TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Today a company focused on experiences — museum visits, skydiving, local cooking classes and more — is announcing a round of growth funding on the back of seeing its own business bounce back. “We are the operating system for those merchants,” Bashir said. .”

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Everyaction

JULY 12, 2018

Considering our team is obsessed with all that is NOLA, we thought we'd share some favorite local spots to eat, drink, party, and enjoy the sights while visiting for the Netroots Nation 2018 Conference. Anyone briefly strolling through this park will likely hear the sound of a brass band and see local artists scattered along the sidewalk.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For example, if your town is known for gorgeous cherry blossom trees, offering paintings with these trees by a local artist can inspire bidding. For example, a local bike shop could donate a bike, helmet, and a voucher for a free tuneup. Look for B&Bs in unique locations, such as beachfront or mountaintop locales.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

I feel strongly that there are huge issues with racial and ethnic diversity in museums and arts organizations that deserve a million more posts. One was a conference on pushing our practice in art museums. And one was a local TEDx. In library- and museum-land, the participants were 80-90% women. That's why I wrote this.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. Given TCG''s multi-year Audience (R)evolution initiative, I took the opportunity to write a new talk about what revolution has looked like at our small museum in Santa Cruz. We heard again and again that the museum was cold and uncomfortable.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2012

I've always been a bit confused when people talk about the impact of a museum or arts institution as being about "more than numbers." I understand that some museum offer extraordinary, intimate programs. I was visiting with Adam Lerner, Director and Chief Animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. It sounds unorthodox.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

That sounds pretty daunting, but Ali, is always up for a challenge so she improvised. One of the participants had to take an onsite museum role, where volunteers staff educational carts and engage with visitors, and transform it info a remote position. Option B sounds more compelling, doesn’t it?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. Here's a photo of one of the retired couples who came with their family to celebrate her 80th birthday in the exhibition.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2021

Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN. NMAAM is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced, and inspired by African Americans. Even though the museum is now open, the Museum Without Walls will continue.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

Their four central points may sound familiar: Stories are universal. Colin has also spent time with the New Organizing Institute, British Labour Party, DCCC, and political campaigns at the state and local level. They bridge many divides — including cultural, linguistic, and age-related. Stories mirror human thought.

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

Others are looking at no demand at all, and with it, no revenue, because their mission involved gathering large groups of people in places like theaters, galleries, and museums. Imagine you run a performing arts organization dedicated to saving theater programs in your local public school system. It may not be as hard as it sounds.

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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! To some people, these events may sound like losers.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

I’ve received a few inquiries over the last year about museums and geocaching. to ask him all the dumb questions about geocaching and museums you can imagine… and a few more. Sounds like there might be some overlap with your museum audience? Both geocaching and museums are fundamentally about exploration and discovery.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2007

On Musematic , Holly Witchey has rigorously recorded her recent experience at WebWise, a " IMLS/RLG/OCLC/Getty sponsored conference" on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World that was held March 1-2. Broun talked about SAAM's initiatives both in the museum and on the web to open up their content base for visitors to use in their own ways.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. Lots of trust involved Adults serve as listeners, observers and sounding boards (i.e.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Have you ever been to a museum with no permanent exhibits ? On a recent trip to Chicago, I checked out the Museum of Contemporary Art. Plus, I know the next time I’m in Chicago, the museum will be a totally different experience, so I’m highly motivated to go back. Because they had a holiday light display.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Museum professionals tend to think this is OK because they think of the contributory act as the important part of the participation. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. I think this is why the Top 40 exhibition at the Worcester City Gallery and Museum was such a success.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2007

Yesterday, I turned in my keys and said goodbye to the Spy Museum and to Operation Spy, the narrative, immersive game experience I've been developing/building over the last two years. Adventure is a slice of a large museum, and it's been closed to the public for the last few years (only available to be rented for special events).

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

For instance, let’s say your organization raises funding to support local wildlife and ecosystems. Public Museums. The ad grant process may sound a bit complicated, and you’re not alone in feeling this way. Maybe you’re thinking this program sounds too good to be true. Check the list below to ensure your eligibility. .

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. We made a giant mobile for the center of the museum out of origami birds folded from visitor comments received in the past year.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 12, 2020

By Lori Byrd-McDevitt After a decade spearheading the social media presence at the world’s largest children’s museum, Lori now co-owns her agency 1909 DIGITAL where she helps others with their digital strategy. She is an adjunct in JHU’s museum studies faculty. Sounds dramatic, I know. Museums have made waves.

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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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

If you are reading this outside the United States, this sounds ridiculously basic. I got into museum work because learning happens in many places and many ways. Immigrant families found local leagues where they could participate and feel connected socially. Conversations about the tournament on the street.

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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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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

The mom has a job at a museum cafe, the older kids are in school, and the youngest attends a wonderful daycare center we are so fortunate to partner with. The thing I am most excited about is we are partnering with some local companies to offer our moms priority for jobs. We are so excited for them! . Use bullet points if you need to.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

Last month, the Christian Science Monitor published an article entitled, "Museums' new mantra: Connect with community." It took me a couple weeks (and various museum blog responses ) to realize what bugs me about this article--it treats "connecting with community" as a marketing ploy, a "mantra" rather than a mission.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2007

A local fire has devastated 200 local homes. What does your museum have to say about it? What do visitors expect of museums, and what do museums expect of themselves, when it comes to timeliness? In the public eye, museums aren't compared to timeless entities like the ocean. Pluto just got demoted.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

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). She talked about how hard it was to get different social groups to share perspectives on how sound should be managed.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2007

One of the most obvious places to seek out this kind of experience—in a good way—is the museum. I’d love to find myself rapt, ogling some exhibit or artifact with no regard for the school groups and sound effects swarming around me. Why isn’t Al Green coming over the mental stereo in the museum? But it almost never happens.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. I spent an hour this morning "brand listening" to what the online world says about one of my favorite museums, the Exploratorium.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Today, an interview with staff from a museum with an incredibly healthy attitude towards experimentation with social media. Three things stand out in this interview: Like the Brooklyn Museum , COSI’s social media strategy is focused on local community connections, not national outreach. Kelli: We didn’t just jump into things.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Chad: Sounds great, Steven. You do this and they say, “Oh, you know, that sounds a little bit like my neighbor, Monica. Nails, the car, hair, you know, all those local small business vendors that are potential supporters of the organization. Full Transcript: Steven: All right. Chad, I got 2:00 Eastern. Steven: All right.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

There's a tag applied to many Museum 2.0 Posts under that tag tend to examine non-museum things, from malls to games to ad campaigns , and draw some design lessons for museums from their foreignness. What aspects of that socialness are desirable in museums (and how might we mirror buses or trains to promote them)?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 7, 2020

This might sound obvious, but it’s easy to take for granted : y our surrounding community likely consists of your main base of volunteers, visitors, members and donors. Instead of waiting for them to come to you, go to them by participating in or sponsoring local events such as festivals or community block parties.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

And with the influx of 100+ people moving here on a daily basis , it’s a good thing the locals continue to remind everyone to “ Keep Austin Weird. How can you explore doing something similar at your museum? Even the beer we serve is from local breweries! Take advantage of social media.

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