Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it. Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

No matter where I’m speaking or teaching workshops, the same questions come up … How much time does it take to do social media effectively? Three Models. Who in our organization is going to do the work? How are ever going to find the time to do social media? Social media does take time even if you are efficient.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

In the fall of 2013, they launched Re:Make , an ambitious project to redevelop the museum, live, on the floor, with a mix of staff, guest artists, and community members. They host public co-making events, invite groups to book workshops directly, engage on twitter and tumblr , and encourage drop-in participation. It''s like a swap.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Six Sudsy Soapmaker Blogs And 2 interviews on The Extraordinaries blog: Chat with an Extraordinary: Lauren Bacon of Raised Eyebrow Web Studio Chat with an Extraordinary: Jimmy Santosa of Applied Materials And 6 news posts on the WE Volunteer blog: Love Making Videos? Become a YouTube Video Volunteer Is Volunteering Good for Your Health?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

If not, we’ll roll the video. The museum curator does research, is an expert in the artistic style, selects the best examples, puts them together in an exhibit, provides important context with the annotation on the labels, and so on. Not too long ago content curators used to be called journalists! What is Content Curation?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. Why did you choose this format instead of video? We had planned on having it be video. The proposal to Metlife was all video. We rigged up a video recording booth in Fashionbuddha’s studios.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

With a virtual format, you have the advantage of offering more variety since you can easily change the video source and even use pre-recorded video content. You consider marketing a crafts night as either a workshop or more of a social gathering, or even offer them both. 7) Shopping. 9) Movie screenings. 10) Hybrid concerts.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Last week, I became completely intoxicated with the online videos of Vi Hart , self-described mathemusician. Her nerdy, entertaining videos about math evoke the power of free choice learning while poking gentle fun at the drudgery of how math is often taught in school. How to solve a quadratic equation. How to titrate an acid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

After the workshop was over, my hosts took on a tour of Free Geek, a truly unique nonprofit organization in Portland. I suggest you take a few minutes and watch this video about their work on YouTube. Skeleton Dance by jpmercury. Creative Commons Licensed Music from CCmixter. There was warmth, kindness, and acceptance.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And all kinds of information on our website, you can watch videos, get a really good sense of what we have to offer. You know, are you doing videos? “Well, thanks to this $20,000, there are 12 local artists who have a place to hang their artwork.” That was normally what, a six or three-hour workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I spoke about social media and future leadership in the arts - and also did a workshop. The plenary and workshop took place in the black box theatre with a huge projection screen. He used to watch the Mark Morris and Yo Yo Ma Failing Down Stairs dance video. It's gathering of arts leader from throughout New York State.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

" In the thread, one person pointed to Verdi's Video Workshop where people are giving reflective criticism on the vlog genre. Poking around, I stumbled across the fairly new Community Arts Network blog , the authors are Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland, artists and Internet pioneers from the old Arts Wire days.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Why did you choose this format instead of video? We had planned on having it be video. The proposal to Metlife was all video. So what did you do next?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. Some of these people are professional artists or exhibit designers, but most are just talented folks with an interest in museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. Social Media Game In 2007, David Wilcox and I presented a workshop at LASA using this game he created. We used it for the WeAreMedia workshop and one of the participants, Aids.Gov, remixed a version to train their staff.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

DIY Craft Workshops Offer virtual craft workshops with participants paying a fee to attend and learn a new skill. Tap your network to see what kinds of artists and craftspeople are out there and are available to teach. You can also offer this as a standing class instead of a one-time workshop.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2006

She has also taught automotive technology, and sustainable building and agriculture and has traveled to agricultural conferences and led workshops on cob/bale building. One of the projects she helped create was an investigation of the impact of images of women in popular music videos on young women and young men.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

At the time, I was a program director for an arts education program and a facilitator of career counseling workshops for artists. Although the video presentation and following discussion about the Books Not Bars program by EBC staff members was extremely disturbing, it was Jones’ closing remarks that resonated with me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire. This word cloud is from a virtual workshop I facilitated asking participants what the barriers to effective virtual meetings are: technology, engagement, connectivity, and participation. Find a quiet space to participate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. Arts Wire, a project of NYFA, was originally intended to be a place for artists from all over the country to meet, exchange ideas, and talk about their work via the Internet.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. Geography is fluid, though. Connections between the publications are more important than strict regional boundaries.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

If I ran a poetry or drawing workshop, we wouldn't critique participants' ideas for poems or drawings. But we quickly found that the website was a support platform for the exhibit workshop in Second Life, not an equal partner. One of the exhibits features video of original paintings being created.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I designed electricity workshops for families. I learned about game design, theme park design, video production, script-writing, show programming, and air compressors, working with cranks and fire marshals and brilliant folks of all kinds.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

With many people social distancing, there are lots of opportunities for online video engagement. Here’s an example of a Facebook Live video from Skid Row Housing Trust: One of these initial webinars may be about how your organization is operating in the wake of COVID19, with further information about how your donors can stay engaged.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

This type of event is less collaborative than a video conferencing app like Zoom. For convenience, you can use Facebook or Instagram live as well, although the quality of both video and audio might be limited. On a live stream, your audience can interact publicly via a sidebar chat, but the main focus remains on the performance itself.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This type of event is less collaborative than a video conferencing app like Zoom. For convenience, you can use Facebook or Instagram live as well, although the quality of both video and audio might be limited. On a livestream your audience can interact publicly via a sidebar chat, but the main focus remains on the performance itself.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Then, once the funds are raised, they’ll livestream or post a video of their experience online as proof. Make sure that your peer-to-peer participants complete the challenge, post a video online, use the necessary hashtags, and link their fundraising pages. This will encourage others to also do the challenge and give!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

I just spent two days in Miami at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar where I co-facilitator a pre-conference workshop on leading on social channels with Amy Gahran and Stephanie Rudat. Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art. Everything we do is in service of the art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The opera staff collected the suggestions and summarized them on their blog. Opera is not the only art form, there’s been crowdsourced choreography – Dance Theatre Workshop. Each week they asked their Twitter followers to contribute a movement and then the company performed them and posted a video on YouTube.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

with geeks, artists, and civil society activists. Open Data in Aid Transparency — The organizers for this workshop, which will be held in Berlin on September 28 and 29, 2011, are OpenAid , Open Knowledge Foundation Germany , the Open Data Network , and the Böll Foundation. demonstration of just how useful it can be. (I

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