Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Note that the relationship extends to every interaction between the consumer (aka donor) and your brand. Ensure all public-facing interactions are customer-service focused. Per the Loyalty Barometer, 58% of consumers feel the most important way a brand can interact with them is through surprise offers and gifts.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

Two very interesting articles today by Ian Bogost , courtesy of Gamasutra , about the potential of games as a more generalized medium for interaction with content. In the first article, Why We Need More Boring Games , Ian argues for a wider application of gaming to our daily experience. Serious games offer one example.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

"Putting Fun into Functional" is a really fabulous powerpoint presentation by Amy Jo Kim of shufflebrain , a unique game design company. Each one of these amplifies the extent to which the player/user feels connected to the game or experience offered. There have got to be some great ways to apply these mechanics to museums.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2007

And now, back to Game Friday. Gamasutra has a feature up entitled Game Design Essentials: 20 Open World Games. In it, John Harris provides a whirlwind tour through arcades, Ataris, and Nintendos, discussing the design principles and evolution of video games described as “open world” or “exploration."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2009

I've been designing game-like experiences with museums for a long time. But this week, I participated in a game design workshop with Ken Eklund that totally changed my perspective. My starting point is interactive exhibit design; Ken's is game design. We rarely talk about this when we design museum exhibits.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 27, 2014

Why Not Mirror This At Your Museum? Here are just a few activities that could earn members points: Buying a membership. By tying member points to various activities at your organization, you can encourage increased interaction and participation. It’s fun, interactive, and keeps me coming back.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2010

It drives me nuts that it's being called "groundbreaking" in the realm of human-to-human interactions. Chatroulette exacerbates the perception that stranger interactions are uncomfortable, weird, and often sexual in nature. The interactions are private, which means there's no external social pressure to conform.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I like to ask myself this question periodically, challenging myself to find substantive ways for visitors to contribute to our museum. And when I think back on the past year, some of the most magical things that have happened at the museum have NOT been designed by us. Evergreen Cemetery Board Game. Happening Couch.

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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

MAY 25, 2007

Anyone who loves games has had this experience. Frustration is a reality of gaming. There's an expectation of a learning curve followed by reward, and most people approach games ready and willing to pay the startup costs to learn a new game. But in museums, the exception is often the rule. educational?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2008

I'm talking about a product that uses the tools of tracking, gaming, and me-to-we design to give a fabulous experience: Nike+. Nike+ provides a brilliant trifecta of sticky experiences, combining tracking, game mechanics, and me-to-we design to support a product, an activity, a community, and ultimately, healthy lifestyles.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. Some of these experiments didn''t yield anything useful, but some were surprisingly helpful proxies for complex human interactions.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. And that's just the fun stuff. Yes, I feel that museum workers should be paid and paid well for their efforts. Ever wanted to build a museum website from scratch? It could be a game show.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

This month I'm exploring the topic of digital games for social change. In two weeks I'm headed for The Games for Change Annual Conference in NYC (and I'll live blog it, too) The conference brings together nonprofits, game designers, foundations, and academics around the world to explore best practices for social change gaming.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

What role does “promoting human happiness” play in the mission statements and actions of museums? That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). Earlier today, the CFM offered a free webcast of Jane McGonigal’s talk on gaming, happiness, and museums.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2007

In the spirit of this sentiment, this week we look at games for lurkers, that is, games people watch. Games people watch? Isn’t the point to play games? I’d guess, in this country at least, more people watch games than play them. In museums, we always assume that everyone wants to get their hands dirty and “do it.”

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

When I talk about the hierarchy, I use the theoretical construct of an issue-based museum exhibit. At level one, the museum preaches to visitors about the issue. At level two, the visitor has some interactive experience (pushing buttons, etc.) There are many ways that the game could do this: Voting could be (more) public.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2007

It's summer; the museum and the exhibition were hopping. But there was one interactive in Listen that was clearly the rock star among amateurs. The hot exhibit in question is an interactive in which you play a simple game. The hot exhibit in question is an interactive in which you play a simple game.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2007

I used to teach gadget workshops for kids in museums. In fact, I’d argue that by saying “If something starts to smoke…” in the beginning of each workshop, I introduced an element of suspense to what otherwise might feel like a pretty “safe” activity—a museum program. presented the “top ten findings” from game research in 2005.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2007

Gamelab, the people behind Diner Dash and other casual games, have posted a contest on their forum, the Subway Scramble Commuter Contest , in which they are soliciting stories of games people play while commuting by train, car, bike. We all have these games--whether played from school bus windows or bicycles built for two.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

When we were kids, my dad invented a game he’d play with my sister and I called “yum/yuck.” But it turned into an incredibly fun game for us, because it was about us. But it turned into an incredibly fun game for us, because it was about us. Because the game, on the surface, doesn’t care about its own growth.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Jane McGonigal and the folks from IFTF have released a new future-casting game/collaborative experience called Signtific Lab. It's fun, I learn something, I'm challenged to contribute something meaningful, and I connect with other users. In other words, it's way better. The Signtific platform is a kind of "what if?"

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Each interaction has helped to shine a national spotlight on the tragic frequency of LGBT suicide. The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum had 1100 pictures of children who were victims of the Holocaust. The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College wanted a fun way to have users talk about what being Jewish means to them.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2007

What museum hasn't benefited from a giant blow-up dinosaur on its front lawn? Flying into San Jose yesterday, I laughed out loud when I looked out the window and saw Clifford the Big Red Dog below me, a cheerful addition to the skyline (thanks to the Children's Discovery Museum). And fun they are. and neighborhood-based.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

This expresses itself most powerfully in museums when we talk about building relationships with visitors over time. If I go on a date with you and we have fun, I develop some expectations about what will happen the next time I see you. But museums are one-night stand amnesiacs in the relationship department. We hang out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

Britt Bravo's Have Fun, Do Good Blog. For example, just take a look at the explosion of mobile apps for museums. Content feeds on the application include: The Zoetica Link Feed. The Case Foundation Blog. Chronicle of Philanthropy Give and Take. Great NonProfits. Allison Fine's Blog. Social Edge Blogs. Care2's FrogLoop. Working Wikily.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I got my copy of the fall issue of Museums and Social Issues this week. The theme is "Civic Dialogue," and the journal includes articles on the historical, cultural, media, and museum practice of getting people talking to each other (including one by me about such endeavors on the web). It's fine to drop in and out of the game.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

How do you find your way around a multi-faceted museum? I spent some time playing with this question last week at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a large general museum that is moving toward redesign of the permanent galleries. I wondered what would happen if that interaction was scaled up. Do you interrogate the map?

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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. Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. Design them free on Canva.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Virtual worlds are a communication medium in which people use avatars (animated characters) to interact and have shared experiences in a 3D environment. It’s not a game—there’s no goal or restrictions on how you use it—instead, it’s a technology platform for immersion and interaction, like the web.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. Have a game plan for what you'll do with past visitors' contributions as you prune to make room for more. It's just fun. All of them are cheap, mostly simple, and occasionally, dangerous.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Tagging is such a functional activity, and if you don't see direct benefit from doing it, the interest in it as a fun afternoon activity is pretty low. But over the last couple of months, I've learned about two tagging projects that actually get me excited-- CamClickr at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Posse at the Brooklyn Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival. And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! Check in with the game changers beautifully hacking tech to fight climate change. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

How can these themes make a positive impact on the local museum or symphony? As a result, I put together my perspective on this game changing technology for arts and cultural organizations. Data can also be used to cultivate personalized interactions with future donors. Are the same trends applicable? There is now a better way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 12-16, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! Check in with the game changers beautifully hacking tech to fight climate change.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 11, 2010

Dear Museum 2.0 The concept is to combine the work I've been doing developing interactive settings for participation with a venue that people naturally visit seeking an exciting social experience. Potato Claw – a pay-to-play arcade-style claw pickup game in which people try to pick up a potato with the metal claw. Share it here.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2007

The article includes a gallery of images of these imagined computers, which have keys for things like "Harry Potter," "games," and "friends." The debate over how young and how often kids should interact with computers has raged since the 1980s. Tags: children's museums design usercontent.

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