Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

We wanted to round up all your posts and resources in one place, so you can continue to collaborate and learn from each other. Reflections from 12NTC Panel on Data Visualization , Beth Kanter. Reflections from NTC Plenary Panel on Innovation , Beth Kanter. Greenpeace Experiments With Technology Team Structure , Derek Lieu.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. After a broad survey, Rick’s team defined three broad categories of public participation in scientific research: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

This past July, artist Guillermo Gómez proposed to restore a piece of art. In 2003, collaborator Stephanie Sherman and I “re-discovered,” the former store, declared nothing for sale, and began inviting artists to create works using the set, or collection of objects. Restoration is a formal gesture for most museums.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development. There are many amazing community representatives from business, arts, education, and social services who connect us to powerful ideas and partners. We made people write things down constantly.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. Our work would become more relevant, our collaborations more timely, our network more diverse. Youth Advisory vs.) as opposed to an intercultural approach. I struggle with both these options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. What: The art of social instructional design. The community is hosted by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer of SocialFish in collaboration with Omnipress.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2019

If this has you reflecting on your experience, remember that there are tangible tips you can use to connect your organization. By centering your work around constituents, you not only enable the type of supporter-driven frameworks required by today’s standards, but also structure yourself for success.

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Experiment Organization eBook Blackbaud 28

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. They talked about community building.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. To volunteer in helping to transcribe the remaining documents, please visit the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

And their unique structure and bottom-up approach offers some instructive lessons for museums that want to really embrace visitors and members as co-creators of the institutional experience. In some cases, such as AS220 labs , they are part of larger community art spaces. This isn't just a geek thing. They're organized around members.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As we embark on the fundraising journey in 2024, the significance of a well-structured nonprofit annual development plan cannot be overstated. As you delve into the spreadsheet, reflect on the effectiveness of your 2023 fundraising approaches, acknowledging any wins, losses, or areas for improvement. (If

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) Participants will network and learn about other areas of practice, discuss a range of opportunities and challenges faced by different sectors, and work collaboratively to improve impact measurement. Oct 9 - 14.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. It's common in many museums to offer cart-based activities that invite visitors (mostly families) to play a game, try an experiment, or make art.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

When you want visitors to spend a long time reflecting and sharing their thoughts, you need to design spaces for response that are comfortable and minimize distractions. This technique was used in the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and continues in the popular StoryCorps project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

The NTEN project WeAreMedia project is an excellent personal learning laboratory for reflection and insights about this topic. " Dave Cormier signed up to be a critical friend soon after the project launched and posted a reflection here. Not sure where to jump in because of the way information is structured.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

The Detroit Institute of Arts has been a precious anchor where many of us have created memories that helped define who we are today. We are being hurt by leadership that has fostered a totalitarian, oligarchic system, which is currently extinguishing our best efforts to be reflective and meaningful in what we do. And it shows.

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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 first is how we can reflect on the importance of diversity to our board’s work, specifically fundraising. So it’s both a science and an art. Steven: I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

She talked about the importance of online collaboration and project management tools as a way to support those self-organized actions. (My They think about the network structure, evaluation, communication, training, opportunities, and reflection. June also described some of the tasks that network weaving may include.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2017

Plan for the meeting to last around 30 minutes and include a review of the organization’s history, mission, and board structure/requirements on the agenda. Committing to this type of recruitment process will ensure a successful collaboration between new members, existing members, and staff. Onboarding New Board Members.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. Facilitation: Not Merely an Art Facilitators know how to support a group to come up with shared agreements for engaging, and how to help them stay true to those agreements. Most groups of people do not self-manage well.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

At the Lab, your profile is a simple cache of personal data you can draw on as collaborator, co-creating the exhibit content. But what's the right visitor profile for a history museum or an art museum? They constitute a kind of mini-profile, frequently updated, which reflects the author's self-expression over time.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And there’s been also a lot of questions about that and applications about racial equity, and then the makeup of your staff and reflective of the people that you serve. If you are able to collaborate, if you have good relationships with different partners, I think that that’s wonderful. I’ve seen that quite a bit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I created this screencast back in September/October of last year, so this release has provided a great opportunity to meta reflect on the whole screencast creation process as well as consider how my views about the use of tagging have evolved. Dutch Nonprofits Collaborate With Del.icio.us. Tagging in Art Museums. The Tips.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

Yes, an individual can bring clarity of vision to any project that might otherwise be sullied by the ups and downs of collaboration and compromise. When everyone in an organization is led by the same story, the organization's content output reflects that story and a mythic central storyteller.

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