Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2008

Last week I taught a social media workshop for artists and arts nonprofits and did some research on different arts organizations using social media effectively. The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition (Nina Simon wrote an analysis of the project here ).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Software giant Autodesk created Total Carbon Analysis for Architects, a digital tool that makes the evaluation of embodied and operational carbon far simpler and more intuitive than it had been for most designers. Not all advances in architecture involve physical buildings.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 6, 2020

First up is Colleen Dilenschneider, the Chief Market Engagement Officer for IMPACTS, a global leader in predictive market intelligence and related technologies, and the publisher of one of our team’s favorite websites, Know Your Own Bone , which shares data and analysis about how cultural audiences think and behave. Robert Gilmor , Jr.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

Here’s an example of 25 SMART social media objectives from arts organizations. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help. Here’s an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2011

want to move to Santa Cruz and work at my museum? We are looking for an obsessively detail-oriented, highly resourceful, financially savvy, culture-loving individual to be the Administrative Manager of The Museum of Art & History. Or do you know someone who might be perfect for this job?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

What does "big data" look like for museums? Several museums around the world have worked hard to make their data accessible by providing free access to datasets, applying Creative Commons licenses to digital content, or creating APIs (application programming interfaces) that allow programmers to build their own software on the museum''s data.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 30, 2014

Our work to transform the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History into a participatory and community-centered place has been heavily supported by the James Irvine Foundation. The report is a slim 12 pages on the common characteristics of arts organizations that successfully and continuously engage diverse audiences.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

The Index is based on actual revenue statistics from nonprofit organizations of all sizes representing arts, culture, and humanities; education; environment and animals; healthcare; human services; international affairs; public and society benefit; and religion sectors. Bell, President, American Association of Museums (AAM).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

A man walks into a museum. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Better yet, the graduate student who led this project, Anna Greco, documented the whole project and did in-depth analysis of the visitor contributions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I’ve been finding RowFeeder useful to do a quick and dirty content analysis and grab all the tweets into a google spreadsheet. The content analysis gives you some insights into what lines were Tweeted most.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Laura Quinn is the founder of Idealware, which offers a consumer reports like analysis and comparison of nonprofit software. is the author of the popular Museum 2.0 Blog that covers how museums are using social media. Rebecca Krause Hardie overs the arts sector and use of social media. Jordan Viator. Deborah Finn.

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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 21, 2012

This week at my museum, as we are wrapping up our current set of exhibitions on collecting, I noticed a simple, subtle example of this that I thought might interest you. I am fascinated by the incredible differences in what people contribute based on format and phrasing of the invitation to participate.

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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

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? Here's what I love about Createquity: In-depth analysis of arts research reports. Exposure to a broader arts world.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

AS works with nonprofits across a wide range of industries, including arts and culture, the environment, foundations, and government. Brain Lacy & Associates provide services for nonprofits including augmentation, analysis of data, prospect research, major donor information, and matching gift data. Website: [link]. Website: [link].

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

AS works with nonprofits across a wide range of industries, including arts and culture, the environment, foundations, and government. Brain Lacy & Associates provide services for nonprofits including augmentation, analysis of data, prospect research, major donor information, and matching gift data. Website: [link]. Website: [link].

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

As in the contributory model, in the collaborative model of citizen science, the scientists still determine the research question and the overall data collection and analysis methodology. For this reason, some citizen science projects are now moving towards collaborative and co-creative models.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

Arts and culture – Giving for impact. Museums have shifted the focus of their fundraising to better address demand from donors who want to know the difference their gift makes, said Ford Bell, president of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Public society benefit – Diversification and impact.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

At The National World War II Museum in New Orleans, fundraising is all about data and their data is all about their donors. The Museum uses their data to get know their donors at a deeper level: what they care about, what motivates them, and how to keep them engaged with their organization. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

And while surveys, focus groups and other services can give you an analysis of what your current audience is doing online, direct observation is works best. Jeremiah Owyang, Social Network Sites Use Analysis - Compilation of Research Facts. Beth Kanter, “ Ten Free Resources for Social Media Audience Research for Nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The goal of this session was to provide the data but also provide analysis and insight that would help organizations take action when needed. Of the data presented, these arts and cultural organizations have 55% of their records with email addresses. Julia Kennard is the CFO at EdVenture Children’s Museum in Columbia, SC.

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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. This post provides an overview of the project, what makes it stand out, and some analysis of the strategic implications. The art will be displayed in order of the average juried scores.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

But here, there are many "evergreen" posts dating back to the beginning with design ideas, analysis, links, and interesting projects. and starting points ("I'm a curator from a small art museum.") So I've decided to make a better archive , one that organizes posts by questions ("How do I get familiar with Web 2.0

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The W³ Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) , an assembly of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The W³ Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) , an assembly of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This is the second part of a two-part interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard on their book Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. I love this idea, but I often find that museum staff are really nervous about making any changes that might alienate current members/donors.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2007

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Usually this blog is more about analysis than links. But this week, two articles about art, in the NYT and the Washington Post Magazine respectively, called out to be combined into a post about the role of visitors in art interpretation. What are we looking for in a museum?

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Whole Whale

APRIL 24, 2024

AS works with nonprofits across a wide range of industries, including arts and culture, the environment, foundations, and government. The firm is especially committed to working with partners involved in performing arts, the environment and conservation, education, and women. Chase Solutions, Inc.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2009

A few good links that have been zooming across my screen: A long and incredibly thoughtful piece by Diana Ragsdale about the value proposition of arts organizations in the midst of a "culture change." There's an excellent newish blog, New Curator , focused on the future of museums. If you feel that Museum 2.0

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 29, 2011

museums, recreation centers, etc.) exist, the analysis falls apart when considering nonprofits that provide services instead (often to our most vulnerable citizens). Often, funders and others ask this because they want to know to what extent various nonprofits serve a particular geographic location (e.g., city, county, etc.).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

The exhibition I'm curating for The Tech Museum of Innovation is opening and we are hosting a summit on June 4 (in real life and in Second Life ) for museum professionals to discuss the process by which it was created. On June 4, the physical prototypes hit the floor of The Tech and the real fun (and analysis) begins.

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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

JUNE 18, 2007

Live facilitation has a varied role in museums. In children’s and science museums, explainers are everywhere. From a financial and management perspective, however, many museums try to minimize live facilitation as much as possible. Many peoples’ most memorable museum experiences come from interactions with staff.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2016

Using that data for an analysis or a campaign is like me trying to play that guitar without fixing her up. Regardless of whether you’re an art museum, a hospital, or some completely different type of organization, data and algorithms have a tendency to outperform human intuition in a wide variety of circumstances.

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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. Which means that curators still have a powerful role to play in the future of museums.

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