Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

American Jazz Museum Gold – Cultural Institutions Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Today on Museum 2.0, How did you first get involved with Museum Hack?

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Forum One

JANUARY 30, 2024

congressional districts, empowering policymakers to make informed decisions. The implementation employed a headless architecture with a Contentful back-end, React front-end, and interactive maps featuring Carto. This innovative project offers comprehensive data on 36 metrics for all 435 U.S.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

When my sister first started working with a nonprofit museum, she had a lot to learn about the fundraising process for the organization. The museum had notes saved in their donor management software about the seating preferences for their major donors and that particular donor preferred their regular seat toward the front.

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VQ Strategies

MARCH 22, 2022

Rather, they are trained to recognize that park visitors are likely seeking additional information. Cast members draw upon their extensive training in customer service to offer additional information, providing advice customized to that visitor. They may want to know when the parade will get to them or where the best vantage point is.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

Join Our Newsletter is displayed first, followed by links to social media accounts on the Newport Harbor Nautical Museum website. Long Island Children’s Museum has “Join Our Email List” at the top of their website. Require Minimal Information. Harbor History Museum asks for only the basics.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 28th annual awards includes over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. They tell histories of white male conquest. I never saw comparable adjectives used in the European art labels at the museum.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

It’s a way of interacting with other people, other places, and other times from anywhere you are. Here are some ideas: Share Community History – Non-organizational community groups and nonprofits that focus on a specific locality can create hyperlocal community engagement through pictures and documentation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. For years we have been producing digital media to fulfill our mission of educating the public about science and history.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 27th annual awards includes over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. The Frist Art Museum. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History DIY Exhibits.

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Twenty Hats

MAY 3, 2021

Whenever I start working with a new colleague who will interact with volunteers, I always brief them on my ‘Iron Hug’ philosophy. R esolve, and do not avoid conflicts, making informed decisions based in policy while showing care for the individual’s viewpoint. And how do you train co-workers who engage volunteers in this approach?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

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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Kindful

JANUARY 5, 2022

Despite this limitation, the data included in this study can provide benchmarks that might be useful in informing how much your organization would like to spend on advertising. Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions. Pella Historical Society and Museums. Let’s start with the highest median annual ad spend. .

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

We've morphed ourselves into an alternate history. The museums of the world are collaborating to bring you #MuseumGames every Sunday, with a new crossword puzzle each week featuring clues from all sorts of museums. ??: While donations are going down, global interest in museums seem a boom industry. The work we do matters.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

Last week, I visited the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle. I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). I'm always a bit nervous when I visit a museum I love from afar. What if it isn't what I expected?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. The museum gets better the more people use it.

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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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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

What You Can Do With Nonprofit Database Segmentation Broadly, nonprofit database segmentation is the process of breaking your donors into specific categories based on the information you know about them. That information will help you adjust your strategies. Let’s use the following example family. You can segment by: 1.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Our participants came from a variety of sectors including museums, advocacy, arts, religion, and education. Given the variety of sectors represented, there were a unique range of ideas that leaders shared, such as; • A museum, unable to have visitors, became much more connected with. What was positive? What was negative?”.

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Everyaction

JULY 5, 2018

Arts and culture organizations such as media companies, magazines, public radio stations, museums, theaters, and arts advocates have unique needs when it comes to data management.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This morning, I checked in on the Pocket Museums on our museum's ground floor. After I took down all the "kick me" and "kick it" post-its covering the Pocket Museum title label in the men's room, I realized that this is the perfect example of an A-to-B test for gendered response to a participatory museum experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2010

At the Natural History Museum, we visited the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins , an immersive, interactive journey through the origins of human beings and the dramatic stories of survival and extinction in the midst of earth’s history of climate change. We spent most of the day at the Smithsonian.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Understanding the history of Google’s analytics suite is useful in better understanding GA4. In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. This kind of information can help organizations develop meaningful content.

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Everyaction

JULY 16, 2018

Effective fundraising, member engagement, and volunteer management all hinge on the ability to collect and easily utilize information about supporters in both online and offline interactions. Operating this type of organization presents unique challenges, and requires that staff are set up to achieve their fullest potential.

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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. I'm fascinated by social networking and am interested in finding ways for museums to appeal to all types of people.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

So, how do we help our audiences find the information they need? Designing a desktop menu is one way; it’s one aspect of navigation that informs a website’s overall structure. Your audience is ultimately the one interacting with the site, and so you want to be certain that you’re solving the right problems.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We’ve been doing a little experiment at our museum with labels. The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum recently loaned us some fabulous surfboards that tell the co-mingled history of surfing and redwood trees in Santa Cruz. We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

database and mobile apps were created by Information Science and. interactive multimedia exhibition, exploring connections between the. The multimedia components of their app sometimes competed with the already media-rich and interactive exhibition. The Dallas Museum. But beware of sensory overload. Educate app users.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, we take our interns seriously, give them real responsibility, creative challenges, and meaningful work opportunities. We also have fabulous opportunities in Community Programs, Education, and Development - please check the website for all the options and information on how to apply.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2012

A woman walks into your museum. They wrote a comment about their experience that got turned into a bird by other visitors in the public sculpture hanging in the middle of the museum. They wrote a comment about their experience that got turned into a bird by other visitors in the public sculpture hanging in the middle of the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It’s a design challenge.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It started as a handout for a session that Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of Museums, and then I realized it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing with all of you. The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Last week, I was in Minneapolis for the American Association of Museums annual meeting. Kathleen McLean led a terrific session called "Dangerous Ridiculous" about risk-taking in museums. Interestingly, at my museum, our team is naturally better at ridiculous than we are at dangerous. I found this idea really powerful.

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