Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 26, 2019

As 2019 draws to a close, I wanted to once again put together a list of the most-read articles published during the year. Without further ado, here were the the most popular articles published on sgENGAGE in 2019: The End of the Beginning of Online Giving by Steve MacLaughlin, Blackbaud. A lot has been changing in the museum world.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

As stated in a Forbes article , “As a board member, you probably shouldn’t fear AI, automation or the rise of the robots. I recently discussed what it means to be a “museopreneur” in a feature article published by American Alliance of Museums. You should, however, have a healthy fear of falling behind.”.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

What do Millennials want from a museum experience? Museum development officers and marketing professionals are all wondering if members of the Millennial generation (born after 1979) will support museums like our parents did. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) seems to think we won’t. The New York Times.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

Last week''s New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons. In the article, David discussed ways that several large art museums are working to attract major donors and board members in their 30s and 40s.

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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I spend my professional time online reading blogs, reading reports, sharing articles, engaging in text chat. I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects'

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VQ Strategies

MARCH 22, 2022

Recently, an article about Disney came across my news feed and caught my attention. The article opens with a question that visitors to Disney theme parks frequently ask of Disney employees, “What time is the 3 o’clock parade?” Our museum was well known for exceptionally beautiful and well executed signage (labels) in the galleries.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2018

This article is part of the bbcon 2018 Speaker Series on npENGAGE. Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh utilized their resources to develop an innovative retention strategy. Participants earn special stamps when they visit one of the museums or attend an event for a chance to win a grand-prize. Register today !

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2013

.” In it the authors discussed how you should use social media at a nonprofit and it made me curious about how museums are using Twitter. Here are eleven things your museum should should do to get the most out of Twitter: Create a Twitter account. Gull Wings Children’s Museum does a good job of tweeting about their programs.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2013

Over the past three years, the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) has served as the museum poster child for the debate on the public value of the arts. Last year, the DIA was saved from financial crisis by voters in its three neighboring counties who elected to take on an additional property tax to support the museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Mary Warner, the Museum Manager at the Historical Society, wrote a series of moving articles for her museum newsletter and later for the AASLH’s Small Museum Online Community about her experiences tackling big issues in a small museum. How do we get the history of the poor? It’s sort of weird how it happened.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2011

I have a confession to make: I've never cared much about museums on the Web. When smart people talk about digital museums and virtual experiences, I nod and compartmentalize it as someone else's bailiwick. And it breaks a lot of conventional rules about museum homepages. Is this the future of all museum websites?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. What are the best resources, including blogs, books, and articles? In essence, it is visible storage for the museum. What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 9, 2013

And thanks to you for engaging with their posts and with the reruns from the Museum 2.0 She knits together nostalgia and activism with a level of nuance rarely found in debates about the value of museums, libraries, and other cultural spaces. NAKED, BLEEDING THIEF BREAKS INTO MUSEUM, SPENDS THE NIGHT REARRANGING ITS STORAGE FACILITY.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

Last week, my museum hosted Hack the Museum Camp , a 2.5 day adventure in which teams of adults--75 people, of whom about half are museum professionals, half creative folks of various stripes--developed an experimental exhibition around our permanent collection in our largest gallery.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2020

This week we're hearing from Eastman Museum's Kate Meyers Emery. They have created elevated and new digital opportunities for public access and engagement within their respective museums at a time when physical access is not possible. My team will also continue to protect and monitor the museum. I’m new to this but excited.

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Volunteer Hub

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

According to a nonprofit employee turnover article , published on Nonprofit Pro, one of the top reasons for high turnover rates in the nonprofit industry is excessive workloads, an experience that is especially common for volunteer coordinators. Check out how Holocaust Museum Houston is using VolunteerHub to recruit volunteers.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2015

Trendswatch 2015 , the annual forecasting report from the Center for the Future of Museums , is now available! So when AAM and Blackbaud hosted Trends Watch 2015: Using Open Data and Personalization at Museums with Elizabeth Merritt , Michael Edson , and Stephen Watson , attending it was a definite no-brainer!

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2021

According to The Art Newspaper’s annual survey in 2021, visits to the world’s 100 most-visited museums plummeted by 77% in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Photo Credit: Devon Rose Turner, Natural History Museum, London. . Use props safely and make sure that all items are cleaned regularly, . Exhibition hashtags .

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 18, 2022

In this article, we’re going to re-visit the importance of conflict in non-profit stories and discuss how to frame your conflict so that it’s motivating to your audience. But what about arts organizations or museums? For a lot of non-profit causes, the conflict is clear, high-stakes, and very motivating.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Our best articles are the ones we define against what our other scholar friends are writing. And our museum change rate is glacial. The clash is basically the thing that keeps museum leaders up at night. How do we make the right changes to make the most of audience engagement given our museum culture? We make it.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Every few months, a major news outlet does an "expose" about data collection on museum visitors. These articles tend to portray museums as Big Brother, aggressively tracking visitors'' actions and interests across their visit. And then I started thinking: we do that all the time in museums. We''re trying to personalize.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2019

I was proud to work with amazing colleagues to lead major change at the museum. Here's his question and my full answer (which was edited down for length in the published article). For a museum to survive and thrive today, it must be relevant and meaningful for many people from many backgrounds. It was not easy. To Latinx people.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Whether you’re representing a school, church, memorial, museum, hospital, sports team, or park, a brick fundraiser offers a unique and enduring way to engage supporters while leaving a lasting mark. When it comes to fundraising, innovation and creativity are key to capturing the attention and support of your community.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. Yesterday, a lovely article came out in the local paper about what we're trying to do to become a thriving community hub. Lots more on this in the months to come, but I thought you might like to read the article.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2015

The book is a deep account of repatriation of spiritual objects from museums to native people, written by museum people and Blackfoot people together. This story starts in 1960s, though of course, the story of the Blackfoot people and their dealings with museums started way before that. The museums were not.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2020

Read next: 4 Ways AI is the Next Big Game-Changer in Museum Membership & Attendance. For example, an article like “ 9 Key Fundraising Performance Indicators Every Nonprofit Should Be Tracking ” can give organizations the rundown on important metrics. What is a KPI? That’s where the term KPI comes into play.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

and with it flocks of museum studies / education / exhibit planning graduate interns. I’m always curious when I meet these folks, who are about my age, choosing a different entry path into the museum world. The value proposition of museum grad programs is cloudy in my mind. Sure, it’s great to learn museum theory and history.

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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

Before you start thinking about how “big brother&# that sounds, let’s review the benefits this tracking provides both our organization and constituents: Personalized content – Because I know you visit the pages on dogs more than cats, I can now serve you new articles you are likely to find of interest.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. While there are many ways for museums to reach new audiences, when it comes to specialized knowledge, it's often a question of reaching the niche who care deeply about German watches from 1822 or the evolutionary shift in raccoon striping over time.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009. In my experience, museum professionals aren’t big reality TV viewers.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

The NFT is the result of a partnership with the Muhammad Ali Center, a museum dedicated to Ali’s life. This is a HUGE opportunity for all museums and legacy nonprofit organizations to monetize their physical assets without losing access to them. Disclaimer : This article is not recommending investing in crypto or NFTs as a strategy.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Use this article as your guide. Sporting, museum, or concert tickets. However, it also comes with challenges, including the work of finding the best auction items. You need to ensure that the items in your silent auction will be attractive to your bidders. So, where do you find the right auction items for your event? Paintings and art.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In addition to the case studies NTEN has compiled , here are some more examples the Communities of Impact and I have spotted: Children’s museum data informs health policy. The nonprofit Splash has developed an entire site called Proving.It Social media trailblazers open up.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2010

From the Brooklyn Museum folksBrooklyn Museum: Community: bloggers@brooklynmuseum  A Response to Rothstein's "From Picassos to Sarcophagi, Guided Along by Phone Apps": "Many of you may have seen Edward Rothstein’s assessment of mobile technology in museums, but if you haven’t it is certainly worth a read and a bit of discussion.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2012

> Read the Research Article on Nonprofit Shared Back-Offices. You can also read the case studies for four of the organizations we talked with: The Chatanooga Museums Collaborative. We identified three possible models for sharing back-office functions, as explained in our summary findings. > Environment America.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums?

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