Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2023

Overall, this work has helped to empower NRDC’s content managers, engage their audience, and amplify their impact. Forum One partnered with NMAAHC to develop a visual brand system for the event in addition to visual assets which were used across NMAAHC’s digital channels and in-person at the event. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2014

"I hate museums." She''s visited museums, she didn''t enjoy them, she''s more of a sports person, it''s not part of her life, it''s not her thing. He didn''t feel welcome in museums, feels like they aren''t for him, he wasn''t invited, it isn''t comfortable. How can you tell the difference between these two people?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We ended up with a gallery in the museum instead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

Take for example the # AskACurator hashtag created by a digital expert who works with museums almost five years ago and still active today. Someone sent out a tweet wondering if London’s Natural History Museum and Science Museum went to war, which would win. Here’s an example of using Moments from a Museum.

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Media Cause

APRIL 16, 2021

Facebook recently announced that the Facebook community has now raised over $5 billion for nonprofits and personal causes through Facebook and Instagram fundraising tools. Since Fundraisers launched in 2016, more than 85 million organizers and donors have made a difference and unlocked tremendous amounts of generosity.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Spotlighting content from happy visitors allows you to turn those socials media shout outs into powerful marketing tools. . 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. Exhibition hashtags . Final takeaways .

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

Last week, I visited the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle. I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). I'm always a bit nervous when I visit a museum I love from afar. What if it isn't what I expected?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Pop-Up Museum [n]: a short-term institution existing in a temporary space. Over the past few years, there have been several fabulous examples of pop-up museums focusing on visitor-generated content. Maria Mortati runs the wonderful SF Mobile Museum , which roams the Bay Area showing mini-exhibits on evocative themes.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2020

This week we're hearing from Eastman Museum's Kate Meyers Emery. Kate's the sort of person who you want to sit down with. Her take on things, and her gentle, thoughtful way of sharing, makes all the difference. I have been asked to take on the additional duty of social media management while the museum is closed.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

It’s the person who answers your question about zoom or the person who passes on their work at home policy. And another person stopping to share tough things on some crazy thread about movies. Sure, it could have looked different. While donations are going down, global interest in museums seem a boom industry.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

Dear Museum 2.0 As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). This is a big change for me--professionally and personally--and I'm thrilled and humbled by the opportunity to take on this position in the city I call home.

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TechImpact

MARCH 31, 2014

The National History Museum of Los Angeles does a great job of highlighting their staff in their Instagram posts. They make your content accessible, and easily found. you do not need to follow back person who follows you, instead strategically follow other nonprofit and use your feed like your laboratory.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Nonprofit database segmentation allows you to structure your data to support reporting, personalization, and overall engagement. With that information, you can do a lot of different things, like: Improving communication: 72% of donors report that personalization in communication and content directly impacts their decision to give.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

When my sister first started working with a nonprofit museum, she had a lot to learn about the fundraising process for the organization. The museum had notes saved in their donor management software about the seating preferences for their major donors and that particular donor preferred their regular seat toward the front.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 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. Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian''s excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

According to the new Nonprofit Content Marketing report from Blackbaud and Content Marketing Institute , 38% of nonprofits plan to increase their content marketing budget in the next twelve months. How can arts and cultural organizations start leveraging content marketing? Create Content. Absolutely! Absolutely!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late. In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. They understand we are different, but they don’t see us in competition with each other.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

We just posted a part-time position at my museum for a Community Engagement/Marketing Associate. This is a big step for us, not because we haven't had a dedicated marketing person for a long time, but more because I wasn't sure we would ever want or need one. Does a Small Museum Really Need a Marketing Person? We started.

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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. It is an open study/storage facility displaying about thirty-three hundred objects from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. We are storage, after all.

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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. We''re trying to personalize. We''re trying to personalize. We''re trying to adapt.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Different nonprofits define the levels differently, so what qualifies as “mid-level” in one organization may qualify as “major” at another. We’ve found that highly tailored content targeted at your most valuable donors can have a big impact. This approach gave an opportunity for two personal touchpoints! MASS EMAIL.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Museums have used games to engage visitors for decades. SR: I came to games before I came to museums. My grandmother cheated at Candyland and uno. :) Games, I think, have a nice Venn diagram of overlap between museum lovers. I love thinking we're getting new museum lovers through games. How did you get into museum games?

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NetWits

JUNE 6, 2011

There are many reasons for logins, including security, functionality and personalized content–but also for tracking. Secured Content – The easiest of ways is to simply require a login to access certain content. Benefits of Website Logins. These could be included online or in email newsletters.

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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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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. Pacific Science Center. GOLD – Science Website. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Gold – Government Website. The Harry S.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I am fascinated by the incredible differences in what people contribute based on format and phrasing of the invitation to participate. This week at my museum, as we are wrapping up our current set of exhibitions on collecting, I noticed a simple, subtle example of this that I thought might interest you.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Your membership renewal campaign’s success will depend on several different factors. If your organization offers different membership tiers , you may also choose to highlight the added perks of higher levels! Be Thoughtful About Your Timing Timing is everything, and it will inform the content of your renewal letter.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. So here is a list of suggestions that hopefully will improve the way your museum thinks about using Twitter. Or it's rainy so you suggest I visit the museum? Note: this is a geeky post that assumes familiarity with Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2007

Nik inquired as to how I feel about museum blogs. what's your take on museums that keep blogs? In general, yes, I think that museums maintaining blogs is an effective, cheap way to get changing content out to the public frequently. However, there are many different approaches to take--as there are with blogs in general.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 30, 2012

This post is the second in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. Due to the political climate of the time, a review of the Museum was commissioned in 2003 to determine whether the museum had complied with the requirements of its charter.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. People answer questions differently in harshly lit interrogation rooms than they do in welcoming therapists' offices or in the privacy of their own computer terminals.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

The Vice President of Global Literacy leads Benetech’s biggest program, standing at the confluence of some of the most active and rapidly evolving fields: digital content, EdTech, domestic and international education, and user-centered design. We must help ensure that every report of abuse is a tool for justice.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 25, 2007

Last week, I spoke with Jim Richardson, managing director of SUMO Design , about their very cool new project with the North East Regional Museums Hub : I like. museums is a website on which visitors can search for museums in the North East region of England. keeping the kids happy , with helpful content for specific audiences.

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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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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Not the content (which most people skim in about 13 seconds or less). Please help us open the door for a teen to attend our personal development conference, benefit from having a mentor, and get on a path to college and a career.” . Be brief, personal, and pack an emotional punch. What makes your program unique? Time to Write!

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