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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Reflection Community Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Whoever your community is, they decide. Can you define the community to whom you want to be relevant? The community decides what is relevant to them. Who interprets the interests of the community and decides on the relevant themes and activities for the year? Then, we define the needs and assets of that community.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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San Francisco Las Vegas Project Tech 36

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

Youth Leadership Development. We're all drawn to this work because we care about our communities and our country. Analisa Xavier implemented Native American Connections ' first ever teen after-school programs. Michael Soto traveled to every corner of Arizona to facilitate a comprehensive arts education program he designed.

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Reflection Service Arizona Student 82

Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Community science workshops. Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. Want some waffles with your art?

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Culture Alternative St. Louis Los Angeles 49

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Hundreds of unique, hand-made art postcards, containing words of compassion and solidarity are hand delivered to individuals and communities all over the world, bringing connection, hope, visibility and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence or repression. Each card is a piece of art in my mind.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

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. Temple Contemporary is truly community-led.

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Process Share Philadelphia Arts 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

We’ve pledged to award more than $20 million to support innovative ideas that move communities forward. million to the winning ideas across six categories, including: Health, Arts & Culture, Food & Shelter, The Planet, Neighborhoods and Education. Anyone can apply for a grant and the public decides who wins.

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Project Contest Award Grant 104

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Involvement from the curators and staff to develop 100 quests that the public could participate in on the night of the 20th.

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Game Culture Museum Change 140

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 crave community, but I am not naturally outgoing in large group settings like conferences. To me, Museum 2.0

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Museum Participatory Reflection Conference 35

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

Last month, the Christian Science Monitor published an article entitled, "Museums' new mantra: Connect with community." It took me a couple weeks (and various museum blog responses ) to realize what bugs me about this article--it treats "connecting with community" as a marketing ploy, a "mantra" rather than a mission. Which community?

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Community Museum San Diego San Francisco 22

Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2015

How can you tell if you want to go to "Museums and Communities" or "Museums and Social Issues" or "Museums and Very Cute Lizards"? If you want to hear more about my work at AAM, I''ll be speaking: Monday April 27 at 2:30pm in a solo talk on "Building Stronger Communities" at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.

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Museum Mentoring Linkedin Hints 20

Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Assistant director John Klima explained: "We get a ton of usage on our public PCs, and the RCI program is going to help us continue to provide this valuable service to our community." Veterans Organic Garden is a visionary job training and rehabilitation program for disabled veterans developed by Lovay Wallace-Singleton.

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Share Organization Cisco Tech 36

NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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Game Change Classroom Machinima 81

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

She grew her program so it now serves 700 people of varying abilities and allows them to express themselves through the art. The "extraordinary" thing Terri has done to change the world is the successful implementation of a mentoring program called Stand and Deliver for teens in the challenged community of Lawrence, MA.

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Difference Free San Diego Mentoring 40

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. meetup for Elite Yelp! Other person: Nope.

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Museum Hosting Model Community 22

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?" I was surprised by her question. In Your Face ).

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Museum Difference Participatory History 29

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities.

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Participatory Museum History International 44

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then. Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. Build community. Our greatest champions and our loudest critics agree: our museum has become an inclusive community gathering place.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

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! worked with the city of Bellevue, WA, to incorporate geocaching and user-generated content into their public sculpture exhibition to put a new spin on the concept of “public art.”

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Museum Teen Arts Project 20

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 also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

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. Flickr's Commons project - Flickr is offering up its powerful community tools for museum photo collections.

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Museum Web Teen Flickr 20

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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Game Culture Change Museum 52

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression. Ideas professional development. Ask leaders to be accountable to the mission.

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Museum invites community members to participate in the development and creation of an exhibit. I once worked on a project where the main goal behind our community-based participatory model was to make our exhibit process faster and cheaper. Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? The exhibit opens.

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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I've been a big fan of Jayne Craven's work at Coyote Communications since the mid-1990s. That's when I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on its technology capacity building programs, including offline/online workshops for online skill building called SpiderSchool.

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Afghanistan Program Offline Profile 50

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Maybe they love the food bank but don’t care about the arts. Instead of trying to get EVERYONE in a community to give, target people who are most likely to care about your nonprofit’s mission. Instead of trying to get EVERYONE in a community to give, target people who are most likely to care about your nonprofit’s mission.

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Fundraising Fund Teen Newsletter 120

EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

During her lifetime, biochemist and pharmacologist Gertrude Elion worked to develop drugs to treat leukemia and prevent rejection in kidney transplant recipients, as well as revolutionary drug treatments and research methods for diseases like malaria and AIDS. Sheroes in the Arts. Are you inspired by women in the arts?

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Story Angola Sierra Leone Artist 133

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

. … Cultural icons serve many important purposes, but these, I have reluctantly begun to realize, may be quite different from, and perhaps mutually exclusive with, museums focused on community well-being. The Brooklyn Museum of Art found that skateboarders were using their entrance plaza and invited them to continue.

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People Museum San Jose Chapter 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

But in the case of Tech Virtual, it also caused conflict as I tried to balance being a friendly, caring community manager with being the "boss" of the participatory process. technology and more focus on engaging with communities. Tags: professional development. But more substantively: there was less focus on web 2.0

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

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. Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of giving a talk at an institution I''ve long admired: the Taylor Community Science Resource Center at the St. blog posts from the past.

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St. Louis Museum Audience Teen 45

Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

With the rise of MySpace and Facebook , it will only be a matter of time before there are Facebook consultants who can develop and implement a comprehensive Facebook strategy for organizations and campaigns. 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.

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Consultant Myspace Social Media Advocacy 31

Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

Like a lot of organizations, my museum struggles with two conflicting goals: The museum should be for everyone in our community. We''re more successful when we target particular communities or audiences and design experiences for them. It''s impossible for any organization or business to do a great job being for everyone. Why fight it?

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Museum Social Arts History 55

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? I can just imagine the headline: CHILD MOLESTERS CALL ON ART, VICTIMS. Many social networks that pride themselves on fostering community around specific topics--list-servs, conferences, business sites--are open to anyone. The irritating design? Or is it the stalkers?

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

With the rise of MySpace and Facebook , it will only be a matter of time before there are Facebook consultants who can develop and implement a comprehensive Facebook strategy for organizations and campaigns. 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.

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Consultant Social Media Myspace Advocacy 31

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

We are hiring for a School Programs Coordinator to wrangle the 3,500+ students and their teachers who come to the museum every year for a tour and hands-on experience in our art and history exhibitions. How can we develop programming that encourages students to make connections with kids of other ages or from other parts of our County?

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