Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. You talked earlier about the importance of flexibility and nimbleness on staff--the proclivity for people to be open and say yes to something new rather than throw up barriers. In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience.

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Arts Interview Teen Artist 46

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

And, for a museum that is presenting contemporary art -- anything that helps us demystify the artistic process and better understand the art is, in my opinion, a good thing. people at the Walker who may be represented by official websites but. The biggest challenge is to get people to contribute a few hours a. week to writing.

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Artist Arts Process Remix 50

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2011

it was so delightful to wonder what people's reaction would be the next morning. We heard gossip later about how pleased and mystified people were! This picture is from the "Chalk Art Phase" last summer in which we would write loving messages on chalk - Lilly is the artist, I'm the lookout and embellisher.

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Fun Doc Blogher Teen 74

Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. In the next month, this blog will feature guest posts from a few of the people behind these innovative, quirky institutions, but in the meantime, here's a short list of six of my favorites to explore. Skill-sharing free schools.

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Culture Alternative St. Louis Los Angeles 49

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

We may say that we want to support programming and cultural opportunities for low-income and non-white people, but that's not where the money is going. There's the barrier of artistic quality--funders, trustees, or staff members who argue that work by non-canonical artists is not up to the standards of the institution.

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Arts Fund Artist Houston 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

Generation Z, the heirs to the digital empire built by Generation X and expanded by Millennials, is made up of people who don’t just spend time online—they live there. And despite their youth (its oldest members are only now leaving their teens), kids in Generation Z are regularly rocking social media for social good.

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Online Giving Donor Mongolia 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies.

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 50

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. The more people who know about Traveling Postcards the better!

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Research libraries have been facing daunting challenges in the digital world, but not everything is digital in research and the library really wants to connect people with the curators and staff that can help them. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library.

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Game Culture Museum Change 140

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

When you say you want to be relevant, that usually means "we want to matter to more people." Or different people. If you don't know many people in this community, this is a red flag moment. Don't assume that content/form that is relevant to you or your existing audiences will be relevant to people from other backgrounds.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2015

Communities are made of people, not rhetoric. You can define a community by the shared attributes of the people in it, and/or by the strength of the connections among them. It is made up of the people attached to a given location: a city, a district, a neighborhood, a country. People who go to midnight movies.

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Community Minnesota Teen Movie 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

LinkedIn has a new feature where people can congratulate each other on work anniversaries. It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. We have an incredible group of people working together at the MAH right now.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The chairs were cast-off art, reclaimed as art, available for people to take off the hooks and use. They were there for artist talks. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders.

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Process Share Philadelphia Arts 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. Yes, there was the 40-ish lawyer who effused that she'd never seen so many young people in the museum before. Performances just for teens.

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Audience Develop Museum History 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies.

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

" Taking it a little deeper, organizations should not go in the other direction - and be strategic in friending people. According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. each of various qualities. More here ). *

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Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After jumping in, you swam across the short length of the hole (about 10 yards), and emerge, wet and freezing, only to get to race through temps in the teens to try to warm up in a lukewarm hot tub. Nearly 9,500 people donated, at an average of $75 per person. A young artist program you hope to get off the ground? Denver Zoo.

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Arts Wisconsin Los Angeles Denver 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

The collection is disaggregated, grouped by floor (Painting and Sculpture 1) rather than artist, movement, time period, or geography. Most featured Name of Artist, Name of Piece, Year of Execution, Materials. How can labels help people have a deeper connection with art? Most people aren’t educated in how to look at art.

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Arts Museum Artist Audio 30

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Over 150,000 people have accessed the free online version. A black box with people crowded around, talking and sharing and making and doing. Now, I look back on the book and the biggest thing I see missing are the people inside that box. But almost ALL of those opportunities are facilitated by people.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Research libraries have been facing daunting challenges in the digital world, but not everything is digital in research and the library really wants to connect people with the curators and staff that can help them. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

It will be interesting to see if this advice holds true for the voters of the future based on Dannah Boyd's post " What i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens. "Do young people have email accounts? " These are examples of vlog or blog raising - raising money from people via your blog.

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Wiki Vlog Machinima Bookmarking 50

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

They are frequently about real people's stories. They also want to avoid stories or perspectives that reflect hateful or offensive views toward other people. Ironically, art museums often present the most radical participatory experiences for visitors--but only when led by an artist, not by internal staff members.

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Museum Difference Participatory History 29

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

MAY 5, 2009

The more you give people clear information about what is needed and positive response when they provide it, the happier and more creative everyone feels. The more you give people clear information about what is needed and positive response when they provide it, the happier and more creative everyone feels.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. I met lovely people in engineering, but I found the work to be too detail-oriented and microscopic in scope to satisfy me. I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

A group in their late teens/early 20s were wandering through the museumwide exhibition on love. At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking.

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Community Teen Build Social 42

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

Later, when were chatting with a small group of people in the lobby, we noticed a group of teens walking by looking a little sad. Virtuous Cycle of Engagement: The goal for the Met’s digital strategy is to show great content and to engage with people online, so much so that they will want to get on a plane and visit.

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Digital Learning Artist Miami 50

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. - Amy Sample Ward, amysampleward.org I invite people along for the ride. Leonie Allan, Goddess Guidebook Buy art from artists. Heather Meyer, Work It Out!

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Fun Oregon Portland Blogher 75

Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

In the past, I''ve subscribed to the theory that an organization should target many different groups and types of people to serve a constellation of specific audiences across diverse affinities, needs, and interests. Our goal in doing this work is to bring people together across difference and build a more cohesive community.

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Museum Social Arts History 55

NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

That's a mind shift even for business people addicted to their Blackberries. You need to spend a lot of time with people under 25 years old." . The point is not whether we agree with this practice of always on, constant chatter; it's whether we have noticed that this is the way future business people communicate.

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Mobile Phone PPT Green 81

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was fascinating to see people--across social differences--responding to representations of love in the paintings, images, objects and narratives that were part of the installation. We called the prototypes "activities," got lots of participants, and people loved giving their feedback and seeing the prototypes evolve over a couple months.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Many people mentioned the intelligent design/evolution debate, raising examples of angry homeschoolers and religious groups. It let her know that people were reading it and cared. Why do homeless people smell bad?” The way we think about science—and possibly the way we do it—is connected to our political leanings.

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2022

According to Erica, it makes the library truly of the people and for the people. People can walk in and ask to see (and touch!) anything they are interested in because everything in the library is for the people. Over eighty percent of the library’s funding comes from private gifts and donations. I love them.”.

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Library Public Local Reflection 105

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

It does everything a great documentary story can do: it takes you into another world, introduces you to unforgettable people, defies expectations, and delivers tough realities instead of fairy tales. I just finished listening to This American Life 's incredible two-part series about gun violence at Harper High School in Chicago.

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Museum Story Captivate Artist 53