Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Twubs is a Twitter chat management tool that aggregates tweets, pics, and video into branded hashtag pages. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I like to ask myself this question periodically, challenging myself to find substantive ways for visitors to contribute to our museum. 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. We don't have to convince them that it's their museum.

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Museum Open Platform Participatory 41

Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2012

While some museums are using the tool in clever public-facing ways , that's not what's happening here at the MAH. At our museum, our programs team is using Pinterest to develop ideas for upcoming community events. It aggregates design inspiration in a central place we all can share. And that central place happens to be public.

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Process Museum Case Study Aggregator 51

Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2007

Nik inquired as to how I feel about museum blogs. what's your take on museums that keep blogs? In general, yes, I think that museums maintaining blogs is an effective, cheap way to get changing content out to the public frequently. version of the news clippings tackboard on “Current Events” in hallways of some museums.

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Difference Voice Museum Aggregator 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

That's an important distinction because one key to learning how to use technology is constant and dynamic learning learning from doing doing from learning Now some new labels for of us who are working together to create noncommercial public Arts Web spaces in a globally networked digital environment. Steve Rubel called them "Aggregators."

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Me: Have you ever been to this museum? meetup for Elite Yelp!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2007

On Musematic , Holly Witchey has rigorously recorded her recent experience at WebWise, a " IMLS/RLG/OCLC/Getty sponsored conference" on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World that was held March 1-2. To museum ears, this is fairly blasphemous--the idea that people want to use our content, not our exhibits. content providers.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens. So what's next?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

I've become convinced that successful paths to participation in museums start with self-identification. The easiest way to do that is to acknowledge their uniqueness and validate their ability to connect with the museum on their own terms. Who is the "me" in the museum experience? Not so at museums.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

How can you make your museum website more effective in driving traffic and raising awareness of your institution? But there is a simpler, more impactful way for museum websites to become more visible, cited, and visited in the online landscape. Museums are creating “walled gardens,” and it hurts online visibility and impact.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

It’s a news aggregator that pulls from your social media feed to create an e-newspaper that you can send out. Check out the San Francisco Ballet Tumblr site, or the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see how nonprofit organizations are using the site. This site helps us eliminate some of the steps and streamline the process.

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Social Media NPO Site Social 70

Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization. Beth Kanter, Social Media Strategy Is Everywhere in the Organization - Indianapolis Museum of Art. Tactics and Tools.

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Social Media Map Strategy Organization 107

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

They reminded me of street vendors or great science museum cart educators, imparting an energy to the space without overwhelming it. In Praise of the Post-It There's lots of post-it-powered art on the web these days (like this and this ). This is a good lesson for museum talk-back design. Not so for the post-its.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Museum Projects COSI has done a lovely job aggregating all of their social media efforts into one "Share" tab on their website. The Brooklyn Museum is offering a new "socially networked" membership called 1stfans starting Jan 3. Let me know if you end up using it for a museum event or exhibit! Keep 'em coming, and enjoy!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2007

One of the most popular posts on Museum 2.0 The fourth kind I talked about is the "personal voice blog," in which museum staff write honestly and openly about their institution and experiences. At the time, I referenced a blog from the top: the Walters Art Museum Director's blog. Check it out. Some examples: (on the "Mr.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Elisa’s focus is interactive arts, media design, and cultural management, and she has been involved in many pertinent projects, such as MUVI (the Virtual Museum of the Collective Memory of Lombardia). Environmentalists, the Museum of Natural History at CU, they all responded very enthusiastically to this.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

We tried this at the Denver Art Museum last week, and it is incredibly challenging—you can’t just put out a box of chocolates and expect people to talk. I will aggregate the results for later discussion on the blog. Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

If anyone out there is considering creating an industry catch-all site for museum-related content, I highly recommend Gamasutra as a model. It combines a job bank with news about developments in the gaming world and, my favorite, an impressive collection of feature articles on the art, business, and production of games. Where am I?

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Storytelling Lesson Game Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2008

How is a museum like a radio station? It’s called Pandora , and its successes reveal interesting lessons about aggregating museum content. And it’s the introduction to new music that makes Pandora uniquely interesting to me as a museum person. Personalization doesn’t just give you what you want.

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Collaboration Museum Music Articulate 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Every museum has a number for its operating cost per visitor. Most museums don't strategically set this number--too many operating costs are fixed by building needs--but they can use it to assess how expensive each visitor interaction is and evaluate the efficacy of programs. So where do online initiatives fit in?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. There was a self-aggregating group who toured an art exhibition. Interestingly, at the City Museum in St. Tags: participatory museum. There were two fights, both involving parking spaces.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

I spent last week working with staff at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) on ways to make this encyclopedic art museum more open to visitor participation across programs, exhibitions, and events. All artworks delivered to the museum during the submission period will be accepted and presented; no one is turned away.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Imagine that your museum is ready to start creating content on a small-scale in Web 2.0. Imagine you are the Boston Museum of Science, and you are ready to make some videos to post on YouTube. When I search for "Boston Museum of Science" on YouTube, I find 83 videos. You're ready to make a few videos to post on YouTube.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 19, 2009

Advertisements for the skull blanketed Amsterdam, and other museums even tried to get in on the buzz generated by its presentation. By positioning the feedback stations outside the flow of the museum (and within a solely skull-branded structure), the resultant videos were more topical and focused than museum standard.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Today, Museum 2.0 I started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 dynamic content aggregation and network machines)." I started the Museum 2.0 dynamic content aggregation and network machines)." and watched the Museum 2.0

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