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DECEMBER 19, 2007

I am also prepping a panel on the topic for NTC (more about that later) Seb Chan is focusing specifically on blog metrics for museums. the multidirectional communication, that most museums set up blogs to encourage and explore. He thinks that Avanish Kaushik's model is particularly well-suited for museum blogs. interactivity???,

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NOVEMBER 13, 2007

This came the "dashboard" for the Indianapolis Museum of Art , an ongoing effort to measure various aspects of the Museum's performance. According to the web site, the goal is to seek to quantify and report out on areas of activity of general interest to museum studies specialists, colleagues, and patrons.

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MAY 23, 2008

Lynda Kelley I'm here in Sydney, Australia and just finished an informal workshop and discussion with Powerhouse Museum staff and other museums. Will post reflections shortly) I met Dr. Lynda Kelly, a blogger and the Head of Audience Research for the Australia Museum. The site is called Museum 3.0.

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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. I'm fascinated by social networking and am interested in finding ways for museums to appeal to all types of people.

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JULY 17, 2017

The San Francisco Museum of Art recently launched an ingenious bot called “Send Me” that allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted. Unfortunately, museum only has the physical space to display only about 5% of the collection.

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MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. A tag is a user???s

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APRIL 30, 2008

The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition (Nina Simon wrote an analysis of the project here ). Shelley Bernstein, staff members at the Museum responsible for social media projects, left a comment on my blog. She responded: I would say start simply, check often and don't stress too much.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Source: Powerhouse Museum. Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. think flickr and del.icio.us ???

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JANUARY 26, 2006

space on the web dedicated to exploring museums, objects, design. Britt Bravo at Netsquared posted on the community blog about museums and podcasting. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech , art_museums , museums , podcasting Mode is a new. and exhibitions. A work in progress, it is intended that mode. of its authors and contributors.

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JUNE 26, 2008

The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition , an experiment in crowd-sourced exhibits. This compelling experiment in the wisdom of the crowds started off with an open call for works through the museum's various Web 2.0 on how different arts organizations using social media effectively.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2005

RLG is a not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. On the Museums/Computers list, there has been a vigorous discussion about folksonomies and G??nter Technorati Tags: art , museums , net2 , tag , nptech , ict , ngo , folksonomy

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MAY 7, 2010

Recently, James wrote about some interesting ways museums are using Twitter for offline/online engagement. The San Francisco Bay Area has seen some extraordinary museum openings over the past several years. This provides a new level of transparency for the museum worker, and a higher degree of exposure.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I'm here in Chicago for a very brief trip on a panel about metrics and measurement for museums called "New Spaces, New Measures." " My slides and resources are here.

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

A month or two ago, museums and galleries around the world participated in a Twitter event called Ask a Curator. I asked Jim Richardson, who blogs at the Museum Next Blog and is the brainchild behind the event, a couple of questions: How did #askacurator come about? How did you get 340 museums to participate?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Nina Simon, a long time colleague and author of the Museum 2.0 blog and executive director, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History , told me about this amazing and fun co-created card game to help you think about self-care activities called the The Space Deck.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. The Indianapolis Art Museum has been doing just that by sharing its institutional dashboard out for everyone to view. It was met by with both positive and negative reactions from nonprofit and museum professionals. Two years later, we might have some answers.

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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.

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JUNE 23, 2011

My colleague, Devon Smith, a self-described data nerd who loves benchmarking pointed out this glorious example from the museum world from Sean Redmond , a Web developer at the Guggenheim. The original data set was collected in a google spreadsheet , using a manual and time consuming data collection process.

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MAY 5, 2008

The Indianapolis Museum of Art has done an amazing job of integrating a social media strategy into its communications strategy. As Cute As I Get by Hermanosmccoy (used with permission) Photograph of "Calder," from Richard McCoy IMA Blogger. What makes them a success?

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APRIL 29, 2010

  I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership. 

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator.

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JUNE 22, 2011

Museum Management. Surveys can help get data to form a baseline, benchmark, or inform strategy. Surveys can also provide useful data to track progress along the way. Exhibitions team. Learning team. Conservators. Collections Management team. Photographer. Front of House team. Fundraising team.

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MARCH 4, 2011

In early January, the American Museum of Natural History announced that it would hold a Brain Tweetup for 75 of its Twitter followers. The event promised an after-hours look at their special exhibition Brain: The Inside Story , a chat with its curators, a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum, and an opportunity to meet other fans of AMNH.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

She uses the word “curate&# which makes me imagine nonprofits as museum curators. Museum curators have expertise in a particular area of art, they know the ecosystem around the art – the artists, the patrons, other collectors, and other museum curators interested in that art form.

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JULY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I so happy to sneak into last night’s 501Tech Club New York City gathering last night to hear Shelley Bernstein, Brooklyn Museum, and Naveen Selvadurai talk about Nonprofits and Foursquare. For the Brooklyn Museum , they see the competition of mayorship as a source of identity and pride. say about you?

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MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation. Nina Simon is an independent museum exhibit designer and publisher of the Museum 2.0

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OCTOBER 16, 2007

My friend Nina who writes the Museum2.0 blog has set up an experiment using VoiceThreads, a multimedia presentation software that allows people to add their voices to the presentation.

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JULY 27, 2010

At the Natural History Museum, we visited the David H. At the Museum of American History, we visited the First Ladies Exhibit. My kids, who had been introduced to the Smithsonian through the popular movie “Night at the Smithsonian&# were excited too. There were a number of online/offline participatory visitor experiences.

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JULY 9, 2010

Tweet Ups are perfectly suited for performing arts organizations that may have pre-concert Tweet Ups or a museum that is offering a “young professionals event.&# A quick search of museum tweet up show many results including the recent Hubble and Holst , with a private showing of the Hubble 3D IMAX at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences (..)

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APRIL 18, 2011

QR Codes: fab or a fad for Museums? View more presentations from Museums Computer Group. Museums have been using them to enhance the visitor experience and have been early adopters of the technology. Joe Waters shares an example used for Cause Marketing. QR codes hold potential for arts organizations.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

One of the best personal brands that I’ve seen on Instagram from a nonprofit leader is Thomas P Campbell the CEO of the Metropolitan Museum. This shot is a painting at a museum visited during a professional conference for museums. You will see photos of Met art works as well as art in other museums. Visibility.

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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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APRIL 24, 2003

On the list where museum technology folks hang out, there has been a recent thread on best practices and lessons learned on how to set up a successful store component of a museum web site. A number of museums are using Yahoo Stores. For example, the Brooklyn Museum Shop. The software for the Yahoo! store it was.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Many told them that sometimes they just need some “creativity time,” that is to go to a museum or walk around. The organization formalized “creativity time” in its employees handbook and established a policy that staff take “creativity time” as half-day per month.

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APRIL 15, 2003

This year's conference for the Association of Art Museums has so many interesting sessions on museum technology and media that it would be hard to choose which one to go to. It even includes some sessions for small museums on how to integrate technology into service delivery. And, of course, a shoestring session.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Visit the Doodle Museum to view the history of doodles. It’s first Valentine’s Day logo appeared in 2000, looks quite primitive compared to today’s this American Life style animated and audio doodle. Generosity Day: This got started in 2011 by Sasha Dichter, Scott Case, Ellen McGirt, and Katya Andresen.

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation and coaching grantees on becoming a Networked Nonprofit and using social media effectively, I’ve also been talking to boards including the museum board above.

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