Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Facebook history groups and pages have popped up in major cities like New York and Seattle and in small towns and suburbs across the U.S. ” Marks says he typically spends a few hours a month preparing and scheduling posts, researching what the museum knows about particular images to caption them as best as possible.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. EMPSFM is one of a handful of museums worldwide for which the death of the King of Pop is a very big deal. Are museums only relevant when they can serve our most pressing needs?

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Forum One

MARCH 16, 2023

Your museum may even be planning some audience research in the near future. Who you talk to and how you structure your research has a significant impact on the findings you gather and insights you can take action on.

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Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2023

Pacific Science Center Honorable Mention for Nonprofit Website The Pacific Science Center is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds.

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Award Museum Websites Audience 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. I am excited to bring the Indianapolis Museum of Arts model to the table to see what our board’s reaction would be to sharing ours as it is developed.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

American Jazz Museum Platinum – Cultural Websites Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater.

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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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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

American Jazz Museum Distinction – Website for Cultural Institutions Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Jude, Make A Wish, American Cancer Society, and The Museum of African American History. Over the past 15 years, Allen has volunteered for small elementary schools to major museums and nonprofits raising millions of dollars. Komen for the Cure, The Museum of Flight, March of Dimes, Lakeside School, Evergreen Health, and more.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

And a couple museum-specific sites and resources: I've become intrigued by the Incluseum blog , which is run by a group of museum folk in Seattle with a mission to encourage social inclusion in museums. Where do you fall in this conversation, and what resources have pushed your thinking about diversity?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

Here in TechSoup’s San Francisco office, we use audio and video conferencing every day to talk with people working remotely in the Bay Area, New York, or Seattle, as well as with our partner nonprofits around the world. Some of the more well-known private operating foundations are the J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0 On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. That's why I asked.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. The most reliable question I'm using works in art museums.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

at the Brooklyn Museum, where you could track how people of various levels of art expertise rated crowd-contributed photographs. I've been thinking about this as I prep some interactive prototypes for the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum, a Seattle-based museum of pop culture. There was Click!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Each of them comes from the extended family of museums: close enough to be relevant, far enough to spark new thinking. He is based in Seattle, but the blog is pretty universal. Scrambling at work, socializing afterwards. Here are three blogs that I''m loving these days for breaks from the chaos. Butts in the Seats. and actually funny.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2009

Nicole and her classmates are building a rapid-fire, user-generated online and physical exhibit which will be open June 6-8 in Seattle. As a graduate student in a museum studies program, I have learned how to develop an exhibit based on a collection of objects or a specific story. What’s the content? What’s the message?”

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AFP Blog

MAY 4, 2015

museums to create virtual experiences for visitors. Museums are the perfect space for Beam experiences. The Marriage of Art and Technology - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly : "Suitable Technologies recently partnered with eight U.S. The storytelling, history, and objects translate beautifully to a Beam visit,” explained Ch" 'via Blog this'

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition to being the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, he is the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. We created a sales gallery at Mystic Seaport Museum Stores, and began to invest in developing markets with collectors for artists. We developed; for example, a juried show.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 1, 2016

As I learned from Katie Boehm at KidsQuest Children’s Museum this week, staying fresh in your fundraising approach is more about the approach and strategy then it is about the channel. Training the telefunders to focus on the impact the museum has on the community and what their philanthropic contribution can help KidsQuest accomplish.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

You can participate in this experiment from anywhere in the world (I’ll be in Seattle at the zoo with a group of grad students). We tried this at the Denver Art Museum last week, and it is incredibly challenging—you can’t just put out a box of chocolates and expect people to talk.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

To kick off the course, we’re doing a simple exercise at the Seattle zoo (but you can do it anywhere). I believe that focusing specifically on the social capacity of an object, rather than its content or interpretation, yields new design techniques for museum exhibits and other participatory spaces. So how about it?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Award Colorado Websites Washington 46

NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Vu is a writer, speaker, vegan, Pisces, and the Executive Director of Rainier Valley Corps, a nonprofit in Seattle that promotes social justice by developing leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color,= and fostering collaboration between diverse communities. Now, without further ado, your lineup: Vu Le.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

She told me an anecdote about an experience with the Stanford Art Museum exhibition, Question , which included a keyboard where visitors could type their own thoughts about art, to be projected on a wall along with quotes by famous people. That audience--our visitors--expects that museum content has been developed with them in mind.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Braided River is a Seattle-based publishing organization that is committed to inspiring support for critical conservation efforts. The nonprofit creates books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Shoreline Solar Project is located just north of Seattle. Shoreline Solar.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2015

On December 18, at 10am PT/1pm ET, I invite you to join the denizens of Museum 2.0, Museum Commons , and Incluseum for a 30-min tweetchat about how and why we can give for change at #RadicalGiving. I had just taken the job as director of a museum that was struggling financially. Please join us on Friday on twitter to talk more.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Environmental Impact.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Environmental Impact.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

This summer, we opened two exhibitions at my museum that are highly relevant to local culture. Before the Princes of Surf exhibition, these boards rested deep in the collection storage of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. Relevance only leads to deep meaning if it leads to something significant. Killer content. Substantive programming.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I called in to participate in a radio show in Seattle , then zoomed downtown for meetings, after which I headed home to cook for a dinner party. They edit the conversations into radio shows, which are then made available as a podcast (you can listen to episode featuring me, #89: Museum Secrets, here ).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2020

The city of Seattle continues to propose an income tax that is, in my opinion, incredibly fair. But I argued that financial sacrifices from a small percentage of individuals is a short-term solution. Does it need to happen? I live in a state that has no income tax.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Last week, I prototyped four exhibit ideas with the Experience Music Project in Seattle. And so I'd like to extoll a humble kind of failure: the small one that makes you laugh, learn, and move on to the next thing. Three were hits. One was a total dud.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Though we’re disappointed to not be exploring Seattle with all of our awesome Arts and Cultural friends, we are super excited for our first-ever virtual bbcon 2020 ! Arts and Cultural will have thousands of professionals represented from organizations ranging from zoos to museums, performing arts organizations to libraries, and beyond!

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