Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But this month, it's as if there was a subliminal email sent to a crew of bloggers in the arts suggesting a salon about audience diversity, and how/why to move in that direction. This never seems like a good idea. The posts are meaty and the commenting is robust. A rare blog post that combines personal narrative with statistical charts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This section of the report covers new ways of thinking about organizational culture based in continuous improvement based on feedback. It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. It outlines the practices and skills needed to create a learning culture. Cultural Indicators.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The alternative of forcing a login means some members will be frustrated at not getting their discount and ultimately may be dissatisfied with their experience. Integrated Marketing Arts & Cultural Membership online ticketing ticketing' Have you encountered and of these problems? I’d love to hear in the comments below.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Company culture and trying to not be the “fool in the room” Image Credits: filo / Getty Images. The entire interview is worth a read , but I resonated most with his notes on culture, which is apparently a big focus for him even in the heart of a red hot sector. The ‘art’ of VC startup valuations is a forgery.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2013

Arts and cultural, environmental and educational organizations are similarly challenged by the impact of new technologies on audience or constituent behavior and more accessible and affordable alternative forms of entertainment or expression, let alone evolving and changing tastes and values.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To promote the right to education and to preserve the environment and cultural heritage of Brazil. Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. Grassroots Pakistan ● grassrootspakistan.ngo.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

What if museums were curated and funded by the internet, and allowed pieces to stay close to their cultural roots, displayed in a context that made sense? Native art in native museums, religious artifacts shown in temples, mosques and churches, and so on? ” Bored of art-world shenanigans. “Arkive started as an idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

1: Create a Facebook culture inside your organization. Networked Nonprofits have a created a Facebook culture inside their organizations. Here’s an example of 25 SMART social media objectives from arts organizations. Here’s an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. What’s missing?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

“I’ve talked with their product team and CEO many times — they’re big believers in our mission of empowering creators and they have a lot of respect for the products we’ve built and our customer-first, product-led culture.” . When beautiful art is available at the press of a button, what does that mean to artists? Startups and VC. “It

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Hofmann is best known as the co-creator of Vine, which helped to establish the short-form video format on mobile devices and became an incredible engine of meme culture along the way. He also sold an art piece he had created as an NFT and enjoyed the process. To be referenced is to still be culturally relevant.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Pop culture is obsessed with cinematic universes, so why not have a virtual one? Another possible reason is that modern pop culture is built on sprawling and highly intertextual media franchises owned by a few companies that promote their huge intellectual property catalogs as shared universes. Finally, a way to mingle with brands.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. But it needs addressing. { Right, right, right.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Likewise, for nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, similar challenges exist because of the impact of new technologies and alternative forms of entertainment on audience tastes and behavior. Among the most severe impediments to nonprofit sustainability are fundamental deficiencies in funding, capacity and infrastructure.

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BoardAssist

JULY 30, 2014

Requires that the audit committee consider alternative transactions and determine that the transaction is fair, reasonable, and in the best interest of the nonprofit as a prerequisite for approval. . Prohibits the person with the conflict from attending or influencing deliberations and from voting on the transaction.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

and Humanity Cash , a tech venture focused on alternative digital currencies. As a platform for such local activity, more participatory forms of engagement are already envisaged—an area “culture pass” for museums and arts institutions is one exciting example—to further stimulate local activity.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2022

When a client asked him to make a vampire baby, Smith was drawn into a new subculture that would later influence his decision to pursue fantasy art full-time. “I Then there are fantasy (or “alternative”) reborn dolls. For some people that might be a little bit weird, but they take care of their dolls, they appreciate the art we made.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

To do this, the platform enables users to quickly “generate, optimize, and iterate on” design alternatives, taking into account design criteria and data like terrain, maps, wind, lighting, traffic and zoning, etc. Spacemaker then returns design alternatives optimized for the full potential of the site.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I''m glad to see coverage about art museums involving visitors in exhibitions. I meet them doing research in the archives, collaborating on cultural festivals, and contributing stories to exhibitions. I struggled to present my own alternative frame ("community involvement"). What is the metaphor for participatory arts?

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Alternatively, arrange pickup times and locations where participants can safely retrieve their wine and cheese before the event. When hosting an in-person auction isn’t an option, a virtual silent auction is a perfect alternative to raise money for your organization. Student art show. Virtual silent auction.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

It's a little living room in a lobby area that invites people to lounge on comfortable chairs, leaf through magazines and books related to art and Santa Cruz history, and generally hang out. The area that houses the Creativity Lounge also shows art. Teenagers are curling up with art magazines.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

Instead of putting the onus on customers to roll up their sleeves, he suggests that SaaS startups learn from cryptocurrency culture and find ways to “incentivize users to do the necessary work to have the right experience.” Vise CEO Samir Vasavada and Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire break down the art of the pitch.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2011

When we pulled the numbers two weeks later, a small nonprofit community center called the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California had raised over $400,000, while the American Red Cross had raised $322,540. But reach is not nearly as important as engagement on social media.

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

I am personally fascinated by how art and business work together, especially in music. The 2010s are when I started getting into alternative investments as well. I invest in art heavily. With art, I’ll buy one because I’m going to have it hanging on my wall. NFTs are the way we identify with culture, with other people.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

but I felt like I didn't have any alternative formats to draw on. Priya Parker's wonderful book The Art of Gathering shares the core principles of how to drive. Here are my three big takeaways from The Art of Gathering : Hosting is an exercise in courageous leadership. The weird thing is that that wasn't true. First names only.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Users on Beams are encouraged to join interest-based groups and (asynchronously) listen or clip into topic-based threads — on, well, whatever you want to talk about, be it art or politics, fashion, food or music etc etc… Topics on Beams are a real pick’n’mix — and the overall experience can feel pretty random.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2014

The posts come from an aptly-named blog: Grumpy Art Historian. We push the once-in-a-lifetime experience of seeing the art. The art gets captured like a lame animal in a game park, instead of the wild thing it is. I''m not sure I''m OK with it happening to art and cultural artifacts. Is there an alternative?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

The art of writing letters, and writing in general, has fallen by the way­side. To do that, you need to value quality writing as much as you value quality programming, and you need to adopt a culture of quality writing as early in your lifecycle as possible to harness its power and influence. Case Study: The lost art of writing.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

While all of these elements will still be useful during an experiential event, they are instead function to inform the audience that they have value and they can contribute (perhaps in an alternative way) to the event content . The goal must make sense to a wide number of people. This could change the long-term perception of that brand. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

In past posts, I've talked about: The Secret Life of a Wiki Gardener : Using a gardening metaphor, I drill down into the fine art of wiki facilitation. Establishing a Culture of Giving on Your Wiki: This post looks at ways that you can encourage people to add to the wiki, not just browse.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

And from my perspective, it was this diversity that made the event unique--and made me rethink the way that cultural professionals typically approach audience development. As Elaine Heumann Gurian has often noted, the magic comes when cultural institutions bring together people who don't typically mix.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I dove headfirst into the space when I understood that we’re in the midst of a cultural revolution enabled by technology — not the other way around. Funnily enough, we’re already starting to see how crypto products are taking hold of our culture and of our shared attention. Can you share a few of your top concerns?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2018

Berkshire Museum officials argue that art is not core to their institution going forward and that they are therefore deaccessioning material that is no longer relevant to their mission. Cultural organizations, community members, and museum leaders have spoken out against the sale. But it's not that simple.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 11, 2014

Guest post by Peter Gulka, Consultant for Blackbaud’s Arts & Cutlural Solutions. . We feel we should like it, heritage and what-not, but really borscht was invented at a time when the only alternative was rocks. As a person of Ukranian heritage, I am often asked “Hey – do you like borscht ???”.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

How can we develop audiences, cultivate care and empathy, and find alternate funding that doesn’t require public popularity so that important stories get told? Crowdsourcing killed punk rock…Crowdsourcing kills art…It’s bullshit. And as long as changing the world is relegated to a sector, it will never happen. Generic license ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). I like this alternative to sticky dot voting! It’s also a sign that the employee and the manager are not setting a good culture of work life balance.

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