Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. When the music video was not focused on Mexican culture, no such change occurred. But each of these studies yields another useful nugget.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Areas served: US. Knight Foundation. Areas served: Houston/Texas.

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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

JULY 20, 2016

When we say we want our museum to be "audience-centered," what do we mean? My career first got moving at a brilliant example of the customer-centered museum: the International Spy Museum. Many of my favorite museums, libraries, and zoos are customer-centered places. They care about visitor comfort.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Areas served: US. Knight Foundation. Areas served: Houston/Texas.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

It’s also much easier to target and personalize your message to different demographics, making your marketing strategy for fundraising far more effective. What are the different ways to fundraise online? E-commerce has forever changed the way people shop, and your organization can use that to your advantage with wish list drives.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Are they country music lovers, or do they enjoy the symphony? Sporting, museum, or concert tickets. They might even surprise themselves with how many people they know who can donate to your auction. The more people you communicate your goals to, the more potential you’ll find help. Unique experiences and vacations.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. Sheet music is a beautiful analogy for this.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

And this leads to a basic question, one I haven't figured out: how do you encourage visitors to participate when they speak different languages? This certainly could work well in an art museum, where visitors can make art, or science museums, where they could participate in citizen science projects, without sharing a language.

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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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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

Margaret shared these thoughts about "museums for use" on her blog , and I asked her to adapt a version for the Museum 2.0 Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use? During my time at RISD studying industrial design, I developed relationships with two museums on campus: the Museum of Art and the Nature Lab.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2016

Here's one of my favorite stories about the London Science Museum and their work to make their science shows relevant to families with deaf or hearing-impaired family members. There are doors through which people enter your room. This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance in advance of its release.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Note from Beth: One of the things that I enjoyed most about IFCAsia was the networking opportunities to connect with other people in the region who share interests. We know that young people like Generation Z are future donors, so programs that help introduce philanthropy at a young age will a big pay off down the road.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Spring is a time that sees more people with a tidy sum of cash thanks to their tax returns, itching to go outside, and looking for things to do around key holidays like Easter, Passover, Nowruz, and Mother’s Day. For a laugh, put different donation amounts in the eggs that kids are finding. March Madness Money. BBQ for Good.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , with Aliza Sherman. Studies confirm that creative activities – painting, drawing, dancing, playing music, theatre, or singing – can improve employee productivity and skills.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. Part-website, part-smartphone app, this tool enables free group texting between small groups of people. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. BrainyQuote :: brainyquote.com.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

at the Brooklyn Museum, where you could track how people of various levels of art expertise rated crowd-contributed photographs. But I'm not sure how much value there is to that difference. One prototype is based on the Billboard Top 10 charts for pop music. There was Click! What tools do we use?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Membership cards: Some people like being card-carrying members of a group.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Plus, this type of event can be applied to all different types of missions, so there’s bound to be an idea that appeals to your cause and audience. Livestream some 60s music and entertainment. Music can always add a fun touch to any decade-themed event! You might also provide food! A Memorabilia Auction. Get Outta Here Auction.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Last Friday night, my museum hosted a fabulous (in my biased opinion) event called Race Through Time. It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. Late night mixers at museums for young adults.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

In the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s four part series on comfort in museums, we get down to the basics: creature comfort. So for this last piece, we look at going the other way: making museums more physically comfortable. There was funky music. There were people working and eating and chatting and reading.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

While an institution can pivot, presenting different content for different times, the content itself does not change. In the nonprofit arts, administrators maintain a polite silence about the reality that certain artworks, plays, composers, and stories fall in and out of favor at different times. The painting is what it is.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. It is an incredible museum experience. The visitor is given a copy of her poster and the museum keeps a copy as well.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2008

Which has more aesthetic value: the famous one-of-a-kind masterpieces or the images people love enough to put permanently on their bodies? Over the last several weekends, my husband and I have been visiting a different kind of art institution: a tattoo parlor. People ask questions. People tell stories. I'm not so sure.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

Dan writes about the explicit and implied "rules" of participation for musicians that create great music both onstage and for the crowd. It acknowledges differences in talent, experience, and effort, and has a system--either explicit or implicit--for rewarding greatness. The result is that people get turned off, cynical, and leave.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

As a result of recent fighting, millions of people are living in diaspora, migration is the trademark of this generation; what is it like to start a new life in a new place? Some people express themselves through the style of clothes they wear. stories story museum women international How do you express yourself?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

We want to give people an opportunity to really develop, innovate, and preserve their own culture." -- Tom Aageson, co-founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship A week, or so ago I interviewed my Dad, Tom Aageson, for a special Father's Day show on the Big Vision Podcast. He created a whole genre we now know as World Music.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? When you say you want to be relevant, that usually means "we want to matter to more people." Or different people. My answer: neither. Can you describe them?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2007

Louis City Museum's amateur video contest. And therein lies an essential problem with this and other similar museum forays into Web 2.0: For those who haven't visited, the City Museum is part obstacle course, part art city, part shoelace factory. second video shot entirely within the City Museum. follow-through.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0 On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Ask the question to several people.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

I always use sticky notes or index cards to get people to ask questions before, during, and after a workshop. Here’s some of the advice that came through Facebook: It takes a while to motivate the musicians, because they are busy people and often on the road away from internet. in the different points in the experience.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. MOMA has standard art museum labels. When I asked an art museum educator about this (“How should I look at art?”) Most people aren’t educated in how to look at art.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Surely this doesn’t apply to zoos, museums, and theaters does it? Obviously you have people with different interests coming to your organization so the key is to identify those core personalities, or personas, and make sure you’re shaping your content strategy to include those individuals. Absolutely! Know your Constituents.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

The site doesn't link them with foundations or grant applications; instead, it makes it easy to reach out to regular people for donations of as little as $1. But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

If people on the street are talking about X, the museum should be talking about X too. I used to work at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. Our mandate was to be the museum of Silicon Valley--not of its material history, but its pulse of innovation. Other times, grounded in the museum's collection.

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