Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

But we also know that it hasn’t made an appreciable impact on the people coming to museums. Of course, changing yourself requires a certain level of self-reflection. And, I liked every comment. I’ve been thinking about her comments all month. These conversations are hard. That is, except museums.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 2, 2018

Here are a few toxic signs of ego to watch out for that will invade your sacred meeting space and derail leadership development: Steamroller: To steamroll a conversation is to take the focus off a subject and turn it into being all about one person. My people are trustworthy and when they say they are going to do something, they do it.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Whoever wrote this comment card: thank you. In front of each of those paintings, you could stamp your pastport, reflect on the artwork and the question, and share your story. The idea was that people would spin the wheel and start a conversation. design exhibition Museum of Art and History participatory museum usercontent'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Genuine: It reflects their character, behavior, values, and vision. They become a source for journalists to quote, have conversations with professional colleagues, or directly engage with stakeholders. He shares photos and reflections from business trips. You will see photos of Met art works as well as art in other museums.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

I spent the weekend queuing up posts for my forthcoming blog-cation--nine weeks of guest posts and reruns from the Museum 2.0 Reflective time is important, especially when your work is hectic. Blogging forces me to have a reflective part of my practice on a weekly basis, even when I feel about as reflective as a black carpet.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

When people ask about blogging, the question of comments comes up more frequently than any other. There are many good ways to measure a blog's value , but somewhere inside ourselves, we feel that comments are the thing that validate a blog's existence. They prove that the conversation is two-way. Museum 2.0's

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact. The Denver Community Museum (DCM) was a grassroots operation in almost every sense.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The NetTalks series , which includes five sessions, is intended to spark a meaningful conversation around alumni engagement and supporting a broader community practice of effective alumni networks. The steps include reading, commenting, and sharing stories of personal behavior change.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Residents in the three counties that pay the millage will receive special benefits : free admission to the museum and expanded educational programming. I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

Is it a conversation? In almost all cases, museums assure me that they want to be in conversation, that they want to be responsive, that they want to “really hear” what people think. In one case, the institution jumped into the conversation and converted an ugly situation into a positive community outcome.

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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 Our museum is in small town America. How can a local history museum connect with third places in the community?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

But I couldn''t fully imagine how a museum or an arts center could embody it. Thousands more conversations during the festival. If you are reading this via email and would like to share a comment or question, you can join the conversation here. Deborah''s vision for the arts leading the way to stronger future inspired me.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

We're looking for an Exhibitions Manager to join our team here at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. You Can't Do That in Museums Camp is filling up. You do not have to be a museum professional to be part of this--we'd like a diverse mix of participants. Join the conversation. Join our team. Come to Camp.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

This expresses itself most powerfully in museums when we talk about building relationships with visitors over time. But museums are one-night stand amnesiacs in the relationship department. This is terrible, both for the visitor and for the museum. I expect you'll remember some basic things about me--say, my name.

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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 ). The conversations are often long--20 minutes or more--and Mercedes and Zachary only get to the question at the end of a meandering conversation with the guest.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. Our audience has quadrupled in size, and the people walking through our doors increasingly reflect the age, income, and ethnic diversity of our County.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This week''s guest post is written by Julie Bowen, VP of Experience and Engagement at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Years ago, I was running a workshop at a conference introducing a creativity technique to museum professionals. The comment that brought me up short was “This was great.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2015

I''m not sure how well this is working for us in museum-land. As our culture explodes in embracing creativity across the professional/amateur spectrum, museums have two choices: we can sharpen the line. If done poorly (uncritically), it turns the museum into yet another place to watch cat videos. we can embrace the embrace. #1

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

This guest post was written by Ruben Huele and describes the scenario-based strategic process used at the Dutch Natural History Museum, Naturalis , to innovate the redevelopment of their permanent collection. Please share your own experiences with alternative strategic planning processes in the comments!

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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 In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2015

I do recognize, however, that arts pricing may not be at the top of everyone’s happy hour conversation starters. While the blog post is targeted for performing arts organizations, many of them appeal to museums, zoos and aquariums as well. Having an empty performance hall, museum, or zoo can be deflating to a new attendee or reviewer.

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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. It was a lovely evening that inspired a rich conversation. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. what goes on inside a theater, a museum, a historical home? Everyone is a Curator. Another theme of web2.o Write the truth.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur. Many institutions do this unintentionally--by providing post-its or comment books, pens or crayons.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

If not, please share a comment and let's talk online. All weekend, we've heard uplifting stories about amazing work you all are doing to involve people from all walks of life in museums. But museums do exclude people. Our Story I came to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago. All the time.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. As one participant said, "the museum feels friendly in a way it usually doesn't." People make the museum friendly, not activities. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki. All the photos in this post are on Flickr here.

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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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. Use Twitter to Bring More People Into The Conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

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. I'm hoping that some of us can have a conversation about what Tim has done or perhaps try to apply to their own social media project. | View | Upload your own.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2015

This is the first in a two-part series about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s new theory of change. This week, Ian David Moss and I are each writing blog posts about our collaborative process to develop a theory of change at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. For three years, we hit the gas at my museum—hard.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2010

Does your institution have a comment book or suggestion box in the lobby where visitors can leave their feedback on their experiences? In my experience, lobby feedback systems generate three kinds of responses: Effusive, generic platitudes: "Great Museum!" Probably not. Better food in the cafeteria, please."

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. First, if you don't know what the heck I'm talking about, please enjoy (and comment on, if you wish), this explanation (requires speakers). A month ago, I invited you to join this project.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2015

I''ve been thinking about all of this recently because I''m in the midst of negotiating a partnership with a for-profit real estate developer to enhance a public plaza adjacent to my museum. It''s hard to cut back, but it is leading us to more productive conversations about the data. It''s a heck of a lot less than we used to have.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2008

Whether you want memories or insights, offer comment books or touchscreens, it's hard to design ways to invite meaningful visitor submissions. And this week, I had an aha moment about a designed listening technique: conversations with computers. Finding great questions to ask can help. Most of all, you need great listeners.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2017

Here are a few of my hypotheses (and I’d love to hear yours in the comments). Many of us are proud of how our cultural organizations reflect and respond to our local communities. Please share your questions or comments! If you are reading this via email, you can join the conversation here. Precarious business model.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2010

Three examples: In the late 1980s, the Brooklyn Children's Museum created an exhibit called Send a Letter to Snoopy. As Kathy McLean noted in Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , while staff were afraid that typing on the typewriter would be too hard for some young children, "kids lined up to carefully and slowly type their letters."

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