Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

While understanding audience needs is the basis of all good strategy and user experience processes, end users often get lost or deprioritized in the design phase. I think that the most powerful design technique is to engage in active listening and empathy-building exercises with your internal stakeholders.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. Instead, Stacey thought, why not make the feedback experience an activity unto itself? It invited visitors to memorialize their experience. you tell me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Realizing the power of his entertainment gifts, he harnessed them to raise awareness and support a wide range of causes, aiming to prevent others from enduring similar experiences. Suzanne has a wealth of experience in nonprofit fundraising as she was the Chief Development Officer for a National Nonprofit Organization for several years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away. I’ve added one more category to the mix called hosted.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2021

How many cultural organizations were actively prioritizing digital benefits and digital access in membership? Indeed, prior to COVID-19, the core benefits of membership were related to the onsite experience: unlimited free admission, member rates for in-person events, and discounts on gift shop purchases and concessions.

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Forum One

MARCH 16, 2023

Your museum may even be planning some audience research in the near future. What if you were to turn the table and start with a virtual exhibit in order to learn what resonates best with your audiences beyond those who can easily visit your institution, and use those lessons to inform your in-person experience? Find out more here.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Younger generations have grown up with the ability to individualize almost every experience they have, especially as it relates to accessing services and information. One example of this customization is allowing users to pay for specific activities, such as yoga classes or spin classes. Tips for personalizing the member experience.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories and moments from the last 50 years to mark its anniversary. The Frist Art Museum. The Frist Art Museum is a destination for art, culture, and community in the heart of Nashville, TN. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History DIY Exhibits.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Think museums, zoos, theaters, and other places that rely on philanthropy to operate and offer a “visitation membership.” Members pay a monthly or annual fee for a special perk, like free admission to your museum or a discount in your store. We see this in the arts and culture realm, especially. Member-Donors are the goal.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Adventure experience For the thrill seekers in your nonprofit’s audience, consider offering adventure experiences like: White water rafting Camping/glamping Rock climbing Skydiving Caving Partner with local adventure companies to see if they’d be willing to donate local experiences that are unique to your area.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2015

Thankfully, thousands of movements are successfully activating Millennial cause enthusiasts, converting them into donors , volunteers and outspoken advocates for a cause. MCON is an annual event that highlights these movements and proves how the Millennial generation is actively shaping our communities and world.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. Some of these experiments didn''t yield anything useful, but some were surprisingly helpful proxies for complex human interactions.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2017

Seema wrote it (original post here ) in response to her experience last week at MuseumCamp. Like Seema, I've been looking for ways to increase active resistance of racism, hate, and bigotry--both as an individual and as the leader of a museum. What does this have to do with museums? Museums are ideas.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. But I couldn’t get there.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It gave me a chance to really think about how we have been opening up our museum and what it means for our community. Museums can be incredible catalysts for social change. We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today.

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CauseVox

MAY 25, 2021

Now, with vaccines readily available and COVID cases declining in many areas, admission-based organizations like museums, zoos, and science centers are gearing up to reopen their doors or expand their current capacity to invite their communities back in. In-person memberships for people who prefer a traditional on-site experience.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. I chose to focus my thesis on Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs. The purpose of my thesis was two-fold: To research and analyze community and civic engagement practices, methods, theories and examples in other museum programs.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments. Top-notch donor cultivation depends on consistent activity, customized communications, and an excellent strategy. That’s why they can also come in handy in museums.

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Bloomerang

JULY 29, 2024

These experiences are not just informative; they’re transformational, often tipping the scales for attendees to join your cause. Host “member for a day” open house events where potential members can experience the benefits of membership firsthand. Are you actively trying to recruit new members? Happy recruiting!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

GOLD – Activism for Websites. To mark its anniversary, NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories and moments from the last 50 years. Gold – Activism for Websites. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. The Frist Art Museum. NRDC’s “Fighting Polluters Since 1970”.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

Here are a few of the hashtags I''ve seen applied to photographs of museum objects on Instagram lately: #heytherebigfella #biggysmallistheillest #forbrightfuture #myfavorite #instagood #bestday #withmyhomies #whatever #learnedfromthebest #revolutionary #nowicandie These tags all do a great job capturing the magic of exploring a museum.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Their arts and culture funding goes towards artists, curators, conservators, scholars, and organizations to ensure equitable access to excellent arts and cultural experiences. The Shubert Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Museum technology nerds: this post is for you. I've been thinking recently about distributed content experiences--ways for people to interact with museum content (art, history, science, etc.) as they make their way through the world outside the museum. At the museum? but none of them are great.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. We’d love to share. I am a bisexual cis woman.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This morning, I checked in on the Pocket Museums on our museum's ground floor. After I took down all the "kick me" and "kick it" post-its covering the Pocket Museum title label in the men's room, I realized that this is the perfect example of an A-to-B test for gendered response to a participatory museum experience.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. The popular reference point for what a museum is--a temple for contemplation--is based on a Euro-centric set of myths and implies a white set of behaviors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

The Internet was primarily a desktop PC or laptop experience and reading news and sending and receiving email accounted for the majority of time spent online. They began actively using Myspace in 2004 and YouTube in 2005 – years before the Fortune 500 companies. Hermitage Museum 2015. Hermitage Museum 2005.

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Blue Avocado

AUGUST 13, 2024

Christy Crosser from Estes Park Museum Friends & Foundation, Inc. Clarice Williams from WEBS Training Center Lack of succession planning Not having an active succession plan. This is based on my 30+ year of doing something with nonprofits. Great question. Fundraising without strategy.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

Customize your event and donation pages on one platform to create a uniform look and experience for your donors. Fun Team Events | Best software for entertainment activities Fun Team Events blends entertainment and philanthropy by offering a distinctive and enjoyable avenue for your donors to support your cause.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Is your museum running on interns? It is a strong, museum-focused complement to an excellent three-parter on Createquity about the ethics and future of unpaid arts internships. I got my first real job in a museum (at the Guggenheim) after a life-changing internship. My supervisor was amazing, caring, and supportive.

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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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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2018

Today’s audiences, and ones of the future, are growing up with the expectation that technology will be used to enhance their experiences. To sustain this engagement level, organizations are actively developing new strategies around technology. The creative technology comes from how Carnegie Museums tracks the stamps.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

A year ago, I wrote a post speculating about whether events (institutionally-produced programs) might be a primary driver for people to attend museums, with exhibitions being secondary. Many museums, big and small, thrive on events. At our museum, about 68% of casual visitors (non-school tours) attended through events this year.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Why does your museum open its doors each day? For arts and culture organizations, brand purpose is often about facilitating learning and engaging visitors in unforgettable experiences that provide educational and social value. What other museums do they follow/enjoy visiting? Get to know your subscribers and followers.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

For the past two years, I''ve been working on a project to activate the concrete space adjacent to our museum as a vibrant, community plaza. We are hiring a temporary contract curator to activate the plaza this summer with 25+ cultural events. creative placemaking design Museum of Art and History programs public space'

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

Rather than just doing an activity, visitors should be able to contribute in a way that provides a valuable outcome for the institution and the wider museum audience. This week, I saw a great example at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum that blew me away with its power and simplicity. Yes, this activity is political.

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