Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 4, 2023

For example, a CRM designed specifically for museums might emphasize their ticketing features, whereas a CRM for general nonprofits might have some registration tools but lack a built-in ticketing component. Specialization To differentiate themselves, providers often specialize in particular industries and corresponding features.

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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. And the facilitator wants his friends and family to have a good time.

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Museum Maslow Facilitation Personal 28

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But Vi doesn't work in a science museum. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who are well known in museums for their excellent Smarthistory website and podcasts. the way the best museums do. Does this mean Khan Academy is competitive with museums? She would be the best science center educator ever.

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Learning Free Museum Online 55

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. The idea is that you specify your values, relationships, and assets, and then match those up with potentially fruitful legal structures, financing models, and growth potential.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

The more my organization has become focused on community engagement, the more we've balanced being experience producers with being experience co-creators/facilitators. Our museum is growing, and I'm always weighing different ways to expand our impact. If we can make our mission more overt for more people, that's powerful too.

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San Diego Work Museum Model 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

I spent Saturday in beautiful Monterey, ocean pounding outside the window of a conference room, where about 40 museum folks were pondering a question more elusive than the origin of the waves: can museums change the world? In two months, 10,000 visitors sent postcards (and fortuitiously, the government acted in favor of protection).

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Model Action Congo Museum 26

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

Thank you to Susan Spero and all the folks at JFKU and Left Coast Press for starting a highly stimulating conversation this weekend at the colloquium on Museums and Civic Discourse. There were, as we say in the museum business, some good aha moments. What role should museums play in promoting discourse?

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Museum Site Facilitation Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. I think so.

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Library Model Museum Europe 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2015

Visitors in front of the African Elephant Diorama at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC photo) This guest post was written by Karen Wise, Vice President, Education and Exhibits at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. “I Familiarity may breed contempt in some contexts, but apparently not in museums.

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Los Angeles Museum History Artist 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. The fact that there is no original recording by Beck of the Song Reader songs, no model upon which "covers" would be based, frees the reader to imagine the songs in any number of ways.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

This expresses itself most powerfully in museums when we talk about building relationships with visitors over time. But museums are one-night stand amnesiacs in the relationship department. This is terrible, both for the visitor and for the museum. I expect you'll remember some basic things about me--say, my name.

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Relationship Museum Game Personal 46

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The facilitation was as chaotic and fragile as a spiderweb. We'd love to see this model evolve and grow. The exhibition evolved after it opened. The lead partners were youth who had been marginalized and exploited by institutions. There were trust issues. Complex power dynamics.

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Issue Childhood Community Create 45

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Thanks to Kyle Evans, who forwarded me the fascinating, lengthy master’s dissertation.art: Situating Internet Art in the Modern Museum by Karen Verschooren at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. In it, Karen provides a survey of the evolving relationship of Internet art to art museums. Citizen science programs. On the website?

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Museum Web Arts Internet 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. This is the only post written by me, Nina Simon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Knowledge Seattle Social Media Measure 97

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

There are lots of great science museum resources, but not where these kids can walk after school. So the Community Science Workshop model is to put a drop-in, FREE community science center in a place that is walkable to kids'' lives and schools. We''re really different from traditional science centers in our funding model.

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Green Interview Share Community 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

About three months ago Beth Kanter wrote about the Crowdsourcing of Vision at the Smithsonian Museum. Their mental models began with these fundamental assumptions during their education and their first jobs. Jon Husbands is a Listener, watcher and facilitator. That's where this post about crowdsourcing came out of it!

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Aggregator Model Leadership Method 82

Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Between the giant squid brainstorming and experimentation, I gave a talk to the larger Smithsonian Institution about multi-platform museum experiences. The slides are also available for download.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

Why discuss gifting on Museum 2.0? One of my greatest interests is the "p articipatory museum," in which there is substantive, unfacilitated visitor-to-visitor interaction. When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. Ideas participatory museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. Examples: Wildlife Direct and Brooklyn Museum. I start with a crawl-walk-run-walk framework for staffing models for nonprofits. Conversational Key Note. These ideas are illustrated in the slides below.

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Social Media Media Social San Jose 115

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

into the museum is the potential to encourage more positive in-museum interactions among strangers. I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own.

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2007

I was talking recently to David Klevan, Education Manager for Technology and Distance Learning Initiatives at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (say that three times fast), about some of their awesome experiments with online discussion groups, blogs, and 2.0 How many comments just say, “I love this museum!” Why do we do this on the web?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Community-Driven Model. But in a community-driven model, you can’t just listen for the sake of learning. That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. Principles.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. Some museum pros have been puzzled by this. We'd talk about the work itself.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Two weeks ago, my museum was featured in a Wall Street Journal article by Ellen Gamerman, Everybody''s a Curator. I''m thrilled that our small community museum is on the map with many big institutions around the country. I''m glad to see coverage about art museums involving visitors in exhibitions. Community is not a commodity.

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Journal Participatory Museum Community 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2007

Live facilitation has a varied role in museums. In children’s and science museums, explainers are everywhere. From a financial and management perspective, however, many museums try to minimize live facilitation as much as possible. Many peoples’ most memorable museum experiences come from interactions with staff.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Again, how many of you have attended an event or go to a museum? Our board members can facilitate personal introductions to our professional leadership. And I would say this is a pretty replicable model, right? And I would say there’s no like one-size-fits-all model for the number of people.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Cost Structure: Understand the pricing model of the software you’re evaluating. Doubleknot While Doubleknot is a donor management platform primarily built for cultural organizations like museums and zoos, it also offers event management capabilities. Some charge a flat fee, while others use a percentage of ticket sales or donations.

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Software Management Guide Registration 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2007

Yesterday, I turned in my keys and said goodbye to the Spy Museum and to Operation Spy, the narrative, immersive game experience I've been developing/building over the last two years. Instead of guides leading groups, there are actor/facilitators who interact with visitors throughout their experience. It's about economics.

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Museum Game Indiana Facilitation 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When you count attendance to your museum, do you include: people who eat in the cafe? It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Summertime concerts at the history museum? Outdoor movies at the art museum? If a kid gets dragged to a museum with their parents, do they count?

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St. Louis Impact Museum Denver 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

We co-authored the “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” and I designed and facilitated a peer learning project. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences. and the final style, was more a shared leadership model: Miriam: Motivator – Getting input from others and encouraging people.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2007

On Musematic , Holly Witchey has rigorously recorded her recent experience at WebWise, a " IMLS/RLG/OCLC/Getty sponsored conference" on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World that was held March 1-2. To museum ears, this is fairly blasphemous--the idea that people want to use our content, not our exhibits. content providers.

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Library Museum Arts Aggregator 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. I love facilitated experiences, but I worry that they aren't scalable to every visitor. They were roped to very specific locations and activities.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

I just spent two days in Miami at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar where I co-facilitator a pre-conference workshop on leading on social channels with Amy Gahran and Stephanie Rudat. Then once they visit have such a great experience that they want to stay connected with the museum through social channels.

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Digital Learning Artist Miami 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences. In this case, a heck of a lot.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Today, we take a page from Wallace Stevens and look at some alternative ways to structure museum admissions and pricing. What if visitors could stream into the museum, with the expectation that at some point they would encounter a staff member who could facilitate the purchase of admission? Get rid of the admissions desk.

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