Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Once they publish this information, changes can’t be made to pricing models. Chicago History Museum has more school visitors between April 1 and June 15 than any other time of the year and they are operating at full capacity for the school audience at that time of year. Membership Arts & Cultural fundraising ideas'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Today, he has launched a platform to help raise money for nonprofits that are doing highly effective work, but may not be as well known to a larger audience. We’re seeing that business models and philanthropic models are not mutually exclusive. Social good has to be part of the business model.” The idea is simple.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" And the next time someone questions the benefits of letting audiences actively participate, send them to Santa Cruz.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

One of the themes I’m going to discuss is the Art and Science of Engagement. The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. I wanted to get a better understanding of context for this audience and the approaches they were already using.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

The same constructs which were discussed around combating issue fatigue can be used in creating a cultural movement around an issue. There are a few foundational questions to be asked before building a cultural movement through the use of media and storytelling. Here are the three most basic: 1) Who's the audience ?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

When we say we want our museum to be "audience-centered," what do we mean? However, I have enormous respect for the customer-centered model when it is executed in ways that truly invite visitors in on their own terms and deliver satisfying experiences. They catered to different audiences. All were given value.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The nonprofit business model is increasingly vulnerable to the volatility of the nonprofit marketplace and broad social, political, economic, and technological trends. Notwithstanding countless initiatives and grants to address this dilemma, the business model problem remains.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2005

the blog of Barry Hessenius, executive director of Alonzo King Lines Ballet in San Francisco, and former executive director of the California Arts Council takes an interesting twist on a group blog. The press release says: Modeled on PBS???s And, judging by the lack of posted comments, there was a lot of audience participation.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. The MAH fundamentally has two jobs: we bring art and history out into our community, and we invite our community in. We want to break out.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

Now, a year later, I've seen the beginnings of how that question has borne out at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) , as well as hearing from folks around the museum industry about the interplay of exhibitions and events at their own institutions. These events don't just increase audience.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. Her goal is nothing less than to remake the MAH as the primary cultural touchstone of the Santa Cruz community, the place that best embodies the unique cultural vibe of Santa Cruz. What do we have to do differently?"

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. We created a teen arts council, invested in staff, and invested in programming.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

Given TCG''s multi-year Audience (R)evolution initiative, I took the opportunity to write a new talk about what revolution has looked like at our small museum in Santa Cruz. Over the past two years, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has undergone a significant transformation of program, audience, and resources.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Traditionally, museums and cultural organizations offer programs. Even a smash hit program is hard to scale up in this model. At the MAH, we've tried wherever possible to break out of unidirectional program models. This is the participatory platform model. In a platform model, more is not more staff time and cost.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Both large and small nonprofits earned top honors this week for their attention-getting taglines, demonstrating again that an organization of any size can craft a powerful, pithy motto to build awareness and connect with its key audiences. Arts & Culture: Big Sky. A model for any organization promoting philanthropy.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2018

It seems pushy, or gauche, to insist that passersby check out the art center or adopt environmental habits. Church plants are part of a healthy ecosystem for innovation and diversity--the kind of ecosystem I wish we had in the cultural sector. Some nonprofit leaders are put off by evangelism. Instead of evangelizing, we hedge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The mission is to promote participation and practice in dance, movement, and performing arts traditions from around the world while using the arts as a key tool to revitalize community. They used social media to win “ Deals for Deeds ” contest. and one of the most highly anticipated cultural events in the nation.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

As we head into the final months of 2020, some parts of the country are opening up more than others, consumers are itching to get out of their homes, and arts and culture organizations are at a pivotal moment in planning for their comeback. The first is to expect smaller in person audiences.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Do you consider yourself an "activist" for your organization, avocation, or art form? Sure, I admire cultural organizations that have a strong mission to change education or diversify access or transform the role of art in everyday life, but I'm an insider. Why AREN'T we asking visitors to join the fight for arts education?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

Policy makers, another target audience, were also using Twitter as a communications channel. ” Leadership modeling is important. When they launched their staff as champion strategy, they had to make the case that it was worth the investment of their time. Kenneth Roth , Executive Director.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

I'm trying to reposition our museum as a cultural hub supporting creative and intellectual community growth. But how many institutions are really aggressively transforming their work away from service to a narrow band of audiences to community-wide advocacy work? Does this sound like director-ish bloviating to you, or is it useful?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

The Art Institute of Chicago was a pioneer in this regard: In 2015 and 2016, the Institute employed a sophisticated attendance model to test the effect of smaller exhibits on attendance. In fact, the hope at the Art Institute of Chicago is that these rotating exhibits will increase the annual renewal rate amongst its 100,000 members.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We have new support from foundations and individuals who care about innovation in audience engagement—and even more importantly, participants who are excited to experiment with us. The possible determinism of cultural geography.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

I've led many meetings and workshops on building relationships with audience members in which development officers are the least comfortable with fostering open, two-way engagement with participants. It tends to be easy to communicate openly and express appreciation abundantly when you are co-creating an exhibition or a community art project.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Our curator writes labels about licking the art. 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. Merilee Mostov and the Columbus Museum of Art. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise. I host dating games. time to step it up.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Imagine if a theater or jazz club was only open during the day, and what conclusions one might draw about audience type and preferences based on that decision. Who would be "core" audiences if our institutions were open from 3-9pm instead of closing at 5? Evening events provide rare opportunities to experience the museum after work.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In our quest to make the public areas of the museum more reflective of Santa Cruz culture, we moved these boards from a comprehensive display in the history gallery into a main stairwell, prominently visible from the lobby and throughout the building. The fundamental question here is how we balance different modes of audience engagement.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

The curatorial team or a multidisciplinary team who have the audience in mind when decisions are made about the best way to connect visitors to the collection?" Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. My answer: neither.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Getting Started with This Google Grants Agency Getting Attention offers a transparent pricing model. By testing different versions of your ads, they’ll discover exactly what inspires your audience to take action. Each ad will be targeted to capture your audience’s attention. A/B testing. Ad development.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. There are thriving groups of Flickr users who share photos of themselves imitating art.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. So strategy really focuses on organizational direction, establishing values, mission, ensuring the organization embodies its cultural ethos.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions. Why should cultural and arts organizations care about Kickstarter?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 3, 2013

She shared that while she knows it’s best to segment and target audiences this takes time. What gets in our way of being great… our culture and the pressure to meet our budgets. Is our business model getting in our way of being great? Results can take time. Now, we just uncovered the root cause. Do you agree?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2009

In 2006, John Falk and Beverly Sheppard, seasoned museum researchers and practitioners, released a co-authored book entitled Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. Beverly: I know in a consulting role, everyone says that their audience is “everyone.” They provide services.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. In the collaborative model, visitors are invited to serve as active partners in the creation of an institutional project which is originated and ultimately controlled by the institution.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2020

Offering these options immediately created a huge virtual audience off the bat for the Zoo, which typically welcomes 1.8 As many of the zoo staff members are working remotely, they have stayed connected through virtual meetings, phone calls, and texting to allow them to execute on this new engagement model. million guests per year.

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