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. Here are 3 arts and cultural organizations that have given crowd fundraising a go for compelling causes: National Air & Space Museum.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2016

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance in advance of its release. The Art of Relevance has a central metaphor that relevance is a key that unlocks the door to meaningful experiences (which live in a room). To get into this chapter, imagine that your institution/program/art is a room.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

During the ensuing discussion, one woman asked, "Which audiences are least interested in social participation in museums?" I immediately flashed to my work with art museums and staff members' concerns that older, traditional audiences will shy away from social engagement in the galleries. They like to do and touch and make.

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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. This Walker Blog let's us peer into the inner workings of the art institution. audiences via the internet. I saw your posts on Art Mobs.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

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. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

But that doesn''t mean we know what visitors/audiences/humans need. In my experience, the "needs" of audiences often look suspiciously like the "wants" of the people speaking. I don''t hear this phrase accompanied by evidence-based articulation of "needs" of audiences. Some organizations need to focus on 3rd graders. visitors'

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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. What kind of an art institution is this? It encourages process-driven performances and art projects. It takes the kind of risks that a university art gallery should take. They were there for artist talks.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

It’s not just major brands that have to cater to modern consumers – museums and nonprofits also need to anticipate the needs of an increasingly mobile-oriented audience. Read more about retaining members: 7 Ways for Arts & Cultural Organizations to Retain Members. Increasingly Eco-Conscious Audiences.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. I''ve struggled with some of the "celebrity" aspects of having a big audience. I''ve never taken a break from blogging before.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. The group was mostly young (teens to thirties) and nerd-diverse: a little bit punk, a little bit hacker, a little bit craft grrl. Or that visitors form a spontaneous "laugh circle" on the floor. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

So I felt lucky last week to learn not only about an innovative arts exhibition employing geocaching, but to discover that its exhibit developer, Seth! Sounds like there might be some overlap with your museum audience? explains: The city of Bellevue, Washington holds a public art sculpture exhibition every couple of years.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This post is even more relevant today to the broader conversation about audience diversity in the arts than when it was published three years ago. Let''s say you work at an organization that mostly caters to a middle and upper-class, white audience. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. Make sure the game is targeted to the right audiences. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

For those who haven't attended, the Museums and the Web conference brings an international audience from art, history, cultural, and science museums together to talk about new ways to engage with their audiences via the web. The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. I learned to appreciate the audience reach of a big institution while vastly preferring the diversity of work and lack of bureaucracy of a small one.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. But these events have benefits both in terms of audience development and word-of-mouth marketing.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Maybe they love the food bank but don’t care about the arts. Identify a business that shares your audience, and think about ways to support each other. For a self-esteem program for teen girls : Showing every teen girl how awesome she is. For a self-esteem program for teen girls: Your gift of $18.25

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

There is the Art Gallery of Ontario's portrait exhibition In Your Face , for which the museum solicited and displayed thousands of visitor-created self-portraits. If only 1% of our audience wants to participate as creators (a generous estimate by Web 2.0 Let's examine each of these questions, and the related projects, more closely.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. It was great to see grandparents, parents, young adults, and teens all working together to support orphaned children.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. It was great to see grandparents, parents, young adults, and teens all working together to support orphaned children.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

This seems a little ungenerous to museums; while institutions may bestow more love upon wealthy, elderly donors than the general visiting public, museums have actively courted mass audiences for years. We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Imagine this situation: You go to an arts event, one of a type you rarely or never take part in. There's been a lot of innovation in arts programming in the last few years. Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

Elaine starts by detailing a series of fears and the potential audiences who reject museums because of them. Later, Elaine comments: Now, after researching the topic, I am less certain that broadening the audience for museums is achievable in general. We all have problems getting in the door—they’re just different doors.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

We started with a brief presentation of the basics of each project, and then spent about an hour responding to questions from the audience, using illustrative images and documents to support the discussion. conference audiences are ready to work (and play). At professional conferences, we tend to spend most of our time analyzing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

And they tend to be talking about preservation first, audience second, or now, equal roles. I’m thinking of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which is trying to be a museum for people, but is also a national and collection-based place. Some art people would say it’s not a museum since it’s not real stuff.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

If you feel that your audience needs monitoring or social support, position the talkback stations in open settings. There was a wonderful example at the Ontario Science Center in their Hot Zone area, which features several voting and commenting kiosks popular with teens.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

In terms of consulting I this myspace is the solution for teen or preteen work-forces to get a jump start in the financial world. 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? We all know how bad the economy is and this can solve a few problems but lets not forget that with every good thing comes 2 bad thing.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

We''re more successful when we target particular communities or audiences and design experiences for them. 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.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

In terms of consulting I this myspace is the solution for teen or preteen work-forces to get a jump start in the financial world. 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? We all know how bad the economy is and this can solve a few problems but lets not forget that with every good thing comes 2 bad thing.

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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. Everything Is In Service of the Art: The met has over 70 staff members on its digital team. Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art. They go where the audience is.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Find out how you can leverage one of the fastest growing social media platforms to reach a huge new audience. Instagram is a unique visual content sharing social media platform with a fast-growing audience. Who is Instagram’s audience? As is widely known, Instagram’s audience is a younger demographic.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The audience is bursting with other investors capable of bringing significant additional resources to fuel your expansion. Eight Valley social entrepreneurs will present their "pitch" live to a panel of experts and the audience at ASU SkySong. Center Teen Addiction Anonymous Unlimited Potential I hope to see you at the presentation!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

As part of the session, Tom led live drawing ( click for high-res image ), and we invited the audience to add their own “can’t dos” to a large map of things that are “safe,” “iffy,” and “no way”--more on that later. This is not to say that science centers are more censored than art or history museums—every kind of museum has its own hang-ups.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Others create traveling exhibits that send their content to other institutions and audiences. You should be able to articulate your goal, whether it is reaching a particular niche audience or a designated level of participation. Others conduct distance learning programs across the nation.

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