Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

Margaret shared these thoughts about "museums for use" on her blog , and I asked her to adapt a version for the Museum 2.0 Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use? During my time at RISD studying industrial design, I developed relationships with two museums on campus: the Museum of Art and the Nature Lab.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

We propose replacing this bulky element with holographic optics. You may be familiar with holographic images seen at a science museum or on your credit card, which appear to be three-dimensional with realistic depth in or out of the page.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

On Tuesday, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the nation’s top internet watchdog, unveiled a series of proposed measures aimed at regulating the application of facial recognition. The proposal is seeking public opinions until September 7.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

George Scheer is the director and co-founder of Elsewhere Collective, a fascinating "living museum" in a former thrift store in Greensboro, NC. In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals. Specific comments on the proposed Clearinghouse. Specific comments on the proposed Chairman’s Awards. I'm much rather post something in a blog than go through a formal sending of a snail mail letter!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On October 20, a young woman named Kate will move into Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and live there for a month. This post is not about the Month at the Museum concept or implementation. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. That will come later.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

The runner up winner was Maureen Dowd from Open Museum What I propose to do with the library you are offering is read it, try it, share it, and let you know how it works for me, my colleagues and the people we influence. As you know, it takes more than access to create a successful social media network.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2020

In the HEROES Act, changes are proposed for PPP that further expands its scope, especially for nonprofit organizations. Here are a few of the amendments proposed by the HEROES Act –. 5M for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. for broadband to assist in closing the homework gap.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. The Ford Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals or inquiries; however, they do have a year-round open funding opportunity in the arts, specifically for documentary filmmakers.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2020

Nina Simon, Lauren Bentua, and many others would host us in the halls of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art. I would like to share them with you, in case they resonate as something you could do and/or propose in your organization. Many of you are probably old museumcampers. Ivel is one of my fellow campers.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

Occasionally, the funder will offer limited opportunities for feedback on the proposal. It''s rare that you get direct feedback about your proposal without aggressively asking for it. Exhibition proposals. This is an issue we are actively grappling with at our museum. But they are also problematically not discoverable.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Truer words … If you feel like (re)making history, the British Museum is looking for help to create its own digital clone in Minecraft. Raise your glass for the RFP drinking game if you’re frustrated by proposal guidelines. Makers of the world united digitally this summer to host 2,513 events in 86 countries.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2008

I once asked Elaine Gurian how museums can change. Here's the problem with both of these ways: they require circumstances that are outside of most museum employees' control. Here's the problem with both of these ways: they require circumstances that are outside of most museum employees' control. There's no client, no cash.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2011

In the Netherlands, State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra slashed 200 million euros from the national budget for the arts, leading to the close of the innovative National History Museum project and crippling many superbly inventive and inspiring organizations like Mediamatic and the Waag Society. Well, they only cost me $8 apiece.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

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. Louis homeless shelters to introduce them to the local museums. Why can't new visitors do the same?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 9, 2014

Grant proposals. For many arts/museum professionals, writing text in 100-word chunks is a daily activity. Then I started using it for chunks of grant proposals. In proposals, it can be easy to fall into jargon and long, convoluted sentences. Exhibit labels. Promotional text. I use online calculators to assess grade level.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The Making a small world smaller forum builds on a proposal jointly developed by the State Library and RMIT University, which explored how a new center at the State Library could use elements of social enterprise, community development and social media to increase Victoria’s intellectual and social capital.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2014

They are soliciting project proposals for innovative forms of audience engagement. The strongest proposals will be wholly original and theoretically grounded. Proposals are due by February 5, 2015. Are cultural centres and museums meeting them? The theme this year is "audiences." Full set of rules (in English) here.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. NTEN used a hybrid crowdsourcing approach to solicit panel proposals for its NTC 2011, similar in design and approach to the method SXSW has used. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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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. We use these goals to evaluate our current engagement strategies, assess new proposed strategies, and guide productive discussions about how to improve our work.

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Candid

MARCH 14, 2024

Unless you work for an animal shelter with cute puppies or a museum with extensive collections you can photograph as needed, it can be a challenge. Last year, we were inspired by a video from 2011 to create our series on “ red flags” funders look for in grant proposals. Alter the tone.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0 People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." hour at the Museum. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour

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Greater Giving

APRIL 22, 2021

There are professional grant writers that can be hired to prepare your application’s proposal and give you a leg up on the other nonprofits competing for the grant. Federated Funds. Foundations are unique in size and type, but their operating status falls into one of two categories: private operating or private nonoperating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

The “ Valid Metrics Grid &# is a proposed standard being debated by measurement professionals, but can help guide your thinking. 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.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It started as a handout for a session that Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of Museums, and then I realized it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing with all of you. The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2007

This week, with the gracious help of Eric Siegel of the New York Hall of Science , Museum 2.0 In the spirit of that question, Museum 2.0 In it, Eric Siegel shares some of the planning concepts for a proposed traveling exhibition, Human +, about human enhancement technologies. Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In contrast, The Public School has a democratic framework--anyone can use their website to propose a class she'd like to take or teach. A museum can be friendly, or serious, or funny, while maintaining a traditional relationship with visitors as consumers of experiences. But it's far more typical to focus on just one.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. The Ford Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals or inquiries; however, they do have a year-round open funding opportunity in the arts, specifically for documentary filmmakers.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2015

I decided to give myself a gift this year: permission to change the Museum 2.0 But I also know there is huge potential to improve Museum 2.0. But I can be someone who dives into big questions, explores research, profiles powerful projects, shares surprising lessons, and proposes wild ideas. Dear reader, Today is my birthday.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums. framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. I provided the Web 2.0 and sniff around.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 5, 2007

Dear Museum 2.0ers, I started writing individuals with whom I have prior relationships to put together panels for AAM 2008, and then realized that is SO pre-blog. in museums experience with projects that are "2.0 in museums experience with projects that are "2.0 ninaksimon (at) gmail (dot) com.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Museums are seeing such deep divides as well; the old order and the new one. We'd defer to the fear of not seeming academic whenever someone proposed shocking changes, like bullet points in labels. I truly believe learning and scholarship are the engines of museums. Ever wanted to try a funny or off the wall sign at your museum?

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