Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. This way of working requires a different, more participatory leadership model and mindset that Allison Fine and I first wrote about in The Networked Nonprofit and others have written about called “networked leadership.” These are key questions of our times.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. It is framed as a kind of study guide; pop-outs provide questions that tease out opportunities and tensions in the narrative.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2017

The “we” isn’t always staff; in most cases, our staff work with community partners in a participatory, co-creative model. The question is not, “what do I want to do?” FLEXIBLE OPTIMISM + HARD CRITERIA Real estate developers blend optimism and flexibility with clear-eyed assessment of what external conditions make a project go.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

There are communities for everything online, and chances are you can find a group that offers a good blend of related interest and current non-visitation to your museum. The bigger question is this: are the communities that come in contributing positively to the image, visitation, and online messages around your institution?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2012

I'll also be part of two sessions on Tuesday, May 1 - one in the morning about money and business models, and one in the afternoon about prototyping and experimentation. I'm bringing a few big questions with me to AAM this year. I hope this year that some of these questions can introduce me to new people and new ideas.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. In Advice, the setup was simple: the exhibit team came up with a few seed questions, like "How do you heal a broken heart?," and put them up on signs behind glass.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

From this naturally flows our engagement in the question of "LAM convergence:" how these institutions live out their similar missions of access and preservation in daily practice and how they overlap as spaces for civic engagement. It is crucial that LAMs be considered public civic spaces, but Oldenburg's model leaves a lot to be desired.

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