Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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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. That's one of the goals of research institutions and cultural spaces in general.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By slowing down and making a piece of art for someone, we provide a personal connection to the issues and to individuals and create opportunities to see our commonalities despite geographic or cultural borders. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. What is your favorite Traveling Postcards success story?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This makes it difficult for staff to strike a meaningful, sustainable balance between work and self-care because it does not permeate a organization’s culture or fundamentally change staff behavior. Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals. Practicing self-care is an abundance mindset.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. The View from an Authorized Entity Many Bookshare users (and potential Bookshare users!) In the popular online acronym, IANAL (I am not a lawyer).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. The Joe Goode Dance Company spoke about the challenges of getting an artistic director to Tweet. But not all the artists are comfortable on Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

We were discussing the potential for cultural organizations to have significant impact across communities: on planning, health, education, and quality of life. Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. "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

JANUARY 31, 2007

I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. I remember her community of clocks project -- she facilitated content creation from schools around the world on the theme of clocks. Meet Susan Silverman.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It's not unusual for me and our public programming staff members to have several short interactions every week with newcomers who walk in the door with idiosyncratic visions for cultural engagement. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I wrote The Participatory Museum for two reasons: to explore the "how" of participatory design in museums, cultural centers, libraries, and science centers to create a version of this blog that was more "shareable" with organizational leaders and trustees By many measures, the book has been a success. Humans empower each other.

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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. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. I facilitated online forums, provided technical support the 500 members, and training. Onlne Facilitator. online facilitator? Online Community Builder.

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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. Their loyalty, that fondness for the familiar, the smell--these precious memories do not drive attendance or keep us relevant.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

In cultural and educational institutions, we always try to make participation as safe and comfortable as possible. The artistic power of what I saw came from the palpable sense of risk--for the participants, for the dancers, and for the entire audience in the room.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

As cultural anthropology has swung away from a vision of authoritative history and toward the embrace of multiple perspectives, there is potential for those stories to come from all over the place, including visitors themselves. History Museums OPPORTUNITIES - History museums are in many ways the best-suited for visitor participation.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

The major problem or block to using visualization is that many people think drawing is just for artists and if you can’t draw well, than you shouldn’t bother to do it. I’m not an artist, but giving myself permission to draw with my magic markers really helped me get past the block. It has stopped me in the past.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

While you don’t have to put the latest gadgets and popular items into all of your baskets, being aware of cultural trends can help you find unique additions for your gift baskets. To help facilitate a pleasant outdoor meal experience, auction off a picnic gift basket with dishware, cutlery, wine glasses, and a cheeseboard.

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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. As a sector, we aren’t necessarily “ Failure Friendly.” What are some examples? Here’s a few.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Elisa’s focus is interactive arts, media design, and cultural management, and she has been involved in many pertinent projects, such as MUVI (the Virtual Museum of the Collective Memory of Lombardia). the question of how cultural objects are defined and valued and 2. My favorite pieces of this conversation dealt with 1. Definitely.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

As Ben Cameron recently said, "I don''t know any artist who started a theater company saying, ''let''s go out and improve some test scores!''" It prevents us from focusing on research that could transform our own work. Consider the recent research at the University of Arkansas about the value of school field trips to cultural institutions.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

But today, a conversation about the often sticky world of cultural interpretation with chapter 20, "A Jew Among Indians" How working outside of one's culture works." This first issue is about cross-cultural understanding. How can the museum facilitators avoid becoming "the victims and the perpetuators of re-creationism?"

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. 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. A DIY wedding! DIY Wedding Chapel.

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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. But it’s a little bit like building a culture of philanthropy. Why is that? They don’t want to stop.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Both churches also had an emphasis on serving the downtown artist community. Poiema had just signed a lease for a property located on Central Avenue and invested in a remodel to facilitate its needs. I think we would have done well to extend it out a year and have more conversation, cultural alignment, etc.

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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." Living Library events consistently draw visitors and are packed with people having intense, messy conversations about culture, politics, and human relations.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. “Well, thanks to this $20,000, there are 12 local artists who have a place to hang their artwork.” So, obviously, going to be a really great presenter for you. So, Marie, thank you so, so much for doing this.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

We had women who had expertise in community organizing, micro-finance, facilitation and leadership development. I've been really blessed to have incredible influences in my own family, from my aunt, who lives in Washington and gave me so many opportunities, and my uncle, who's a performance artist, and my mother, who's a musician.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 31, 2017

They host workshops on mural painting, a hip hop academy, and an ambassador program where they send artists aboard to facilitate cultural exchange. Since then it has evolved to take on a holistic approach to community and youth development. Joe's Movement Emporium.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail Note from Beth: In 1993, I worked as the "network weaver" for an online network for individual artists called "Arts Wire" where I facilitated online conversations, provided technology support and training. Good content is still our best cultural currency and we have a lot of it here.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. Platform Cooperativism.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

We'll be taking with arts activist Alli Chagi-Starr, the Cultural Arts Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ' Reclaim the Future Program. In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now.

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