Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources. Our perspectives can be subconsciously influenced greatly by our social economic start in life.

Accessibility 104

Accessibility Challenge Leadership Tips 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire. During a time when many of us are required to be social distancing , feelings of isolation and loneliness may become a fact of daily life. Or the last photo in their phone. Hat tip/ Jen Bokoff ).

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Virtual Facilitation Exercise Training 130

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Novak''s book uses the basic structure of reading aloud to subject the reader (presumably an adult) to proclaim ridiculous things about him/herself. They recall other artistic work that breaks fourth walls--classically in theater, and more recently in new media projects. Hilarity ensues. So I wonder: where is our fourth wall?

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Press Children Museum Artist 46

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We sent weekly Membership Monday emails; created a new space online and on social media with story time, art activities, curatorial walk throughs; provided holiday meals for purchase from our café each month; and hosted Zoom talks with artists from our collection. In her “real life,” Carey is an actress and theatre maker in New Hampshire.

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Museum Arts New Hampshire Guidelines 31

Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

In this section, we’ll cover tips for structuring information about your fundraiser on your flyer so that your viewers are satisfied. The crux of minimalist design is converting seemingly simple design elements, such as lines, shapes, and colors, into an artistic and attractive product. Tip 1: Highlight calls to action.

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Examples Tips Fundraising Images 105

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

For example, let''s say you were hoping to sit down at the beginning of this year and map out a BIG plan for your life. Instead, they argue, the real source of productive creativity may lie in art''s supposed bugaboos: rules, structure, even the occasional editor or two." Adapt to the space we have and embrace our limits.

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Time New York Artist Green 40

Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2008

I'm not good at creating a structured work day for myself. Creating website content for universities, non-profits, or artists? You'll find a version of it in her book Creating a Life Worth Living: A practical course in career design for artists, innovators, and others aspiring to a creative life. Freelance writing?

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Work Artist Exercise Life 40

Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

Games structure participation in vital civic actions like voting, budgeting, advocacy, movement-building, solving major challenges, and simulations for disaster preparedness. (BS). The average gamer is 37 years old and almost half are women. (JD). 60% of casual gamers are women. (MB). Design Process. How to Design.

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Game Lesson Create New York City 55

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

We had about thirty participants ranging from MAH trustees to artists, educators to architects, moms to grandfathers. There's useful energy that arises when you put a teacher, a techie, a mom, and an artist in a group and ask them to work together. It was an evening meeting with beer and chips.

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Program Community Design Museum 49

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

As artistic director Abe Burickson described their work to me, I imagined Theseus walking deeper into the labyrinth towards the Minotaur. He spoke of the audience as providing a challenge, a challenge like any other artistic constraint. The goal was to create work that is moving for her and a compelling artistic challenge for us.

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Arts Artist Audience Project 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers. They are artists whose experience deserves a home in our institution alongside painters, photographers, and sculptors.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

Unlike startups and rock stars, museums aren't structured to shoot for the moon and burn up trying. This is the model that governs most businesses and artistic endeavors. 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. Then they die.

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Model Business Los Angeles Museum 55

Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. They are not going, "What am I doing with my life?" You are onto the right thing. A friend told me once, "to move toward the roar."

Brain 41

Brain Life Artist Advice 41

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

M+R

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In recent years, we have seen artists like Beyoncé and U2 experiment with new ways to launch music. But we really saw those special, viral moments come to life with her fans when Taylor communicated with her fans in their own voice. She showed that sometimes it is okay to drop the formalities.

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Communication Professional Learning Press 88

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. In Second Life, I am not an expert--but many of our virtual exhibit designers are.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Mission: Possible focuses on a 100% clean power future achieved by investing in a new set of power brokers: moms, artists, workers, and communities of color who care passionately about the futures of their communities and are working together to achieve a safer, healthier, more prosperous Northwest. Making: Ideation and Rapid Prototyping.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

And their unique structure and bottom-up approach offers some instructive lessons for museums that want to really embrace visitors and members as co-creators of the institutional experience. Most hackerspaces have very transparent legal structures and operate on a consensus model. This isn't just a geek thing.

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Museum North Carolina San Francisco Structure 24

EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art.

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Story Angola Sierra Leone History 133

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. This kind of engagement ladder provides a structured framework for participation without overly constraining how people get involved.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 68

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. I am the CEO and co-founder of World of Good , and also World of Good Development Organization , which is our non-profit sister organization.

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Gift Marketing Create Interview 40

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. This kind of engagement ladder provides a structured framework for participation without overly constraining how people get involved.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 46

Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

When I’m in MOMA, at least I know that as I go from room to room of the main collection, I’m not “missing” any particular era, genre, or artist. The Human Cell or The Beginning of Life? In my head, I say, “I am in a museum. My job is to float around and experience things.” Where am I? Am I in the red wing or the blue wing?

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Game Storytelling Lesson Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

One of the most arresting sessions I attended last year was Exhibitions that Changed My Life. Several were created or conceived by a single person, often an artist/non-museum professional. And yet exhibit designers are often brought to the table to breathe life into a topic.

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Life Create Change Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

The label did not address that the artist sexually abused her, gave her syphilis, and colonized her home. The entire system and structure of this country has been built on racism. A label accompanied the two paintings that barely acknowledged that the naked body on that purple bed was a 13-year-old indigenous girl named Tehamana.

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Museum Detroit Arts Leadership 22

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

So where visions of Flash games used to dance in my head, I’m now starting to fantasize about team-building, inclusion, and, of all things, Second Life. We’re using a combination of a wiki-style website and a Second Life presence to make it happen. Will exhibit developers really use (and derive any value from) Second Life?

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Open Source Museum Game Open 22

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 19, 2006

The 3rd Annual Artivist Film Festival & Awards ' mission is to strengthen the voice of international activist artists and raise public awareness of global issues. Youth Network My country was at war for 36 years and community structures and resources have been destroyed. Barbra Streisand. DIANA'S STORY (0:06) Dir - Listen Up!

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Award Senegal San Francisco India 40

Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2007

Many design firms--from architecture to video games--have structured ways for staff to engage in a variety of projects, teams, and disciplines to learn the business, develop strong working relationships, and understand the stakeholders better.

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Team Museum Chapter Design 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

Specifically, Elaine advocates that museums stimulate and support "informal public life" through concious construction for diverse applications. Is it okay for people to express themselves artistically or musically in the galleries? As she puts it, Public spaces have been regarded as necessary armature but not as catalysts themselves.

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Museum Los Angeles Arts Children 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Experimental trails on humans Historical antecedents to modern day “hot button” topics Lecture series Population growth (down arrow) What technology is developed reflects the political structure of a society and its values An exhibit of a plastinated cow or pig as part of a larger Children’s museum exhibition on agriculture.

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

So while it's starting out again now with people who are online, I think we are starting to see the trend migrate outwards into other communities -- whether it's artists, writers--I've heard about some lawyers actually, and I guess other folks who can do a lot of their work online. BB: Can you talk about how your space works?

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Green Interview San Francisco Environment 40