Charmaine Neville ).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

Sarah and some of her colleagues in visitor services feel disconnected from the work that happens "upstairs" in the office and in our creative project development. People use it to share surprises in the archives, inspiring meetings with artists, dead birds in the lobby, and free food in the fridge. This problem is nothing new.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

When we work with diverse collaborators, from opera singers and ukelele players to knitters and graffiti artists, we catalyze new partnerships and relationships that make our community stronger and more cohesive. We may not have funding for your project, but we won''t tie it up in red tape either. Exploit your size.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. What about the families who show up on your free days religiously or the ones blogging about your new artifacts? This was made for them.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Develop collaborations and programs, keeping in mind what you have learned. Once we've identified assets and needs, we seek out collaborators and project ideas. We never start with the project idea and parachute in. We start with the community and build to projects. She surveyed existing local programs.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2007

They are committed to making this technology accessible (and free!) there may be some great opportunities for collaboration for museums, too. Unusual Projects and Influences. to educators permanently.

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Story Online Artist Museum 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

When we have a critical mass of new people, anywhere from 3-7 a month, I try to explain the project as briefly as possible. We’re building new cataloging software that we eventually hope to provide free of charge to jumpstart other collections. Tags: guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! In the past year, I''ve seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Over 150,000 people have accessed the free online version. Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. Over 20,000 copies have been sold around the world. I''ve given talks and workshops about it all over the world.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It’s also easy to address vegan or gluten-free guests with a few tweaks to the recipe. Pet Adoption Events Collaborate with local animal shelters for pet adoption events where a portion of adoption fees goes to your cause. Tap your network to see what kinds of artists and craftspeople are out there and are available to teach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

NTEN Members get exclusive access to ask questions and hear them answered, for free! So, my first steps into social media were logging onto a BBS for disability rights and support groups called Project Enable back in 1989 via Fidonet. It was like very primitive version of wiki collaborative organizing. just in time???

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Again there are a number of free or inexpensive resources for all of these. For sound effects, check out the Freesound Project. The track name, artist, and album are the most important fields to complete, but don’t forget to change the genre to "Podcast", as well. The bit rate determines the quality of the audio.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! In the past year, I've seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Authenticity and Demystifying the Artistic Process. An internal focus for organizations to capture knowledge and support collaboration and go external. March of Dimes Nancy White reflects on the project in response to postings by me and Lisa from Rherotic of Me. Artistic Director Blog (Inactive). Executive Director Blogs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. I've been working for The Tech on this project since November of 2007, and it has been an intense and exciting three months. A month ago, I invited you to join this project.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

So that’d be a great place to start and it might also be free. We provide that data free of charge, for example, with our product called Luminate. One of them is free. So find whatever your social media management tool is, typically there’s a Klout plug-in that’s free. The Klout app is a great free choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire. As Hasan Osman points out in his Pyramid of Communication as you move to virtual modes of collaboration and communication, group cohesion and intimacy decreases.This makes it hard for people to fully engage with each other.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. We love doing them, bring on great guest, speakers, totally free, totally educational. I will be moving at a nice clip and I will be, at the end of the webinar, sharing some free resources.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This project took home six awards this year!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This project took home six awards this year!

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

NVF for GPA funds projects across a broad range of issues, including but not limited to: Family planning, Financial services for the poor, Gender equality, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH). They invest in women across the Americas by funding community initiatives and fostering collaborations to create social change.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

NVF for GPA funds projects across a broad range of issues, including but not limited to: Family planning, Financial services for the poor, Gender equality, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH). They invest in women across the Americas by funding community initiatives and fostering collaborations to create social change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Our web site serves as an international resource for anyone interested in the healing potential of art, especially environmentalists, social activists, artists, art professionals, health care practitioners, and those challenged by illness. Free Range is known for being the most successful cause-based viral movie makers ever.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Before I left for Peru, I did an interview for the Big Vision Podcast with Jonah Sachs, the Principal of Free Range Studios , an advertising and marketing firm with offices in Washington DC and Berkeley, California that specializes in non-profits and socially responsible businesses. Britt: How did you get started?

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