Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Anyone reading this blog that lives in the New England area may know that the symphony I was raised around is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. My youth was flooded by a series of Wednesday night rehearsals, regular BSO concerts, and multiple summer weekends spent at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony in Lenox, Massachusetts.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

When we talk about museums or cultural institutions as vehicles of social and civic change, what does that really mean? Museum work is mostly non-contact. When the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum hosts a monthly soup kitchen , they are doing it to open up conversations about social justice around food. We all work for nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2012

A woman walks into your museum. They wrote a comment about their experience that got turned into a bird by other visitors in the public sculpture hanging in the middle of the museum. They wrote a comment about their experience that got turned into a bird by other visitors in the public sculpture hanging in the middle of the museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

In the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s four part series on comfort in museums, we get down to the basics: creature comfort. So for this last piece, we look at going the other way: making museums more physically comfortable. And on the walls, my friend explained, was art from the museum itself. There was funky music.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2007

Now, I need to figure out how I can squeeze this in before podcamp Boston and VON. October 22-23 Computer History Museum. Kaliya Hamlin pinged me to let me know about She's Geeky -- here's the info from the site. A Women's Tech (un)Conference. Our goal is to create an open space forum for women in tech to come together to.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Here's the basic idea: while you are at the museum, you save digitizable content--either content you make (photos of yourself) or content you collect (museum-supplied text or media of interest). The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2007

This week, I heard about a neat renegade art/museum awakening project in Providence, RI: Urban Curators. By utilizing frames that one might expect to find in an art museum or gallery, viewers are forced to make connections between the urban landscape and the museum environment. Maybe it's a good thing they aren't in Boston.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

They edit the conversations into radio shows, which are then made available as a podcast (you can listen to episode featuring me, #89: Museum Secrets, here ). Mercedes and Zachary pick people randomly out of the database, call them, and ask a contributed question. But it's more complicated than that. They listened, responded, and shared.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

On Tuesday, I reviewed Elaine Gurian’s essay, Choosing Among the Options , on museum archetypes and self-definition. Today, discussion with Elaine about ways museums choose their direction, how change is possible, and new museum types to be added to the list. What if you don’t want to be identified as one type of museum?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

If you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum or zoo, then also add your address. They also include geo hashtags in their captions, in this case, the neighborhood of #Roxbury in Boston: Also, if you are a location-based nonprofit, don’t be bashful about geotagging yourself. Verified Badges.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This is the penultimate installment of Museum 2.0's s book club on Elaine Gurian's collection of essays, Civilizing the Museum. As Elaine puts it in the essay, When I was last involved in such an endeavor, it was when the Boston Children's Museum was small, insignificant, and unselfconscious.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Boston Juneteenth Events. African American History: From Emancipation to the Present (Free online Yale) —The purpose of this course is to examine the African American experience in the United States from 1863 to the present (2010). . We’ve highlighted a few events local to our offices: Bay Area Juneteenth Events. DC Juneteenth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. " -rethink what counts as traditional forms of evidence of learning "All our kids have laptops, when we go to museum - kids take their laptops and cameras with them. local time).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

It has introduced me to corrupt university fundraisers , the true history of Tom Dooley , and the world's oldest marathon runner. All this delightful non-fiction makes me wonder: why aren't museums great at telling these same kinds of deep, intense stories? This seems strange given that museums are organized around objects.

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