Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

Museum Visitor Experience. Museums have been all over bots on other platforms, see the Momabot on Twitter for example. So, it comes as no surprise that Museums have been early adopters of Facebook Messenger Bots. The Australia Democracy Museum also has a Facebook Messenger Bot, with similar objectives. The Pop Bot.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

While understanding audience needs is the basis of all good strategy and user experience processes, end users often get lost or deprioritized in the design phase. All museum employees were welcome to join and ask questions, many of which led to important design conversations later on. Just like a good soccer coach does for their team.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

It’s not clear that money awards would be an important driver of this Phase: the gift of attention to the issue would be the main payoff. The bigger question is about how to structure the second phase. Awards programs are around providing incentives to encourage certain kinds of behaviors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

It looks at communications in three phases with each having specific metrics. Want to look at a few inspiring custom landing pages, check these out or cruise through these landing pages of art museums or other nonprofits. Here’s an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 5: Identify and build relationships with Super Fans.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. For the next two months, I focused full-time on the book in its most intense phase. Check out the other parts here.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 29, 2020

Now, onto the question: (Blog research) what’s one thing about living in this phase of museum work you need to share? I wrote on [link] about this and more :-) ) — Mar Dixon (@MarDixon) March 28, 2020 museum folk are magic. 4) To all the other departments in our museums.[gif].let’s Why online collections matter.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. But I couldn’t get there.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

Dear friends, This is my last post as the author of Museum 2.0. I'm thrilled that Seema Rao is taking this blog and museum community into its next chapter. You can find all my archived Museum 2.0 Today, I want to share a bit about what Museum 2.0 When I think of Museum 2.0, I started the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. The Museum 2.0 In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

The team at EdVenture Children’s Museum is spreading the value of play. EdVenture Children’s Museum increased donor retention from 29% to 46% after it was able to implement technology to support its staff in stewarding existing donor relationships. Assess funding sources. Create a timeline.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 9, 2009

Yesterday, I enjoyed three hours of graduate students' presentations of social media plans for museums in the Pacific Northwest. Jill Hardy worked with a museum that is trying to attract a younger, more diverse adult audience. For example.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

My kids had a long phase when they spent their precious and meager allowance buying Pokémon cards. Her clients include the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the American Museum of Natural History, and the American Red Cross. . Read time: 6 minutes. Nonfungible Tokens (NFTs): What are they? I have no idea why. What’s Dark Mode?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ruth is a curator of pictorial collections for Puke Ariki, a museum/library/visitor center in the small city of New Plymouth, New Zealand. Puke Ariki has about 70 full-time staff members, of whom 10 work for the museum, and the institution is pretty siloed. Where do you start? Ruth Harvey has a brilliant solution to this problem.

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VQ Strategies

JULY 22, 2021

We know of one museum that is part of a larger institution and must abide by the larger organization’s plans, phasing opening by program and building in order to ensure the safety of the public and the staff.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

This is the last phase of the project, which now includes all 54 countries of the African Union. Historical societies and museums might especially benefit from using this app. See how the Texas State History Museum used StoryPress to share the mission and story of the museum. Open Data in Africa. Images: Shutterstock.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2014

I''m prepping for a week of talks to museum, zoo, and library folk, and this is the question that is driving some of what I plan to share. I''m struggling with this now as we embark on our next phase as an organization--one with more distributed leadership. TORONTO: Thursday January 30 at the Textile Museum from 4-6pm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

That's what led me on the next phase of my adventure. 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. In 2001, I started at the Digital Media Studies Masters program at the University of Denver.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It might record that the user clicked play and then clicked pause after 16 seconds, or that they searched for the hours of a museum, clicked through to the information page, and stayed for 40 seconds. The next five months can be your learning phase. What happens to my existing data? Google has announced two key dates.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This is the second part of a two-part interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard on their book Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. I love this idea, but I often find that museum staff are really nervous about making any changes that might alienate current members/donors.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 14, 2014

Who is visiting your museum? If you’re a museum, blog about your exhibits, the excited kids from a recent field trip, or what a sister museum is doing. The goal of the Discover phase, as mentioned, is for people to visit you, so make sure you’re prepared for their visit. Who is volunteering? Talk about your mission.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2020

As with most legislation, it is unlikely that this bill will become a law in its current form as passed by the House, however it begins a conversation among the House, Senate and Administration on the next phase of COVID-19 relief. 5M for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. for broadband to assist in closing the homework gap.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2020

The most important thing to remember is to find channels to reach your target visitors : the people most likely to visit your zoo, museum or aquarium or to attend a performance. . In the consideration stage, you want to entice patrons to visit your museum, aquarium, zoo or attend a performance. Retention .

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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

AUGUST 17, 2007

It's summer; the museum and the exhibition were hopping. Exhibits, like casual games, strive for a neglible learning phase to precede user action. Plus, the fact that you wait in line to play creates a natural voyeuristic preparation phase in which you watch others play and plan your own strategy. Which means getting in line.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2007

Recently, I’ve been grappling with the question of whether or not it is useful to create project-specific blogs for big museum initiatives during the development phase. For two years, I’ve been working on the same project at the Spy Museum. In the end, I doubt that the Spy Museum will let me blog the fabrication of this project.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2007

When I read this speech, I wonder, where do museum experiences fit in? How often do museum visitors wonder what will happen next? From the earliest phases of development for Operation Spy, we always assumed that people want to play spy--not spymaster. How often do they wonder if they can accomplish a task at hand?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 14, 2014

Who is visiting your museum? If you’re a museum, blog about your exhibits, the excited kids from a recent field trip, or what a sister museum is doing. The goal of the Discover phase, as mentioned, is for people to visit you, so make sure you’re prepared for their visit. Who is volunteering? Talk about your mission.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Alan’s background as both a technology consultant and a CIO in museums and other cultural institutions meant he brought a unique perspective to a hot topic: technology implementations. Here are key ways you can move to the next phase: Perform a CRM Health Check. Trust in data and being able to act upon data insights.

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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. Harold said the response to the first phase was overwhelmingly positive. Is their board diverse?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

No one would contest the idea that most museum exhibitions, art shows, films, books, in short, most content experiences, have value both for the new and return user. Most visitor-generated museum experiences are about creating, not curating, content. Why would someone want to contribute metadata to the museum experience?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The Museum 2.0 I went alone, sent with a blessing from my boss at the International Spy Museum. As Museum 2.0 It's possible, if not likely, that I'm going through a phase in my professional learning and growth. blog started because of a conference. In 2006, I attended a big conference for the first time (ASTC).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2020

There’s power in giving ourselves permission to be the one to imagine the next phase…what am I contributing to what comes next?” — adrienne maree brown To be clear: I am an abolitionist. Because unless we all literally feel these things in our bones, nothing will change. The vision and the will to support that vision must precede action.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Characteristically, Gilbert Ryle points to a similar possibility in The Concept of Mind : A foreigner visiting Oxford or Cambridge for the first time is shown a number of colleges, libraries, playing fields, museums, scientific departments and administrative offices. He then asks But where is the University? 2023; Ngo et al.,

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

The recruitment phase is just the start of FoodWhat’s relevance challenge. And kids come up to him, kids who were reassured that his program relates to them on the surface, kids who want to believe in themselves and have the slightest inkling this might help them do it. FoodWhat’s waiting list is always a distressing mile long.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Again, how many of you have attended an event or go to a museum? So we’re going to kind of pivot to the final phase of our conversation today, around some of our case studies. And so one of the ways that we recommend kind of balancing this is by leveraging your board members to help partner with you for your stewardship activity.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

That can help us steer the company’s trajectory, kind of knowing what people will like before we get to the production phase. I’m sure you understand the startup phase, there’s a lot of hustle and scrappy nature of building a startup that it just makes it. We’re in a very delicate phase”. Or is it something that you two created?

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