Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

At one point, Mark commented that they have a "deliberately unsustainable" business model. This is the model that governs most businesses and artistic endeavors. They want to provide quality products that are reliable over the long run. Tags: business models. It's the reason terms like "jump the shark" exist.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Paint and sip events work for any type of organization, artists of all levels, and can easily be adapted for every season. If you’re going the DIY route, reach out to a local artist to lead the class, and stock up on all the necessary supplies. Your artist just has to log in and lead class virtually. come judge the contest.

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Ideas Fundraising Virtual Local 98

Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2017

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History keeps growing and experimenting in our quest to build a stronger, more connected community. The Exhibitions Catalyst will lead the way in bringing together artists and diverse partners in the development of powerful exhibitions. We are dreaming big, reaching out, and going deep.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist. That''s expected.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Racism and equity are products of design, and if we want better, we must redesign the system. That’s what I used to think along with many of my design role models. If we research good designs, the products we find are often expensive. Design is inherently elitist, and our design processes are systematically flawed. .

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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. Over the past seven years, this exploration has been undertaken by a staff of artists and more than 35 creators each year participating in our residency program.

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Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist 36

Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Community science workshops. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the course of the conversation, Devon Smith, a social media consultant from Threespot, started talking the problem of arts organizations that are no longer relevant or useful to their communities. I haven''t thought, "wow, the market is really resetting our field in a productive way." Could each have offered MORE community value?

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Organization Museum Arts Nonprofit 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Participants voted on the questions that would be most important for the Brainerd Foundation to consider in its strategy: How might we adopt a hybrid model of new and old power? How might we create a funding model that nourishes flexibility and innovation? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3. Concept 2: Mission: Possible.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Now I’m excited to see how cause communities embrace this emerging network to create value and mission impact. Food can offer great visuals and this can be a great community building exercise. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Build a collection of innovative recycling in your community.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Why is a photography contest an example of "crowd sourcing" wheres a community drawing contest is an example of "audience-as-artist"? How did the authors come up with the intriguing blend of curatorial, interpretative, and inventive opportunities shown in the Audience Involvement Spectrum's Venn diagrams?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

Sarah has worked at the Walker since 1992 and is currently the Director of Education and Community Programs. 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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

If you're trying launch a project, like a community center or a film festival, KickStarter or Indiegogo might be the way to go. Examples of rewards could be the actual project (if it is something like a book) or a free pass to a screening of a movie or production of a play. Kickstarter. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

If you don't have a sense of an outcome--whether that be internal research, community conversation, or something else--you can't decide how or whether contributions should be documented or archived. Whether visitors' work will be used to create an artwork, a dataset, or an exhibit, the solicitation is directly tied to an intended product.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Some donors look for these signals of community support (everybody’s doing it) to make the decision that they would be in good company if they donate. Posters are a great way to show off the name/logo of the donor at events or around your facility, house of worship, soup kitchen, community center. Design them free on Canva.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Ann Wizer is an artist who uses design and education to protect the environment and reduce poverty. The conference bag is one of of her "out-of-studio experiments" to involve poor communities in the development of simple solutions to problems of un-managed consumer waste. Ann is an activist and an artist. They don't.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. We inspired a community and got real results. Give away the fun (and easy) part.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. The project arose from a grant announcement from MetLife Foundation around community engagement and outreach. Lots of inspiring and practical tips below - enjoy!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

If you're trying launch a project, like a community center or a film festival, KickStarter or Indiegogo might be the way to go. Examples of rewards could be the actual project (if it is something like a book) or a free pass to a screening of a movie or production of a play. Kickstarter. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No.

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Platform Organization Childhood Badge 65

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

A patient identity integrity toolkit including model data practices. Defrauding elderly people as has long been common practice for con artists. Community Technology Network (CTN) has some great online security resources suitable for seniors in the form of online courses. That's just the beginning.

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Resource Online Organization Tutorial 36

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Product Marketing Manager for Arts and Cultural Solutions. Laura’s experience working at and serving on the board of multiple arts organizations around the country shape her insights into the nonprofit community. Use that valuable data to engage with them using the Amazon model: “If you like X, you might also like Y.”.

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Costa Rica Tips Arts Culture 46

Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

When I first started exploring the site, I assumed it was mostly a place for charismatic hipsters and a few star artists with enough social media savvy and clever video production capabilities to produce enticing pitches. There's no video, just a picture of the planned new community cultural center.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. The project arose from a grant announcement from MetLife Foundation around community engagement and outreach. How and why did Object Stories come to be?

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Story Interview Museum Audio 53

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts. The arts are a good to be purchased: Therefore, most assume that the arts should succeed or fail, as any product does in the marketplace, based on what people want to purchase.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. Chat-GPT is a generative large language model.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world. The way that World of Good has really gone about this is, we have done it in a two-part model. So anyway, it is really exciting.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2007

Over three days, 60 programmers/artists/composers/pranksters worked all hours to create finished computer-based games from scratch. There's a healthy community of gamers, courses, and events focused specifically on this concept: to put out a finished game in a very limited amount of time. This is the real deal, people.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Today, both of these models are threatened, and within 50 years they will no longer be sustainable. Why are our current models failing? This translates to higher ticket prices, more blockbuster exhibitions, and less community engagement. The Web has given people the opportunity to dream up their own community spaces.

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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. At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

In it, John provides a model for the museum visitor experience based on one fundamental idea: people visit and make meaning from museum experiences based on their ability to fulfill identity-related goals and interests. At the gallery, we were curious rechargers, connecting our own personal experience to some incredible art and stories.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

We'll be "closing shop" on the June exhibit submissions at the end of March, but we then plan to open up to the virtual community a much broader set of exhibition themes--both from The Tech and other museums--for experimentation and creative exhibit development. with a few significant differences.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

I am an artist and I was getting my Masters of Fine Arts at the time from John F. Just recently, we introduced flowering teas, which are hand-sewn tea leaves and flowers, and they blossom when steeped in hot water, so that has been a huge hit and people love them, and it's a very innovative product. Kennedy University.

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People Profit Interview Oakland 43

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Nest is a nonprofit organization that empowers female artists and artisans around the world. In countries like India there are predatory loan sharks that go into poor communities and offer these women, who are illiterate, loans that they can't read, and they charge really high interest rates.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2011

Simply, I'm shifting my perspective from an exhibit-driven model to an event-driven one. It's not just a party; it's arguably the day of the month when we come the closest to achieving our vision of being a thriving, central gathering place for our community around art, history, ideas and culture. Let me explain. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. So I just want to say, by the way, that artists have left a huge legacy around San Francisco during this pandemic. And this is introduced very simply with invest in our community. Why is that?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. Coworking, a group of individual entrepreneurs sharing a work space, can provide that community while also being an environmentally sustainable choice. So anyway, that's kind of where coworking came from.

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