Museum 2.0

MAY 11, 2009

You know how Ira Glass recently broadcast his radio show This American Life live to movie theaters across North America? I'm doing a workshop with the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History which includes a public lecture on "the multi-platform museum" on May 18 at 3pm ET (GMT -5). What is a multi-platform museum?

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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. It depends.

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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

JUNE 9, 2009

Yesterday, I enjoyed three hours of graduate students' presentations of social media plans for museums in the Pacific Northwest. In most cases, parts 1 and 2 were discussed in a meeting as background research, and then the project idea (part 3) was presented back by the project developer for feedback from the larger team. For example.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Thanks to Kyle Evans, who forwarded me the fascinating, lengthy master’s dissertation.art: Situating Internet Art in the Modern Museum by Karen Verschooren at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. In it, Karen provides a survey of the evolving relationship of Internet art to art museums. Citizen science programs. On the website?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

As an added benefit these types of classes are often easy to broadcast live. You may also enhance a standard film screening by having a group watch party or a livestream post-screening discussion. The disadvantages are that most people will not be willing to pay more than $1 or $2 to attend a book club discussion. In Conclusion.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

Last year, I wrote a post explaining what Twitter is and how it might be applied in museums. Now, a year later, I’m using Twitter on a daily basis, and it’s brought up some new observations about participation on websites and in interactive venues like museums. I’d love Museum 2.0 It’s about conversations. Twitter is different.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

On Tuesday, I reviewed Elaine Gurian’s essay, Choosing Among the Options , on museum archetypes and self-definition. Today, discussion with Elaine about ways museums choose their direction, how change is possible, and new museum types to be added to the list. What if you don’t want to be identified as one type of museum?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

The essays in this section, on “Expressing and Co-Creating,” present projects in which visitors create exhibition content, contribute to its creation, or get a heavy done of meaning-making in their experience of museum content. Who controls the content in the museum? Who controls the museum experience? First, museum content.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

This is the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s book club on Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , a collection of essays edited by Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean. Ultimately, the arguments against including visitor voices come down to a lack of respect for visitors as meaning-makers in museums.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. In February 2001, AAM commissioned a study about the trustworthiness of museums and found that "Almost 9 out of 10 Americans (87%) find museums to be one of the most trustworthy or a trustworthy source of information among a wide range of choices.

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Forum One

MARCH 16, 2022

Since before the first iPhone was released in 2007, organizations have been discussing the importance of making their content more accessible on mobile devices. Mobile-First. Mobile-first was already becoming a popular topic in 2014 ( Google Trends ). Partnering for Betting Content Distribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

broadcaster VRML world projects in 96 called the Mirror (BT, BBC and others). Maybe for nonprofits, it is in the marketing area, where taking people into your world makes sense or for museums. Last week, I attended via Second Life, a discussion panel at Berkman on the use of technology in legal education. My notes are here.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 2, 2009

Many museums are experimenting with “back channel” platforms that allow visitors and staff to chat and share content while onsite at the museum. Their pithy opinions of the exhibits broadcast live in the lobby? It’s really easy to use and promotes discussion, not individual profiles.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

This can be an incredibly technical topic, as it focuses on the ways that platforms (online, exhibits, museums) can harness the individual activities of many visitors and create meaningful experiential outputs that connect people to each other. But designing an entire museum that functions this way probably isn't your goal. exhibition.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

These organizations are defined by Giving USA as museums of all kinds, historical societies, humanities organizations; and media and communication charities, including public broadcasting. Bell, President, American Association of Museums (AAM). This trend is based on $19 million in 12-month revenue from 153 organizations.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 26, 2009

While the viewing of the speech and related ceremonies would have likely been more powerful in person, the discussion and social engagement around the speech was as good as at any live event I've ever experienced. I went to a link, waited to be connected, and jumped into a discussion in full swing. This isn't true of most live events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization. Change does not happen in organizations unless there is education through discussion. This is a different way of working. Tactics and Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Patterned after the Well and using text-based online discussion software, Arts Wire was the first introduction to the Internet for hundreds of individual artists and arts organizations. In the last few years, the Smithsonian American Art Museum. has been looking at our museum’s online information in the same way.

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