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The Event-Driven Museum, One Year Later

Museum 2.0

A year ago, I wrote a post speculating about whether events (institutionally-produced programs) might be a primary driver for people to attend museums, with exhibitions being secondary. Many museums, big and small, thrive on events. At our museum, about 68% of casual visitors (non-school tours) attended through events this year.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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The Next Generation of Major Donors to Museums: Interview with David Gelles

Museum 2.0

Last week''s New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons. In the article, David discussed ways that several large art museums are working to attract major donors and board members in their 30s and 40s. David describes himself as a "museum brat."

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

5) Tony Shaw Tony Shaw (charityworks.net) is the Director of Philanthropy for CharityWorks Auction Company, the most distinguished charity auction service in California, he has dedicated himself to charity auctions full time for over 10 years. Jude, Make A Wish, American Cancer Society, and The Museum of African American History.

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Cool App Roundup: Arts Organization Edition

Tech Soup

As YBCA Executive Director Ken Foster told ArtsFwd , "When we first started we were in love with the gadgets. The Dallas Museum. museum, expanding access to the mobile tours even further. Museum of African American History's mobile web app likewise runs on most mobile devices with a web browser.

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Memo from the Revolution: Six Things I've Learned from our Institutional Transformation

Museum 2.0

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to give one of the closing talks at the Theater Communications Group annual conference in Dallas. TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. When I came to the museum in May of 2011, we were on the brink of closure financially. They looked junky.

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Quick Hit: Kathy McLean's Work Now Online

Museum 2.0

culture might affect museums. The true story is that I desperately wanted to find a way to engage in discussions with some of my museum heroes. Kathy McLean is one of my heroes who motivated the start of Museum 2.0, And that's true. but it's not the whole story. I am shy in large groups.

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