Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

Last week''s New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons. In the article, David discussed ways that several large art museums are working to attract major donors and board members in their 30s and 40s. David describes himself as a "museum brat."

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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. 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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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

Here in TechSoup’s San Francisco office, we use audio and video conferencing every day to talk with people working remotely in the Bay Area, New York, or Seattle, as well as with our partner nonprofits around the world. Public Grantmaking Foundations. Public Grantmaking Foundations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

From supporting arts and sciences to public health and community investment, foundations have been instrumental grantmakers in public life for decades. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia. PLEASE NOTE: Public Grantmaking Foundations.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2012

Most often, private operating foundations are organizations which operate museums and theater/arts centers, although any other charitable activity conducted directly by the foundation can qualify. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

But here's a quick list of the conferences, public events and workshops where I'll be appearing in the next few months. PUBLIC EVENTS TO WHICH ALL ARE INVITED September 28, 2016: St. Register Now October 2, 2016: Brooklyn, NY for a workshop and book signing in partnership with Museum Hack, 11am-12:30pm - Ticketed!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

But I couldn''t fully imagine how a museum or an arts center could embody it. The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (which she directs) teamed up with the San Francisco Planning Department and the Knight Foundation to host the Market Street Prototyping Festival. Market Street is a central artery of San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Get inspired with these examples of community-wide efforts and public-private partnerships: Kansas City's recently-launched Digital Inclusion Fund is tackling Internet access and adoption head-on. The Auburn Public Library is collaborating with Best Buy to offer free technical assistance to community members.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

According to the San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner, there are over 75 million unemployed youth between the ages of 15-24 and that there are twice as many unemployed young people than adults. TechSoup for Libraries has profiled some public libraries that are striving to make their communities digitally inclusive.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

A few weeks ago, I gathered a group of creative folks in San Francisco and asked them, "what makes a social venue feel welcoming and friendly to you?" You never say, "this place is so me" when talking about a generic public space. To my surprise, secrecy and exclusivity were at the top of the list.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

Productions in 2006 to produce dramatic, engaging, life-changing documentaries, films and media in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. Santa Cruz, the British Museum, Apple, Google, Adobe, and numerous other. conferences and public events around the world. Windy founded D.V.A. Thomas Grasty - Stroome.

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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). A place many museums are not.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The first one was started in 1991 by a San Francisco educator, Dan Sudran, in his garage. There are lots of great science museum resources, but not where these kids can walk after school. The Mission location is still a useful hub for San Francisco school programs. What are they and where did they come from?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

Productions in 2006 to produce dramatic, engaging, life-changing documentaries, films and media in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. Windy founded D.V.A. Windy currently serves on the Advisory Board for Bay Area Women in Film and Media (BAWIFM). David Evan Harris - Global Lives. Thomas Grasty - Stroome.

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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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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

Sort of like your website should do, give your organization a public face on the web. Check out the San Francisco Ballet Tumblr site, or the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see how nonprofit organizations are using the site. This is a crowdfunding site that your organization can use to fundraise.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 5, 2010

A coupon goes up for half-price museum admission or spa treatments, and users have one day to buy. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History sold 1,318 half-price memberships last week. But for museums, which mostly have extra space to fill (and a low per-customer operating cost), this isn't a big issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

Like many people who've worked in science centers and interactive experience museums, I've always been perplexed by the fact that hands-on workshop audiences top out around age 14. They are more than just workshop spaces--they are member institutions, like museums. Isn't this one of our dreams for museums?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

Last month, the Christian Science Monitor published an article entitled, "Museums' new mantra: Connect with community." It took me a couple weeks (and various museum blog responses ) to realize what bugs me about this article--it treats "connecting with community" as a marketing ploy, a "mantra" rather than a mission.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

The nonprofit creates books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. San-Francisco-based RE-volv raises awareness about solar energy through its community-based solar projects and outreach programs across the U.S. Cary Creative Center — Third-Place Winner. " RE-Volv.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

This is a project of the Getty Museum. (I California College of the Arts' Center for Art and Public Life "The Center for Art and Public Life creates community partnerships using the arts to address issues of social justice, diversity, community development, and education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

For instance, the San Francisco Museum of Art has 34,678 items in its collection. To share its entire collection with art lovers, the museum created the “Send Me” bot allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

This guest post was written by Joël Tan , Director of Community Engagement at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco, CA. YBCA:YOU is an intriguing take on experiments in membership and raises interesting questions about what scaffolding people need to have social and repeat experiences in museums.

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Non Profit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In a recent story, NPQ , quoting Komal Shah, a trustee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , asked, “How evil is too evil when it comes to donors?” Knowing it was playing with fire, the relationship was masked and kept from public view. September 6, 2019, New Yorker and WGBH.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. Here is an example of an artistic program or creative process undertaken as a crowd and it isn't a cheap publicity stunt. How do you evaluate this? Crowd Creation: Crowds have creativity.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

Many museums have jumped into the middle level—producing their own content—without starting with commenting. Consider the path of the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Jennifer Caleshu, their director of communication, is a museum talker extraordinaire. Look at the BADM’s participation in the annual Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public. I learned about artists like Yolanda Lopez from San Francisco, or Ester Hernandez, or even male artists like Malaquias Montoya, who were doing very radical work, and were getting into venues and areas that I really wanted to get into. I learned about Frida Kahlo.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Museum Projects COSI has done a lovely job aggregating all of their social media efforts into one "Share" tab on their website. The Brooklyn Museum is offering a new "socially networked" membership called 1stfans starting Jan 3. Let me know if you end up using it for a museum event or exhibit! Keep 'em coming, and enjoy!

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