Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? The Museum 2.0 culture.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Share and Comment on Breaking News. A 10-question blog interview with an expert in an area related to your nonprofit’s mission and programs can be interesting to your supporters. Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. Interview Experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

This post is to share my deck and comments from my lighting talk about failure at Good by Global at SXSW. This leads me to a question, “Why don’t more people who work for nonprofits embrace this “learning from failure” or growth mindset – especially when using technology? What actually happened during implementation?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? The Museum 2.0 The Museum 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

This week, I asked the question: What is the biggest mistake a nonprofit can make with their website. 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 Check This List 07.28.08 Check This List 07.28.08

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

At a recent talk in Chicago, an audience member asked a question. While there are many ways for museums to reach new audiences, when it comes to specialized knowledge, it's often a question of reaching the niche who care deeply about German watches from 1822 or the evolutionary shift in raccoon striping over time.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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. (So Jumo vs Change.org – is that the question? Isn’t that the point?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share and Comment on Breaking News. A 10-question blog interview with an expert in an area related to your nonprofit’s mission and programs can be interesting to your supporters. Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. Interview Experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. In other words, to what end?

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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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AFP Blog

JUNE 11, 2013

As they stood, they were the electronic version of a one way comment drop box. Could we elevate the discussion from a simple “leave us your thoughts” to more directed questions that might provoke deeper engagement? Should they become a more personal experience and one that leans toward a two way dialog?

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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? How do you respond to this question?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2015

The course is roughly split into two parts: defining beauty (both universally and relationally, through "big idea" texts, videos, museum visits, and artist lectures), and exploring beauty (through encounters in formal art contexts and the wider world). I can identify artworks by famous artists. But it's mostly just content.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

As an educator, I know that lessons learned and questions raised from this experience will substantively shift how I think about and act upon our relationship with our local creative community moving forward. Community artists gave their honest feedback, and we crafted a display based on these discussions and their contributions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2015

I''ve been grappling with this question as we enter the final month of a massively crowd-sourced exhibition at my museum called Everybody''s Ocean. We wanted to reflect this diversity of identities by inviting all kinds of artists and artworks into the gallery. But some visitors--especially some artists--hate it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I shared a link to the site on my Facebook Page with a question about its usefulness (perhaps minus one of the bogus metrics). Have you conducted a benchmarking study of best practices? Let me know in the comments! Certainly, some subtle peer pressure to do your homework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

The museum curator does research, is an expert in the artistic style, selects the best examples, puts them together in an exhibit, provides important context with the annotation on the labels, and so on. Not too long ago content curators used to be called journalists! Let me know in the comments. The Practice.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. We urge museums to consider these questions by first looking within. How can the museum help volunteers and partners address their own questions about race, violence, and community? Do you have volunteers? What are they thinking and saying?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We attentively respond to requests and purposefully use different modes of feedback to inform program design from our comment board, social media outlets, conversations and observations both inside and outside the museum, creative feedback at events such as our Show and Tell Booth and online visitor surveys specific to our programs.

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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. Many people thought the Festival was "an art exhibit" or "an art festival."

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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. But Lisa questioned this. Note: Thanks to Lisa Hochstein for allowing me to quote her emails in this post.

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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. The Walker is also a place where everyone is committed to supporting artists and new work, so every time we bring in an artist, staff are enthusiastic about the idea of coming together to create something. It's inherent in what we do.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They were there for artist talks. Temple Contemporary’s mission is to creatively re-imagine the social function of art through questions of local relevance and international significance. They live their mission, working in questions and projects rather than exhibitions and programs. The community drives the question.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 12, 2012

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. That said, this project has really challenged me to question my own expectations and assumptions about how an exhibition "should" look and function. Of course we can.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Different External Voices Bring Different Skills to the Table Community partners, artists, peers, and funders all play different roles as collaborators and contributors to participatory institutions. 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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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. Title your email, "Ask Britt: your question topic."

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Comment on other blogs. Make it easy to comment. It's ok to have comment moderation, but don't make people register. Ask a question in your title. You can email your question (please keep it to 50 words) about the do-good, or artistic work you are doing, or want to do, to britt@brittbravo.com.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

One of the questions that comes up most frequently when I talk with folks about participation is: what should we do with the things that visitors create? This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. What's the "use" of visitors' comments? That's hardly revolutionary.

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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. You may find some of these comments in the thoroughly engaging video as well, though some of the Ann’s more salient points didn’t make it into the footage. His interviewer interjects with a comment that ends with “It’s a really dire situation I think.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share and Comment on Breaking News. A 10-question blog interview with an expert in an area related to your nonprofit’s mission and programs can be interesting to your supporters. Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. Interview Experts.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

In painted wood and styrofoam, it was a masterful and whimsical refusal to answer that pesky question of whether games can be art. “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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

We're going to be on a conference call and a meebo chat for member questions. NTEN Members get exclusive access to ask questions and hear them answered, for free! To kick if off, I'll ask an ice breaker question or too. a great icebreaker question for Chris. You must go read the stories - they're wonderful.

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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. The more interesting question is this: why did it take so long to make this decision? Please share your questions or comments! We lined up press.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

Neither harmed the museums in question, though they both had questionable qualities. So here's the question: what's the right response to this kind of activity? 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.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Ultimately, any approach to answering these questions is limited at some point by the size of the audience involved. As artistic director Abe Burickson described their work to me, I imagined Theseus walking deeper into the labyrinth towards the Minotaur. If you'd like to weigh in, please leave a comment below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Some creative work is crowdsourced in the form of creative or design contests while others are produced by interactive agencies that gather and vet online communities of designers, artists and producers to be part of a creative development process. How do you know which platform will work for you? Is different better?

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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! But, there were great questions.

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