Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

(Though the rights are completely royalty-free and there are video options for downloads in addition to celebrity photos with tools like Shutterstock.). The truth is internet savvy users can now identify generic stock photos instantly, which kills their efficacy for grabbing attention and telling stories. Public link: [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

My Ada Lovelace Day Story. She was the one that took me to the overnight events at OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) where I had my first go at building robots. What is your Ada Lovelace story? Want to join in? Sign the pledge, add your post to the list, and get connected: [link]. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. But we also know that numbers don't tell us the whole story - whether we headed in the right overall strategic direction, taking the right road, and how to get back on course if we get lost. . In October, the Indianapolis Art Museum Dashboard celebrated its' second year.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2015

The Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library (MBWML) was established in 1958 and named to honor the mother of America's first president. The museum and library preserves the rich history of the Northern Neck through its collections, exhibits, tours, and educational programs. Celebrating a Region Rich with History.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2020

This month, I’d planned to have a celebration of the fellow people in museums, including your coworkers and colleagues you’ve never worked with. In this time when convenings have become treacherous, museums, zoos, and aquariums, as a collective, possess much of the affordable public space in the world.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2011

This weekend, I heard a story on NPR that really rankled me. Jason Beaubien was reporting on the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, the gleaming new art museum built as a "gift to Mexico" by the world's richest man, Carlos Slim. Stories like these give the art world (and the museum world, by extension) a bad name.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

We bridge through experiences that bring together people from all walks of life, in shared celebration, respect, and learning. That's why our museum, the MAH in Santa Cruz, focuses on social bridging. Business leaders and street performers designing a new community plaza on the museum's front porch. More of us. More deeply.

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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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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

When you open the path, people flood in. You open the potential for something more. This summer, we opened two exhibitions at my museum that are highly relevant to local culture. The story of how these surfboards became significant speaks to the fickle face of relevance. It is a bridge. Killer content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0. I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. And yet many museums are fixated on creators. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pinterest has a lot of potential, especially for organizations whose stories lend themselved to visual storytelling. Share the story of each animal in the Pin Description. Pin animated and cartooon bible stories. If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19. Steal these 42 Creative Pinterest Ideas for Nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. And yet many museums are fixated on creators. I show the tool and then they say, “yeah, but we really want people to share their own stories about fly-swatters,” or, “we think our visitors can make amazing videos about justice.”

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

I've learned so much from my dad about making art, putting on a great show, inviting audience participation , and navigating celebrity. When writing The Art of Relevance , I knew I wanted to share a bit of his story and the ways artists negotiate the relevance of their own work. In the 1970s, Bruce Springsteen opened for them.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

If people on the street are talking about X, the museum should be talking about X too. I used to work at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. Our mandate was to be the museum of Silicon Valley--not of its material history, but its pulse of innovation. Other times, grounded in the museum's collection.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2015

On December 18, at 10am PT/1pm ET, I invite you to join the denizens of Museum 2.0, Museum Commons , and Incluseum for a 30-min tweetchat about how and why we can give for change at #RadicalGiving. I had just taken the job as director of a museum that was struggling financially. Please join us on Friday on twitter to talk more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community. This opened up a great peer discussion, completed with great advice, and peer support. Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Her greatest work, The Death of Cleopatra , is now housed at the Smithsonian. Roxane Gay.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2016

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. You can read this story at least two ways. Is it a story about an old room made relevant for new reasons? Or is it a story about change and cooptation of someone’s sacred space? A restaurant. A fictional character.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2010

Images courtesy Chris Danemayer, Proun Design I've been collecting stories and images of really effective visitor-response stations for awhile now, and I've noticed an intriguing trend: exhibits that invite visitors to write a letter to someone, especially with a typewriter, tend to yield elaborate and interesting responses. Some wrote poems.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. Why not consider comedy, dancing, theater, or even an interview with a celebrity? However, if you want to hold a global scavenger hunt, open to anyone in the world, you have that option will virtual scavenger hunts.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more. Share your story through personal emails or handwritten notes from your board and stakeholders. Finish it up with a story that highlights the value of your organization, and you’ve got yourself a gripping appeal. Don’t be discouraged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems. NpTech Community. Freecharity.org.uk

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. From actors, to reality tv stars, to musicians, there are a number of celebrities who will film a shoutout for your auction. This might even help you bring in more dollars and meet new prospects who’ve never heard of your mission!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2011

Note: This post is written in response to recent articles about museums by Arianna Huffington (on museums and new media) and Ed Rothstein (on museums and ethnic identity). I appreciate that you write about museums, and by doing so, publicize their work and efforts. Myth #1: Museums are about contemplation.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2017

But this doesn’t tell the real story of the P2P evolution happening across the industry. What I love most of all is the option to “celebrate a transplant anniversary.” The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History used Giving Blueday to raise funds to begin development for their Wooly Mammoth Exhibit.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 2023

American Jazz Museum Gold – Cultural Institutions Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater. Department of Energy.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. Then, he establishes credibility with stories from real kids about the program. He gets them to want to open the door. Teenagers don’t just need someone to help them open the door once. Hanging out.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2008

Yesterday, I was telling a friend about what I perceive as the essential challenge to involving visitors in co-creation in museums: finding compelling questions that open people to the experience of sharing.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

The pictures below reveal even more of this wonderful story. Here are a few photos of a few of the myriad of fun activities we had from the Welcome Banner to Indy to visiting the Art Museum to Symphony on the Prairie at Conner Prairie to celebrating a birthday! Simone lit up the room, or even the wide open spaces of outdoors.

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