Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

Below is a story from the New York times that gives us a glimpse of what that world might be like - where two high school children, albeit with some good connections, can demonstrate that some NY sushi is not "kosher" - offering farmed tilapia at tuna prices.

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M+R

MARCH 14, 2024

Museums can have a hard time soliciting smaller dollar annual gifts tied to mission, rather than a new exhibit, and this is a great place to turn the focus to why donor support matters. Pi Day, celebrating math and science, is the Museum’s signature day of giving.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. 6) Field Museum Store :: store.fieldmuseum.org. 18) SFMOMA Museum Store :: museumstore.sfmoma.org. 8) Getty Store :: shop.getty.edu.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This important awareness month is dedicated to honoring the contributions of Indigenous American Indians and the history of the country’s first stewards. Parker, a Seneca Indian who worked as the director of the Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester, N.Y. November is National Native American Heritage Month!

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

The New York-based foundation also awards annual Vilcek Prizes to support innovators in these areas. The Frist Art Museum. The Frist Art Museum is a destination for art, culture, and community in the heart of Nashville, TN. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History DIY Exhibits.

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Neon CRM

MAY 23, 2023

Visit Stop AAPI Hate’s Website If You’re an Art Lover, Support the Asian American Arts Alliance The Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) is a New York-based organization dedicated to “strengthening Asian American artists and cultural groups through resource sharing, promotion, and community building.” Photo by Jeong Park.

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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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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

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. Unlike a native app, a mobile web app is "device agnostic," meaning it can be. They also have some. The DuSable.

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Qgiv

MAY 1, 2023

This is a month dedicated to celebrating the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and their many contributions and achievements throughout history. After the country’s bicentennial celebrations, Jew approached Representative Frank Horton of New York with the idea to create a month to recognize Asian Pacific Americans.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Last week, I was in Minneapolis for the American Association of Museums annual meeting. As always, the conference was a party mix of inspiring and dull, familiar and new. Kathleen McLean led a terrific session called "Dangerous Ridiculous" about risk-taking in museums. Merilee Mostov and the Columbus Museum of Art.

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AFP Blog

JULY 12, 2011

Blending Old and New Tech to Make History Come to Life - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : "The site has been in an open test for the past year and won the 2011 Webby Award for the best site for a charitable organization.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

This weekend, I visited the New York Hall of Science. We looked at the museum map on the wall. There was a recent post on the ASTC listserv from a museum planning to revamp their wayfinding system. The wayfinding question in museums—or any complex space—is multifaceted. It had considerably fewer than 1.3

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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. Yesterday is history. Babatunde Olatunji" Full disclosure: New Mexico Creates is related to the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, where my dad works.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

On our last trip to San Diego, my daughter and I took a trip to the Natural History Museum. Harper Collins Publishers, New York. Let’s revere individual accomplishments a little less and start heralding the work of groups a little more — like the Lodestar Foundation does when it awards the Collaboration Prize.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2013

I''m heading to the American Alliance of Museums'' annual conference this weekend, and I''m psyched to reconnect with friends and mentors and meet new people who can inspire and stimulate fresh ideas. It will be hosted by Eric Siegel, chief content officer at the New York Hall of Science and consummate rabble-rouser.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This is the biggest wealth transfer in human history and may be one of the largest moments for philanthropy ever. Even when we compared them to other urban areas such as the five boroughs in New York, DC was well ahead. The Cleveland Museum created a society with annual events to illustrate the impact of their work.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

For those of you who can't or choose not to watch the video, Bela was sitting in NBC's New York studio with Bob Costas, reacting energetically and effusively to Nastia's routine. And that got me thinking about how bad museums are at doing the same thing--using passion to promote visitor engagement in new content.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

This technique was used in the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and continues in the popular StoryCorps project. Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late. In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

I've become convinced that successful paths to participation in museums start with self-identification. The easiest way to do that is to acknowledge their uniqueness and validate their ability to connect with the museum on their own terms. Who is the "me" in the museum experience? Not so at museums.

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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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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the United States, areas like Napa Valley in California and the Finger Lakes in New York are popular regions for wine experiences. Museum passes Offer a local museum bundle for those looking to explore more of the cultural and historical opportunities your city has to offer.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figuero - Claiming Space for Brown Women in the Digital Museum Landscape Based in Washington DC, Brown Girls Museum Blog is a new-ish site led by graduate students Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figueroa. The Museum of Impact is a pop-up project of short-term exhibitions on urgent topics of social justice.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

Example 2: The American Museum of Natural History in New York shows a clear hierarchy of content. They link directly to their listing pages. You may consider using this combination if you don’t have subpages for a section, or if you don’t want to feature content.

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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. University of Michigan is a great example of how a giving day at a university can help drive incredible support for a school.

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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. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

ska, an art historian interested in museums, education, and new technologies. She has created educational mobile apps for teaching art history and is the organizer of the Polish edition of Free Arts Day. Museum-themed apps, which I work with, are mostly just gallery guides. This guest post was authored by Zuzanna Sta?ska,

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Me: Have you ever been to this museum? several years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. It was opened up for question and answer both in New York and in Second Life. local time).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

Then again, the New York Hall of Science isn’t just any science center. I cut out from the meeting by myself to check out an exhibition called Open House, if These Walls Could Talk at the Minnesota History Center. It’s not every day that a science center releases an ebook about wrongful conviction in rape and murder cases.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers. The Change Network program launches next week in prototype form with a First Wave of twenty organizations (full list at the end of this post). Half are led by people of color or indigenous people.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

1619 (New York Times). African American History: From Emancipation to the Present (Free online Yale) —The purpose of this course is to examine the African American experience in the United States from 1863 to the present (2010). . How To Deconstruct Racism, One Headline At A Time, Baratunde Thurston. Code Switch (NPR).

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Our digital work with The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum won two silver awards, and our work with The Smithsonian Office of Digital Transformation won a bronze award. We extend our heartfelt congratulations to all the recipients of this year’s Anthem Awards for their remarkable achievements.

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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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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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