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. As the facilitator you can model it with brevity – it should be no more than 30 seconds. I’ve been working in my pajamas since the early 1990s, during the early years of the Web.
Forum One
OCTOBER 12, 2010
"Adin Miller, a friend and all-around smart guy, wrote a blog post reflecting on James Surowiecki’s talk about the“ Wisdom of Crowds ” at the Communications Network and CommA Fall 2010 Conference. But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work.
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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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 24, 2011
The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector. I had a chance to collaborate with every type of art form, arts management programs, arts education, and individual artists.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
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? We finished with a group photo and fun co-creation reflection.
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. Over time, we are getting more attractive couches that reflect a unified design aesthetic. We started with couches.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 25, 2016
While that was painful for the organizations involved, it also helped force the issue of whether participatory engagement could be core to a strong future business model for each organization or not. It upped the stakes on change--something a funder could not provide alone. As this video points out, critics make you swear.
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