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Exceptional Digital Experiences for Museums and Cultural Institutions

Forum One

Museums are magical places, where history, culture, art, and science seem to come to life. Our work with museums and cultural intuitions goes way beyond websites with easy-to-find visitor information (though that’s important too!) Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Local history buffs are turning to Facebook to share memories of bygone eras

Fast Company Tech

Facebook history groups and pages have popped up in major cities like New York and Seattle and in small towns and suburbs across the U.S. ” Marks says he typically spends a few hours a month preparing and scheduling posts, researching what the museum knows about particular images to caption them as best as possible.

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Making Museum Tours Participatory: A Model from the Wing Luke Asian Museum

Museum 2.0

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. I avoid them.

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Hello Museum World!

Museum 2.0

Or maybe hello museum world! Previously, I had worked at the same museum for 17 years.) So, when you visit more than 300 museums, parks, and historic sites, what do you learn? This week, I wanted to start with us, museum and cultural workers. Hello World! The metaphor certainly works in terms of filling big shoes.

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The Knowledge is in the Room: How To Let It Out

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. It was great to see long-time colleague from NPower Seattle Peg [.]

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Forum One Takes Home 8 WebAwards!

Forum One

American Jazz Museum Best Arts 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. The post Forum One Takes Home 8 WebAwards!

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s. Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation.

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