Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Expressing their emotions so openly was a new and uneasy task, but with the help of a wonderful facilitator, Conso Buzabo , they intuitively shared their compassionate connections through simple art making. Anyone can become a facilitator and host a workshop in their community, and we encourage everyone to get involved.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. Part of this is practical: you can''t facilitate making and tinkering for 30 kids if you have to hand them everything they need. Really interesting. No visible bylines.

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Green Interview Share Community 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. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs.

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St. Louis Museum Audience Teen 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2013

” You have to measure conversions from social media – from engagement to whatever action or goal you want people to take. What is a conversion? To measure conversion using your analytics programs, it generally requires submitting an online form. Which Social Media source sends the highest quality visitors?

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Measure Social Media Media Social 117

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Chris Lawrence writes about one group of teens who addressed the Society directly as a "you" embodying white privilege. The challenge is distributing these programs either to mass audiences or without heavy facilitation. but as ways to converse with the museum and each other. How often does your enemy acknowledge you?

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Voice Museum Lesson Pledge 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

The conversation on the blog about Free at Last touched on that. One person commented about how he loved growing up in DC as a teen and generally using the Smithsonian as a playground. So I think the facilitation of that makes for a new museum. And not think that we need to control the content but also your attention.

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Museum Puerto Rico Change Boston 20

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. Let’s keep the conversation going. Do y’all know what that is?

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Management Work Video Slides 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

I just spent two days in Miami at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar where I co-facilitator a pre-conference workshop on leading on social channels with Amy Gahran and Stephanie Rudat. Later, when were chatting with a small group of people in the lobby, we noticed a group of teens walking by looking a little sad.

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Digital Learning Artist Miami 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is a personality test (based on real science) in which you can determine your own love style by answering a series of questions, teen magazine-style. But it's hard to explain to visitors who haven't played Apples to Apples, and if there is not a gallery host to facilitate, this one often sits unplayed. A DIY wedding!

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51