Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. Instead she drew people personally into the stories again and again, asking us to compare our own and our ancestors' experiences to those she described. She told family stories. a "wedding worthy" community hall). She was political.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Talking about global youth issues from a high-level is one thing, but it is so much more impactful and inspiring to sit down with young people and hear their stories of challenge and success directly. A video of her story is here. This youth panel was truly inspiring for me.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

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. Short story: we learned a lot. We'd love to see this model evolve and grow. We wrote a toolkit about our process. You can download it for free right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

When I think of story telling, I think of books. Stories surround us on the radio, in newspapers, in our music boxes, in short web videos and on large screens in movie theatres. I am a documentary filmmaker and video journalist, and I think of my work as a form of story telling and documenting. Our stories come from our heart.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

And it’s a sweet life to have been able to turn service into a supportive business model. Story is incredibly important to me. Learning how to tell a personal story is a powerful tool for healing. Or more accurately, learning that we can tell our own story. Supporting art and artists, writers and books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

About a year ago, I came across David Sibbet’s book, “ Visual Meetings ” I have known of his work for years, but always thought graphic recording was for “real artists who can draw.’ Rachel, a virtuoso technologist and artist, used a drawing tablet and Sketchbook pro. Share your story below.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

The fact is that the more people are exposed to stories around a cause and the ideas behind theories of change, the more likely that change will be effected or you'll influence the people who can help create impact. The messaging and stories for the unaware need to be more basic and should be targeted toward entry and inclusion.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pinterest has a lot of potential, especially for organizations whose stories lend themselved to visual storytelling. Share the story of each animal in the Pin Description. Pin animated and cartooon bible stories. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Pin pictures of animals who need homes.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No.

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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. History exhibits with hundreds of objects and no coherent story. No visitor has ever told us that s/he came to the museum to learn a big story or to see science in action. Those words haunt me. This isn’t an isolated issue.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. The Walker is also a place where everyone is committed to supporting artists and new work, so every time we bring in an artist, staff are enthusiastic about the idea of coming together to create something. It's inherent in what we do.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

What should we do with their post-its and stories and drawings and poems? To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. The video is a cohesive, beautiful story, and it's obvious to any user how her frame might be integrated into the whole.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Pages 9 and 10 pull together data from the NEA, the Irvine Foundation, Dance/USA, RAND, and the Knight Foundation to tell a tight, compelling story about the demographic shift from consumptive to active participation and the extent to which traditional arts audiences are also participating in art-making outside of traditional arenas.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. And my museum, and this new model, as a space for them to do so. One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0

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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." In the Zingerman's model, visioning is for everyone at all levels of the organization. It's a story written from the vantage point of a few months or years from now.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Five years later, project director Dr. Piotr Bienkowski's final report for Our Museum tells a different story. 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.

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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. Dennis introduced each panelist with a personal story of how they met. I typically donate my schwag to a good cause or if there is a schwag recycling room , I participate. They don't.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

While I'm always inspired by stories of how we take risks to make programming more relevant and dynamic (thanks, Lisa Lee and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum ), I was particularly struck by Kathy's thoughtful framing of the session. Here, in no particular order, are the things that energized me most: "No idea is too ridiculous."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

The booklet features personal stories from Books, Librarians, and Readers alongside practical explanation of what it takes to coordinate a Living Library. A museum tour in which a docent "tours" you to a variety of volunteer artists who talk about how they create their work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

SFGate had a story yesterday about the Purpose Prize. Not only does the Market give folk art collector folks an opportunity to see and buy work from all over the world, the coolest thing is what it means for the artists. Each attending cooperative might represent, for example, 600 artists back home in Bangladesh.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. If I made up stories to go with the art, wouldn't I think just as hard about what it might mean, what inner jokes or profundity I might spin into my creation? They model the requested visitor contributions.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

You can either use a pay-to-enter model or turn it into a bit more of a gamble, where participants get a basket of eggs that may or may not contain a valuable prize. Tap your network to see what kinds of artists and craftspeople are out there and are available to teach. Of course, these events don’t have to be just for kids.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This can include the history of the organization, testimonials, ways to access important documents or files held by the nonprofit, stories of impact, personalized swag, and a welcome letter, or more. Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers. Welcome packet.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. Chat-GPT is a generative large language model.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

I met one of these data artists last year while visiting a friend/journalist at the New York Times. Sure, a lot of artists can express those kinds of intentions. It doesn't launch from a news story and then go gestural. We have well-developed design skills for interpreting and presenting stories and objects.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

But that's only part of the story. They may employ local artists to help create visitor experiences. Tags: children's museums design business models. Mostly, institutions move away from idiosyncrasy on their own accord. They may feature community gardens or exhibit labels in languages tailored to locals.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. Everyone is entitled to art in their life.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2007

Now construct the story of an artifact: "This painting by Vermeer was completed in 1663. I remember the first time an artist friend of mine took me to a museum and I watched him laugh at some of the art. The artist made something funny." Which made my mind go to a far more irreverent destination: Mad Libs. Pick a plural noun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

These teens are actively involved what Jenkins calls "participatory culture" - a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one's creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. They capture the negative stories of the inner city. That's a very long story. I love their stories.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

This seems like an appropriate time to share the story. My story is more a case of "Getting Hired: It's What You Want, How Aggressive You Are, and What Ideas You Can Offer." I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. It's a long post, and you might not be interested.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Today, both of these models are threatened, and within 50 years they will no longer be sustainable. Why are our current models failing? The good news is that there are hundreds of thousands of people debating the content of every book, scientific principle, and artistic movement on the Web right now. From the Web 2.0

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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. The way that World of Good has really gone about this is, we have done it in a two-part model. We should be able to tell the story and communicate the mission."

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

Darcie described the Centre Pompidou in Paris as a place where she is surrounded by working artists, where things change frequently, and where she feels as a visitor that anything can happen. Do you have a story of a time when complicity with strangers changed your experience? Design exhibits that attract a crowd and invite group play.

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