Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Since 1970, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. The New York-based foundation also awards annual Vilcek Prizes to support innovators in these areas. NRDC’s “Fighting Polluters Since 1970”.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Since 1970, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. The New York-based foundation also awards annual Vilcek Prizes to support innovators in these areas. The Frist Art Museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 21, 2020

Alison Koch shared these thoughts originally as part of Museum Computer Network 's 2019 Ignite. First, I think that museums need to think about their staff as a stakeholder group worthy of just as much time, attention, energy, and evaluation as visitors or donors. They were that true and that powerful. I hope you enjoy them.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

I think there’s huge potential for organizations to use multiple mediums, content, and locations to help document and advocate for the change they want in their communities and around the world. It’s been a few weeks now; I’ve used it to share photos from a work trip to Portland, Maine, and to explore my neighborhood in New York.

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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. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of co-facilitating a half-day “Digital Strategies&# seminar with Vince Ford, Director of Digital Media from the New York Philharmonic and leading a peer session for major orchestra marketing staff and youth orchestra executive directors with Makala Johnson who does Social Media for the Mayo Clinic.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

Navigation is what people do.” Before identifying which menu approach is appropriate, make sure your team is aligned on overall goals, audiences, and content needs. How do people currently navigate your site? Content: What content (e.g., It may be easier to organize content into a few high-level buckets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. As the platform matures , we’ll get a better sense of the power and potential of this network that lets people find, connect, and support social change organizations and issues. Chris Hughes. Chris Hughes brought in Kirsten Titus as Managing director of Jumo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Britt also mentions that The Extraordinaries was just about to launch its iPhone application to help people find 20-minute volunteer opportunities. You'll find reviews of iPhone apps from the Olympics , National Center for Missing Children , the San Jose Museum , and others. That is, versions of their Web site content on a iPhone.

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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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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 30, 2016

The Humane Society, The White House, the MET, and many smaller nonprofits are broadcasting news-as-it-happens, museum tours, and even feeding time for baby raccoons ! If you are going to make mistakes, it’s best to do it in front of people you trust, like friends. Practice calling out peoples names and reading comments.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

This week, I'm launching a new site: the Voicemail Museum. Right now, most museums that use handhelds and cellphones use them to serve content, not to receive it. People already know how to leave voice and text messages and don't have to grapple with a comment system to do so. Why did so many people participate?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2008

A few weeks ago, I learned about Scholastic Books' new series, The 39 Clues , which ties together a ten-book mystery with an online gaming environment. I've long been interested in the power of cross-platform experiences, so I was excited to see today's New York Times article about the evolving relationship between books and video games.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2013

I''m heading to the American Alliance of Museums'' annual conference this weekend, and I''m psyched to reconnect with friends and mentors and meet new people who can inspire and stimulate fresh ideas. It will be hosted by Eric Siegel, chief content officer at the New York Hall of Science and consummate rabble-rouser.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. The event brought hundreds of hip, young professionals to the museum for lots of booze and partying.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

For those of you who can't or choose not to watch the video, Bela was sitting in NBC's New York studio with Bob Costas, reacting energetically and effusively to Nastia's routine. And that got me thinking about how bad museums are at doing the same thing--using passion to promote visitor engagement in new content.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Last week, I was in Minneapolis for the American Association of Museums annual meeting. As always, the conference was a party mix of inspiring and dull, familiar and new. Kathleen McLean led a terrific session called "Dangerous Ridiculous" about risk-taking in museums. Merilee Mostov and the Columbus Museum of Art.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The Museum 2.0 I went alone, sent with a blessing from my boss at the International Spy Museum. All those hallway conversations people say are so valuable? Have the courage to meet people who fascinate you. As Museum 2.0 Fast forward a few more years, and now, conferences were ALL about connecting with people.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

I once asked Eric Siegel, the Director of the New York Hall of Science, why museums are rarely innovative shining stars on the cutting edge of culture. He commented that as non-profits, museums are built to survive, not to succeed. Is it true of your museum too? To make it, museums need to survive AND succeed.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

This weekend, I visited the New York Hall of Science. We looked at the museum map on the wall. There was a recent post on the ASTC listserv from a museum planning to revamp their wayfinding system. The wayfinding question in museums—or any complex space—is multifaceted. It had considerably fewer than 1.3

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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. o is Transparency - and the best example of that is what the Indianapolis Art Museum has done with its pubic metrics on its web site.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC. Santa Cruz, the British Museum, Apple, Google, Adobe, and numerous other. Driven by a desire to make a game-changing difference in how people consume content, Tom comfortably resides at the junction where media and technology collide.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Some of these challenges were about mission fit.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

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. I'm not talking about guiding content; I'm talking about guiding form. If someone asked you that question, how would you answer?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

He has spoken publicly about his work to audiences at the Smithsonian, UC Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC Santa Cruz, the British Museum, Apple, Google, Adobe and numerous other conferences and public events around the world. Thomas Grasty - Stroome.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. Which leads to the question of people: who is getting involved? But museum folks, no matter how much we want to collaborate, don't move quickly.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Boulder Food Rescue works with local businesses to collect surplus food that would usually be thrown away and distribute that food to people who need it. The nonprofit creates books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Boulder Food Rescue — First-Place Winner. The Finalists.

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 27, 2007

Last week, there was a New York Times article about the recently opened Ripley’s Believe It Or Not and Madame Tussauds attractions in Times Square. Heck, sign me up for a ticket to the zombie museum. But when I took off my “entertainment” glasses and put on my museum eyes, my reaction wasn’t amusement. It was distaste.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

This week, we're looking at the first section, Talking Back and Talking Together , which features comment boards, talk-back walls, and discussion forums at a variety of museums. Lesson 1: People want to talk, but not necessarily about the topics you suggest. People had opinions to offer and corrections to make.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

Thirty-two "weeks" of events were condensed into the 10-week game, and each week, both in-game characters and real people--players all over the world--documented life in the new reality and swapped stories, solutions, and possibilities for survival. blogs, YouTube, Flickr, and more--to share content. learn from WWO?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2007

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Usually this blog is more about analysis than links. Struth takes photographs of museum-goers as they gaze, pick their noses, chat on cell phones, and fidget in front of classically great works of art. You can’t see the paintings, only the people watching them, “wary and hopeful.”

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Handwritten, full of enthusiasm and occasionally useful information, these little notecards or placards provide two essential functions: they introduce me to some potentially interesting content, and they reveal something of the soul of the company. Staff picks are an easy, humanizing way to help people discriminate in a sea of content.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

I've become convinced that successful paths to participation in museums start with self-identification. The easiest way to do that is to acknowledge their uniqueness and validate their ability to connect with the museum on their own terms. Who is the "me" in the museum experience? Not so at museums.

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