Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The future of content management revolves around three key areas: Universal CMS Composable architecture Low-code platforms These trends are redefining how organizations build and manage their digital ecosystems. Universal CMS represents the next evolution, combining the benefits of both open source and headless platforms.

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Forum One

MAY 28, 2024

The Vega Awards acknowledge those who create and continually expand the digital universe. Forum One partnered with the Museum on a full website redesign and upgrade, to welcome more diverse audiences and provide a space to discover our shared American history through a modern, inclusive, and forward-looking digital experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. " Indeed, her first post summarized some observations from her research on how museums were using Twitter for her masters thesis. Tell me about you I am a University of Washington student currently writing my thesis to complete my MA in Museology.

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Forum One

MARCH 30, 2023

Forum One’s recent design work with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) Simmons Talks series was a dream come true: an opportunity to put passion behind a design that I believe in and honor the work of others who inspire me. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Participants are encouraged to use their own organizations as testing grounds, engaging colleagues in the conversations and work related to CoI projects throughout the year. The idea is to create clear, measurable organizational change to participating nonprofits while sharing the learnings and findings with the whole community.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

But there is much more potential to be tapped beyond the familiar conversion of industrial spaces and historic offices. DLR Groups upcoming conversion of a department store into the Albany Museum of Art, meanwhile, will avoid about 65% of the embodied carbon emissions (in this case, about 1,600 metric tons) of a new building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

I’m looking at “counting metrics” here – and I don’t have all the details of the overall results and the rest of their strategy – nor do I have other metrics - for example referral traffic and conversion rates for donations or purchases. Universal human themes appear to spark engagement.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

After the International Committee on Museums spent some time debating the definition of museums, many folks took up the charge on social media to give their own definitions. I know I’m missing early innovators of interaction in museums; feel free to tell me who in the comments.) We need new #MuseumVerbs.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I just got home from the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis. I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Instead, I found a standard art museum. Impersonal guards.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art] Indeed, wherever our team looked at trees in great artwork, such as Klimts Tree of Life or Matsumura Goshuns Cherry Blossoms , we also found precise scale invariance in the diameter of branches. Mitchell Newberry is a research assistant professor of biology at the University of New Mexico.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Consider the recent research at the University of Arkansas about the value of school field trips to cultural institutions. Educational reform researchers did a rigorous study of school groups that experienced a single one-hour guided tour of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. That is a given. Everyone would like more field trips.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 I''ve been thinking recently about how I originally got interested in talking to strangers in museums. Working in museums as floor staff cracked open the social stranger door for me. I was sought out and could initiate conversations. blog posts from the past.

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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. Societal Change: Impact on society, policy discussions, and conversations that advance sustainable practices. Micro conversions or steps.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Technology students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. We thought, Oh, how cool that I can carry my phone around and I can have this conversation. The Dallas Museum. museum, expanding access to the mobile tours even further. Check out ArtsFwd's conversation series on Audience Engagement and Technology.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

You can amplify a difficult-to-hear conversation through an earpiece or highlight a hard-to-see detail in your surroundings. Now imagine the same world — but your glasses scan every conversation to personalize a barrage of advertising. You can seamlessly pull up translations for any street sign or instructions for any task.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 31, 2014

In the community engagement universe, there''s a high premium on arts organizations becoming "embedded" in their communities. I''m proud of the way that my own museum works on embeddedness. When I talk to colleagues, I hear they are using Museum 2.0 In its own small way, Museum 2.0 I''m learning less.

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Twenty Hats

MAY 3, 2021

There were some beat-around-the-bush conversations with her about the rule-breaking, but they never got results and seemed to make her more confident in her choices. Lisa Marie Porter, MA, CVA, has been working in Museums in the public sector since 2001. We need to address these behaviors — they won’t go away if they are ignored.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2019

At the end of February, I attended the first of (what I hope will be) many Museums Advocacy Days (MAD) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. There was something magical about the combination of something I love – museums – with something that scares me: US politics. around something I’ve suspected for a long time: everyone loves museums.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

In the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s four part series on comfort in museums, we get down to the basics: creature comfort. So for this last piece, we look at going the other way: making museums more physically comfortable. And on the walls, my friend explained, was art from the museum itself. There was funky music.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

For example, a museum could create a fun treasure hunt by having people check at specific galleries or works of art. Harvard University did an experiment with having students use it to explore the campus. So, instead of reading trashy magazines, I got a chance to have a great conversation with some colleagues.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." He was mandated to turn the ship around financially and to expand the reach of the museum in the community. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2008

I once asked Elaine Gurian how museums can change. Here's the problem with both of these ways: they require circumstances that are outside of most museum employees' control. Here's the problem with both of these ways: they require circumstances that are outside of most museum employees' control. There's no client, no cash.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The money will be used to get more students into its universe of tools, as well as help Novakid expand into international markets with high populations of speakers who want to learn English. Within the classroom, a teacher may take a student on a VR-enhanced tour through famous landmarks and museums to practice vocabulary.

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Inspired by Stacy, I wanted to share some of the work we are doing at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History to clarify what we mean by engagement. I don''t think these goals are universal by any means to the museum or arts field. Expands opportunities for deeper engagement beyond the museum.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. But I couldn’t get there.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program. As one participant said, "the museum feels friendly in a way it usually doesn't." People make the museum friendly, not activities. In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Dirty Laundry had buttons.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Three of them are being hosted at my museum , and one at a mystery location. You Can't Do That in Museums Camp - July 10-12, 2013. In July of 2013, the MAH will host our first You Can't Do That in Museums Camp (or better name to be suggested by you), inviting 80 creative people to collaborate on an experimental exhibition.

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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

MARCH 10, 2008

Thank you to Susan Spero and all the folks at JFKU and Left Coast Press for starting a highly stimulating conversation this weekend at the colloquium on Museums and Civic Discourse. There were, as we say in the museum business, some good aha moments. There were, as we say in the museum business, some good aha moments.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We’ve said it before and said it again —there’s no reason to delay the switch from Universal Analytics (UA), the tool 99% of our partners use as default. Google changed it to Universal Analytics after they acquired it in 2005.) If you haven’t already started using Google Analytics 4 (GA4), there’s no time like the present.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

There are approximately 320 individuals on the Second World Education list as well as 20 colleges/universities that have built virtual campuses (including Harvard's Berkman Center ), and are offering educational activities in world, most notablely the New Media Consortium. Based on the TechSoup Second Life Group stats).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I've been thinking recently about how I originally got interested in talking to strangers in museums. Working in museums as floor staff cracked open the social stranger door for me. My first museum job was working on the floor at the Acton Science Discovery Museum in Massachusetts. It was blue. It was polyester.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Attracting donors and volunteers to your website, increasing conversions, and enhancing supporter communications are a few to keep in mind. Increased Conversions. Public Museums. Ineligible organizations include: Universities. Why Should My Organization Use The Microsoft Ad Grant? . Website Engagement. Public Libraries.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

posted by Maureen O'Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum. As the development director at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM), which celebrates the music of every country in the world, my team has a platform to fundraise internationally. O’Brien graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin?Madison,

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

posted by Maureen O''Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers).

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Allegiance Group

JULY 3, 2024

Say you run an art museum in Boston and want to attract younger visitors. Asking ChatGPT “how to attract young people to a museum” versus “how to attract young people in Boston to an art museum” will yield very different results. For instance, a university could use AI to craft a general fundraising email for its alumni.

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