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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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Once upon a time, there was a beloved children’s museum in the middle of a thriving city. The brilliant team at the museum set out to find a bigger space and ran a successful capital campaign to expand to a much larger location. Like the set of the movie Night at the Museum , these guests had the whole museum to themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

This month I'm exploring the topic of digital games for social change. In two weeks I'm headed for The Games for Change Annual Conference in NYC (and I'll live blog it, too) The conference brings together nonprofits, game designers, foundations, and academics around the world to explore best practices for social change gaming.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Dipity :: dipity.com. Present.me :: Present.me.

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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? Give me a game, like the Smithsonian's name that artifact gambit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Branding themselves as the “Play” button for the Web, Wibbitz automatically converts text-based posts and articles into engaging, interactive videos so your supporters “never have to read again.” When mobile wallets go mainstreaam, this simple tweak in text-to-give fundraising will be a game changer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

An experienced not for profit fundraiser, and performer with unparalleled energy and charisma, Layne is a game-changer in the live fundraising landscape. Jude, Make A Wish, American Cancer Society, and The Museum of African American History. Layne has been leading the wave of philanthropy-based entertainment for over a decade.

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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. We’re in a moment in our field where we’ve spent a few decades becoming interactive. We need new #MuseumVerbs. Let me suggest one to start us off: Let go.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

Last week, my museum hosted Hack the Museum Camp , a 2.5 day adventure in which teams of adults--75 people, of whom about half are museum professionals, half creative folks of various stripes--developed an experimental exhibition around our permanent collection in our largest gallery.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

What kind of action and interaction already happens, and what actions or interaction are they looking to find? At least if you plan on interacting with them! Users can search, browse and otherwise navigate the library with this interactive system. Where are they: where do they go and how do they get there?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Fans’ obsession with the Hunger Games saga isn’t by chance. As a Hunger Games fanatic (if Disney creates a Panem-based theme park, I’ll be first in line to visit the Capitol), I’ve been thinking about how nonprofits can learn from the phenomenon and generate this type of dedicated following. Their story became bigger than the games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

For example, just take a look at the explosion of mobile apps for museums. iPhone apps are not a build it and they will come project! I'm seeing more and more nonprofits add iPhone apps (or other mobile apps) to their marketing mix. and especially since the dramatic success of the Red Cross Haiti text fundraising.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

--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. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Each interaction has helped to shine a national spotlight on the tragic frequency of LGBT suicide. The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum had 1100 pictures of children who were victims of the Holocaust. The solution was the Most Jewish card game - a social way to start the conversation. Remember Me. Most Jewish.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2006

First released in 1995 by an educational films company, the game has grown into the Obama of the trivia world. has gone on to build other games and tutorials, but their bread and butter is the crafting of honest, successful "interactive conversation interfaces." What's an "interactive conversation interface"? Talk to me.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Jasper Visser and his colleagues at the not-yet-physically-open National Historisch Museum of the Netherlands have impressed me with their innovative, thoughtful approach to developing a dynamic national museum. Last weekend my museum presented itself at the Uitmarkt in Amsterdam. I believe it worked brilliantly.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

"Putting Fun into Functional" is a really fabulous powerpoint presentation by Amy Jo Kim of shufflebrain , a unique game design company. Each one of these amplifies the extent to which the player/user feels connected to the game or experience offered. There have got to be some great ways to apply these mechanics to museums.

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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. Limited interactivity.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

While I was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art working on a website redesign, we recognized the need to be transparent with our internal audiences and started hosting a series of monthly open forum presentations called “Website Wednesdays.” This is like that friendly game or scrimmage with another team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! Check in with the game changers beautifully hacking tech to fight climate change.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2007

Yesterday, I turned in my keys and said goodbye to the Spy Museum and to Operation Spy, the narrative, immersive game experience I've been developing/building over the last two years. Instead of guides leading groups, there are actor/facilitators who interact with visitors throughout their experience. It's about economics.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Note that the relationship extends to every interaction between the consumer (aka donor) and your brand. Ensure all public-facing interactions are customer-service focused. Per the Loyalty Barometer, 58% of consumers feel the most important way a brand can interact with them is through surprise offers and gifts.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

interactive multimedia exhibition, exploring connections between the. also created a mobile app in conjunction with a Valentine-themed evening event to create a real-time "dating game" (with an artsy slant, of. The multimedia components of their app sometimes competed with the already media-rich and interactive exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. And despite the fact that I've enjoyed being at the museum for 12 hours plus for ten days in a row, I'm quickly realizing that if I want to really get some fun participatory projects going, I need some help.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

A quickie today, a quirky little wandering game in the Things Came up to my brain museum. These kinds of flash games are like a slice of theater; with a few sketched lines and simple interaction, you're immersed in a world. Tags: game. It's a point-and-click, so start opening doors and moving things around.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments. Nonprofits and museums depend on dedicated, but oftentimes limited, development staff to sift through countless prospects to determine which ones are priority. Source: Blackbaud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival. And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! Check in with the game changers beautifully hacking tech to fight climate change. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

During a workshop on museum visitor participation, someone spoke up and objected: "this might work in California, but it will never work in Texas." I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. In Asia, I''ve noticed museum visitors are willing--enthusiastic, even--to take photos with strangers.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

This expresses itself most powerfully in museums when we talk about building relationships with visitors over time. But museums are one-night stand amnesiacs in the relationship department. This is terrible, both for the visitor and for the museum. I expect you'll remember some basic things about me--say, my name. We hang out.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I like to ask myself this question periodically, challenging myself to find substantive ways for visitors to contribute to our museum. And when I think back on the past year, some of the most magical things that have happened at the museum have NOT been designed by us. Evergreen Cemetery Board Game. Happening Couch.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I have a lot of conversations with people that go like this: Other person: "So, you think that museums should let visitors control the museum experience?" Other person: "But doesn't that erode museums' authority?" If the museum isn't in control, how can it thrive? Me: "Sort of." and my emphatic response is YES.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2007

In the spirit of this sentiment, this week we look at games for lurkers, that is, games people watch. Games people watch? Isn’t the point to play games? I’d guess, in this country at least, more people watch games than play them. In museums, we always assume that everyone wants to get their hands dirty and “do it.”

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. Some of these experiments didn''t yield anything useful, but some were surprisingly helpful proxies for complex human interactions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2010

It drives me nuts that it's being called "groundbreaking" in the realm of human-to-human interactions. Chatroulette exacerbates the perception that stranger interactions are uncomfortable, weird, and often sexual in nature. The interactions are private, which means there's no external social pressure to conform.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2007

But this yearly music/film/interactive conference/festival/creative happening has risen to the top of must-gos for techy, arty, gamey folks. This year, one of the keynotes at the Interactive festival was delivered by Will Wright, legendary game designer who created Sim City, the Sims, and now, the forthcoming Spore. Me neither.

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