Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

This can be done with a flip chart and markers or there might be one graphic facilitator dedicated to this task. I designed this exercise after a delightful experience visiting the Barnes Foundation Museum where the art work is hung on the wall in a way to facilitate pattern recognition and learning about art concepts.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2019

At the end of February, I attended the first of (what I hope will be) many Museums Advocacy Days (MAD) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. There was something magical about the combination of something I love – museums – with something that scares me: US politics. around something I’ve suspected for a long time: everyone loves museums.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

What happens when you combine reality TV tactics with a traditional art collection? This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Do you consider yourself an "activist" for your organization, avocation, or art form? Sure, I admire cultural organizations that have a strong mission to change education or diversify access or transform the role of art in everyday life, but I'm an insider. Why AREN'T we asking visitors to join the fight for arts education?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Now, not all of you will get to spend every other week for months chatting with Rob about museums, but I wanted to offer you a slice of how wonderful that can be. This week Rob will share some ideas about museum work. The Activity Level Discussion in Museums: Is a Role Marketplace an Answer? People make museums.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

No, these are neither the words of a self-important curator nor a well-spoken museum director. the crowd-curated photo exhibition now open at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It is a substantive research contribution by the museum to the social technology field at large. s about data, and making the data visual.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2012

You know those times when you are looking for a blog that provides you with meaty analysis on contemporary issues in arts engagement? When you want someone rooted in both the business and art worlds? When you want cogent arguments with charts to back them up? Exposure to a broader arts world. A healthy dose of nerdiness.

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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). Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Why do you care about and or work in museums? I don't work in museums because I love them. I didn't grow up staring open-mouthed at natural history dioramas or wandering through art galleries. I didn't grow up staring open-mouthed at natural history dioramas or wandering through art galleries. And check out the comments.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 26, 2019

4 Important Membership Trends Every Museum Needs to Consider by Brendan Ciecko, Cuseum. A lot has been changing in the museum world. Brendan shares four trends that museums need to be aware of to have continued success with membership operations. Have you seen a chart and asked yourself, “What is this?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

This is the sixth in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. John would run Abbott Square Market , a multi-vendor food and drink business, adjacent to the plaza, adjacent to the museum. Money is on the table.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Can you really use the same criteria to measure the effectiveness of a rural food bank that works locally and an internationally renowned art museum located in a major metropolitan area? Nonprofits’ missions vary too widely, and size and location matter, too. My colleagues and I would say that you can’t.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 1, 2008

My more complete thoughts and reactions to the AAM (American Association of Museums) conference are forthcoming in a longer post soon. Today, I want to share slide presentations and interviews you might be seeking related to the sessions I chaired this week.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Our nonprofit museum had outgrown our grass roots. When we had seven people, we barely needed an organizational chart. She was a retired HR executive and a treasured museum volunteer. When we started this project, I expected about 30% of the museum’s jobs to change a little bit, and about 20% to change a lot.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2016

We believe that partnerships build a stronger museum and a stronger community. Like most museums and nonprofits, we have a donor database. Instead of each staff member tracking their own community partners, we're building a shared database of all the partners who contribute time, money, and talent to the museum. SALESFORCE.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. So it’s both a science and an art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation. Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

stories story museum women international We are looking for all types of films – documentaries, short films, animation, music videos, basically any kind of film you can think of, they just have to be made by a female director. For more information about how to submit your story, click here.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2007

This is the final installment of the Museum 2.0 book club on Civilizing the Museum; The Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian. I’d like to do more book clubs in the future; please let me know if there are any particular books on museum theory, design, innovation, etc. that you would recommend for Museum 2.0.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Entertain the idea of an exhibit based on Gantt charts and spreadsheets, and your head might just explode. Moveable Type, like its predecessor, Listening Post (now touring international art and science museums), is an exercise in harnessing and repackaging data as art. Huge swaths of words. Volumes of dry-as-dirt content.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The study specifically excluded institutions without employees, museums, religious institutions, hospitals, and membership organizations to focus on traditional higher education institutions like Harvard, NYU, Johns Hopkins, Duke, and others. people, representing a significant economic impact.

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