NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

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. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. but there wasn't an offline space for that.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

In November, the Chase Community Giving. 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. .

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Contest Community Organization Giving 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I’ll be in the air enroute to Rwanda for a training project. Instant updates to your whole community? So how do we teach kids and teens, who often can’t plan past lunch, how to think about their digital footprints and abstract concepts like ethics? Location sharing?

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Literacy Education Digital Teach 134

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

For this reason, I spoke specifically about how to make dream projects possible at real institutions. Pick apart your mission statement, and look for the words and phrases you can connect your project to. What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? Or you can read this condensed version of the talk.

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

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. We work hard to name and build our culture in many ways. Naming our goals and our culture. Naming fears, too.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

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

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

Imagine the most community-based science center possible. Imagine it in a poor, immigrant farmworker community. In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. Can you give me the overview of Community Science Workshops? It thrives.

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Green Interview Share Community 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. We may say that we want to support programming and cultural opportunities for low-income and non-white people, but that's not where the money is going. The title may sound innocuous.

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Arts Fund Artist Houston 52

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

Sarah has worked at the Walker since 1992 and is currently the Director of Education and Community Programs. It's the ability for me to work with my CFO to be able to budget and align the right kinds of resources for new projects. I honestly wasn’t aware of the book when it first came out. Can you give me an example?

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Arts Interview Teen Artist 46

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. It was a rare moment where the cultural and historical importance museums tend to bestow on all exhibits was sought and appreciated by the public. Where were you when Michael Jackson died?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Technology is dramatically changing the way we work and live our lives, and the social good community needs to account for this digital transformation that demands increased transparency and also opens new doors. Foster a data culture, and a testing culture . Know your audience .

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Organization Disaster Boston Blackbaud 26

Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

I heard from an organizer who told me that her last two jobs have come from her volunteer role in our community, and from many others who told me that getting together with their peers is what gives them the energy to continue to find innovative ways to use technology for good. Join them every month for a dose of community invigoration!

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. SOS_Slaves is part of the transmedia project “Sands of Silence: Fighting Sexual Slavery and Trafficking.” Like many transmedia projects, SOS_Slaves is ambitious. Ambitious, multi-layered projects like this have the issue of being hard to fund.

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Game Change Classroom Machinima 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century."

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Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Looking closer, I saw that each seat had its own handwritten label, telling the story of the Philadelphia cultural institution from which it originated. They were there for project brainstorming. It encourages process-driven performances and art projects. It opens up new conversations about the work of art in our communities.

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Process Share Philadelphia Arts 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

By the time my mom was at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, I was in my late teens/twenties, and I started to know the board socially, including Bob Fisher, who is now very involved with SFMOMA. NS: The article mentions that as part of that project, SFMOMA has an outpost in Los Altos. I’ve known Bob for 15 years now.

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Museum Generation Interview Donor 54

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I wrote The Participatory Museum for two reasons: to explore the "how" of participatory design in museums, cultural centers, libraries, and science centers to create a version of this blog that was more "shareable" with organizational leaders and trustees By many measures, the book has been a success. Build community.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

There are many dimensions to the digital divide, including income, gender, age, geographic location, culture and race. Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree. Within this population, the generational divide is greatest for people over 65.

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Generation Digital Internet Iraq 87

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. What is the path that brought you to this work?

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

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

APRIL 18, 2008

I was particularly interested in the ECHO project and Bryan's comments about the lack of in-house technical staff in museums and how that affects ability to innovate. It was refreshing to see a wide array of projects and presentations that put sharing authority at the center of the visitor experience. Sharing Authority.or

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

As cultural anthropology has swung away from a vision of authoritative history and toward the embrace of multiple perspectives, there is potential for those stories to come from all over the place, including visitors themselves. They are frequently about real people's stories. Children of the Lodz Ghetto ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. Something to make the virtual world better and empowering the community in a unique way. Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage. We got advice not to do that. What's your advice?" Faster than real world.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

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. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Louis Science Center.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. How do you simulate community on a website?

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Interview Museum Teen Myspace 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

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. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. I'm white, and several of the things Diane told me about are things I don't notice because I'm part of the majority culture.

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St. Louis Audience Teen Museum 53

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

APRIL 6, 2011

Let's say you spend a year working with a group of teens to co-create an exhibition, or you invite members and local artists to help redesign the lobby. Community processes are both exciting and time-consuming. Community processes are both exciting and time-consuming. In some ways, this is a good thing.

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Participatory Process Museum Children 48

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

While we used to have a Director of Education who managed this, we’ve recently restructured our Community Programs department to have a Youth Programs Manager (the brilliant Emily Hope Dobkin), who oversees all experiences that visitors 2-18 have with the museum. Most school tours are for intact groups—a single class or grade.

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Program Museum Work History 39

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My house that I loved so much that I’m sure that I overpaid and was a fundraiser at Big Brothers Big Sisters at that time and really had to learn to navigate some really choppy waters around what it meant to help folks understand investing in their community in trying times, investing in young people, investing in our staff. Absolutely.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

How much do we value bringing global cultures and opinions into our institution? Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project. Then, they encourage others in the Flickr community to post their own images of the same plant and tag them "flickrplantproject."

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Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20

DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This means that web design projects (and even smaller, iterative updates) are important investments for nonprofits, and they can involve any number of different strategies and techniques. Mustard Seed Communities. Project Open Hand. For major campaigns or specific projects, creating a dedicated website can be a very smart move.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

For example, “Nazi science” came up several times as a “can’t”—but the Holocaust Museum’s Deadly Medicine exhibition was a successful project that didn’t bring the walls down. The science of capital punishment from DNA to execution Religion Teen suicide, teen cutting – I wanted to include these in my museum’s “Hall of Human Life” teen area.

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

Our entire strategy at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is rooted in community participation. We invite diverse locals to share their creative and cultural talents with our greater community at the museum. Teens advocating for all-gender bathrooms. The same is true for cultural participation.

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Community Museum Local Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. The framework is the format or setup for how community members are invited to participate.

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Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42

Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So what are some specific trends that are going to shape nonprofit communications in 2021? Now, type in the chat if you know this reference, if you know this pop culture reference. If you have a tween or a teen, I’m sure you’re familiar with TikTok. How do I spot trafficking in my community? Okay, TikTok now.

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Social Media Trend Video Marketing 86