Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We ended up with a gallery in the museum instead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

I first met Mary in 2005 through my connection with the Global Voices community and can say that Mary is among the most knowledgeable and experienced digital activists in the world. I’m honored to be working with her on a training project that I’ll share more about in 2011. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Nerdy Valentine’s from Scoop.It: The content curation platform, Scoop.it, came up with funny “nerdy” valentine’s for its content curation community. Visit the Doodle Museum to view the history of doodles. Visit the Doodle Museum to view the history of doodles. Here’s more.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When I started at The Museum of Art & History (MAH) in May, one of my priorities was redesigning our website. I didn't want to do anything fancy--just make the site more functional, lively, easy to update, and reflective of the new institutional vision of being a community hub. It's an evolving site--just as the museum is evolving.

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2012

When our editorial committee decided on “Content Curation” as the overall theme of this issue when planning back in 2011, we knew that it would be an important topic for the nonprofit sector, but we didn’t anticipate that, in some ways, 2012 would turn out to be the year of content curation , as Beth Kanter predicted in January.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2012

Once there was a project to design a national history museum in the Netherlands. Three years later, at the end of 2011, the project was canceled. While not wholly explored, that question reverberates throughout a new book, Blueprint , that shares the plans for the Dutch Museum of National History. What happened?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Imagine you've just been tasked with developing an innovative, future-thinking national museum for your country's history. Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). By the end of 2011, the House of Representatives withdrew its political and financial support.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

The Washington Post covered the MAH's transformation as part of an article about museums engaging new audiences. The whole second half of the article was dedicated to our work: Smaller museums can be especially scrappy in finding ways to connect with the community. It’s something that any museum, of any size, can work toward.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (our fiscal year ends on June 30), and several people have written to me asking for the numbers behind our turnaround. The busiest day in both 2011 and 2012 is our longtime community program, Free First Friday.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to give one of the closing talks at the Theater Communications Group annual conference in Dallas. TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. When I came to the museum in May of 2011, we were on the brink of closure financially.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Farra, along with Thomas Negron and Charles Lenchner, invited Foursquare founder Naveen Selvadurai and Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein to their June 501 Tech Club. We're looking forward to many more events in DC in the fall, and leading up to the 2011 NTC ! Tags: community buzz nonprofit technology NPTech nten members.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

.” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Click to see larger version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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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. Yesterday, a lovely article came out in the local paper about what we're trying to do to become a thriving community hub. It wasn't that Simon was throwing out the housekeeping rules of the gorgeous but often imposing downtown museum building.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

In mid-2019, I will transition out of my role as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) to focus full-time on leading OF/BY/FOR ALL, an emerging global movement to build more inclusive community institutions. It has been my great privilege to lead the MAH since May of 2011. To make history.

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Candid

MARCH 14, 2024

Unless you work for an animal shelter with cute puppies or a museum with extensive collections you can photograph as needed, it can be a challenge. Last year, we were inspired by a video from 2011 to create our series on “ red flags” funders look for in grant proposals. Alter the tone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

Bdeir has been particularly focused on empowering underrepresented communities, especially girls, with the tools to become tomorrow’s changemakers. Her inventions are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and she holds over a dozen patents. ” Kelly Chen, DCVC.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

Dear friends, This is my last post as the author of Museum 2.0. I'm thrilled that Seema Rao is taking this blog and museum community into its next chapter. You can find all my archived Museum 2.0 Today, I want to share a bit about what Museum 2.0 When I think of Museum 2.0, I started the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. didn't mince words.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

" In the spring of 2011, there was exhibit called "Virtual Texas" that featured historical replicas – such as The Alamo, and the Texas Capitol building, circa 1830. " Research on virtual worlds used for education, libraries, and museums continues to expand.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Sporting, museum, or concert tickets. Board members often have deep roots in the community and might be able to donate auction items themselves or ask their connections to donate. . Leveraging his software background, he built most of the tools his charities used, and in 2011 he launched Handbid at his own fundraising event.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 17, 2011

Disclaimer Tuesday, May 17, 2011 American Humanics: An Elite Group posted by Lyn McDonough , American Humanics Program Coordinator Senior, ASU Lodestar Center "The few, the proud." The 18 students being recognized at the annual graduation celebration will have completed all requirements during the spring, summer, and fall semesters of 2011.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History For years we have been producing digital media to fulfill our mission of educating the public about science and history. They knew of a few people but it was nothing like the communities on the West Coast.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then. Build community. and "why?" to "how?".

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

I spent the weekend queuing up posts for my forthcoming blog-cation--nine weeks of guest posts and reruns from the Museum 2.0 I crave community, but I am not naturally outgoing in large group settings like conferences. I went to several big museum conferences in 2004-2006 where I identified and started admiring heroes in the field.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 29, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, April 29, 2011 Research Friday: The Office or the Impact? museums, recreation centers, etc.) and closer to understanding the "nonprofitness" of community. Recently, I contacted Banner and asked them to split their billions across Arizona communities, and they were able to share that with me.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

When we say we want our museum to be "audience-centered," what do we mean? My career first got moving at a brilliant example of the customer-centered museum: the International Spy Museum. Many of my favorite museums, libraries, and zoos are customer-centered places. They care about visitor comfort.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2013

There are more than enough people in the field who are enthused about active participation, and recent reports like the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy's Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change have sparked field-wide conversations about how philanthropy might more equitably support institutions that serve marginalized communities.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Hi folks, Seems like it's time for another Museum 2.0 The more I talk with cultural professionals about promoting experimental practice in community engagement, the more I hear that the obstacles are internal. If the problem is us, let's start 2011 with some ideas on how to change.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2016

posted by Karla Lant Lead Writer, Museum of Science and Sustainability. In 2011 researchers found that the average shark off the coast of Palau was worth approximately $1.9 For example, say your nonprofit provides educational programming for kids in your community. However, this is only the first step. Conclusion.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

The weather is hopefully the least of the reasons you should want to come work with us here at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We have five open positions in Community Programs and one in Exhibitions. So start dreaming about the sun and exciting museum experiences. Museum of Art and History Quick Hits'

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn has been part of the Qgiv extended family since 2019—we proudly partner to help make a difference in our communities. Carolyn’s Nonprofit Blog was inspired by the many people who have reached out to Carolyn since it was launched in 2011 to ask for advice about becoming a grant writer and nonprofit fundraiser.

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The Verge

MARCH 19, 2021

Game Theory,” a series that examines the ins and outs of popular video game franchises like Five Nights at Freddy’s and Minecraft , premiered on April 18th, 2011. By 2017, he became a leading figure within the community, fighting on behalf of YouTubers during the “adpocalypse.” Gaming kind of exploded in the last year. I miss that.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. How is the exhibit living on at the museum and what is it like to take over someone else’s project?

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