Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Creating Cultures and Practices for Racial Equity: A Toolbox for Advancing Racial Equity for Arts and Cultural Organizations , by Race Forward This toolkit aims to help artists, arts advocates, culture bearers, and cultural workers to imagine, plan, and implement racial equity strategies in their organizations.

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Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

Do you want a portrait, a landscape, an object, an abstract design? The DALL·E 2 Prompt Book : This is the OG image prompt library and guide on designing great prompts. ArtHub AI Library : A collection of AI-generated art prompts and a platform for artists to showcase their AI-generated artwork.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The DAM is one of several large art museums that is embracing making in a big way—first, through their event-based programming and open art studios tied to temporary exhibitions, and now, through a 1,200 square foot studio in which visitors can do art projects tied to the permanent collection.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

After several months of planning massively collaborative programs (a typical monthly event might involve 50 partners), we've realized that the people who are best at helping us come up with ideas are not necessarily the people who are best to help us execute them. Moving from community needs out to possible projects/collaborators.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. Artists work incredibly hard to produce their work. Design paired activities to reflect or at least respect the sensibility of their work, and where possible, involve them in the design. We throw those away.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2017

We are now hiring two full-time positions: Exhibitions Catalyst , to animate our exhibitions in partnership with artists, community organizations, and residents Marketing and Communications Catalyst , to spread the word and connect our community on social media and in the press Both these people have important roles to play in the future of the MAH.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. The result was a true experiment in designing the future--right here, right now--with artists and planners and civic leaders at the helm together. Market Street is a central artery of San Francisco.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Detail on distribution of artworks in the Tate collection by birthdate of artists, visualized by Florian Krautli. Last month, the Tate joined the party when they opened up their collection database to the world on GitHub, a website where programmers collaborate on projects. What does "big data" look like for museums?

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Achieve

AUGUST 5, 2022

Plus, you don’t need to have a background in design to participate. There are thousands of online resources and services that streamline all parts of the process, whether it’s designing your logo, making the merchandise itself, or. Your brand will be displayed on your merchandise through graphic designs. selling it online. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. I learned an incredible amount from collaborating with arts teachers. The above photo is one of my favorites.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it. Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Why am I excited about this project? It’s our way of embracing and spreading the abundance that working a networked way offers. Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. Photo by Dkurpaptwa. There is an added benefit to learning communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny Goldstein will do real time illustrations of the ideas swirling around the session which will be projected live and that will help us move towards a common understanding and enable us to share an artifact with others. What should we be building to help artists make and sell art, engage their audiences, and connect to other artists?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Earlier this year, organizations submitted their best creative works to the Show Your Impact 2010 design contest, sponsored by Adobe and TechSoup. The project, designed through a collaboration between CUP and 15 local high school students, investigated the community impact of a new housing development in East New York.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Two years ago, our team at the MAH embarked on our most challenging co-creation project ever. We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. This project wove together many different participatory threads.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

To apply the results of my analysis to produce a community-driven program design specifically for implementation at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (the MAH). Museum programs can be designed to further bond similar groups together such as families and friends in family workshops such as the Dallas Museum of Art’s First Tuesdays.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above). He is an authoritative artist of the social web with a slew of accolades and a suite of diverse projects under his belt.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

A Selection of Strategic Game Design Lessons for Nonprofits. Design Process. Determine the technology platform after designing for audience, context, and impact goals. (MB). How to Design. To try your hand at game design, try the Grow a Game Cards. (BS). Nonprofits Live! Game Audiences. community. (BJ).

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

With that in mind, Zero1's community engagement manager Danielle Siembieda-Gribben organized HackFlux : a weekend hackathon bringing together a mix of coders, developers, designers, artists, and thinkers this past June. The goals of the hackathon were twofold: To build a community around mobile development and art.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. Elsewhere Collaborative (Greensboro, NC).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. Reducing intergroup bias isn''t a primary goal in all of our work, but in some projects, it''s of particular interest.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2011

Yesterday I interviewed artist and social changemaker, Naomi Natale, for the July Big Vision Podcast about her powerful One Million Bones project. One Million Bones is a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

While informal involvement or input for a specific project is always useful, there''s also value to more sustained participation--and the relationships and accountability that comes with it. Our work would become more relevant, our collaborations more timely, our network more diverse.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2017

Studying engineering taught me to think like a designer: state the problem, brainstorm, test, iterate. Working with creative people taught me to think like an artist: observe, explore, dive in, look out. Building the Abbott Square project taught me a whole new mindset: that of the real estate developer. We develop the projects.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In particular, we want exhibition collaborators--artists, researchers, historians, collectors--to understand our goals and how we intend to steer the exhibition development process. It's a working document, and we mean to put it to work planning new projects with our partners.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

While there was evidence of plenty of community engagement work across museums and galleries, most of it was funded project by project. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. It upped the stakes on change--something a funder could not provide alone.

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Forum One

JUNE 6, 2024

This is the third in a four-part blog series, Building Trust and Credibility Through Design, based on a webinar led by Forum One’s Vice President of Design. Similar to performances, designs weave stories. Design your digital platforms with the same user experience in mind. Watch the webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I remember thinking to myself at the time, well if one networked nonprofit can do this, couldn’t a network of networked nonprofits use real-time collaborative benchmarking data sharing for learning? No one knew what I was talking about. I’m not sure I did, but fast forward two years and it is here.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We invited local artists and community groups to perform. We designed events and interactive exhibits on ten dollar budgets. and we've tried to internalize a mindset of perpetual beta and modular support for community collaboration. We make room for interns and artists and people who walk in the door with crazy ideas.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

These are unpaid part-time and full-time opportunities to help design public programs, develop new uses for the museum, perform visitor research, and pursue unusual projects. Special Projects interns, who will do, well, whatever you want.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. That's all fabulous, but it's also all by design. And when I think back on the past year, some of the most magical things that have happened at the museum have NOT been designed by us. The magic isn't by design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Would you design an interactive exhibit that only 1% of visitors would want to use? You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. You see the overall value of the project.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In July of 2013, the MAH will host our first You Can't Do That in Museums Camp (or better name to be suggested by you), inviting 80 creative people to collaborate on an experimental exhibition. If you've ever wanted to design an object-based exhibit that really pushed the boundaries, this is the event for you. This camp will be a 2.5

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

We also have 75 new friends, slightly bleary from the experience, which felt like one part intense work project, one part marathon, one part hallucinogenic love-in. In 2009, after we hosted the Creativity and Collaboration retreat, I wrote a post about ditching "conferences" for "camp" experiences.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They were there for artist talks. They were there for project brainstorming. It encourages process-driven performances and art projects. They live their mission, working in questions and projects rather than exhibitions and programs. This makes Temple Contemporary excel at responsive, relevant projects.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way.

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