Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

The Hack Artist suggests that it’s important to marry direct mail efforts and a web presence. at 11:56 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michael 07.31.08 at 11:56 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michael 07.31.08 She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

If you're interested in this topic, check out this experiment to root out the people behind big companies on Twitter, which recently included this comment about museums: " When museums tweet to each other in first person, I question why the museums don't include the names of the people tweeting." Respond to people. Make the @ your friend.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Share and Comment on Breaking News. Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. It cannot be stressed enough that your supporters are eager to be engaged and useful, but you need to open your nonprofit to their feedback and direction.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. For example, for the Brooklyn Museum's recent exhibition on women and pop art, Seductive Subversion , curatorial intern Rebecca Shaykin was assigned to improve (and write) Wikipedia articles on the 25 artists profiled in the show. but people aren't coming.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As you may have heard , Jumo is now open in beta. For comparison’s sake — Apple’s Ping had 2,000 artists two months out of the gate.)&# I’ve been playing around with the new social platform this morning and wanted to share some of my early reactions. What is Jumo? Isn’t that the point?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Wes is an artist, and this is his first time running a museum exhibition development process. In the case of the exhibition process that Wes is leading, we talked about how others could be involved in an experimental exhibition/residency in which artists work with visitors in the gallery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Our next exhibition is opening in here in two days. This is pretty much what it will look like when we open on Friday. I feel great about both of these goals, and I feel even better about the amazing artists , innovators , and historians we're working with to make it happen. Thanks in advance for sharing your comments!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share and Comment on Breaking News. Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. It cannot be stressed enough that your supporters are eager to be engaged and useful, but you need to open your nonprofit to their feedback and direction.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The DAM is one of several large art museums that is embracing making in a big way—first, through their event-based programming and open art studios tied to temporary exhibitions, and now, through a 1,200 square foot studio in which visitors can do art projects tied to the permanent collection. They’re tagging with yarn.

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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

This list is by no means exhaustive: please add your favorites (especially non-American ones) in the comments. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. As Streb explains, "SLAM is an open-access venue that models a new kind of artist-driven community institution.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. You talked earlier about the importance of flexibility and nimbleness on staff--the proclivity for people to be open and say yes to something new rather than throw up barriers. A crew that has the capacity to build a sign at the last minute.

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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. In San Francisco, sidewalks account for 80% of all open space.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

As artistic director Abe Burickson described their work to me, I imagined Theseus walking deeper into the labyrinth towards the Minotaur. He spoke of the audience as providing a challenge, a challenge like any other artistic constraint. When you no longer feel that people are judging you, you become much more open to new things.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Please share yours in the comments. Different activities need different levels of materials to appear "open for business." Artists work incredibly hard to produce their work. I keep visitor comments in my office. And the crayon drawings on the fridge door in an exhibition of award-winning local artists?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

She is a fabulous and thoughtful artist. The same day we opened the Creativity Lounge, we opened new exhibitions throughout the building, including a paper collage show in the 3rd floor lobby by local artist Lisa Hochstein. Kudos to Lisa for being open to a thoughtful dialogue about these issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here how collecting data and displaying aggregate might enhance learning: (Add in the comments if you think I missed anything). I’m always on the lookout for good icebreakers that don’t suck and was delighted with her movement icebreaker, although it might might work best with artist or activist audiences.

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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.

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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. Here are a few things I''m learning from this experiment: Promoting openness and participation on staff takes just as much work as it does in the community. Connectedness builds staff culture.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

What's the "use" of visitors' comments? The project never gets "full" and is always open to new contributors. To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. What should we do with their post-its and stories and drawings and poems?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The museum was founded in 1981, opened in 1989. “For the opening exhibition at a temporary space near Times Square last year, Thu Tran, the inimitable maestro of the IFC show “Food Party,&# turned a former storefront into a veritable zoo of brightly-colored furniture and cabinets. . It lasted for four months.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

We encouraged teams to think like artists, not researchers. While all the projects are fast, messy, and incomplete, each is like a small test tube of ideas and possibilities for opening up the way we do social impact research. You can comment on the projects too and share your own ideas. To be speculative. To be playful.

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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''m open to any questions you want to share in the comments. In the meantime, here are some.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

Last week I announced a new weekly feature that I'm trying out on Have Fun * Do Good, Ask Britt , where you send in questions related to career design for artists and activists, and I'll do my best to answer them. I encourage you to add on to my answers in the comments. Organize other local businesses. Donate to your community.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They were there for artist talks. It opens up new conversations about the work of art in our communities. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders. They were there for chair races.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share and Comment on Breaking News. Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. It cannot be stressed enough that your supporters are eager to be engaged and useful, but you need to open your nonprofit to their feedback and direction.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Please take a look, and share your own thoughts about crowdsourcing within the comments section below! ” Ashoka’s Changemakers uses an online “open source” approach to build communities of people interested in finding solutions to challenging global problems. Foundation application?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

Last Sunday each of us wrote a post to answer the question, “Who is your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer or musician) and why?” Institute for Social Ecology : "A ten-day program for artists, performers, activists, and media makers who wish to create and examine socially engaged art and media projects."

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The ideal candidate has a good grasp of our local artistic assets in Santa Cruz County, a knack for participatory placemaking, and enthusiasm about putting on a show. How do you know who you need before you open? If you are reading this via email and would like to share a comment, you can join the conversation here.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

Mark Allen of Machine Project talks a lot about the benefits of artists creating "shadow organizations" within museums to comment on and respond to their peccadilloes. The Smithsonian is a public institution that is actively seeking to make itself more open and pursuing a vision that positions the Smithsonian as belonging to everyone.

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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. No one opens a small coffeeshop and thinks, "we''ll really be successful if we are just like Starbucks." Sounds great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Second, open-ended self-expression requires self-directed creativity. 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

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Crowdsourcing consists of principles, processes and platforms to get things done and usually involves an open call to a group of people online – the “crowd.” Aliza Sherman is a veteran Web entrepreneur, author and commentator on digital, social and mobile. The Types of Crowdsourcing. Is different better?

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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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