Forum One

JANUARY 30, 2024

By amplifying the voices that ignite global change, these awards honor work across seven core causes: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Education, Art & Culture; Health; Human & Civil Rights; Humanitarian Action & Services; Responsible Technology; and Sustainability, Environment & Climate.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. And for those who have, they quickly understand that the Museum has much more to offer than can be absorbed in a day.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In 2024, postcards with QR codes designed to make an impact (LOL funny, powerful quotes, beautiful art, photography, etc.) Get back to your roots and find your voice on social media. And Boomers, if they are fortunate, are in the peak of their retirement years and actually have the time to open and read mail from nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2020

As a Historic Interpreter for Telfair Museums, I would lead visitors through the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters on a 45 minute guided tour of antebellum Savannah history discussing politics and urban slavery. When the Museum closed I was expecting the next few weeks to be different. I set up digital lunches.

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Neon CRM

MAY 23, 2023

For hundreds of years, AAPI contributions to art, science, medicine, culture, architecture, and other areas have shaped the United States, and they continue to do so today. How to Support The Chinese American Museum If you’re in the area, visit the museum !

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The 2022 inaugural competition received nearly 2,500 entries from 36 countries worldwide and winners are selected by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Talking About Race is a widely referenced and shared section of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture ’s website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

After graduating with a BFA in drama & music from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ellen spent ten years bringing joy to audiences nightly as one of only ten lead performers in the longest running musical revue in the world—San Francisco’s “Beach Blanket Babylon.”

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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

JUNE 10, 2020

Nina Simon, Lauren Bentua, and many others would host us in the halls of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art. When we think about mapping these ideas onto an organization I think about how museum leadership can take these on personally as individuals (CEO, COO) and as departments (Human Resources, Education) and so on.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Davey Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts , a top-tier body of select professionals from the “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. Gold – Arts for Websites. Silver – Features, Art Direction for Digital Content. National Endowment for the Arts.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2020

As an arts and cultural organization, you are among the most trusted sources of information in today’s world. By sharing facts about how to lower the risk of contracting or spreading the disease, arts and cultural organizations can help keep their communities healthy and instill a sense of calm. . Leaders, find your voice .

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Allegiance Group

JULY 3, 2024

Say you run an art museum in Boston and want to attract younger visitors. Asking ChatGPT “how to attract young people to a museum” versus “how to attract young people in Boston to an art museum” will yield very different results. AI tends to flatten an organization’s distinct voice. Be specific.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2021

Help them win the People’s Voice Award by voting today. Website design is an art, a science, and a testament of collaboration and creativity. The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Voting closes this Thursday, May 6th. Award Category: “Diversity & Inclusion Websites & Mobile Sites”.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

Forum One received 10 awards in eight categories in this year’s awards for Canopus (platinum), Centauri (gold), and Arcturus (rose gold) across the categories of environmental awareness, cultural, art, health care services, associations, branded content, and website redesign. National Air & Space Museum. The Vilcek Foundation.

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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

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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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Schools and other arts organizations are rising to the challenge.

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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. It''s probably a path you had to navigate too.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Designed to assist and support an organization (and most commonly hospitals, museums, libraries, and arts organizations), these groups historically focus on raising funds, sometimes manage the volunteer corps, and nearly always maintain their own governance system. Those recommendations are then presented to leadership.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2017

Last year, when I released The Art of Relevance , people asked if there was an audiobook version in the works. So I am thrilled to announce that The Art of Relevance audiobook is now available for YOU to listen to on Audible , Amazon , and iTunes. The great Jon Moscone lent his voice to his preface, too.

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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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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2024

When I was working in-house at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, we leaned on an external accessibility partner to help us train our internal teams on best practices. Sometimes all it takes is an outside voice to help push these types of initiatives forward.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more? Here are three of my favorites.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

While I was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art working on a website redesign, we recognized the need to be transparent with our internal audiences and started hosting a series of monthly open forum presentations called “Website Wednesdays.” Create a safe space where all voices are valued and respected.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

I feel strongly that there are huge issues with racial and ethnic diversity in museums and arts organizations that deserve a million more posts. One was a conference on pushing our practice in art museums. In library- and museum-land, the participants were 80-90% women. That's why I wrote this.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

Last week''s New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons. In the article, David discussed ways that several large art museums are working to attract major donors and board members in their 30s and 40s.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2019

I was proud to work with amazing colleagues to lead major change at the museum. Geoffrey wrote: Some of the changes you imposed on the museum, including Abbott Square, generated criticism, mostly from some of the old guard types who wanted more traditional explorations of art and history. It was not easy. But it was needed.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 6, 2024

Nonprofits like museums, art groups, and sports camps can offer donors exclusive perks in exchange for their support. For in-person tours, consider planning a lunch afterward. This gives donors the opportunity to chat with staff one-on-one and learn even more about your cause. Offer perks.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. If there are museum objects and visitors'' objects on display together, all should be afforded the same level of exhibit design, labels, etc. Constrain the input, free the output.

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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. Here are my three top takeaways.

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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. And he did it all from afar--I've never met Marty in person and have only corresponded with him by voice a couple of times. You can see the site circa February 2011 here , and the current site here.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2010

When I was in Taiwan, I heard again and again from museum professionals: "We are very conservative in Taiwanese museums. Everyone is so focused on everything looking perfect and the curator's voice only." This post is a photo essay focusing on an area at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts called the Digiark.

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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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sgEngage

JULY 18, 2023

Tag the community partners who have helped you along the way and amplify the voices of your strongest supporters. Are you an art museum that posts behind-the-scenes looks at your collection on Instagram? Even if you have a strong following on Instagram, that may not translate to an engaged community on Threads.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Two weeks ago, my museum was featured in a Wall Street Journal article by Ellen Gamerman, Everybody''s a Curator. I''m thrilled that our small community museum is on the map with many big institutions around the country. I''m glad to see coverage about art museums involving visitors in exhibitions. Core Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2011

I asked Wendy Pollock and Kathleen McLean, authors of the new book The Convivial Museum , to share a guest post about the book. At first glance, our new book, The Convivial Museum , is about the most simple ideas. Or this one by Lacey Criswell, of Bike Night at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Why don't you do it?"

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