Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. The above photo is one of my favorites.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Two years ago, our team at the MAH embarked on our most challenging co-creation project ever. We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. This project wove together many different participatory threads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Is that a Zen graffiti artist? Trying to do everything, a scarcity model, is such an exhausting way to work. Nonprofits-as-venues needs to be about project curation but also about providing the support and structure that may be harder for free agents, individually or together, to do. Flickr Photo by TheeErin.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2012

According to Pew Research Center's population projections, in 2030, all members of the Baby Boom generation will be 65 or older, and 18% of Americans will be at least that age. One of its project is the Burbank Senior Artists Colony , a first-of-its-kind senior apartment community with high-end arts amenities and programs (how cool is that?).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2017

We are now hiring two full-time positions: Exhibitions Catalyst , to animate our exhibitions in partnership with artists, community organizations, and residents Marketing and Communications Catalyst , to spread the word and connect our community on social media and in the press Both these people have important roles to play in the future of the MAH.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Why am I excited about this project? I then modeled this support on the online community — and we quickly had a village of practitioners supporting one of another. It’s our way of embracing and spreading the abundance that working a networked way offers.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Prior to joining Nimble AMS, I worked in the nonprofit association industry for seven years with my primary focus on membership and project management. The upgrade approach is modeled after the Salesforce’s methodology of three product releases each year. Fun fact about Amy. That’s unheard of in the association space!

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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. Everything old is new again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

This will be an interactive session with real and remote audience participation. Jonny Goldstein will do real time illustrations of the ideas swirling around the session which will be projected live and that will help us move towards a common understanding and enable us to share an artifact with others. Trust me. What’s new?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students.

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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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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

It's the ability for me to work with my CFO to be able to budget and align the right kinds of resources for new projects. Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. Working with the CFO, we went through my budget and found ways to realign funds to find the money to do the project.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

In this post, she writes about Experimonth, an intriguing set of crowd-sourced projects that connect scientists with research participants in surprising ways. The project blew away our expectations. And my museum, and this new model, as a space for them to do so. But at my museum , the support doesn''t stop at our visitors.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2017

Working with creative people taught me to think like an artist: observe, explore, dive in, look out. Building the Abbott Square project taught me a whole new mindset: that of the real estate developer. OUTSIDE IN Before the Abbott Square project, I approached planning from an internally-driven perspective. We develop the ideas.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2013

They closed for capricious financial reasons, and they left disappointed artists and participants in their wake. Pitch your project to a struggling symphony. Museum of Art and History Unusual Projects and Influences business models' Could each have offered MORE community value? Absolutely. Recombine them. Reenergize them.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

If you're trying launch a project, like a community center or a film festival, KickStarter or Indiegogo might be the way to go. The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project. Participants voted on the questions that would be most important for the Brainerd Foundation to consider in its strategy: How might we adopt a hybrid model of new and old power? How might we create a funding model that nourishes flexibility and innovation?

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work. Predictive Markets: The Iowa Electronic Markets uses an online wagering model to accurately predict political elections. Crowd-based funding for projects – such as Global Giving and Donors Choose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Ann Wizer is an artist who uses design and education to protect the environment and reduce poverty. Ann is an activist and an artist. The need for some experimentation before a program or project rolls out or scales. The context is that many projects don't offer this. It is the trash from the buildings. They don't.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

While there was evidence of plenty of community engagement work across museums and galleries, most of it was funded project by project. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. It upped the stakes on change--something a funder could not provide alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

If we are successful, we’ll join over 15,000 artists, filmmakers, activists, and entrepreneurs who have collectively raised over $125 million using this innovative “crowd-funding” model. Dollars help make independent projects possible. January 21. Times have changed and so have the tools, but the need is the same.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

She is also a registered yoga teacher and plans to have a finished memoir project by the end of this year. And it’s a sweet life to have been able to turn service into a supportive business model. Supporting art and artists, writers and books. The idea that pleasure is more deeply inherent in service than selfishness thrills me.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

More importantly, it means that we should be looking to their model to push ourselves in how we think about delivering the most engaging, powerful content possible. We are finally leaving behind the 18th century model of education where groups of students are expected to learn at a standard pace.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

If you're trying launch a project, like a community center or a film festival, KickStarter or Indiegogo might be the way to go. The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected.

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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. We may not have funding for your project, but we won''t tie it up in red tape either. Sounds great.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2015

Year after year, MCON proves to be an unforgettable experience for artists, media, social entrepreneurs, corporate, nonprofit and public leaders, and passionate people from across the country. Business: Companies and leaders who are transforming old business models.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Kickstarter is a website for creative folks to find funding for their dream projects. Currently, the site supports US-based projects only. A Kickstarter project has three parts: Project description. This is typically a video plus text, although some projects just use a simple image instead of a video. Funding goal.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin your students science fair projects. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Think about the tire-swing at the park, the basketball court made from old sneaker rubber, the community garden using the snow from an organic office paper shredder as insulation, the kids art project made from old bottle caps, etc.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? And the projects themselves are brilliant.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

One we like that is oriented toward open source and also advocacy is the Library Freedom Project (LFP). This advocacy project aims "to protect each library user's right to privacy and confidentiality with respect to information sought or received and resources consulted, borrowed, acquired or transmitted.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2015

He is committed to our aspiration of creating a new model of what museums can be in the 21st Century. They are incredibly detailed depictions of scientifically and visually accurate moments in time and place with backdrop murals made accomplished artists – including some famous Plein Air artists who created them as part of W.P.A.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

I led a session with Eric Siegel and Ellen Rosenthal on museum business models and some of the issues we grapple with in managing money. And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

We also have 75 new friends, slightly bleary from the experience, which felt like one part intense work project, one part marathon, one part hallucinogenic love-in. I felt lucky to be able to dip into the various project teams, though that also gave me a completely aberrant perspective on camp.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." You can write a vision for yourself, your organization, your project, or your team. In the Zingerman's model, visioning is for everyone at all levels of the organization.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

The creators of this project recognized an essential civic value of libraries as civil, safe places and capitalized on that value to make a risky proposition to users. A museum tour in which a docent "tours" you to a variety of volunteer artists who talk about how they create their work. Would you use the Living Library?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Often, organizations adopt a service model that is strictly needs-based. While needs are important, this service model can be demeaning and disempowering. It's pretty simple.

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