Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. didn't mince words. Here are my three top takeaways.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

National Council for Mental Wellbeing. The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. social justice issues?that?impact?the Pacific Science Center.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

National Council for Mental Wellbeing. The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. social justice issues?that?impact?the Pacific Science Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 2200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. Please try to vote for as many nonprofit panels as possible. Submitted by Ramya Raghavan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

Written for the June 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine , where I am writing a quarterly column throughout 2011. If your nonprofit is location-based (zoos, museums, health clinics, food banks, etc.) That said, I have literally “liked,&# “followed&# and “friended&# more than 100,000 nonprofits.

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JULY 19, 2012

For my next session, I'm covering "Creating a Mobile Strategy" with Ann Maier of the National Geographic Society. Maier jumps right in by talking about the challenges the National Geographic Society, a large nonprofit research organization, faced when approaching their mobile campaign.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

Visitor (though, really my child) at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK As I said, last week, I’ve been to a travelin’ girl for the last couple of years. So, instead, I am offering 3 posts this month about what I learned from visiting more than 300 museums. Last week, I talked about what I learned about museum workers.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Several decried the oversimplification of the question, arguing that it's not an issue of "lead vs. follow" but a spectrum of forms of participant engagement. Trevor O'Donnell : Leaders Use Their Words O'Donnell was not one of the invited bloggers but a commenter from the field (a follower.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals. I'm also going to copy portions into the comments section of their specific posts. Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility.

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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

APRIL 19, 2016

Our museum has already had several requests to lend our support to bond measures that will be on the ballot in 2016. We reviewed a handful of existing policies from other institutions (local and national, museums and not), discussed their attributes, and started drafting/stealing/reworking with a Google doc.

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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! Following the Museum 2.0

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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. But then, As we all know, the world shut down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. The platform was seeded with some initial organization profiles and a focused set of issues. Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. What is Jumo?

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JANUARY 13, 2012

If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19. To pull this off well you'll want to print up some effective signage to orient people to what Pinterest is about and how the museum is using it. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has a Pinterest Board with items for sale in the museum store. Just use your beard!".

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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

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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

When I talk about the hierarchy, I use the theoretical construct of an issue-based museum exhibit. At level one, the museum preaches to visitors about the issue. with the issue. At level three, the visitor is polled about the issue and sees her result compared to the cumulative aggregate.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

I spent Saturday in beautiful Monterey, ocean pounding outside the window of a conference room, where about 40 museum folks were pondering a question more elusive than the origin of the waves: can museums change the world? In two months, 10,000 visitors sent postcards (and fortuitiously, the government acted in favor of protection).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Last month, I gave the closing keynote at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand. Unsurprisingly, some of my favorite museums are small, funky places run by iconoclasts—but that’s not useful to most professionals who work for organizations in which they have little control over size or leadership matters. It’s nice to have both.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panel will cover the various tools (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook) that are being used to elevate protests, examine the benefits and drawbacks of the internet's involvement and whether social media makes protests more or less efficient, and discuss the issue of authenticity in information dissemination. Submitted by Ramya Raghavan.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. There were issues with a previous volunteer program that caused the volunteer to leave. Volunteers are the backbone of any nonprofit organization. Make sure to personalize this follow-up.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Today, an interview with staff from a museum with an incredibly healthy attitude towards experimentation with social media. Three things stand out in this interview: Like the Brooklyn Museum , COSI’s social media strategy is focused on local community connections, not national outreach. David: That’s right.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2007

This week, Free Rice , a very casual game that can allow you to use your erudite mastery of the English language to provide rice to hungry people via the United Nations World Food Program (UN WFP). Free Rice is linked to a sister site, poverty.com, which disseminates information about world hunger and other issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Allan Benamer weighs in with some observations after wading through the comments over at the Netsquared site and pointing to Holden from GiveWell to be the most salient point. NpTech Community.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2007

The exhibition of the art pre-decision exposes people to the art and creates buzz around the prize, and, more importantly, it brings museum visitors into the decision process. Nick Serota, the Tate's director, commented that "'the public display of four artists' work spurs people to reflect about art.'" Projects.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2007

Struth takes photographs of museum-goers as they gaze, pick their noses, chat on cell phones, and fidget in front of classically great works of art. What are we looking for in a museum? What do we look for in art museums? I spoke recently to an art museum person who said, “I think there’s an epiphany for everyone in the museum.”

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 2200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. Please try to vote for as many nonprofit panels as possible. Submitted by Ramya Raghavan.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

"The words we use in attempting to change museum directions matter. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. Each of these articles--and the comments around them--are fascinating artifacts of a debate that has been behind the scenes for too long.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

More and more people are adopting social media messaging, including Facebook Messenger , to contact nonprofits with questions, comments, or requests. As a promotion for its new show, Genius , the National Geographic Channel has created an Albert Einstein bot for Facebook Messenger. Museum Visitor Experience. What is a Chat Bot?

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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. Add to these challenges the particular challenge of creating a national institution. Many of Elaine's worries are passionate in nature; the resulting museum, to me, conveys little passion.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

About five years ago, I sat in a planning meeting for a museum that was undergoing a major renovation. The demographics of the museum visitors would match those of the city at large. Now, as a museum director, I''m thinking about that goal less abstractly and more concretely in terms of what a target audience can and should look like.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

and “On Sunday, are you most likely to be: at brunch, at church, at a museum, or watching the big game?&# Jumo was seeded with more than 3,000 issues and groups, but anyone with a social mission can create a page. Two of the questions were “Which of these places would you most like to visit?

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APRIL 15, 2011

This makes them less sensitive to small timing issues or large fluctuations over a short period of time. These organizations are defined by Giving USA as museums of all kinds, historical societies, humanities organizations; and media and communication charities, including public broadcasting.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2007

As part of the article I’m working on for the journal Museums and Social Issues on using web 2.0 to promote civic discourse in museums, I’m developing an argument about the “hierarchy of social participation.” Voting, whether for American Idol, national elections, or museum kiosk surveys, falls in this category.

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