Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. The result was a true experiment in designing the future--right here, right now--with artists and planners and civic leaders at the helm together. Thousands more conversations during the festival. The arts ARE future-making.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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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. This is about facilitating discovery, nurturing trust, sharing experiences, and light-weight focused request/responses.”. What ecosystems facilitate serendipitous discovery and collaboration? Doing good isn’t our job, it’s everyone’s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I got inspired by this post and left a quick comment, but then I reading comments by others and folks who wrote the answers on their blogs. 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. I signed up.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible. Community members, artists, and organizations increasingly see our museum as a place where they can advance their own goals, and so they approach us.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. On day 3 we made memory machines , based on a couple of comments wondering how people would learn with no staff around and whether that meant we would forget about the past.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. Humans empower each other. Make space for each other.

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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! 09 was the first version I used).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2015

Even at a museum like ours, where more than 70% of our visitors are bringing others to facilitate a social (often family) experience, only new things can reliably motivate a visit. If you are reading this via email and would like to share a comment or question, you can join the conversation here. projects during the Great Depression.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Here are some of the comments on the "why" behind their involvement: [Khan Academy has] a hugely generous vision and commitment to rethinking education—our mission is “a world-class education, for anyone, anywhere”—not to mention brilliant programmers and staff. But there are other content models we can explore.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

“Many of the games at Babycastles don’t fit the traditional definitions of the medium; they veer closer to artistic experiementation than they do to mass-market viability.&# – New York Times. Your comments are close to our heart – as an institutions we make decisions every day about how people are going to engage.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. She spoke at length with great pride about the $23 million the community raised to build the museum, punctuating her comments with prompts like, "Don't you think that's pretty good?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. I agree with her points: Causes facilitates the spread of your organization's message. This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." I agree that's not true.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

John details five identity needs that are well-served by museums: explorer, experience seeker, recharger, professional/hobbyist, and facilitator. And the facilitator wants his friends and family to have a good time. The explorer is a curious person who loves to dig into things. The recharger wants a mental break in a relaxing setting.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Finally, because of their social content, they are good places for community dialogue programming and comment boards (for example, consider the Levine Museum of the New South's extensive use of sticky notes and talking circles). Children of the Lodz Ghetto ). Everyone can have her own personal experience of history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Authenticity and Demystifying the Artistic Process. Some comments by Bob Moffit about their blogging experience. Facilitating people who receive organization???s Artistic Director Blog (Inactive). Gilbert commented. There is still a long ways to go before nonprofit blogging becomes common. Some examples: 1.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. well, you know.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The groups can use three different approaches: physical, artistic, or traditional word presentation. A person is randomly designated as the facilitator for a 15 minute discussion on each of the topics in the envelope. This is the cocktail party, the hallway conversation, a structured time to meet and talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

For anybody who might fear that the loan recipients were scam artists or would run off with the money, this Lend4Health group on Facebook demonstrated that these people were real people. My email signature (which I use when posting personal questions and comments on autism-related Yahoo groups) includes all of these channels as well.

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JUNE 21, 2011

CNN "Many of the games at Babycastles don't fit the traditional definitions of the medium; they veer closer to artistic experimentation than they do to mass-market viability." - New York Times Future Babycastles is in Williamsburg, just opened. There was a facilitator there that would play it and she played it all day.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

First, if you don't know what the heck I'm talking about, please enjoy (and comment on, if you wish), this explanation (requires speakers). For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent. Now, on to the lessons thus far.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

And while there's lots of good stuff in these sections (including an introduction for me to some wild net artists ), it's the last chunk that interests me most, where Karen explores the question of how and where Internet art should be exhibited. Fear is never a good reason to put things (like ratings or visitor comments) on the website only.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Still a perfect venue for cultivating sponsorships, you can offer creative rewards like a mention in the event credits or, for an extra high touch, offer breakout rooms to mimic backstage VIP passes to meet and greet the artists. If so, leave a comment below–we’d love to hear it!

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Still a perfect venue for cultivating sponsorships, you can offer creative rewards like a mention in the event credits or for an extra high-touch, offer breakout rooms to mimic backstage VIP passes to meet and greet the artists. If so, leave a comment below–we’d love to hear it! Additional Virtual Event Resources.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

The same thing applies to exhibits, but Second Life is a tool that facilitates making the exhibit in a more accessible way than full-scale fabrication. The website serves as a simple social network and exhibit proposal holding place, enabling people to propose projects, join exhibit teams, and comment on each other's work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The activity was facilitated by the activity station set up in the lobby just outside the gallery. We tested five versions of the prompt sheets--some with instructions focused to the subject of the exhibition (artists' takes on nature), others with more open-ended instructions designed to encourage a broader range of responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

I had the honor facilitating a session on measuring impact with Greg Baldwin and Jay Backstrand from VolunteerMatch discussing how their approach to measuring impact over the past decade. What are some of the best examples in philanthropy? Please leave me a comment. 6. Irvine Foundation Arts Innovation Fund.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The artists come from all over (though many are based in the Midwest), and anyone can enter. Artprize invited me to talk about art with artists, families, security guards, friends, people old and young, sophisticated and novice, drunk and sober. Please add it in the comments. Then get yourself to Grand Rapids for Artprize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

I just spent two days in Miami at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar where I co-facilitator a pre-conference workshop on leading on social channels with Amy Gahran and Stephanie Rudat. ABCs: He started off with some basics – a riff on Guy Kawasaki’s Always Be Commenting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I first encountered Tharum when he commented on my Cambodia4Kids blog in 2004, and we got to meet face-to-face in London in 2005 when he participated in the Global Voices Summit that year. He continues to write his blog and is a new media specialist at Voice of America.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. I love facilitated experiences, but I worry that they aren't scalable to every visitor. It's like following blog comments.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly. But it's hard to explain to visitors who haven't played Apples to Apples, and if there is not a gallery host to facilitate, this one often sits unplayed.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

“We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. Its also valuable for small business, artists, and much more.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2009

Earlier this year, the New Museum and Creative Time commissioned a traveling piece by artist Jeremy Deller called "It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq." He said as much in his introduction, commenting that he "hopes" there will be dialogue but he really isn't sure what will happen.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

So I just want to say, by the way, that artists have left a huge legacy around San Francisco during this pandemic. And, as a philanthropy facilitator, you have an opportunity, I would say, a responsibility to help. First and foremost, that was awesome, I’m getting a lot of good comments here in the chat. Why is that?

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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. Again, Elaine comments today: The first, where NMAI suffered, is in repetition.

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