Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Responsive web design is rarely discussed or implemented in the nonprofit sector. Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh :: pittsburghkids.org. Nonprofits have been woefully slow at preparing for the Mobile Web. World Wildlife Fund :: worldwildlife.org. Smartphone. S martphone. Boot Campaign :: bootcampaign.com. Smartphone.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In this session, we discussed what retention has looked like for organizations during COVID-19 and what predictions we have for audiences returning. On January 11, 2021, a small group of nonprofit leaders came together to discuss how we are connecting to our audiences in a disconnected world. What was positive? What was negative?”.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2012

As part of the ACE Leadership Training, we had several site visits to bring some of the real world into our discussions. The group visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial. The site operations a Genocide Archive, a Museum, Education and Social programs, and a memorial garden and burial grounds.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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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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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. Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards.

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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. In addition to celebrating failure , Beth Kanter invites innovative social media champions to discuss their wins in detail so others can benefit.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

The presumed answer is "yes" your museum needs a blog, a pony, or a set of comfy couches. Does your museum need a custom online social network? Let's discuss what it means, how it works, where it can go. The Brooklyn Museum of Art is a great example of a museum really embracing these environments for community-building purposes.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. We are trying to change the visitors’ experience at the museum as well as ownership of what is in the museum, break down the walls between the public and the museum.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

While NFTs are a great way to raise money for a platform, they’re also a great way to incentivize users to participate in a platform, which we’ll discuss later (Source: [link]. The NFT is the result of a partnership with the Muhammad Ali Center, a museum dedicated to Ali’s life. Top NFT Exchanges. Embed from Getty Images.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

I recently read the BERI report on bilingual labels in museums and was blown away by its findings. in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. is a controversial topic, and the same is true in museums.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2010

This is the third installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Facebook discussion board here. Adults come with their children so regularly that we know many of them by name. So what’s my point here?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

As I was discussing fundraising and membership with a coworker, I realized that my emotional connection to one particular type of organization created a foundation on which I base my giving. You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. Can’t think of any?

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum had 1100 pictures of children who were victims of the Holocaust. It wasn’t known how many of these children survived, and many photos were missing identifiers. Each interaction has helped to shine a national spotlight on the tragic frequency of LGBT suicide. Remember Me.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Seb Chan has a lovely, long interview up at Fresh+New with Helen Whitty about the Powerhouse Museum's new mini-exhibition, the Odditoreum. The Odditoreum is another wrinkle in the study of visitors' understanding and interpretation of authenticity in museums. I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Between high-altitude hijinks, run-ins with wildlife, and very long days of hiking, I finished John Falk's new book, Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. In other words, if you are a curious person, you will go to museums to learn new things.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

I'm trying to reposition our museum as a cultural hub supporting creative and intellectual community growth. Our conversation made me reflect on the museums that most inspire me from a public service perspective--institutions with missions that stretch far beyond their walls. These museums work differently.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Megan Smith incisively covered the sad state of staffing in the museum industry pre-coronavirus, as well as her fears for staffers post-coronavirus, in a previous post for Museum 2.0 , so I won’t belabor this one. It’s been informative to see the range of museum responses to a world in which people cannot physically visit our campuses.

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2014

Museums, Politics, and Power is a new blog that lives up to its name. The podcast let us dive into the topic and discuss how online and offline worlds complement and complicate each other. Finally, if you need a hit of inspiration and historical museum-making, I strongly recommend checking out the Boston Stories project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

Museums , gardens, and parks have jumped on it. As a parent of two teens, I was curious if there were any potential safety issues to discuss with them or if they had downloaded or wanted to play. Safety concerns for younger children , especially unsupervised have reported in the media. A Few Concerns.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. First published in Curator magazine in 2002, this essay presents five different museum "types" and their distinct opportunities and challenges.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

These days women are having children later and some are not having children at all. Family structures around the world are changing, yet mothers are most often the parent who will stay at home with young children. Share your stories on motherhood with us, and discuss your ideas on better maternal healthcare worldwide.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. We started designing ways to make Abbott Square a desirable “first landing place” in downtown—especially for families with children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community. We also had regular conference calls where we discussed progress and offered support. Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

This guest post was written by Ruben Huele and describes the scenario-based strategic process used at the Dutch Natural History Museum, Naturalis , to innovate the redevelopment of their permanent collection. The new building of Naturalis, the Dutch National Natural History Museum, opened in 1998. It should not surprise the Museum 2.0

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2013

It doesn’t matter if your mission is educating your members about the artwork in your museum, providing scholarships for children to attend your school, or buying warm coats for homeless families; when you spend money on those activities, you’re justifying your own existence by improving your community.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

It doesn’t matter if your mission is educating your members about the artwork in your museum, providing scholarships for children to attend your school, or buying warm coats for homeless families; when you spend money on those activities, you’re justifying your own existence by improving your community.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. During the ensuing discussion, one woman asked, "Which audiences are least interested in social participation in museums?" So what's a museum to do--especially one that is funded to encourage youth and teen participation?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in three sessions: a Pecha Kucha design blitz, a dialogue on bridging online/onsite connections, and a discussion of the IMLS 21st Century Skills report. asked by a cop or mother, garners the full attention of asker and askee alike, museum questions like "what is nanotechnology?," Worth, Texas. Leary (NRG!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This month we’ve been thinking about “What is a museum?” (I'm I’ve been visiting museums my whole life. Does that make me the best judge of museums? People are the defining characteristics of museums. I’ve worked with and at plenty of museums that can sometimes feel empty. I'm not alone there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. A Spain-based non-profit, their main goal is to create shelters and foster homes for poor children and elderly people. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. According to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a staggering 100 million Americans don't have a broadband connection in their households. The Role of Nonprofits.

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