Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. A year ago, I put my consultant hat on the shelf and decided to jump into museum management (a sentence I NEVER would have imagined writing five years ago). I'm open to any questions you want to raise in the comments.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We’ve said it before and said it again —there’s no reason to delay the switch from Universal Analytics (UA), the tool 99% of our partners use as default. Understanding the history of Google’s analytics suite is useful in better understanding GA4. Google changed it to Universal Analytics after they acquired it in 2005.)

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

These were modest jobs, many in campus offices working with university administrators and faculty members. While securing my two university degrees, I conducted in-depth research. It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. Q: Will it help to become a volunteer?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. and "why?" to "how?".

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2016

On Giving Tuesday 2015 , The Office of University Development at University of Michigan set an example for how this kind of thoughtful planning and preparation can dramatically increase results: 1000 donors completed gifts online within the first 49 minutes. $1 1 million was raised by 10:03 a.m. Advanced Planning.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But Vi doesn't work in a science museum. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who are well known in museums for their excellent Smarthistory website and podcasts. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. the way the best museums do.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

How does this question play out in museums? At the 2013 American Alliance of Museums annual conference, a group of exhibition designers explored authenticity in a session called Is it Real? They explored a huge range of museum objects and grey areas of "realness." To remake a thing correctly is to discover its essence.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Search for passes to the most popular theme parks like: Cedar Point Disney World Disneyland Universal Studios Six Flags You can offer one-day, multi-day, or season passes, depending on availability. 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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. Last month, TechSoup and TechSoup Romania's hourlong tweet chat explored content curation and the best tools for it. You may already be using content curation tools if you visit the web on a regular basis. What Is Content Curation?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Technology students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. And check out Code For America's roundup of mobile art discovery tools for even more ways to use mobile devices to discover and engage with public art. The Dallas Museum. museum, expanding access to the mobile tours even further. They also have some.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. One of the things I always focus on in participatory exhibit design is ensuring that everyone has the same tools to work with. Constrain the input, free the output. That''s expected.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2017

Your supporters expect fundraising tools that are accessible via a mobile device. The financial commitment for the organization is focused on providing fundraising tools and coaching, not on physical logistics. Your job is to provide them with tools to accurately talk about your mission in conjunction with their wild idea.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Forum One

APRIL 16, 2024

Not a new tool, a new way of working It’s helpful to think about composable architecture as an evolution. It’s “composable” because you can use different tools and processes and put them all together through an API. Just like a universal power cord, API standards ensure that all the tools and processes work together.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

This year, Forum One took home one platinum, four gold, and six silver awards in the categories of cultural, non-profit, science, health, and school/university websites, as well as digital branded content, arts and culture virtual experiences, and family and kids apps and software. Department of Energy.

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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). Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out professional development.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 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. Department of Energy.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

This 157-page report created a useful tool for Zero to Three’s advocacy at any stage. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Excellence – Website for Science The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) is a multipurpose research facility operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2022

The Vega Awards acknowledge those who create and continually expand the digital universe. National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. This tool provides data on schools across the country – School Districts, Colleges and Universities, Legal Units (i.e.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Today, a conversation with Elisa Giaccardi , from the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design at University of Colorado , Boulder. Elisa’s focus is interactive arts, media design, and cultural management, and she has been involved in many pertinent projects, such as MUVI (the Virtual Museum of the Collective Memory of Lombardia).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2011

Note: This post is written in response to recent articles about museums by Arianna Huffington (on museums and new media) and Ed Rothstein (on museums and ethnic identity). I appreciate that you write about museums, and by doing so, publicize their work and efforts. Myth #1: Museums are about contemplation.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Inspired by Stacy, I wanted to share some of the work we are doing at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History to clarify what we mean by engagement. I don''t think these goals are universal by any means to the museum or arts field. Connected to our core content of contemporary art and regional history.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

As of Febuary 2011 however, they have added a feature that goes a step beyond: streetview history. Usahidi , an interactive map-based information collection tool was born out of a need to capture and report post-election violence during Kenya’s 2008 presidential elections. Scale of Stories = Scale of Identity.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Ideally, it is full of high-quality and relevant content about your nonprofit’s history, current campaigns, and future goals. Public Museums. Ineligible organizations include: Universities. Attracting donors and volunteers to your website, increasing conversions, and enhancing supporter communications are a few to keep in mind.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

Whether it's my posters in the street, or books that I'm publishing that are getting out to bookstores, or workshops, or my speaking in different universities with different young people, I really see art as a way of changing our communities. It's such a powerful tool for me, because I'm able to look at, "OK. What is your messaging?

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

As a platform for such local activity, more participatory forms of engagement are already envisaged—an area “culture pass” for museums and arts institutions is one exciting example—to further stimulate local activity. Local Currency as a Tool for Community Economic Development.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

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. If there was a way to engage these deep emotions in the context of science museums, then there is an opportunity to expand our impact. Not that it was sad, but that it was human. It hasn''t.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Why do you care about and or work in museums? I don't work in museums because I love them. I didn't grow up staring open-mouthed at natural history dioramas or wandering through art galleries. When I visit a new city, I don't clamor to visit museums. I don't work in museums because I love them. I go on hikes.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

It has introduced me to corrupt university fundraisers , the true history of Tom Dooley , and the world's oldest marathon runner. All this delightful non-fiction makes me wonder: why aren't museums great at telling these same kinds of deep, intense stories? This seems strange given that museums are organized around objects.

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