Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. I'm generalizing grossly here, but for the most part, I find European museums to be conservative. I find North American museums to be risk-averse.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. A year ago, I put my consultant hat on the shelf and decided to jump into museum management (a sentence I NEVER would have imagined writing five years ago). Events generate media, focus public attention, and catalyze social energy.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

It’s the way that people share their real feelings on social. The last ten years saw our work move toward the service sector as rentals become a very real part of our business model. While donations are going down, global interest in museums seem a boom industry. Our reserved sector is just telling truths these days.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. The best social tools and techniques that leaders themselves and their organization can use to get results. Model the Model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The description: Using Social Media to Engage and Inspire Your Alumni Network. The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. It is also important to be mindful of how different generations use online social networking and the trends.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2016

October 26-28 in National Harbor, MD , some of the best and brightest minds in the social good space will come together to share ideas, gain inspiration, trade best practices, and discuss the ways that technology is empowering us to do more good. One of my favorite times of year is fast approaching—bbcon.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2009

I spend a lot of time talking to people about social media--how it can be a model for real-life content venue interactions and how it can connect museums and cultural institutions to users in new ways. Is there some reason that I really need to pay attention to social media?" This is an honest and valid question.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2011

Many people ( Paul Orselli , Linda Norris , Pete Newcurator ) in the museum field have written about the question of museum "tribes"--based partly on Seth Godin's book , partly on the longstanding fan culture that pervades our lives through sport , celebrity, and shared experience of mass events.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Each of these women push the boundaries of cultural institutions in different ways, with digital and physical manifestations. Ravon and Amanda are using several social media channels to explore and share museum exhibitions, programs, and projects. She writes about race, history, parks, culture, and politics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” The book offers some recipes for culture change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. David was interested in learning more about what American nonprofits were doing with social media, he asked me for some advice. Effective Social Media. Examples: Wildlife Direct and Brooklyn Museum.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

AS works with nonprofits across a wide range of industries, including arts and culture, the environment, foundations, and government. focuses on building collectives and community for social change. Their services include those in fundraising, communications, corporate social responsibility, and strategy and implementation.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 24, 2024

Kakati Consulting Group We design comprehensive fundraising models, develop actionable strategic plans, implement new data management tools, and evaluate outcomes for continuous improvement. AS works with nonprofits across a wide range of industries, including arts and culture, the environment, foundations, and government.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

When we say we want our museum to be "audience-centered," what do we mean? However, I have enormous respect for the customer-centered model when it is executed in ways that truly invite visitors in on their own terms and deliver satisfying experiences. Many of my favorite museums, libraries, and zoos are customer-centered places.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

For the past five years, each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has hosted MuseumCamp. This new, experimental training is a hands-on deep dive into the MAH’s model. I'm excited to share the MAH's community-first model and to invite you to this in-depth, immersive learning experience.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. This is the only post written by me, Nina Simon.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. readers, who I see as potential co-conspirators). Finally, we looked at assets.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Our goal is to help civic and cultural institutions become more representative OF, co-created BY, and welcoming FOR their diverse communities. We've see this model succeed at the MAH and at other community-centered organizations around the world. The model we landed on was movement building. Publishing toolkits. Consulting.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

AS works with nonprofits across a wide range of industries, including arts and culture, the environment, foundations, and government. focuses on building collectives and community for social change. Their services include those in fundraising, communications, corporate social responsibility, and strategy and implementation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The book looks at how individuals can avoid burnout through self-care and how nonprofits can support it – through activities that promote well-being, cultural cues, or an overall strategy. How cultural norms influence participation. A team culture that prioritizes collaboration and excellence. ½ Have story?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2014

I''ve been reflecting a lot recently on our museum''s work on " social bridging "--bringing people together across cultural, ethnic, geographic, generational, and socio-economic differences--and how to take it outside. Not that bonding with people we already know is bad, nor that we don''t want to support it at the museum.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

But first, let’s step back a bit and look at what augmented reality is, how it works, and ways it can be used for social good. Can AR be an Engine for Social Good? The possibilities are immeasurable if only we seize this moment to invest in technology as an engine for social good. You be the judge. So, what is augmented reality?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Imagine an institution with a commitment to rigor, depth, and delight in the exploration of contemporary culture. The Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona ( CCCB ) has just launched a new biennial Cultural Innovation International Prize. What new models are currently being used in this field? Imagine these two together.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

A few weeks ago, I gathered a group of creative folks in San Francisco and asked them, "what makes a social venue feel welcoming and friendly to you?" And then there's the Berkeley Ace hardware store, which has a basement lair devoted to model trains. To my surprise, secrecy and exclusivity were at the top of the list.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I often think museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested adults, alien and overwhelming to newcomers. What is the appropriate way to evangelize cultural institution use to the unconverted? Help people understand why you do what you do.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2017

Dear Museum 2.0 friends, I want to share two great opportunities to get involved at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in 2017. Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Last month, I went to an amazing training called the Skid Row School for Social Change. I attended because I'm seeking new ways to share the MAH's model and support the development of more community-centered cultural institutions around the world. Some people are rightfully fearful of "dumbing down" their model for scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I'm here in Chicago for a very brief trip on a panel about metrics and measurement for museums called "New Spaces, New Measures." I came across two more excellent resources on this evolving topic of social media metrics and wanted to quickly summarize before I add to the link list in the wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Trying to do everything, a scarcity model, is such an exhausting way to work. What needs to change in the way that nonprofits are structured and their culture to make this happen? Networks can help us build the capacity to take advantage of different institutional skills. Or are we talking about all curation?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. Given TCG''s multi-year Audience (R)evolution initiative, I took the opportunity to write a new talk about what revolution has looked like at our small museum in Santa Cruz. We heard again and again that the museum was cold and uncomfortable.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Auction attendees would be intrigued by a beauty package with valuable products like: Makeup Skincare Haircare products Fragrances Lotion Many consumers, especially members of Gen Z , prioritize purchasing from socially conscious brands, so be sure to vet your products before including them in your beauty basket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

This conversation came about after Seth's provoking post " The Problem with Non " took a swing at nonprofits for lack of adoption of social media, saying it was all due to fear. This caused an angry uproar on nonprofit blogs and Twitter from nonprofits saying there were plenty examples of nonprofits using social media effectively!

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