Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

I saw for myself that history was unfolding in front of me. We are currently trying to raise $40,000 of our $200,000 budget through Kickstarter, the online fundraising platform that facilitates grassroots investment. As a freelance video journalist, I was asked to go to Madison on assignment for the progressive media outlet The Uptake.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2015

Visitors in front of the African Elephant Diorama at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC photo) This guest post was written by Karen Wise, Vice President, Education and Exhibits at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. “I History exhibits with hundreds of objects and no coherent story.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. This is an epic moment in the history of education, who wouldn’t want to be part of it? the way the best museums do.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

As one African-American artist on a prominent museum board told me, "I felt even more tokenized than if I had been part of some kind of Artists'' Council or African-American Council." So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

What started as a fun personal project for her will hopefully become part of our permanent history gallery--a space we are trying to make more interactive over the coming years. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible.

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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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. and then recounted some related fact or history. It was clear that Vi isn't just someone who talks about history. But participatory facilitation can be taught. I avoid them.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. But almost ALL of those opportunities are facilitated by people. Humans empower each other.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

History Museums OPPORTUNITIES - History museums are in many ways the best-suited for visitor participation. 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.

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JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

(Disclaimer: I'm on the honorary committee because 13 years ago I worked on an online artist network with the New York Foundation for the Arts and CAMT was the partner.) Many of us started off as artists and then ended up managing arts organizations. Tell me a little bit about how you got into arts management? Actually, I???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Authenticity and Demystifying the Artistic Process. Facilitating people who receive organization???s Artistic Director Blog (Inactive). I set up an H20 list with the snippits of the history. There is still a long ways to go before nonprofit blogging becomes common. Some examples: 1. American Lung Association of Minnesota.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. This was launched as a facilitated activity during a "Love Fest" event in April and stayed. A DIY wedding!

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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. Presentations should cover 5 areas: (a) General overview: goal, history, timing of the failure; (b) What went right? (c) c) What went wrong? (d)

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Environmentalists, the Museum of Natural History at CU, they all responded very enthusiastically to this. We have the City of Boulder naturalists, who are involved in organizing field activities for the community—bringing the community into the open spaces—to facilitate that collection. The stakeholders are really engaged.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The activity was facilitated by the activity station set up in the lobby just outside the gallery. We tested five versions of the prompt sheets--some with instructions focused to the subject of the exhibition (artists' takes on nature), others with more open-ended instructions designed to encourage a broader range of responses.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Summertime concerts at the history museum? These sparks grew into sustained lifelong learning for at least 400 people, who got involved in local technology hobbyist projects, who pursued careers in science and technology, and helped us facilitate learning experiences as volunteers at the museum. Louis count it. There''s quite a range.

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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." Jeremy Deller admitted in his artist statement that this piece was motivated by his own very personal interest in Iraq.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. Typically, if you’re starting a pilot program and you do not have your own history of success. “Well, thanks to this $20,000, there are 12 local artists who have a place to hang their artwork.” So you raised $20,000.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

The level of joy and celebration was unforgettable because of what we were making happen, and the history we were making each day that we were there. We had women who had expertise in community organizing, micro-finance, facilitation and leadership development. This is a history in the making. How about you, Amira?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This essay, written in 1991, reflects Elaine's experience on the planning staff for the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) on the Mall as an "insider/outsider"--a "hired gun" with museum know-how facilitating the creation of someone else's museum. She was an intended insider--someone who NMAI was supposedly both "by" and "for."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

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. 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.

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