Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. I chose the Attribution Noncommercial license.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Written by Seema Rao Last month, I shared some of my thoughts about the best of museums over the last decades. (I I'll mention now, Kate Livingston, listed Museum Twitter as one of the best things, and I definitely thought this as I read people's responses. Many respondents talked about a fundamental shift in museums from them to us.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In addition to the case studies NTEN has compiled , here are some more examples the Communities of Impact and I have spotted: Children’s museum data informs health policy. Tools are licensed as open source, available for anyone to use and improve.” The nonprofit Splash has developed an entire site called Proving.It Now it’s your turn.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

What does "big data" look like for museums? Several museums around the world have worked hard to make their data accessible by providing free access to datasets, applying Creative Commons licenses to digital content, or creating APIs (application programming interfaces) that allow programmers to build their own software on the museum''s data.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art] Indeed, wherever our team looked at trees in great artwork, such as Klimts Tree of Life or Matsumura Goshuns Cherry Blossoms , we also found precise scale invariance in the diameter of branches. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2011

Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Museums in Houston, I was honored to chair a fabulous panel on empowering museum staff to take creative risks ( slides here ). Beck beautifully described her entry into museum work. What kind of support do you need to be confident about taking a risk in your work?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Some of these challenges were about mission fit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My approach has been to stick with Creative Commons licensed Share Alike 2.5 A few resources to explore, including the Fair Use Network via the Museum Computer Network (btw, the museum world is very on top of copyright/fair use issues. Keep in mind that penalties for knowingly violating U.S.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

My interest in gaming in museums was ignited by working on Operation Spy, an immersive, narrative, live-action game experience at the International Spy Museum, and fueled by the CSI:NY virtual experience. The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. This is happening very, very quickly.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Material should be posted under an unencumbered open content license, so that the content can be shared widely, especially in case of the Clearinghouse losing funding as some future date (so that the content can be freely moved to a new home) • Promotion: the Clearinghouse won’t matter if no one visits. The FCC should embrace a more Web 2.0

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TechNode

AUGUST 1, 2024

Based on the details from the Weibo photos, the Shanghai Akihabara area may include gaming-IP sculptures, comic merchandise stores, VR experience store, a performance stage, a multifunctional theater, an anime museum, and an AI digital human virtual experience store, among other commercial facilities.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

Take five minutes and learn how the Science Museum in London created better experiences for deaf visitors. Why make the book available for free under a Creative Commons license? When I wrote my first book, The Participatory Museum , I released it concurrently as a paperback and free online. Or how Food What?!

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

They need to build a digital experience that doesn't tie their hands with expensive proprietary licenses and high maintenance code. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. So often, nonprofits feel pain triggered by the decision of another department.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. But this is not just for The Tech; our grant mandates that this project be a service to the museum community at large. A contractor, Involve Inc.,

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

There are lots of museums (and organizations of all kinds) looking for ways to inspire users and visitors to produce their own content and share it with the institution online. The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence Sue Lawty. design participatory museum usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

How can you make your museum website more effective in driving traffic and raising awareness of your institution? But there is a simpler, more impactful way for museum websites to become more visible, cited, and visited in the online landscape. Museums are creating “walled gardens,” and it hurts online visibility and impact.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. Some of these people are professional artists or exhibit designers, but most are just talented folks with an interest in museums.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2019

I was a small fry at a big museum, volunteering for a project I had no business taking on. As Beck once put it, risk-takers need "space-makers" to provide them with the support, the creative license, and the encouragement to try new things, fail, and get up again. Fifteen years ago, my boss kicked me under the table.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2015

The Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library (MBWML) was established in 1958 and named to honor the mother of America's first president. The museum and library preserves the rich history of the Northern Neck through its collections, exhibits, tours, and educational programs. Images: Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The Ship of Fools by Hieronymus Bosch, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Museum Computer Network has become my Shangri-la, in a way. In some ways, museum work has this illusory aspect. Or museum work is like atomic theory perhaps. I'm pretty open to a number of possibilities in museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2008

Internal Planning: A museum was mounting a special collaborative exhibition with institutions located in five cities around the world. Using Flickr's Creative Commons licensing search feature, she was to find appropriate photos that she could use for free with attribution.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

How can you design museum spaces so that exhibits and artifacts become social objects--things that people want to share with each other? This is great news for museums. Unlike digital networks, which have to manufacture or solicit online versions of objects around which users can rally, museums are full of objects.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 4, 2023

The first ten licenses for NPSP are free, providing small nonprofits with several out-of-the-box tools and a standard storage amount. Large nonprofits using NPSP can purchase additional licenses, storage, and applications as needed. Assess what features are the most important to your nonprofit before reviewing CRMs.

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DipJar

JANUARY 28, 2022

Bryant likes to joke that they know it’s fall when the license plates begin to change. But the Gardens aren’t the only draw, it shares a campus with several other organizations: a heritage village, an art museum, the Extension services, as well as the county parks department. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 2, 2018

Disa McAlister, MNLM, is the founder of the Museum of Science and Sustainability, a portable museum serving the Greater Phoenix area. She was the license holder and head curator for TEDxMesa, has worked with gifted youth, youth in crisis and children with special needs. 6 Common Leadership Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 27, 2008

If your museum has many voices in the real world, you will most powerfully and honestly convey yourself virtually if you can reflect the diversity of your institution. The marketing director for a mid-size science museum, Jeff, recently showed me a YouTube channel he’d discovered which was created by a camp staff member at the museum.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Mexico’s law, which came into effect last month, grants Indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities the authority to grant temporary licenses to companies to use their designs and get paid for it. Cultural works are continually being recreated and revised. It’s not clear, however, who in the community can give this authorization.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Remember the road trips where you valiantly combated boredom by collecting license plates from different states? Museums should drool over this. Imagine if visitors thought your artifacts were so cool that they wanted, independently of any prompting from the museum, to make games out of them. Playing 20 questions?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

A partnership project between The Tech Museum , local technology companies like Intel , Applied Materials , and Nokia , and Santa Clara University's Center for Science Technology and Society , the Tech Awards itself is a testament to collaborative innovation and achievement.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

You have a kiosk in your museum where visitors can record 30 second videos of themselves sharing their personal opinions on global warming. Media release forms are (typically) used in formal situations—promotional shoots, program recordings—in which the museum, not the user, dictates the circumstances and use of the content.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 20, 2015

For example, museums have to pay for large (and often valuable) collections, security and insurance. However, the higher overhead rate does not mean a museum is less effective than a food bank at achieving its mission. Nonprofits have an obligation to give meaningful information to their donors,” Harold said.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 20, 2023

While most will receive the majority of their donations in cash, inventory-heavy nonprofits like museums or private libraries may have higher in-kind receipts than anything else. They can be harder to value as they include abstract components, like time or expertise.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

He is currently licensed in Illinois and Florida. 7) Kimberly Niezgoda Kimberly Niezgoda (linkedin.com/kimberly-auctioneer) is your go to licensed auctioneer specializing in charity/benefit/gala live auctions. She’s been a licensed auctioneer in Texas since 2016 and have since called hundreds of various types of auctions.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The company intends to roll its robotaxi service outside of mainland China, to Singapore and the Middle East, and already has acquired a license to test its autonomous vehicles in Hong Kong. The company knows how to make a splash. But the wooly mammoth meatball wasnt for consumption.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In this age of increasing hacks and cybercrime, the Norman Rockwell Museum has a lot of digital assets, museum operations data, and private patron data that need to be protected. Find out why Frank Kennedy, IT manager at the Rockwell museum, chose Veritas Backup Exec to be a key part of the museum's security strategy.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Dust storms have a history of causing fatalities The High Plains Museum in Goodland displays a photo of a tractor buried in blown soil in the 1930s, a reminder of the consequences of a severe drought across the Great Plains that came after farming had destroyed native grasses.

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