Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2017

We are now hiring two full-time positions: Exhibitions Catalyst , to animate our exhibitions in partnership with artists, community organizations, and residents Marketing and Communications Catalyst , to spread the word and connect our community on social media and in the press Both these people have important roles to play in the future of the MAH.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I interviewed 50 different founders, athletes, artists, activists, NFL coaches and celebrities, many of whom I have mentored and advised – from billionaire Marc Lore to Scarlett Johansson – to illustrate strategies for total commitment. Question: Why is collaboration in the workplace not always a good thing?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 30, 2009

NEWS I'm speaking about how artists can use social media to market their business next week, August 8th, at Artists Building their Business in Santa Fe, NM. The event is free, but limited to 250 artists. In Episode 12 we talk about if you need an objective on your resume, and how to represent "bad jobs" on your CV.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Our customers are the most amazing and collaborative people I have ever worked with. There are many examples where our most innovative features have come out of client collaborations, like Nimble AMS Member Lapse prediction, or One Payment, etc. . What is your favorite thing about Nimble AMS? Ajay’s background. Share the Love!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

One of the many inspiring things he shared in his talk was the phrase: “ You can have a job, career, or calling.&# It resonated. They hired me and it turned into a decade of learning and teaching others (artists, arts organizations, and arts educators) how to integrate this technology into their work and organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

This year’s Academy Award winning film – Inside Job – is one of the most powerful descriptions of what went wrong leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. Note From Beth: Yesterday, I attended a convening called “ Beyond Dynamic Adaptability ” for arts organizations about cultural participation in the arts.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

But, overall I felt overwhelmingly fortunate to be in a job, a museum and a community that I loved and furthermore to be afforded the valuable time most of us do not have to devote to further researching, thinking about, reading and discussing the theories that comprise the foundation of my work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Integrated: Review and prioritized tasks in existing job descriptions and make room for social media tasks. Staffed: This can be quarter, half, or full-time. Of course, these options are not mutually exclusive. Here’s a great example of mixing the first two.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

There's the barrier of artistic quality--funders, trustees, or staff members who argue that work by non-canonical artists is not up to the standards of the institution. Reading the report, I kept thinking of Rick Lowe, the artist and community activist behind Project Row Houses in Houston.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2017

We had 2,000 t-shirts to give away, 850 balls to drop, and over a hundred artists, accordionists, salsa dancers, taiko drummers, and bubble ladies ready to go. When people were skeptical of the vision three years ago, it was my job to win them over. When we needed funds two years ago, it was my job to inspire people to give.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. Doing good isn’t our job, it’s everyone’s. What ecosystems facilitate serendipitous discovery and collaboration? And I think it’s good that we’re building such a fun, vibrant community…but not good enough. Generic license ). starts around 7:21).

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 13, 2011

This pairing speaks directly to my passion for the arts – my day job is as manager for individual giving at the Musical Instrument Museum , and I serve on several music-related boards, as well as perform as a flutist and singer. Like this article? Get another! Click here to read Kayla McKinney's "Time to Give a Little.".

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. Participation is Everyone's Job. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. As this video points out, critics make you swear.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

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. Not only are they learning on the job, but getting work done, too. It isn’t mindless consumption of online information.

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Yes, we have the standard ways--volunteer programs, board service, and community partnerships--but I strongly believe that if we are doing our jobs right, every visitor who walks through our doors should be able to make a meaningful impact. To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements.

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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. In some ways, we do a good job engaging people who reflect our whole County. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. And so on.

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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. If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. Consult with an attorney if you plan to do this. Get creative.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." These included ideas like "musical chairs job shadowing," "foot massage conference-call room," and "more meetings in public settings."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. Why aren’t more museums designing highly constrained participatory platforms in which visitors contribute to collaborative projects? It takes a special kind of cook, artist, or scientist to want to support the contributions of novices.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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. This will be a great event for social media promotion and engagement.

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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. what real benefit will tech-supported collaboration bring - and aware of the prevailing culture which may not be receptive.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It's no coincidence that Beth Harris' last job was as Director of Digital Learning at MoMA. Many museums produce superb lesson plans, curator interviews and artist interviews for the web. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. the way the best museums do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus. s a description from an archived web page [link] of how my role changed over my ten years at this job. It was before the commercial web. It was all about community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Part of my job was to evangelize about the Internet and later the web - how artists should harness its power by getting an email address instead of using their fax machines! Collaborating.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. Why aren’t more museums designing highly constrained participatory platforms in which visitors contribute to collaborative projects? It takes a special kind of cook, artist, or scientist to want to support the contributions of novices.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. From there, we can translate that into, what might that look like in a job, or a project that they might do in their community, so that they are bringing that out into the world, and serving people in whatever way is in line with their values.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

In 2009, after we hosted the Creativity and Collaboration retreat, I wrote a post about ditching "conferences" for "camp" experiences. In closing, a quote from one camper''s evaluation of the experience: I like to say that if I am not afraid every day, then it is time to move on to another job.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. We just have to think differently about how we craft job positions and expectations. But almost ALL of those opportunities are facilitated by people.

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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. So you weren't targeting "Brooklyn artists" or some other demographic group. T he Twitter Art Feed features a new artist every month. How are you selecting and rewarding these artists?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

The reporter did a good job of giving anecdotes about the lives of people who live in the Tenderloin, and those who live in the Marina. The other one I'd say is, I'm a big believer in collaboration, and the future of journalism is collaboration. I often say that, "Collaboration is queen." One of my favorite Spot.us

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. The Underground Library isn’t just a community archive of things past.

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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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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. If you look at somewhere like Oakland, it's everywhere but the hills.

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