Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Content Curation for Nonprofits. Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Imagine you've just been tasked with developing an innovative, future-thinking national museum for your country's history. Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). The Museum directors released Blueprint as a showcase for these plans. Where would you start?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2020

This week we're hearing from Eastman Museum's Kate Meyers Emery. They are producing innovative online campaigns, reusing available content in creative ways, finding ways to create new content from home, and doing most of this with little to no budget, limited or no access to physical objects, and limited access to their colleagues.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

In this edition of TechSoup's Nonprofits Live, our guests spoke about why they employ user-generated content and how they tap into their communities for it. Welcoming User-Generated Content. Sample Ward started off the discussion by speaking about creating a community that welcomes user-generated content.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Author Herve Tullet uses the most basic children''s book materials (pages, words, and images) to create a responsive, dynamic adventure. Press Here is a "normal" book that uses book-ish tools--pacing, spatial arrangement of images on the page, text as instruction--to break the fourth wall and create an interactive experience.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Please join us for this free opportunity for inspiring content and peer networking. While there are dozens of sessions designed to pique anyone’s interest, we wanted to highlight some specifically created for the arts and culture audience. The goal is to equip you with questions to make evaluating solutions easier and more effective.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

It’s the person who answers your question about zoom or the person who passes on their work at home policy. Maybe that’s not the question for today though. Because to go back to comfort, I’d say let that question wait for a few days. While donations are going down, global interest in museums seem a boom industry.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

At a recent talk in Chicago, an audience member asked a question. His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. Over the past few years, they've worked hard to make their rich content more accessible both through digitization and programs. This is museum digitization 101.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Museum technology nerds: this post is for you. I've been thinking recently about distributed content experiences--ways for people to interact with museum content (art, history, science, etc.) as they make their way through the world outside the museum. At the museum? but none of them are great. Pokemon Go).

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Read the rest of the article, and the complete issue on Content Curation, when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Beth Kanter, Author of Beth's Blog Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Museums have used games to engage visitors for decades. SR: I came to games before I came to museums. My grandmother cheated at Candyland and uno. :) Games, I think, have a nice Venn diagram of overlap between museum lovers. I love thinking we're getting new museum lovers through games. How did you get into museum games?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

According to the new Nonprofit Content Marketing report from Blackbaud and Content Marketing Institute , 38% of nonprofits plan to increase their content marketing budget in the next twelve months. How can arts and cultural organizations start leveraging content marketing? Create Content. Absolutely!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. They thought, wouldn’t it be interseting to create a game to get people in the library who may not have ever come? Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Syed Salahuddin – Babycastles.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

When my sister first started working with a nonprofit museum, she had a lot to learn about the fundraising process for the organization. The museum had notes saved in their donor management software about the seating preferences for their major donors and that particular donor preferred their regular seat toward the front.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Mary Warner, the Museum Manager at the Historical Society, wrote a series of moving articles for her museum newsletter and later for the AASLH’s Small Museum Online Community about her experiences tackling big issues in a small museum. Whenever we are creating content, we like to use it in a variety of formats.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Creating change in this world depends on the contributions and commitment of entire communities, and everyone who joins a movement matters. And, unfortunately, the reverse is also true—what seems like a minor drop-off in your mid-level acquisition or retention rates can create enormous drag on your revenue. . Goals + strategies.

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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. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1.

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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. The problem was not one of content but one of form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. in an interactive activity to consider challenging questions about race, identity, and economic justice over a meal.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. So here is a list of suggestions that hopefully will improve the way your museum thinks about using Twitter. Or it's rainy so you suggest I visit the museum? Note: this is a geeky post that assumes familiarity with Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

I wanted to open up conversation about how we judge the relative ethics of various sources of museum revenue--all of which have moral grey areas. The vast majority of folks consume most content online passively. Some people actively play, share, collect, or gather online content. An even smaller percentage create it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. Museum Management. A simple online survey. Surveys can also provide useful data to track progress along the way. Exhibitions team.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 30, 2012

This post is the second in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. Due to the political climate of the time, a review of the Museum was commissioned in 2003 to determine whether the museum had complied with the requirements of its charter.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

What does "big data" look like for museums? Several museums around the world have worked hard to make their data accessible by providing free access to datasets, applying Creative Commons licenses to digital content, or creating APIs (application programming interfaces) that allow programmers to build their own software on the museum''s data.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Forum One redesigned the National Council’s website to create a digital experience that conveys the value and impact of its new brand. Forum One worked with PacSci to redesign and develop their website in WordPress to highlight the museum’s post-pandemic reopening and connect audiences with their expanded slate of digital events and exhibits.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Forum One redesigned the National Council’s website to create a digital experience that conveys the value and impact of its new brand. Forum One worked with PacSci to redesign and develop their website in WordPress to highlight the museum’s post-pandemic reopening and connect audiences with their expanded slate of digital events and exhibits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

Not creating Flickr slideshows to tell your nonprofit’s story. If they visit your website and can’t easily find quick links to your social-networking communities, they become frustrated and some even will question your credibility. If your nonprofit is location-based (zoos, museums, health clinics, food banks, etc.)

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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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. The Denver Community Museum (DCM) was a grassroots operation in almost every sense. The contents for each month-long exhibition were entirely community generated.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

You can also post comments on any chapter, adding your reactions and questions to the published content. Take five minutes and learn how the Science Museum in London created better experiences for deaf visitors. It went on to sell 5 times as many paperback copies as the top museum publisher predicted in its first year.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

A man walks into a museum. He creates a visual representation of his story. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. she analyzed the text on the jar labels for length, for emotional content, and for intimacy. What was it?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2016

A few months ago, the MAH board and staff started discussing whether and how to create a formal policy for advocacy activities. Now, we've created one (unanimously approved by the board), and I wanted to share it with you and the process behind it. Why create an advocacy policy? How did we create it? Here it is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. Another thinks that users should not only contribute content but also have a hand in determining how it is used. Science has an answer.

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