Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The Tools Artists Need Geeks To Create Join us to discuss the digital tools being used and abused by theatre makers, dancers, musicians, crafters, wordsmiths, cinematographers, photographers, painters, and other multimedia artists. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork? What’s new? What works?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

In line with the design, drawing, and multimedia editing tools that form the backbone of Adobe, they invest in organizations that are addressing arts and creativity, education, and youth service issues. Youth Voices: Creating with Purpose. Youth Voices: Creating with Purpose. Grant Programs from the Adobe Foundation.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Plus, we wanted to share all the winners in one video, created with Adobe Voice, a free tool from Adobe. Yerba Buena also shared how TechSoup helps them out: "With TechSoup's offerings, we are able to have the best tools in business for our office. Check out their submissions below. Gold Prize Winner.

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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). One of the things I always focus on in participatory exhibit design is ensuring that everyone has the same tools to work with.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 30, 2023

Join us on a transformative journey as we explore the captivating history of Pride Month, uncover creative ways to extend our support far beyond June, and discover invaluable fundraising tools that will elevate our events to the next level. Fundraising is a powerful tool that can amplify our impact.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2010

I wanted someone to draw some artistic conclusions about what, exactly, our adherence to Facebook says about us. Because of that, technology tools -- social media and otherwise -- are getting cheaper, easier and smarter. . and new things to learn and assimilate (Google Voice, Tungle, a new app every second, iPad, the new Twitter, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Co-created programming that represents the complex range of voices in communities, offers platforms for communication, collaboration and shared experiences that can enrich preexisting relationships while also offer a space for new relationships to form and strengthen. Artists from different worlds, brought together through Street Art Night.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Like most things in the social web, though, there are tools and resources that can make creating a podcast accessible to almost any organization. Podcasting is a storytelling medium; use it as the voice for your organization’s most compelling stories. Tools and Resources. The What and Why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. I'll boil it down to " Causes is A Friending Tool, Not A Fundraising Tool." They were created as a marketing/ awareness building tool so that people can say "yes, this is an organization I believe in and I'm proud to tell my friends and colleagues that I care about this cause.".

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As we look to hire BIPOC designers and amplify their voices, we also have to examine our industry definition of what “good” design is and start building a completely new system—by everyone, for everyone. . We ask BIPOC people to fit into our WHITE system, and then we act surprised when they don’t feel included or welcomed. .

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2007

I try not to focus too heavily on web tools on this blog, but this application is too lovely to pass up. Tags: storytelling Technology Tools Worth Checking Out web2.0 It's called VoiceThread , and it's a program that allows you to create an elegant slideshow of images with audio (and text, and scribbles) to go along.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2007

This one-week test will hopefully be followed by many more progressively ambitious projects to develop new tools for museums, scientists, artists, experience designers, visitors, and all kinds of folks to work together to create high-quality exhi bitions. is launching an experiment in collaborative exhibition design.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Sometimes the difference comes down to preferred tools. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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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 long did it take this artist to make this piece? Did the artist like it? Did the artist like it?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Sometimes the difference comes down to preferred tools. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

A site also should have a voice and a tone that’s representative of the mission. I also think you should steal like an artist. 8 Tools to Help Manage Your Nonprofit Website . As they decide to get more involved, give a donation, or sign-up for a newsletter, the options to do so are there for them. Allison Hossack.

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M+R

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In recent years, we have seen artists like Beyoncé and U2 experiment with new ways to launch music. The M+R media relations team has had success evaluating the tools and methods of communication our clients are already using, and Tayloring tailoring them for new approaches and press engagement.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

As Peter wrote: If someone enjoys Arts Event A because it’s social, informal, energetic, fun, and hip, why should we expect her to also enjoy Arts Event B if B is individual, formal, quiet, serious, and traditional (at least in its presentation, if not artistically)? Dias de las Muertos or Chinese New Year to attract new audiences.

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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. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2010

As Kathy McLean noted in Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , while staff were afraid that typing on the typewriter would be too hard for some young children, "kids lined up to carefully and slowly type their letters." Kids could type letters on a Remington typewriter and put them in a mailbox marked "To Snoopy." Some wrote poems.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

In addition, notes & tasks sync to the CompanionLink app rather than the built-in Palm tools. I've read that there are 3rd party tools that will sync music with the Palm, but I haven't had time to experiment. You can select albums, artists, genres, songs, or playlists -- so far so good. Miscellaneous. " Huh?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Had we held onto an authority voice rather than presenting ourselves as individuals engaged in the project, people would not have been willing to weather the storms with us. The same thing applies to exhibits, but Second Life is a tool that facilitates making the exhibit in a more accessible way than full-scale fabrication.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

It’s recommended to invest in an auction platform and a versatile bidding tool. If you do want to include virtual elements in your auction event, consider investing in a live streaming tool and posting all of your items online so that people can view them no matter where they are. Ice cream social – Everyone loves ice cream!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Each week, I’ve been ceding the blog to others as a chance to hear many voices share their thoughts about our field, where we are, and where we are going. This field is varied, and each voice adds to our collective understanding of the situation. For this week, I’m re-posting Andrea Montiel de Shuman’s Medium post with permission.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Our web site serves as an international resource for anyone interested in the healing potential of art, especially environmentalists, social activists, artists, art professionals, health care practitioners, and those challenged by illness. We use song as a tool for organizing in communities around the country."

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Maybe it’s possible to take this further by using tools like Photosynth to crowdsource forgotten images from people’s photo albums or maybe even add historic archival images, so that when you are viewing a certain place through the streetview tool, you can actually go back in time and take a historical journey through a neighborhood.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Curate content from underrepresented voices Do you work in a field that works for the rights of a marginalized or underrepresented community? Amplify their voices on your platform. Borrow like an artist Steal content from your other platforms and see what similar organizations are doing to engage their audience.

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Everyaction

JUNE 26, 2018

This month, our EveryAction hero is Jewish Voice for Peace. How did Jewish Voice for Peace get started? Jewish Voice for Peace has been around for 20 years, We’re a national organization with over 70 chapters and 15,000 members across the country. We also have an artists council, an academic council, and a student program.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The concept is practical: cut the time and expense of exhibit development by creating a social space where exhibit developers from many museums—along with scientists, artists, visitors—can collaborate to design concepts for exhibits. What are the questions in your mind about team exhibit design?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2006

And hopefully, at the end of the day, we’re helping them realize their ability to positively impact the world around them – that it doesn’t take much, that you don’t have to call yourself an activist or whatever, but that you do have a stake in this world, your voice is powerful and can be easily used.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

We had eight women from different parts of the world who also participated in this training to augment the training, skills, and tools that were offered with their outside knowledge and expertise. MK: One of the highlights for me was the Global Peers program. From that point, my path shifted. This really is a rich network of people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

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. Favianna Rodriguez Activist printmaker and digital artist.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 12, 2007

UNESCO in the Spotlight Shalini Kantayya is a filmmaker, educator, and activist who uses film/video as a tool to educate, inspire, and empower audiences. So I seek to put my voice as a filmmaker, and the sharpness of the tools of major motion picture filmmaking, behind this thing that I care so deeply about. It's not easy.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

We are putting some ideas and tools out there to catalyze that creativity. We are working with the Media and Democracy Coalition and other policy wonk allies to call on everyone to voice their boldest ideas for closing the digital divide.

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VisionLink

OCTOBER 5, 2011

He was the master of building tools for our daily lives that were both consequential and a joy to use. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can''t capture, and I found it fascinating. Don''t let the noise of others'' opinions drown out your own inner voice. Nothing lengthy; just "no."

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

During our conversation, Seane talked about what inspired the creation of Off the Mat, Into the World, her trip to Cambodia, the connection between your inner work and your outer work, and the tools Off the Mat, Into the World uses to help people determine how they are being called to be of service. It really didn't matter to us.

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