TechImpact

MARCH 31, 2014

The National History Museum of Los Angeles does a great job of highlighting their staff in their Instagram posts. selfie – Take a picture of your CEO being interviewed, or your social media manager takes a selfie with the staff working in the background, or something completely unique. Show your employees’ flair with #selfie.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

Last week''s New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons. In the article, David discussed ways that several large art museums are working to attract major donors and board members in their 30s and 40s. David describes himself as a "museum brat."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2008

During my time in Sydney, I spent a day with meeting with the staff at the Powerhouse Museum and Seb Chan who writes the Museum's blog, Fresh + New(er) and who I have had many virtual conversations with via our blogs but have not met face-to-face. She took excellent notes about our session and blogged it here.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Mary Warner, the Museum Manager at the Historical Society, wrote a series of moving articles for her museum newsletter and later for the AASLH’s Small Museum Online Community about her experiences tackling big issues in a small museum. How do we get the history of the poor? But how did this specific project get started?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

"There's really no more rewarding work in the world than helping women and girls attain the highest possible quality of life." ~ Carinne Brody This month's Big Vision Podcast interview is special because it's part of the Girl Effect Blogging Campaign organized by Tara Sophia Mohr.

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Forum One

MARCH 5, 2024

This Women’s History Month, we celebrate the work that the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum does each and every day to bring women’s stories alive and into focus. Forum One worked with the Museum to create the 10-minute digital experience, which will be available this Friday on the Museum’s website. January 30, 2024).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We ended up with a gallery in the museum instead.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. to support programs and exhibits. Not really.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Audience segmentation and research has become a hot topic in museums, especially when it comes to crafting appealing offerings that are customized to different kinds of visitors. I sat down with Kristen Denner, Director of Membership and Annual Fund, to learn more about the program's development and the museum's goals for its future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition , an experiment in crowd-sourced exhibits. This compelling experiment in the wisdom of the crowds started off with an open call for works through the museum's various Web 2.0 on how different arts organizations using social media effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. The Indianapolis Art Museum has been doing just that by sharing its institutional dashboard out for everyone to view. It was met by with both positive and negative reactions from nonprofit and museum professionals. Two years later, we might have some answers.

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Forum One

MAY 28, 2024

The site’s design emphasizes three primary avenues for discovering content: watching the series, exploring additional materials like interviews and lesson plans, and engaging in real-world activities, such as building a native plant garden. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

One of the best ways to learn is the study, observe, or interview the experts. If you think about what a museum curator does, it is very similar. One is a collection of selected articles, slide decks, and interviews with Robin Good. That’s why I invited Robin Good to skype into my session.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Diane is both visionary and no-nonsense about deconstructing the barriers that many low-income and non-white teenagers and families face when entering a museum. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. blog posts from the past.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Interview with Donald Marinelli - Parents and their kids - web2.0 " "Kids don't find museums engaging. The keynote started off with a welcome from Cary Morrow and a brief awards ceremony. Wondeful quote from Dan Martin: "Wouldn't it be great (1994), if applicants could submit their applications on a floppy disk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. The Dragonfly Effect by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? But for museum and art wonks, it could be. Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

on July 18th and subsequently had a chance to interview her at her fabulous virtual office in Second Life. When I graduated in 2003, I moved out here to California and worked with the San Jose Museum of Art before getting a job with Linden Labs. I learned a lot from San Jose Art Museum. Mixed Reality Event ???

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2014

In honor of Idealware's On Demand Tactical Technology Planning product coming to TechSoup, I interviewed Andrea Berry to learn more about her background, the importance of technology planning, and more. She started volunteering for museums and eventually moved into the world of fundraising. A Background in Technology Training.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Why not consider comedy, dancing, theater, or even an interview with a celebrity? Virtual tours can be surprisingly pleasurable and rejuvenating while not having to travel anywhere — just let a tour guide show you around a museum, ancient site, city, or gallery while live streaming to a group of people. 13) Scavenger hunts.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 24, 2011

There is a long interview with me in this week's Good Times (Santa Cruz's leading weekly). We talked Paulo Friere, what museums can learn from dentists' offices, and the challenges of not feeling stupid while viewing art.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

." -- Tom Aageson, co-founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship A week, or so ago I interviewed my Dad, Tom Aageson, for a special Father's Day show on the Big Vision Podcast. I've posted an edited transcript of the interview below. That business really caught on, and it produced support for the museum.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

While I was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art working on a website redesign, we recognized the need to be transparent with our internal audiences and started hosting a series of monthly open forum presentations called “Website Wednesdays.” Just like a good soccer coach does for their team. They can even be done virtually!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Nikki created "The Ministry of Rules" --a shadow organization that existed for one week during half-term break, staffed by visitors who served as "Inspectors" investigating, exploring, and poking fun at the rules that make museums and galleries go. How did the museum staff respond to this experience? How did this project come about?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Two weeks ago, my museum was featured in a Wall Street Journal article by Ellen Gamerman, Everybody''s a Curator. I''m thrilled that our small community museum is on the map with many big institutions around the country. I''m glad to see coverage about art museums involving visitors in exhibitions. Community is not a commodity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2006

These were mostly museums like MoMa (which I wrote about over a year ago here ) and a few others. See resources below) He also shared an interview from the 501c3Cast for Nonprofits. See YouTube interview for more). Museum Podcasting Resources. Brad Stephenson gave a very good overview of the process and the tools. (My

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2019

Geoffrey Dunn, a fabulous writer and collaborator, just published a big cover interview with me in our local weekly, the Good Times. I was proud to work with amazing colleagues to lead major change at the museum. For a museum to survive and thrive today, it must be relevant and meaningful for many people from many backgrounds.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When you find a bar with your favorite song on the jukebox, or a museum room that feels like your grandmother's living room, you suddenly feel a strong affinity and are able to see yourself reflected in the space. It may be great for a natural refuge to remain hidden, but that sounds like a disaster for a restaurant or museum.

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2012

Case Study: Pinterest for Program Planning," documenting one museum's application of Pinterest to meet internal program and project planning needs. An Interview with ASPCAPro's Pune Dracker on Content Curation. Nonprofit Leaders talk about their balance (or unbalance) of IT for mission versus keeping the org's lights on.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 28, 2011

Save Time and Energy When Turning Interviews Into Content by Joanne Fritz on the About.com Nonprofit Charitable Orgs blog. Ask for the interview well in advance. Unless you're covering a breaking news story, you likely have the luxury of letting the interviewee know in plenty of time that you'd like to interview them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Stay tuned for a video interview I did with him while in Vegas. But even more fun was this video interview with the good folks at the Gifts In Kind International who I ran into in the lobby and they pulled out their copy of the book and shared a few thoughts about they’re applying the ideas. Independent Sector in Atlanta.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). It's easier to secure grants for community-based programming or exhibitions, but it's not easy to get funding for some of the core work that museums do.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. CA: One of the best things that happened to me while volunteering for the local art museum is they funded my travel to Los Angeles and my tuition to take the week-long grant writing training bootcamp hosted by The Grantsmanship Center.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

I recently read the BERI report on bilingual labels in museums and was blown away by its findings. in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. is a controversial topic, and the same is true in museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2005

She has worked in museum informatics for many years, including 10 as co-chair of Museums and the Web. (I I interviewed her (but not about STEVE) for a technology and the arts paper I researched and co-authored for NPower a few years back.). Steve is mentioned in an recent C-NET article. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech

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