Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

.” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action. Dearth of resources/cultural practices around curriculum sharing.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

One, from a museum director. The word "quality" is often code for aesthetic quality, as judged by a specific set of cultural expectations and preferences. PARTICIPATORY: can people get involved or contribute to it? High participatory quality, low technical quality. Ideas cultural competency design' Any questions?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

This bootcamp will be led by me, Nina Simon, MAH executive director. Develop compelling, powerful participatory offers and promises for your prospective partners. Tour MAH participatory exhibitions and shadow MAH community events. We welcome campers from diverse community, civic, and cultural sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The plan for the next year is: Train and develop 12 leaders from the MENA region (4 Strategic Advisors, 4 Country Directors/Master Trainers and 4 Training Coordinators) = In-Country Leadership Teams. Experience with Middle Eastern Culture and no experience. Some Connection Points: Learning. Efficiency.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. I closed this book wondering: are cultural institutions really interested in being third places? Facebook discussion board here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Design to Invite Active Participation Participatory design can be one of the most effective vehicles for developing relationships, building social capital and engaging with community members in museum programs. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

Executive Director Nina Simon, who was hired in 2011, says that in the years following the global financial crisis, the facility was struggling. “At I'm also always interested in how the national media portrays changes in the cultural sector. One that has found remarkable success is California’s Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Note From Beth: Yesterday, I attended a convening called “ Beyond Dynamic Adaptability ” for arts organizations about cultural participation in the arts. Vincent Stehle is a regular columnist for The Chronicle of Philanthropy and a member of the Board of Directors of Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It’s also a sign that the employee and the manager are not setting a good culture of work life balance. ” It is an organizational culture issue or perhaps people-centered leadership approach.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When basketball players are offering more cogent commentary on racial issues than cultural institutions, you know we have a cultural relevance problem. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Colleges are addressing greater cultural and racial understanding in various courses. Things must change.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

George Scheer is the director and co-founder of Elsewhere Collective, a fascinating "living museum" in a former thrift store in Greensboro, NC. Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. Restoration is a formal gesture for most museums.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

government and encouraging participatory democracy. Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) is a critically acclaimed video game and interactive record of Alaskan Native culture. E-Line Media plans to continue developing “world games” about other cultures. ” Senate Immersion Module. Never Alone (Kisima In?itchu?a).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I'm personally most excited about the two types of interns who will be reporting to me: Community Research interns, who will start developing a methodology for us to use to understand how people in Santa Cruz connect with arts and culture experiences and what role the museum can play in satisfying their interests.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. Dear Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

I was part of the first-day that featured mobile expert Amy Gahran and Lee Raine , Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Mobile Organizational Culture social media policy Training Design' Digital Trends. Alois Bell was a diner at AppleBee’s in St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design as my colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0 Identify Influencers Inside Who Are With You: Maybe your executive director is very skeptical and everyone is terrified to even bring up the “S&# word.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

This blog was co-written by Associate Director, Ida Perrson, and SVP of Brand + Strategy, Amy Small. The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. As we look to make an impact, how can we invite community members to create with us from the start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. Early registration deadline is Nov. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

This one was cooked up by Barry Hessenius, former director of the California Arts Council and public art blogger extraordinaire. We're working with participatory online artist Ze Frank on an exhibition at the MAH this winter that features the missions, creations, and explorations of his current web series, A Show.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

Henry Jenkins , Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. Howard Gardner , the John H. and Elisabeth A.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Billy was formerly director of partnerships at Meetup.com and had shown the power of it during the 2004 presidential campaign. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. When Nina Simon became the MAH's new executive director in May, one of her first unilateral actions was to cover up the no sign. Lots more on this in the months to come, but I thought you might like to read the article.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. Do you think there is also a cultural/ethnic aspect to the kind of access and design you use? I knew I could learn a lot from it. For example, kids and tools.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution. This was a topic I was never interested in before I became a director. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The Museum directors released Blueprint as a showcase for these plans. The early participatory projects are terrific. Hooks based on popular culture. By the end of 2011, the House of Representatives withdrew its political and financial support. The media strategy is impressive. Immersive design. Lots of screens. Starchictecture.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

One person had brought up the idea of open source as a model for egalitarian participatory economics, and I made a brief comment that it wasn’t all that egalitarian, really. I think that the culture barrier is a really big deal, especially when it comes to dealing with very technical issues. But it needs addressing. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

Andrew is the Director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration , an MBA degree program and research center in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. Or are we working along a spectrum of cultural opportunities that demands we focus even more narrowly on our point in that spectrum?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I had just started at the MAH as the new executive director. Creating event-specific rules can level the playing field, make the implicit explicit, and create a specific culture for the event. The Art of Gathering expanded my understanding of what it means to build a powerful culture of participation. First names only.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2009

A few good links that have been zooming across my screen: A long and incredibly thoughtful piece by Diana Ragsdale about the value proposition of arts organizations in the midst of a "culture change." I set up a participatory site for the retreat alongside the more traditional AAM offering to provide a more interactive interface.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Elaine Gurian once told me there are two ways for institutions to innovate: they can be so small that no one notices them, or they can have a director who is willing to put his/her neck on the line for the innovation. Third, you need to align your idea with institutional culture. Or you can read this condensed version of the talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director." Steve's original post over at his blog offers us some wonderful tactical and practical suggestions for what a "buzz director" (I don't like that word. sorry Steve) and skill sets. This leaves me some questions.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. All of these have gone through a series of movements in the last 30 years reflecting cultural shifts and expectations.

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