Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

” How is this influx of new people influencing Austin’s Arts & Cultural community? It was a fabulous date night (check out said caricature), and the next day I was telling all of my friends – with and without children – that they had to visit Thinkery. Genius, Thinkery, genius!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" Children of the Lodz Ghetto ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. MySpace is primary used to participate in pop culture. Music and arts organizations, probably. Tags: MySpace Uncategorized. So, my Ode to MySpace: 1. Nonprofit movements have been born on MySpace.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2010

I can’t imagine seeing a show like this in any other cultural context. There’s no art museum where Picasso is portrayed as a boozy goofball on the make. The show was geared solely towards children. But the show would have also confirmed that the science center was for children, not for me. But the show felt like candy.

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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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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Given the difficulty in unpacking all of the socio-economic, cultural, political, educational, and other mutually-reinforcing components of digital inequality, simple metaphors can't carry the weight. Tags: digital divide Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Better, perhaps, to allow that the digital divide most closely resembles, well, the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

The top 100 included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, health care, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. . Because I know their work first-hand, they got my vote !

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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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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Participants in the Summit recognized that if we can overcome challenges of verification, duplication, language, privacy, and culture, we will be in a position to empower the public to share valuable information with all of us. Tags: american red cross Data NPTech NTEN wendy harman.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Seema) In some museum work places, the culture of stress is tied to perceived effort, as you mention. For example, when I taught studio classes, ages ago, I often did projects at home, because I wanted my children involved. Each museum staff has its own culture born of the particular challenges of their own work.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

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. More so than teens in the past, teens today have grown up in a culture of fear around engagement with strangers. Tags: youth Talking to Strangers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” Crowdsourcing killed punk rock…Crowdsourcing kills art…It’s bullshit. On poster children & social investment. “I Tags: guest blogging. Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people. Generic license ). starts around 7:01).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? The art of advising communities of practice. re online, you blog and you have young children. I found a new balance since the children go to school and want to play with friends rather than with me. I'm too shy to do an online poll.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Both of these designers presented compelling images and evidence from exhibit work and child development experts about the idea that you can make sophisticated, muted exhibits that help children slow down, focus, and enjoy themselves with interactive content.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

For example, Gary Vikan at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is starting the Center for Applied Research in the Arts to explore new ways to fulfill the museum’s mission, drawing from fields of study not usually associated with research in art museums, such as anthropology and neuroscience, and theoretical work on cognitive behavior and creativity.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

The five types Elaine defines are: object-centered (focus on STUFF) narrative (focus on STORY) client-centered (focus on AUDIENCE, children's and science museums fall here) community (focus on SELF-EXPRESSION, community and cultural centers fall here) national (government-sponsored) Each of these types has its strengths and challenges.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

By the standard set by a culture that judges MySpace as dangerous, perhaps these in-person interactions are even MORE dangerous. I can just imagine the headline: CHILD MOLESTERS CALL ON ART, VICTIMS. Children's museums are the exception; staff are on the watch for unaccompanied adults and kids alike.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

I’ve never seen this approach, but I can imagine some museums going for it, especially those in which children make up a sizeable chunk of the visitorship. On the other hand, it’s clunky, promotes a culture of fear, and may turn a lot of people away from individual activities unnecessarily. Tags: usercontent.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

This week's Ask Britt question, sent in by a reader, is, "How can I combine the creative arts with social impact? The arts are a wonderful way to make a difference in the world because they are fun, engaging, and oftentimes help you to tell stories, all key elements to attracting and keeping people involved in a cause. Great question!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

As a result, I had several "ah ha" moments and found a couple of connections for thinking about social media strategy - especially how we address culture change, social media measurement, ROI and the whole larger question of social media for social good. Most noticeably in the rise of cross-cultural, international evaluation program work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Some of the passions written were arts, education, animals, domestic violence, dance, family, health and wellness, abused children, boy scouts, environment and many others. He also tags us, likes our posts, comments, shares and posts on our Facebook and Twitter accounts. Jeff Jonasen likes every single post we put on Facebook.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2010

This is true for all types of cultural institutions, from historic houses to zoos to art museums. While some places tend to attract families with children, others draw adults in couples or groups. Tags: mobile. But the vast majority of these companies and tinkerers make the same mistake: they focus on individual users.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

It's only been open for a few weeks, and they already have lots of visitors sharing stories, making and sharing art, and adding their voice to the exhibitions. A few highlights: Cecelia Garibay talked about audience development at the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum. Tags: professional development.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2009

Recently, I've become obsessed with the work of Tim Hunkin , an eccentric British inventor/exhibit designer/wacky science art guy who runs a "mad arcade" of coin-operated installations in Suffolk. changes the perception of who "owns" art. Why not spend that extra dollar to have a bit of science or art instead of a gumball?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2007

While sub-zero degree collection storage may thrill some of you, I was most interested by Witchey's recap of Elizabeth Broun's (from SAAM) keynote address on "American Art 2.0." I wouldn't feel comfortable visiting just one exhibit at an art museum if I didn't think it would be easy for me to go back to that museum again. I like this.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

It's interesting that science museums have started to gravitate towards "center" to convey interactivity, and yet childrens' museums are rarely called centers and don't seem to suffer under the Museum label (though drunken variations of the Funatarium abound). Tags: informatics marketing. I have a personal aversion to the word Center.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

There was a self-aggregating group who toured an art exhibition. And my favorite, from a designer who was initiated into a secret world of graffiti-ed walls behind elevator doors in his art college in an entirely silent exchange. Tags: participatory museum. There were two fights, both involving parking spaces.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

dedicated to making children and families a priority in federal policy. contributing to the 'Death of American Culture' here, but don't rely. composed of audio clips, video, slideshows, infographics, graphic art, etc." We also reinforce the conference tag. We also reinforce the conference tag.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I didn't grow up staring open-mouthed at natural history dioramas or wandering through art galleries. The contemporary culture of user-generated content is bringing self-directed learning to the forefront, but that doesn't mean there's money or traditional rewards to be found there. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 I go on hikes.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

The ideal of third places, that attracts we cultural heritage types, is a democratic space where civic life is built collaboratively and at a personal level. It was a collaborative library/design/art/community-building project. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place guestpost. That’s our main difference with Oldenburg.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. Now, type in the chat if you know this reference, if you know this pop culture reference. There are people doing art. Same with Instagram Stories, just to kind of learn the culture and learn what works and see what you like and what you don’t.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2007

The preliminary bouts on cultural interpretation are over, and the crowds are roaring for blood. My background is in science and children's museums, where it's relatively easy to keep visitors in the foreground. Serving critics may mean pursuing exhibits that are inaccessible to non-art people, thus limiting your potential audience.

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