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. David describes himself as a "museum brat."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Jude, Make A Wish, American Cancer Society, and The Museum of African American History. Over the past 15 years, Allen has volunteered for small elementary schools to major museums and nonprofits raising millions of dollars. Komen for the Cure, The Museum of Flight, March of Dimes, Lakeside School, Evergreen Health, and more.

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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. At the historic site?

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Media Cause

JUNE 1, 2022

My partner and I would host couch-surfers from time to time in our small one-bedroom apartment in Boston, converting our living room into a second room to host artists from around the world. She called her time in Boston “an elongated artist date.” An artist date? Like when you go on a date with an artist?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I believe that the museum blogosphere is still underdeveloped and there's lots of room for people to share their inspiration, experience, and ideas. When anyone asks me who's doing great work blending online and onsite experiences in museums, I send them to Beck Tench at the Museum of Life and Science. The Museum of the Future.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

Last week I had the opportunity to attend and present at the Association of Children’s Museums annual conference, #interactivity2014, with Julia Kennard, CFO from EdVenture, Carole Charnow, President and CEO from Boston Children’s Museum and Katie Boehm, Annual Fund & Events Manager from KidsQuest. So that’s the theory.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Levi is an excellent interviewer, and he got me talking about lots of things I don't usually talk about: living off the grid, finding my path, learning from my parents, being a mom and museum director, dreaming of being a ninja warrior. It combines a real life meetup (in Boston) with a virtual Google hangout.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. EMPSFM is one of a handful of museums worldwide for which the death of the King of Pop is a very big deal. Are museums only relevant when they can serve our most pressing needs?

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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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JUNE 6, 2014

Fundraising by Text Message: What Worked and What Didn’t - Online Fundraising - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : To help provide a permanent home for the towering glass “Lime Green Icicle Tower” sculpture pictured here, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, placed a sign next to the artwork asking (..)

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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. Where should you start? Where should you start?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." He was mandated to turn the ship around financially and to expand the reach of the museum in the community. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

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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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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NOVEMBER 22, 2010

We also profiled some nonprofits like Big Love Little Hearts and Boston Medical Center who had some degree of success raising money, doing advocacy and organizing volunteers. Or are they just embraced by early adopters who are itching to use new shiny tools?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0 People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." hour at the Museum. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Paul is the CEO and Co-Founder of Boston-based FableVision, which creates and distributes original educational media, mobile games and apps designed to move the world to a better place. In 7-8 weeks of live coaching Lori will work with your team to create a communication culture that ensure you exceed your fundraising goal. Paul Reynolds.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2007

Yesterday, I turned in my keys and said goodbye to the Spy Museum and to Operation Spy, the narrative, immersive game experience I've been developing/building over the last two years. There are two attractions/experiences that heavily influenced our early thinking: Tomb (Boston), and Adventure (COSI Columbus). It's about economics.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 18, 2020

– Gurukarm Khalsa, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston . – Jose Orora, The San Diego Museum of Art . “Definitely trying to keep my regular schedule, and prepping for the day in terms of dressing, eating, etc., as per normal. Especially useful if/when participating in video meetings.” .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2006

These were mostly museums like MoMa (which I wrote about over a year ago here ) and a few others. I attended Boston Podcamp with 300 other podcasters, many of them rock stars in the podcasting world. Museum Podcasting Resources. They mostly focused on what I call the middle of the road approach. Here's my live blogging notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Rebecca Corliss is Boston area social media activist and one of the leaders who helped raised over $20,000 for Jane Doe, Inc. is the author of the popular Museum 2.0 Blog that covers how museums are using social media. Leslie Poston also known as "geechy_girl" on Twitter writes about social media and is a trainer. Nina Simon.

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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

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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. I'll be doing a presentation on a panel at the Museum Computer Network Conference in two weeks on this topic and in early 2008 for the Legal Services Corporation. | View | Upload your own. This is work in progress.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2007

What does your museum have to say about it? What do visitors expect of museums, and what do museums expect of themselves, when it comes to timeliness? This is partially driven by museums, which want to be seen as "forums" for discourse, but also by the expectations of a media-saturated public. Pluto just got demoted.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. Why would an art museum create an ARG? And the "stuff" of the game is real stuff, artifacts created by players and sent to the museum. To expand their audiences.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

This week, thoughts on Chapter 12 of Elaine Gurian’s book Civilizing the Museum , "Threshold Fear: Architecture program planning." In this essay, Elaine discusses the various barriers to entry for non-traditional visitors to museums, that is, the threshold fear that keeps such potential visitors from walking in our doors.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 20, 2010

John Keats can be a third thing, or the Boston Symphony Orchestra, or Dutch interiors, or Monopoly. We'd heard about the museum but didn't know what to expect. Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment.

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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 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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

This week, we're looking at the first section, Talking Back and Talking Together , which features comment boards, talk-back walls, and discussion forums at a variety of museums. At the Boston Museum of Science's video kiosk on wind power, 3/4 of people were most interested in making their own video (as opposed to watching others).

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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

JUNE 13, 2007

A museum experience I’ll always remember: In 2002, I worked at the Boston Museum of Science with a program in which high school students from a nearby charter school spent half their school time at the museum. They took regular classes, museum-specific classes, and had internship-style museum jobs.

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