Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve. Trust me. What’s new? What works?

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Comment Artist Social Media Hype 97

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have. a "wedding worthy" community hall). The exhibits are exciting. and "That's a lot of money, right?"

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. George will respond to comments on this post and is also reachable here. In 2003, my collaborator Stephanie and I began an excavation, declaring nothing for sale.

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Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist 36

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Not your voice.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

While that was painful for the organizations involved, it also helped force the issue of whether participatory engagement could be core to a strong future business model for each organization or not. And consider sharing a comment here with a takeaway that is meaningful for you. As this video points out, critics make you swear.

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Museum Participatory Resource Place 20

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. You want to have an artist collective sleepover at the museum? We believe in fearless experimentation. Sounds great.

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Museum Learning History Arts 55

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. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs. There is lots of room for new voices online.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52