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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. Me: Have you ever been to this museum?

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12 Ways We Made our Santa Cruz Collects Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

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. The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities.

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Betting on Braincake: Interview with Jen Stancil

Museum 2.0

Last week, Elaine Gurian and I talked about radical change in museums. Former museum start-up queen, Jen is taking a small organization whose goal is to promote girls’ involvement in math and science through research and programming to new, innovative, exciting places. Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

But her experience and those of the residents in her community inspired her greatest work, A Raisin in the Sun , the first play written by an African American to be produced on Broadway. She also wrote for the most prestigious magazines of the time, despite her gender. Edmonia Lewis. Are you inspired by women in the arts? Roxane Gay.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

--Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. The Love Lounge I LOVE. with sharpies.

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[VIDEO] Emerging Trends in Nonprofit Social Media Marketing

Bloomerang

So this is really how I discovered the principles of communications and marketing. I loved all things journalism, magazine, newspaper. If you have a tween or a teen, I’m sure you’re familiar with TikTok. How do I spot trafficking in my community? So I was a journalism major in college. And I loved writing.