Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. The recent series of events, from Ferguson to Cleveland and New York, have created a watershed moment.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

Example 1: Walk Free , an international human rights group focused on the eradication of modern slavery, has three different levels in its megamenu. Example 2: The American Museum of Natural History in New York shows a clear hierarchy of content. They link directly to their listing pages.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

The Jackson Street Book blog recently reported that the New York Times and NPR have added BookSense.com as an online book purchasing option, in addition to Amazon.com. Heifer International gives poor families a sustainable source of food and income by buying them livestock with your donation. Yesterday is history.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2017

The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History used Giving Blueday to raise funds to begin development for their Wooly Mammoth Exhibit. The example here is Humans of New York. In this example, Free to Breath ’s DIY Community Walk offers a community walk virtual event for those who can’t attend their walk in person.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Gabriela Mistral. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. Edmonia Lewis.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

This post was written by my colleague Nora Grant, Community Programs Coordinator at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Pop Up” has become an international buzz term to describe ephemeral, experimental projects--from pop up restaurants to pop up boutiques--but a “Pop Up Museum” is still somewhat mystifying.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2013

A cult of linearity has dominated content on the web, with implications about how we think about effective storytelling both online and in museums. One of the loveliest recent examples of linear multimedia storytelling is the Avalanche at Tunnel Creek story produced by the New York Times. What have you observed?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Best Looking Emails: This is a tie between the Museum of Modern Art and charity: water for showing that you can still design beautiful emails despite all the constraints. Be part of our heroic history. New Year’s Eve Gala/Performance and more. Ring in the New Year in New York and Vienna.

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