Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Analyzing Public Comments in the Detroit Free Press Online The pre-vote public commentary in the Detroit Free Press about the millage is like any online newspaper commentary: polarizing, extreme, and highly varied in tone and reasonableness. As one Detroit Free Press commenter wrote: "You are not getting it.

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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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It’s not unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day. When planning programs or events, we involve a combination of these groups to share and bridge audiences, bringing big, diverse crowds to new artists and ideas. Large and small (or no) followings.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

A local engineer, Greg McPheeters, brought his tandem-bike powered recycled couch to our Trash to Treasure festival last Friday night. Community members, artists, and organizations increasingly see our museum as a place where they can advance their own goals, and so they approach us. Happening Couch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

These are the books that are probably of more interest to nonprofit and social media folks than the local library patrons. Well, that's kind of the idea.each ‘trade' became a simple increment between a red paperclip to a whole house.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Golf Tournament Bring together avid golfers and local philanthropists—in many cases, they’re one and the same—for a day on the greens. Sports Tournament Organizing a sports tournament can attract local teams and sports enthusiasts to compete in games like soccer, baseball, softball, basketball, and more.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Marisa Handler, Author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

When we work with diverse collaborators, from opera singers and ukelele players to knitters and graffiti artists, we catalyze new partnerships and relationships that make our community stronger and more cohesive. You want to have an artist collective sleepover at the museum? We believe in fearless experimentation. Sounds great.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

MSI did three things that most organizations don't or can't do when they set up a video contest: They got a TON of local, national, and international press. But many videos reinforced common stereotypes about science museums, full of bouncy evangelists in lab coats pressing the "science is fun!" Museum staffers.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

I was fascinated by the project’s innovative approach to collecting, sharing, and connecting people through locally-produced media. While more and more people are creating their own media thanks to the internet, there’s an unfortunate paradox in media creation in the physical, local world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Marisa Handler, author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Podcast Interview San Francisco Director 41

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Marisa Handler, author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Interview San Francisco Green Podcast 40

Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). The content is multidisciplinary, with a collection that includes both local history and contemporary art. Dear Museum 2.0 readers, I have some exciting news.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

We also sent out a weekly press release about the new countdown and announced the new number one on Twitter. And there was the phenomenon we called the Thomas Creswick Effect: after four weeks of it receiving no votes at all, I wrote a press release about Worcester’s Creswick painting and our local newspaper ran it as an article.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. She surveyed existing local programs. There is a strong community of Oaxacan artists, dancers, and musicians in Live Oak. You have to hear their voices loud and clear.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Most people have a trail somewhere near where they live, so encourage your peer-to-peer fundraiser participants to do their hike locally and share their amazing pictures on social media. As a bonus, try to secure some great prizes from your corporate and/or local partners for the winning team. Virtual Tours. Live Gaming Fundraiser.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 13, 2008

It's that feeling that compels me to do all the work that I do, whether it's taking young people into the mountains, or promoting organic food and supporting local farmers. AD: I originally found a couple of artists that were interested in turning it into a piece of art. I wasn't telling anybody what to do. So, that's the next step.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. Obviously, local civic journalism is incredibly important to me.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

You might do this with news or press releases and radio interviews, you may be looking at the reach and the listening audience to say, “How many people did you engage?” “Well, thanks to this $20,000, there are 12 local artists who have a place to hang their artwork.” Does that make sense? ” So what?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

We got a lovely bit of press on the first four exhibit selections, and I'm thrilled by the diversity of participants and novel creations that have been submitted thus far. Some of these people are professional artists or exhibit designers, but most are just talented folks with an interest in museums.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This time of ye ar, I find that many of my favorite artists , designers, and bloggers start rounding up the trending items and making predictions. M ore than $20,000 was raised by employees of a tech company, and over $24,000 raised by a local photographer. That and food. I really like to cook too. I see things like: .

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

If you look around the world at some of the most pressing environmental challenges, you see women on the front lines of those challenges. While many of the women had traveled the world, many of them had also devoted their lives to local solutions. We do that by coordinating training, technology, and advocacy support.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Cristi Hegranes Executive Director and Founder, Global Press Institute. GPI (formerly the Press Institute for Women in the Developing World) uses journalism as a development tool to educate, employ and empower women, who produce high-quality local news coverage that elevates global awareness and ignites social change.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Editors’ note: This article is from the Summer 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly , “Owning Our Economy, Owning Our Future. ”.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2021

Without it, you’ll be hard-pressed to accomplish your goals. Small to medium-sized and local nonprofits are challenged to create awareness. through you they fulfill a moral obligation; give back to an organization that helped them or a loved one; solve a problem they agree is pressing, etc.). To Get Traffic. Closing Thoughts.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2007

Ignore the big guys and focus on community-based or local art. One of my favorite local museums, the American Visionary Art Museum , is the most "for the people, by the people" art museum I've ever entered. Give critics something to talk about besides what's hanging on the walls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Because of the combination of humor and brevity, cartoons are a great way for your organization to share information and ideas. Cartoons can encapsulate an idea or message with a single image, people pressed for time can absorb them quickly and share them more easily. It’s to say this: everyone has limits.

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