Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I'm here in Chicago for a very brief trip on a panel about metrics and measurement for museums called "New Spaces, New Measures." Amount of author's participation in other valued projects, as commenter, editor, etc. " My slides and resources are here. Quality of author's institutional affiliation(s).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

I'm headed off for the Museum Computer Network conference in Chicago tomorrow. Kurt Stuchell just finished a project and created a new widget called the Universal Museum Media Podcasts & Blog Widget. The widget contains a collection of museum podcasts and blogs. is the museum crowd on MySpace?),

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. I was fascinated by the project’s innovative approach to collecting, sharing, and connecting people through locally-produced media. Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here.

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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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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

Museum of Contemporary Art. in Chicago to experience MCON in person and over 20,000 people will stream the event online. Anna is the co-founder, CEO and idea generator behind Fashion Project, a powerful movement turning closets into cash for charities around the world. The Millennial Impact Project.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

One of our big projects for the year will, we hope, create a space for 19 thought leaders to do just that. Participants are encouraged to use their own organizations as testing grounds, engaging colleagues in the conversations and work related to CoI projects throughout the year.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). Chicago Underground Library (Chicago, IL). One of my favorite places for a long time now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2008

s essays have appeared in Good Housekeeping, The Huffington Post and Imagining Ourselves, an online exhibit founded by Paula Goldmanfor the International Museum of Women in San Francisco. I first met Jen at BlogHer in Chicago last summer at the Global Women's panel. Here's a summary of her plan. s basic needs. The children???s

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

At a recent talk in Chicago, an audience member asked a question. His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. The people who want that content may not be in the same city as the museum nor even aware of the museum's holdings. This is museum digitization 101. but people aren't coming.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

He leads the research efforts for The Millennial Impact Project and serves as president of Achieve , a research and creative agency for causes. People from across the country will gather at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to experience MCON in person and over 20,000 people will stream the event online.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

Visitor (though, really my child) at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK As I said, last week, I’ve been to a travelin’ girl for the last couple of years. So, instead, I am offering 3 posts this month about what I learned from visiting more than 300 museums. Last week, I talked about what I learned about museum workers.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Register Now October 2, 2016: Brooklyn, NY for a workshop and book signing in partnership with Museum Hack, 11am-12:30pm - Ticketed! Register Now October 18, 2016: Chicago, IL at Navy Pier, 3:30-5:30pm - Free! Paul, MN at the Minnesota History Center, 8-10am - Free!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

There are great examples of this kind of thing focusing solely on the participant--for example, the Chicago Children's Museum practice of inviting kids to write postcards home to themselves from the museum. But a lot of participation extends beyond the individual, and we should celebrate that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Nina observes that the following makes this project really special: It is 100% community-based. Everyone is a Curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

I'm preparing for a day of trainings in Chicago on Wednesday at Making Media Connections. Community Media Workshop: Chicago View more OpenOffice presentations from kanter. Oh, yeah, there's also the secret sauce: Listening before, during, and after a project. Have the expertise/time or capacity. Pick the right tools.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2015

In that spirit, MCON 2015 will focus on the idea of influence, specifically the people and ideas that influence us in the areas of art, media business and place: Art: Designers and artists whose projects are increasing awareness and inspiring action. MCON 2015 is happening June 24-25 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Elizabeth Merritt is the director of the Center for the Future of Museums , a new project of the American Association of Museums (AAM). When I was given the opportunity to found the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM) I had been working for nearly 10 years with Museum Assessment and Accreditation at AAM.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. This spanned all the projects. This is a question we grappled with in the Tech Virtual project.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. I couldn't drop the project for months or abandon it entirely. Check out the other parts here. But that didn't matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Many of you, especially those in greater Chicago, may be familiar with the Data Analysts for Social Good group that Andrew Means founded in May 2012. A donor who feels attached to the lifetime of a project is more valuable, and probably ultimately happier, than one who expects to solve a problem with a single transaction.”.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Kate McGroarty's month living at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is over. The young actress and teacher beat out 1,500 other applicants and spent 30 days exploring exhibits, participating in live demos, talking to visitors (both in-person and online), and romping through the museum at night. Lisa's goals were met.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Despite her family's affluence, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood in Chicago during the 1930s was not without hardship, discrimination, and segregation. Girls Who Code , TGI Justice Project , Global Fund for Women , and Malala Fund are committed to disrupting the status quo for women and girls worldwide. Fund their work! Roxane Gay.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Here's a problem many museums would like to solve: How do you design an intuitive way to give visitors unique IDs so that visitors can receive personalized content and feedback and institutions can receive real-time data tracking on visitor behavior? These projects are good attempts, but they have some fundamental problems.

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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. When a speaker would mention a project, someone would immediately post the relevant URL to Today’sMeet. For some educators and curators, this may sound like a nightmare.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Here's the basic idea: while you are at the museum, you save digitizable content--either content you make (photos of yourself) or content you collect (museum-supplied text or media of interest). The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Both of these attributes are of great interest to museums, which are trying to figure out how to monetize the Web and how to use the Web to draw more people to their physical locations. You come to the museum, and THEN you post your photo in the Flickr group. Dating, like museum-going, is more about niche preferences than mass volume.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2007

I remember reading a news article a few years ago about a major construction project in downtown Chicago. So give me a painting in an art museum with a video of the artist creating that painting right next to it. under construction Originally uploaded by backward square leg. Someone (the construction company? You start to dream.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

And it didn't take a year, it took five to finish that first project, which combined those elements that I had hoped to pursue. Because he is wonderfully supportive of these projects, he shares those with me. In order to get a book published, I was told I had to have a museum exhibit. At each step, I have been learning.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I just finished listening to This American Life 's incredible two-part series about gun violence at Harper High School in Chicago. All this delightful non-fiction makes me wonder: why aren't museums great at telling these same kinds of deep, intense stories? This seems strange given that museums are organized around objects.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

Traditional exhibition design, in which the museum has a specific story or message to tell, doesn't easily accommodate visitor co-creation. This realization--that a single museum voice was not the best way to tell a particular story--formed the basis for MN150 , the exhibition explored in this post. How did this project get started?

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