Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is the author of the popular Museum 2.0 Blog that covers how museums are using social media. Maddie Grant. Tags: nptech. Connie Reece advises nonprofits on social media strategies and is the visionary behind the Frozen Pea Fund. Johanna Bates is the nonprofit technology strategy for Community Partners in Massachusetts.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Diane is both visionary and no-nonsense about deconstructing the barriers that many low-income and non-white teenagers and families face when entering a museum. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. Louis homeless shelters to introduce them to the local museums. Why can't new visitors do the same?

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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

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. Every non-spammer editor who signed up was granted full access to change and comment on the content.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Not that I won’t still occasionally write about games, but they will no longer have a weekly presence on this blog ( though you can always find lots of them by clicking the "game" tag in the topic list to the right). The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. Tags: Tech Virtual.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

The site doesn't link them with foundations or grant applications; instead, it makes it easy to reach out to regular people for donations of as little as $1. But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Public memorials like the US Holocaust Museum asked players to respect the space by not chasing virtual monsters in it. The owners of some homes near Pokémon Go gyms experienced a sudden influx of trespassers, leading a few to sue its developer Niantic and secure tweaks to the game’s design.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2007

As part of the article I’m working on for the journal Museums and Social Issues on using web 2.0 to promote civic discourse in museums, I’m developing an argument about the “hierarchy of social participation.” Voting, whether for American Idol, national elections, or museum kiosk surveys, falls in this category. Watch a video.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

letting museum visitors contribute and collaborate in museums), I now see this as a crucial issue also for more democratic and inclusive practice (i.e. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

With unemployment and cutback, for many a trip to the art museum can appear to be a luxury. If you were to pay for the full cost of a ticket to attend a symphony concert, you'd be paying several hundred dollars given that it is impossible to make a ticket affordable without some subsidy (donations or government grants).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

This week, we consider Chapter 11 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum , "Function Follows Form: How mixed-used spaces in museums build community," but first, a short and relevant note about my writing process. Museums are naturally tuned to some of these but not all. short streets and frequent opportunities to turn corners.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000. and “On Sunday, are you most likely to be: at brunch, at church, at a museum, or watching the big game?&# Tags: nptech , Social Media , Web 2.0 Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

There are lots of museums (and organizations of all kinds) looking for ways to inspire users and visitors to produce their own content and share it with the institution online. The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence Sue Lawty. design participatory museum usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. But this is not just for The Tech; our grant mandates that this project be a service to the museum community at large. A contractor, Involve Inc.,

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

A grant comes in. We figure out the program that gets us the solution the grant wants. But we also know that it hasn’t made an appreciable impact on the people coming to museums. I cheered every time people tagged me in their shares. Rebecca also mentioned another issue about our museums and how we entice people.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Granted, the posts so far have been somewhat tech-heavy, but I think that will diversify more as the year goes on. Participating in this made me wonder: could a museum or library run a project like 3six5? Museums and traditional institutions are not typically set up to manage participatory projects at such a high level of detail.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2009

In 2006, John Falk and Beverly Sheppard, seasoned museum researchers and practitioners, released a co-authored book entitled Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. This is a pretty powerful and provocative book—you talk about rethinking the whole business of museums.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 21, 2009

I’ve often wondered why I’ve never seen a museum with a punch card system. But many large museum membership database systems are dismal at tracking members’ or visitors’ repeat attendance. But many large museum membership database systems are dismal at tracking members’ or visitors’ repeat attendance.

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MAY 7, 2021

Not chasing those sponsors, not writing another grant. We are going to do one on foundations here from grant research. So grant research, not just saying, “Oh, I saw this foundation supports that organization. So this is the Foundation Center grant database available for free use as part of the funding information network.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2008

Ideum, the company that brought you ExhibitFiles (with ASTC), is conducting a survey on museums' needs in support of an NSF grant proposal (Open Exhibits) to build open source templates for simple interactive exhibits (timelines, digital collections, news kiosks). What does that mean in simple terms? Check them out here.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 9, 2007

Last week, I went to an event at the National Museum of the American Indian to support the publication of Elaine Gurian's new book, Civilizing the Museum , which comprises 22 essays written over 35 years of experience developing and leading museums around the world. So do museums. What does this mean?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

I was planning to write a post today about the use of story in museums. A lot of museums--and web, radio, etc--are pursuing projects in which visitors share their personal stories around a topic, whether that be broad and profound ( storycorps.net ) or light and specific ( map mashup of Overheard in NY ). Tags: storytelling.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences. In this case, a heck of a lot.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

I created a directional pyramid to make a point about social content in museum; namely, that museums are not offering networked, social experiences—and therefore will have a hard time jumping to initiating meaningful social discourse. And I’m not advocating that the dream museum would be all level 5 experiences, all the time.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Last week, Elaine Gurian and I talked about radical change in museums. Former museum start-up queen, Jen is taking a small organization whose goal is to promote girls’ involvement in math and science through research and programming to new, innovative, exciting places. But my background is in museum startups. The way the Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2008

I'm at the Science Center World Congress in Toronto this week, enjoying the best (international idea sharing) and worst (fatuous self-congratulation) of the museum conference experience. Museum management needs to do the same. But (for good or ill) most museums are not tech startups. So that's the first step.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

It also helped me identify people I should be spending more time with in the short term (and it made me think of you, Museum 2.0 The cards were tagged with various legal structures, so that, for example, you knew that endowments only work for financing non-profits, stock options are only applicable to corporations, and so on.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Exhibit labels in science centers ask more questions than any other kinds of museums, and yet the questions are often awful--teacherly, overly rhetorical, and totally meaningless. asked by a cop or mother, garners the full attention of asker and askee alike, museum questions like "what is nanotechnology?,"

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

No one would contest the idea that most museum exhibitions, art shows, films, books, in short, most content experiences, have value both for the new and return user. Most visitor-generated museum experiences are about creating, not curating, content. Why would someone want to contribute metadata to the museum experience?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Why This Matters (to the Public, and hopefully, to You) A public library can grant you access to all kinds of knowledge, but where do you go to add to that knowledge base and stake your claim as an expert? Tags: guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences. You go online, and that’s why physical culture is at risk.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Most museums already have websites. I’m not an expert on museums who can comment on why museums have websites and what they use that platform for. It seems that the primary reasons museums have websites are to convey basic information about the museum and as a marketing mechanism for content.

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MAY 6, 2015

The American Alliance of Museums conference was last week, and I had the opportunity to meet and introduce the panel of a jeopardy style session, What is Prospect Research, Alex? As Heather Pressman said in the session, that’s true for grants as well (get on the phone and call the foundation! Prospect research.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

Granted, they can be logistical nightmares to maintain, but for many employees they are the only way to visualize and potentially connect individuals across the organization. At my museum, we have a list of employees and their language skills (intended for assistance with guests who do not speak English). Tags: web2.0

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

Joe explains some of the planned intentional dialogue events: First, for the opening night dinner, we hired a local dance company that is putting together pieces about visiting museums, punctuated by an actor/dancer asking provocative questions to the group. Tags: professional development. Are you headed to Houston?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Most games grant players a certain amount of starter skill. More interesting to me is the phenomenon of granting players some “starter knowledge”—for example, expertise as an archaelogist. But what if you are in an educational setting, like a museum? Most museum labels assume the visitor starts with little or no knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation. The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community.

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