Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2016

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. One of my biggest aha moments while writing The Art of Relevance was moving away from the idea that there are "traditional" audiences and "new" audiences and instead thinking about people in terms of "insiders" and "outsiders".

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 1, 2011

This Friday, March 4, I'll be moderating a panel discussion about experiencing art in virtual environments at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (4pm, 1 hour, free). Our guests are two of the people behind the Google Art Project - Anna de Paula Hanika and Kai Kewei. What would you like me to ask?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more? Here are three of my favorites.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve was founded in 2008 and started off working in the nonprofit sector primarily in research, strategy, and fundraising. We love what we do and enjoy being able to connect and leverage our combined experience to help organizations succeed. Qgiv has been fortunate to make wonderful friends over the years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I’m twittering December 7, 2007 Yes, it’s hard to believe. But, the biggest reason that I’m twittering is that as the Coordinator of NOSI , I’m experimenting with Web 2.0

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AUGUST 21, 2007

The exceptions to this in my experience have been very, very few and far between. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change. Be Helpful.

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JUNE 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux desktops? June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going.

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MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Michelle, the consultant March 27, 2008 Someone mentioned to me that from what I write on my blog, she wouldn’t know what it is that I actually do in my consulting work. OK, enough of that.

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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. Aesthetics of Experience: Photo-taking is distracting for other visitors. Looking at artwork through a lens means you are having a less rich experience.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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JULY 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology See a problem? website that is designed to: "create a unified place for nonprofits and experts to share their experience, pain, achievements, and discoveries. Throw a website at it! Be Helpful.

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JULY 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Eating my own dogfood. July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I tout the benefits of open source software. 3) Evolution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Epic Change is inviting everyone to participate in an online collaborative art project to honor moms around the Globe. She always encouraged me to participate in the arts. Epic Change is inviting everyone to participate in an online collaborative art project to honor moms around the Globe. I created [.]

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APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal, Joomla and Plone! April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla.

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DECEMBER 14, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What was it, the question mark? The whole point of the post was to crow about how positive the open source results were. To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools. That was my point. {

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AUGUST 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology A goodbye to Facebook and LinkedIn? August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. 4 Ruby Sinreich 08.11.07

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JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. I love open source software as much as the next guy.

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AUGUST 9, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux ready for the desktop? » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08 » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 06.24.08 I figured it was time to give my final assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. I invited her to share her experience in crowd funding. The art of storytelling though, and documenting an event or a slice of time is, of course, not restricted to bound pages.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. I imagine if I was wired, it would automagically work (that’s been my experience in the past.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Note From Beth: Yesterday, I attended a convening called “ Beyond Dynamic Adaptability ” for arts organizations about cultural participation in the arts. This year’s Academy Award winning film – Inside Job – is one of the most powerful descriptions of what went wrong leading up to the financial collapse of 2008.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Huge shift in online collections beginning with Flickr Commons and CC licenses back around 2008 but it will take another decade for everyone to get onboard :) — Aron Ambrosiani (@AronAmbrosiani) December 2, 2019 And, when you make that kind of shift to shared ownership you're willing to share in an open, trusting manner, as Heidi mentioned.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology March Blogtipping March 2, 2007 I’m folllowing Kivi on the NPBlogtipping bandwagon. She uses her experiences to talk about technology issues. A note: Deborah is an old college friend of mine.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. But first, a great example of Web 1.0 Thank you again for your help. 6 Debjit 01.01.10

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AUGUST 12, 2007

This is because all providers start out with some personal experiences or biases, and most are too busy taking care of clients to spend lots and lots of time gaining new expertise in a broad range of topics – they need to focus. 1 trackback } Linux Desktop Migration » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 11.16.07

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APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. Be Helpful.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 There are some interesting comparison’s out there – see Notmyself, Phil Crissman , and Jeff Croft for a good review of Ma.gnolia’s open API. 4 Michelle 09.27.06 Beth: nope.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I was so proud to see how our overall ethos of participation and social bridging was manifest in making the experience really wonderful for everyone. Or that visitors form a spontaneous "laugh circle" on the floor.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. To the extent that APIs make widgets possible, these nonprofits benefited from the use of open platform technology. Other providers, such as Blackbaud may follow their lead.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

On September 10, the Whitney Museum of American Art started offering a new membership called "Curate Your Own," in which members select one of five specialized "buckets" of benefits in addition to core admission and discount benefits. and that solitary experience person might be 20 or they might be 80. And we confirmed that hypothesis.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2008

The concept was born out of the e-commerce landing page optimization research done by Marketing Sherpa and Marketing Experiments. May 22, 2008 | Melissa Tooley Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The result was an in-depth eleven page report. You can download the report here. Thanks for spreading the word! All rights reserved.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The organizations are a combination of smaller, progressive organizations like Ushahidi and the Sunlight Foundation and large venerable institutions like NPR and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She brings experience from working in and around the nonprofit sector.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2008

The concept was born out of the e-commerce landing page optimization research done by Marketing Sherpa and Marketing Experiments. May 22, 2008 | Melissa Tooley Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The result was an in-depth eleven page report. You can download the report here. Thanks for spreading the word! All rights reserved.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Part 2: It's How Aggressive You Are My first year in museums, I tried to get as much broad experience as possible. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Given the email clutter your subscribers battle daily, how are your organization’s e-newsletter open and click-through rates looking these days? Dig Into Your Data: Look at your statistics and find out which subject lines are generating the highest open rates, and which articles and subjects are generating the most clicks.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In my experience, staff members are more sensitive to this issue than visitors and members are. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments!

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