Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made. Incorporating Movement Into Icebreakers and Small Group Exercises. In other words, to what end?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

Seventh Generation Fund For Indigenous People. They focus their partnerships on women-led organizations that prioritize the leadership of young women and girls, Indigenous women, Afro-descendant women, LGBTIQ people, and people with disabilities. Groups do not need 501(c)(3) of fiscal sponsor status to apply.

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Forum One

AUGUST 11, 2022

This year, we were happy to continue our partnership with the Posse Foundation to recruit from a diverse group of talented students.Over the past two months, they seamlessly blended into the Forum One team and gained valuable hands-on experience along the way. He loves art and would love to be an artist/painter if he could. “I

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

At my museum, we pride ourselves on developing programming in a collaborative way that emphasizes diversity and intentionally encourages social bridging by bringing people together from different walks of life around cultural experience. While it is not easy to ask directly "what do you think about XX people?"

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Being from a Support mindset, the best way to help as many people as possible is to help those that help others. Coming into the association space as a developer eventually shifted into combining my technical skills with my people and business understanding and becoming an Applications Analyst and several other roles. The culture!

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 9, 2020

For our third year of this series, we featured three outstanding people: Erin Dinan from One Sandwich at a Time , Jared Fenton from The Reflect Organization , and Veranda Rodgers from Pregnant with Possibilities Resource Center. DSNNN won $2,500 for their collaborative art project and organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 24, 2009

Working from this premise, this travel documentary project seeks to answer the question: How is global social change made where media, technology and creative people meet? I want to learn and ’share back’ as much as possible so that other groups doing similar things can do it together. We operate best together.

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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 As Debra Askanse posted in a facebook group discussing Jumo this morning, how do follow people, and not just organizations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Why am I excited about this project? The way I learned was through working with peer group of people who were supporting nonprofits in their quest to build capacity and skills using the Internet to realize their missions. It’s our way of embracing and spreading the abundance that working a networked way offers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Click here to listen to a very brief interview Over the weekend, I attended the Technology in the Arts Conference in Pittsburgh where artist and activist Faith Ringgold was one of the keynote speakers. " I had a chance to do a quick video interview with her about her thoughts on women artists. They are brilliant!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The man is artist Rocky Lewycky , whose work is part of a group show of visual artists who have won a prestigious regional fellowship. His project, Is It Necessary? If an artist can come into a museum and smash stuff, what does that tell visitors? He takes a crowbar out of a Swiss Army backpack. Definitely.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. We encouraged teams to think like artists, not researchers. You can check out all twenty research projects here. To be playful.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Let's look at the statistics from three big participatory projects that wrapped up recently. This citywide festival showcased work by 1,517 artists competing for a $200,000 top cash prize awarded by public vote. An estimated 400,000 people attended the event over two weeks, of which 47,000 cast at least one vote.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Dive into co-creative project design. A month before MuseumCamp, the MAH is opening a new exhibition, Lost Childhoods , co-developed with foster youth, youth advocates, and artists in our community. This project is experimental, complicated work. Artists are striving to follow their direction to beautiful ends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Kanter will bring together a group of highly visible free agents working on important social change causes and representatives from different nonprofits for a lively discussion with the audience. There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve. What works?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. s Blog about?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Photo by CLoé Zarifian, MAH Photo Intern We're working with a guest curator, Wes Modes , on an upcoming experimental project at our museum. Wes is an artist, and this is his first time running a museum exhibition development process. How can people--staff, volunteers, community members--help make this project better?

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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.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2014

He described the National Museum of the American Indian--where he was founding director--as a multicultural institution, celebrating the diversity of Native peoples throughout the Americas. Working in an intercultural way means focusing on the relations among people. Is it better to organize the content by cultural group or by theme?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

After several months of planning massively collaborative programs (a typical monthly event might involve 50 partners), we've realized that the people who are best at helping us come up with ideas are not necessarily the people who are best to help us execute them. We picked five of those communities and split into small groups.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above). He is an authoritative artist of the social web with a slew of accolades and a suite of diverse projects under his belt.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

While informal involvement or input for a specific project is always useful, there''s also value to more sustained participation--and the relationships and accountability that comes with it. CON: can make people feel like second-class board members instead of equal leaders in the organization. I struggle with both these options.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 17, 2011

A list of some of the people, things, and events that inspired me, or added fun to my week: 1. After going to Amoeba, we visited a few artists' studios as part of the East Bay Open Studios , including the Institute for Mosaic Arts. I feel so lucky to be able to talk with so many inspiring people! Soooo good.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

We may say that we want to support programming and cultural opportunities for low-income and non-white people, but that's not where the money is going. There's the barrier of artistic quality--funders, trustees, or staff members who argue that work by non-canonical artists is not up to the standards of the institution.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. In the next month, this blog will feature guest posts from a few of the people behind these innovative, quirky institutions, but in the meantime, here's a short list of six of my favorites to explore. Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

James assembled a group of funders and the talented Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area , a local arts service organization to help implement project. The design for Social Media Peer Group Learning. The Joe Goode Dance Company spoke about the challenges of getting an artistic director to Tweet. Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

David Evan Harris , Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project. Starting a Collaborative Project. Bramley spoke to getting a project off the ground, which can be difficult because of the many pieces that go into creating a video. The Story of the Global Lives Project.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk. And perhaps most ambitiously, they see it as a community-based project. Imagine a historic site. It has an incredible story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Events are many people’s favorite thing about charity fundraising. If you want to make it a hybrid event, simply have a group of folks come to an in-person dinner on location while having meals delivered to a few others watch the virtual version over a live stream. 3) Cooking classes. 3) Cooking classes. 5) Online classes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

And, for a museum that is presenting contemporary art -- anything that helps us demystify the artistic process and better understand the art is, in my opinion, a good thing. people at the Walker who may be represented by official websites but. The biggest challenge is to get people to contribute a few hours a. week to writing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Experiences: People love getting to do something unique, interesting, and valuable, even more than they like “things.” Membership cards: Some people like being card-carrying members of a group. People love showing off that they are involved in important causes. Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The DAM is one of several large art museums that is embracing making in a big way—first, through their event-based programming and open art studios tied to temporary exhibitions, and now, through a 1,200 square foot studio in which visitors can do art projects tied to the permanent collection. Who are all of these people?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Deeper community relationships through focus groups or community advising committees can further help museums connect with issues relevant to their communities while also hold the museum accountable for their responses. We continuously and actively respond to requests as well as invite people to be a part of our programs.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

Sarah and some of her colleagues in visitor services feel disconnected from the work that happens "upstairs" in the office and in our creative project development. Any place with people working different schedules in different parts of the building suffers from it. Would people feel pressured to post and follow?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

These artists are all great examples of how media can be used for social change - as a vehicle for storytelling. Put yourself or your organization out there in a unique way that people can connect with. Join every social network, community, directory, and affinity group you can to tell your story. Be creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

We spent a lot of time identifying grantees and other funders, but also people who be “thought catalysts” or subject matter experts in “21 st Century advocacy” to bring into the room. Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project. Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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Achieve

AUGUST 5, 2022

That way, you’ll work with artists that know how to create something that inspires your supporters. . As you compare companies, look at the percentage of profit you’re projected to receive when working with them. . A logical place to start is where people spend. Fortunately, there are graphic designers who can lead the way.

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