Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Tags: linklove. Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th. 19 Free Webinars for Nonprofits - November 2009 on Wild Apricot Blog. 10 Tips for an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Facebook Fan Page by Beth Kanter on BlogHer. THE BIG LIST of social entrepreneurs on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

They don’t like the Internet, they don’t even like electricity. We’re doing social media because we’re facile with it, but it takes patience to introduce to the rest our staff and have it become a part of our culture.&# The Joe Goode Dance Company spoke about the challenges of getting an artistic director to Tweet.

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JUNE 3, 2009

GATC mission “is to bridge cultures in conflict through the arts and to create innovative arts-education programs around the world.&#. The organisation began uniting musicians from cultures in conflict in 2004 with the pairing of a Jewish-Moroccan and a Muslim-Moroccan musicians. Tags: see3 peace.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

When it comes to user participation in cultural institutions and the arts, it's popular to launch projects that pit visitors against experts. I've been thinking about this as I prep some interactive prototypes for the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum, a Seattle-based museum of pop culture. There was Click!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

What interests me is if this is the next evolution of the social web - what is the culture shift that needs to happen within a nonprofit to embrace it? Tags: realtimeweb. Of course, I want to also know what the value or benefit is to nonprofits? Real Time Web for nonprofits is early adopter land right now. just saying.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

” How is this influx of new people influencing Austin’s Arts & Cultural community? The team at Thinkery has done an excellent job in getting the word out in all the right publications (Austin’s Culture Map, Austin’s Social Planner, among others) since they launched this innovative idea in December 2013.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it. Beauty is on the eye of the beholder and some people just like the chaos and artistic freedom of MySpace, while some like the neat clean, linear look of Facebook.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

government, members of the diplomatic corps, successful business and civil society leaders, philanthropists, media professionals, academics, artists etc. Online tools can greatly assist with collaboration, cultural education and developing business ideas. Tags: Influence Events Collaboration Communication Events Government.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. Read the original post on this project for more info.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. Tags: guest blogging. Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people. To be truthful, I’d rather hang out with you than just about anybody.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 21, 2009

It was the most impressive multi-artist contemporary art exhibition I've ever seen. I expected a quick in-and-out visit, but found myself immersed in the aesthetic and cultural world of the art for hours. It would give visitors like me a way into the experience and an opportunity to perform in keeping with the artist's desires.

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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. Why should cultural and arts organizations care about Kickstarter? The museum's page is much simpler.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2008

I expected it to be both physically and culturally uncomfortable, something like going to a dentist in a Harley garage. And yet here they were streaming into a place where they would spend hundreds of dollars on art, pore intently over books of images and talk earnestly with the artists about their vision. It's worth the cultural trip.

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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. Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

I once asked Eric Siegel, the Director of the New York Hall of Science, why museums are rarely innovative shining stars on the cutting edge of culture. This is the model that governs most businesses and artistic endeavors. Tags: business models. He commented that as non-profits, museums are built to survive, not to succeed.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. Growing a Strong Volunteer Culture Every year, thousands of new librarians and archivists graduate from MLS programs.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2010

One Million Giraffes is pretty much what it sounds like--a project to collect artistic renderings of one million giraffes. I can't wait until there's a young Ola somewhere else in the world starting a project of this kind in a cultural institution with the tagline, "let's show everyone how amazing museums are.".

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

I am a museum of Native Cultures and Art!" The Brooklyn Museum has an open call for artists who want to use Twitter to communicate with 1stfan members , but you don't need to be an artist to create quality content on Twitter. Tags: web2.0 Jeffrey at the Mattress Factory also does a great job of this. What would fit there?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao. So you weren't targeting "Brooklyn artists" or some other demographic group. T he Twitter Art Feed features a new artist every month. How are you selecting and rewarding these artists?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

We regularly feature artwork by local residents, whether they are students or professional artists/craftsman. Each hooked rug was designed and created by local artists who were inspired by Pennsylvania German motifs found in our collection. It’s not indifferent to the culture that already exists there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" The model of State Department's Cultural Exchanges. We decided to follow our artists and engage the audience on this issues. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c When they find out you are an American, there is a moment of cognitive disonance, but then they come to: "You're not so bad as an American."

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

In his identity work , John Falk determined that people use cultural institutions to reflect their personal self-concept as learners, social leaders, spiritual pilgrims, hobbyists, and experience seekers. Tags: design Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion.

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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. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 They are frequently about real people's stories.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The other three are cultural, and I'm not sure how accurate they are. Here are four reasons I think that cultural institutions should look more broadly at potential audiences for participatory experiences: While teens are heavy social media users, they may not be the right audience for content-focused social experiences.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

Darcie described the Centre Pompidou in Paris as a place where she is surrounded by working artists, where things change frequently, and where she feels as a visitor that anything can happen. How can cultural professionals encourage feelings of complicity among visitors to our institutions?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

It’s often confusing to wade through the choices: do I want the underwater pony show or the artist-led splatter tour? But there are other cultural and recreational activities with similarly small (or smaller) market share in the experience economy which are more consistent than museums price-wise. Tags: marketing.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

Here’s what happened: an art critic named Jerry Saltz posted an incendiary note on Facebook about the very low representation of women artists on the 4th and 5th floors (painting and sculpture) of MoMA. When those spaces are factored in, there are more than 250 works by female artists on view now. Tags: web2.0 Let’s start there.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

The popular option at this time is to try to beat the experiential competition and ignore the Web-based cultural shift. The good news is that there are hundreds of thousands of people debating the content of every book, scientific principle, and artistic movement on the Web right now. Tags: Core Museum 2.0

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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

JULY 22, 2008

They are often one-offs for events but are increasingly included in the regular slate of programming at major libraries and cultural facilities (but at my count, only one museum). A museum tour in which a docent "tours" you to a variety of volunteer artists who talk about how they create their work. well, you know.

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Qgiv

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. Motivational shoe tags, non-slip headphones, sweatbands, and compression sleeves are great gifts for cardio lovers.

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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. active use of artifacts?) an "uncharted adventure." See book club part 4 for more.)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

When he’s not at Benetech, he’s still traveling the world and getting tattoos – by the same artist who does tattoos for Johnny Depp. A specialist in technology and culture, Janet came to work for Benetech this summer as a communications fellow after a long career in dotcoms and newspapers, most recently USA Today.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

The rules are clear: anyone who lives in Minnesota and considers her/himself an artist can contribute one piece. The only thing I really wish existed were more personal stories from the artists--I would have loved to see statements and photos of them alongside their works. Foot in the Door is a straightforward contributory project.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2017

Whoever is running your Pinterest account should have at least some artistic eye. You can get the inside scoop on their company culture and strategies that might work for you. From the text and drawing tools to Bitmoji and fun filters, there are plenty of means to give your videos a quirky twist or an artistic edge.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

FiftyCrows Foundation eschews these media politics and prioritizes social awareness by using arrestingly real, timely photographic images as a catalyst for education, cultural understanding and social action." Our mission is to strengthen the voice of activist artists - 'Artivists' - while raising public awareness for social global causes."

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