Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary. We work hard to name and build our culture in many ways. Naming our goals and our culture. In the meantime, here are some.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

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

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. Our collective willingness to be nimble and generous is really the reason I've been able to do any kind of innovative project here. In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience.

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Arts Interview Teen Artist 46

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It has been almost three weeks since we concluded bbcon 2018 in Orlando, and we’re still wrapping our head around the terrific content seen and inspiring conversations overheard amongst over 2,000 attendees from across the social, private and public sectors. Foster a data culture, and a testing culture . Know your audience .

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Organization Disaster Boston Blackbaud 26

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. Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive?

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Museum Teen Learning Music 34

NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

SOS_Slaves is part of the transmedia project “Sands of Silence: Fighting Sexual Slavery and Trafficking.” ” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. SOS_SLAVES.

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Game Change Classroom Machinima 81

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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Arts Wisconsin Los Angeles Denver 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

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

There are many dimensions to the digital divide, including income, gender, age, geographic location, culture and race. But with the Internet now accessible from public libraries, cyber cafés and cell phones, getting online is easier than ever for nearly anyone.

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Generation Digital Internet Iraq 87

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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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By slowing down and making a piece of art for someone, we provide a personal connection to the issues and to individuals and create opportunities to see our commonalities despite geographic or cultural borders. Our grassroots campaign involves all ages from teens to seniors. Each card is a piece of art in my mind.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

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. Second Life can be the aggregate of public good - we'll give people the tools what they want to see or not see but not control what people see. Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage. What's your advice?"

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Virtual Philanthropy Foundation Second Life 50

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. Most Workshops also run a wide range of additional programs - supplemental school day programs, afterschool programs, mobile units that go to housing projects.

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Green Interview Share Community 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. Henry Jenkins notes that it isn't about the tools and that it was more about the culture growing up around the technology. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life.

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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. The content starts with the teen team.

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Interview Museum Teen Myspace 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. There are expectations around what people wear, what they can and can''t do, and how they relate to each other that may be comfortable for whites while feeling alien for people who don''t grow up in a white culture. YES students defy expectations.

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St. Louis Museum Audience Teen 45

Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. There are expectations around what people wear, what they can and can't do, and how they relate to each other that may be comfortable for whites while feeling alien for people who don't grow up in a white culture. YES students defy expectations.

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St. Louis Audience Teen Museum 53

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. Do y’all know what that is? What is the mack daddy of summer jobs for young people?

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Management Work Video Slides 91

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2005

Last weekend I went to a great house party/fundraiser for Art in Action camp , a 10-day cultural boot camp for budding teen activists. I wish that when education budgets were made for public school systems, someone would read that quote to the decision-makers to remind them what it is like to be a young person today.

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San Francisco Jordan Giving Proposal 40

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

It's very simple to calculate: you take the total operating expenses for your public-facing efforts and divide by the number of people who walk through the door. How much do we value bringing global cultures and opinions into our institution? Others produce publications and media for global distribution.

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Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20

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. Use expert-only vocabulary – stop making entry points for general public, students, families Social science of war. Why aren't we developing our audiences?"

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Museum Professional Teen Map 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. For example, consider two independent arts organizations in Los Angeles -- Machine Project and The Public School.

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Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42

Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

We invite diverse locals to share their creative and cultural talents with our greater community at the museum. Teens advocating for all-gender bathrooms. Does community participation work for big cultural destinations too? You can show up to a public meeting and ask a question. Printmakers leading workshops.

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Community Museum Local Participatory 20

Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

” So I ended up serving in the Peace Corps, and I was creating what were essentially marketing programs, public health marketing programs for the people and the places that I was living and the people that I was working with. . Now, type in the chat if you know this reference, if you know this pop culture reference.

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