Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Responsively designed for both desktop and mobile devices, customers can buy, share, like, comment and checkout all from your nonprofit’s Facebook Page. Microsoft Local Impact Map is a low-cost visual mapping tool ideal for nonprofits that have multiple chapters or programs. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. COST: Museum books tend to be expensive - because they are printed in small runs, the price for a 400-page paperback can be as high as $40. Why Self-Publish?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. Meetup :: meetup.com.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

You can now read all the chapters in The Art of Relevance for free online. You can still buy The Art of Relevance as a paperback, ebook, or audiobook--but you can also read any chapter, any time, online. You can also post comments on any chapter, adding your reactions and questions to the published content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

Dear Museum 2.0 My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. They're simple --you can comment on any given chapter, or you can write a review of the whole book. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. Thanks in advance.

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2012

Drop us a line or include your links in the comments! The official selections will be announced by the end of July and the festival will take place at the Spirit of Texas Theater at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, Texas on September 12-14. Share your links in the comments! Have more news to share?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

In 1990, educator and cultural critic Neil Postman described a museum as "an answer to a fundamental question: what does it mean to be a human being?" Without an explicit "I" voice, the museum's perspective on humanity is oblique to say the least. Welcome to Pine Point is not a museum project. It tells layered personal stories.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. Please let me know in the comments if there's anything in particular you want to know about - I'm happy to share whatever interests you. Many of the book sections started as blog posts on Museum 2.0. Copy editing.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! The Museum 2.0 For more on the differences among different types of museums (with examples), check out this post.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Audience segmentation and research has become a hot topic in museums, especially when it comes to crafting appealing offerings that are customized to different kinds of visitors. I sat down with Kristen Denner, Director of Membership and Annual Fund, to learn more about the program's development and the museum's goals for its future.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Now, after attending with museum friends from around the country, I'm hooked. Unlike most museum experiences, where people quietly absorb the work in a room, people were very comfortable pulling each other to specific pieces and extolling their merits or less inspiring qualities. Very few wrote in typical museum or even gallery-speak.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

I don't know - and I hope you'll share your thoughts in the comments. Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. So what's the solution? Dias de las Muertos or Chinese New Year to attract new audiences.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. First published in Curator magazine in 2002, this essay presents five different museum "types" and their distinct opportunities and challenges.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

For me, it's the beginning of chapter 8, in which J. William Goldman does something similar with The Princess Bride, commenting about dreadfully dull chapters he has omitted for the reader's sanity. But it's not so easy to integrate into larger-scale museum writing. What does Peter Pan make you think of? Julie Andrews?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Chapter 6 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit focusing on examples of how you measure engagement which begins with formulating your engagement model. The steps include reading, commenting, and sharing stories of personal behavior change. In the for-profit world, it is called the sales funnel.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. As always, I welcome your questions and comments. Pocket Museums in bathrooms. Digital Collections comment wall.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Dear Museum 2.0 readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Want to help substantively with the content of the book?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

That said, I sympathize with the challenges involved in designing something like this--challenges we faced again and again when I was working on the Operation Spy immersive experience at the International Spy Museum. Could 5th graders handle a truly open simulation? Maybe, maybe not.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

I've included a sampling below, and hope that you'll add other events in the comments. 100% of the royalties from Celebrating Women go to the International Museum of Women. For others, it is a day of political significance to raise awareness around women's rights. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com. Britt Bravo is a Big Vision Consultant.

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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

JUNE 19, 2007

Welcome to the first installment of the Museum 2.0 While every post at Museum 2.0 solicits (directly or indirectly) your comments and response, this one is special. I hope these book club posts can serve as invitations for lively discussion in the comment section. virtual book club. Where are there passes available?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2007

This week, a look at Chapters 16 and 17 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum. Why don't more museums do this? Many museums, especially large ones, exhibit the worst of the feudal cubicle wars--the Collections Department vs. the Exhibition Department vs. the Education Department.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2007

This is the final installment of the Museum 2.0 book club on Civilizing the Museum; The Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian. I’d like to do more book clubs in the future; please let me know if there are any particular books on museum theory, design, innovation, etc. that you would recommend for Museum 2.0.

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Change Museum Time Culture 24

Museum 2.0

JUNE 21, 2016

By "mission-based institutions," I mean museums, libraries, theaters, parks, churches, synagogues, afterschool programs, informal science programs, zoos, aquaria, symphonies, historic sites, dance companies. I am continually grateful to all of you who read, share, and comment on this blog. The result is this book.

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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. Next week, we'll conclude by talking about opportunities for institutional change with chapter 8, "Turning the Ocean Liner Slowly." have portrayed Indians inaccurately."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2008

A few weeks ago, I participated in a Reach Advisors "museum conversation" with Web 2.0 The examples are primarily focused on large businesses with budgets much higher than those of museums, but the lessons learned are highly transferrable. Shouldn't we make it this easy to evangelize museum products? marketing.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Chapter 9 focuses on "embracing" the groundswell, or finding ways to involve users in the development of new products, services, and strategies. How many museums have stacks of comment books that are only culled for the gushing quotes that belong on annual reports? But getting information from visitors is not enough.

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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

APRIL 9, 2007

Last week, I went to an event at the National Museum of the American Indian to support the publication of Elaine Gurian's new book, Civilizing the Museum , which comprises 22 essays written over 35 years of experience developing and leading museums around the world. So do museums. What does this mean?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Between the giant squid brainstorming and experimentation, I gave a talk to the larger Smithsonian Institution about multi-platform museum experiences. The slides are also available for download.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

I've spent the last two weeks working on the third chapter of my book about network effects of social participation. And it's brought me back to a blog post I wrote a year ago about the Science Museum of Minnesota's Race: Are We So Different? But designing an entire museum that functions this way probably isn't your goal.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

This week, we're covering the second objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : talking (chapter 6). The simplest way is to be a commenter—to follow blogs and sites related to your institution and share your own observations and helpful tips. Consider the path of the Bay Area Discovery Museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This week, we're covering the first objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : listening (chapter 5). For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques.

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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. Next Tuesday, we'll look at chapters 16 and 17, on the merits and limitations of the team approach to exhibition design.) What if you don’t want to be identified as one type of museum? It did that more than once.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

Jeremy Price offered a comment on my last blog post with a link to an excellent article by Lee Shulman on the uses and abuses of taxonomies in educational theory. Shulman offers the great example of doctors, relating a comment from a surgeon that, “’Internists make a diagnosis in order to act. Back to my diagram.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

This week, we're covering the fourth objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : supporting (chapter 8). This chapter is perhaps the most surprising in the book, because it focuses on tools and techniques that predate Web 2.0 Why should museums care about customer support? by years: customer support forums.

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