DipJar

APRIL 14, 2022

Behind an unassuming Woolworth’s storefront in Greensboro, NC, Civil Rights history was made on a February day in 1960. The story of that day, the movement it spawned, and its lasting impact are told at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. Museum programming, which included films and lectures, was also moved online.

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Forum One

MAY 13, 2022

Her technical and management experience working with many of our clients, such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and The Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation , has informed the way that she supports staff and sets up systems for success.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

After the International Committee on Museums spent some time debating the definition of museums, many folks took up the charge on social media to give their own definitions. I know I’m missing early innovators of interaction in museums; feel free to tell me who in the comments.) We need new #MuseumVerbs.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying.

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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. This guest post was written by Regan Forrest , exhibition developer and visitor experience researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. This tool provides data on schools across the country – School Districts, Colleges and Universities, Legal Units (i.e. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. Excellence – Website for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. University law schools are hosting seminars on Ferguson.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2020

Many museum conferences have a moment of unfettered camaraderie and unvarnished joy--that moment is at karaoke. Because museum people are the most creative, devoted, and scrappy people in the world. As the museum field eventually bounces back, there will be pressure for us to accept not only the pre-covid status quo, but even less.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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Twenty Hats

MAY 3, 2021

Lisa Marie Porter, MA, CVA, has been working in Museums in the public sector since 2001. In 2007, Lisa Marie graduated the George Washington University with her MA in Anthropology and Museum Studies and joined the staff at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) in Washington, DC.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. A year ago, I put my consultant hat on the shelf and decided to jump into museum management (a sentence I NEVER would have imagined writing five years ago). I'm open to any questions you want to raise in the comments.

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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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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

These were modest jobs, many in campus offices working with university administrators and faculty members. While securing my two university degrees, I conducted in-depth research. It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. Q: Will it help to become a volunteer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Throughout history, philanthropy plays a very important role because it directly impacts our wellbeing. One of them was the curator of the world largest archaeological museum, Grand Egyptian Museum. She came up to me and said she was very impressed by the history of American philanthropy and the AFP professionalism.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2016

On Giving Tuesday 2015 , The Office of University Development at University of Michigan set an example for how this kind of thoughtful planning and preparation can dramatically increase results: 1000 donors completed gifts online within the first 49 minutes. $1 1 million was raised by 10:03 a.m. Advanced Planning.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. and "why?" to "how?".

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

We’ve said it before and said it again —there’s no reason to delay the switch from Universal Analytics (UA), the tool 99% of our partners use as default. Understanding the history of Google’s analytics suite is useful in better understanding GA4. Google changed it to Universal Analytics after they acquired it in 2005.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. " Indeed, her first post summarized some observations from her research on how museums were using Twitter for her masters thesis. Tell me about you I am a University of Washington student currently writing my thesis to complete my MA in Museology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2012

The site operations a Genocide Archive, a Museum, Education and Social programs, and a memorial garden and burial grounds. The exhibition in the Museum has three main sections. The main exhibition tells the history of Rwanda leading up to the genocide, what happened, and the aftermath.

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AFP Blog

MAY 4, 2015

museums to create virtual experiences for visitors. Museums are the perfect space for Beam experiences. The storytelling, history, and objects translate beautifully to a Beam visit,” explained Ch" 'via Blog this'

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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. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. the way the best museums do.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2020

history and includes several provisions helpful to the social good sector. Universal Charitable Deduction. This package includes a temporary universal charitable deduction. Institute of Museum and Library Services – $50 Million. This package assists social good organizations as employers and mission-driven organizations.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Search for passes to the most popular theme parks like: Cedar Point Disney World Disneyland Universal Studios Six Flags You can offer one-day, multi-day, or season passes, depending on availability. Museum passes Offer a local museum bundle for those looking to explore more of the cultural and historical opportunities your city has to offer.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2010

These are some thoughts on a very small museum called the Brazos Valley African American Museum. I was fortunate enough to visit it during the Texas Association of Museums conference, and it brought up some reactions and emotions that I wanted to share with you.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 28, 2007

Bill Coleman and I will be speaking at Santa Clara University on Working to Change the World on May 24th, 2007. Coleman, co-founder of BEA Systems, the fastest growing technology company in history, and Fruchterman, recipient of the 2006 MacArthur Genius Award, will talk about their passion for social improvement.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

How does this question play out in museums? At the 2013 American Alliance of Museums annual conference, a group of exhibition designers explored authenticity in a session called Is it Real? They explored a huge range of museum objects and grey areas of "realness." To remake a thing correctly is to discover its essence.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figuero - Claiming Space for Brown Women in the Digital Museum Landscape Based in Washington DC, Brown Girls Museum Blog is a new-ish site led by graduate students Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figueroa. The Museum of Impact is a pop-up project of short-term exhibitions on urgent topics of social justice.

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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. And on the walls, my friend explained, was art from the museum itself. There was funky music.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Technology students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The Dallas Museum. museum, expanding access to the mobile tours even further. Museum of African American History's mobile web app likewise runs on most mobile devices with a web browser. database and mobile apps were created by Information Science and.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Or, you can take David Neff ''s local advice: skip the lines at Franklin''s and instead check out the amazing BBQ, bar, and history behind Freedman’s. Sarah Janczak suggests a visit to Landmarks'' public art series at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) - a current highlight is Skyspace from James Turrell.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2011

I'm reaching the end of my consulting days, with just one more day on the road before I dedicate myself to Santa Cruz and The Museum of Art & History. Also, just as a reminder, tomorrow (Friday), at 9:30am Eastern, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage will be streaming my talk on museums and visitor participation.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. For example, Summify measures sentiment and a user’s reading history to highlight content. The Expanding Universe of Curated Content Delivery Formats. What Is Content Curation? Content and Curation for Nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Three of them are being hosted at my museum , and one at a mystery location. You Can't Do That in Museums Camp - July 10-12, 2013. In July of 2013, the MAH will host our first You Can't Do That in Museums Camp (or better name to be suggested by you), inviting 80 creative people to collaborate on an experimental exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

This guest post was written by Ruben Huele and describes the scenario-based strategic process used at the Dutch Natural History Museum, Naturalis , to innovate the redevelopment of their permanent collection. The new building of Naturalis, the Dutch National Natural History Museum, opened in 1998. Following the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2015

I have an unusual education for the director of an art & history museum: a degree in electrical engineering. I've filled some gaps in my cultural education through a career in museums: reading, looking, exploring, listening. Engineering taught me to be a tinkerer, a builder, and a problem solver.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Paul, MN at the Minnesota History Center, 8-10am - Free! Register Now October 2, 2016: Brooklyn, NY for a workshop and book signing in partnership with Museum Hack, 11am-12:30pm - Ticketed! Registration info TBA October 20, 2016: San Francisco, CA at University of San Francisco, 5-8pm - Free! I'd love to meet you there.

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