Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Don't forget to add the search tool. Go do a search on Tweetscan and find out. (I And, be sure to add the search toolbar to your browser. The Brooklyn Museum is seeking a more diverse group of people to evaluate the photographs submitted for a crowd curated exhibition called Click. Want to listen on Twitter?

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MAY 16, 2009

It provided a restaurant guide with reviews, maps, and walking directions; movie reviews and show times for theaters; museum listings; a guide to bars and clubs; locations and contact info for local businesses; and even bathroom locations for cities around the U.S. Tags: Mobile Communications Software.

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For example, even museums that have had to shutter their doors have found ways to engage volunteers in new ways – for example by having volunteers work virtually to review and “tag” photos in the digital archives so researchers and others can more easily search the collections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Name Tags: Make sure you have name tags and if are you hosting, be a good host and introduce people. Tags: Tips Tools and Tactics online-offline tweet up. If your organization has a robust Facebook presence, you can also use a Facebook Event to promote the event. How Tweet Ups Can Benefit Your Marketing Strategy.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2009

I spend a lot of time talking to people about social media--how it can be a model for real-life content venue interactions and how it can connect museums and cultural institutions to users in new ways. In the 2000s, it was important to have a website so that people could "find you" on the Web via search engines like Google. Here's why.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

By amplifying content on Google Search, participating organizations can connect with motivated prospects searching for their causes online. Claiming 92.58% of search engine market share worldwide , Google is the world’s most popular search engine, so you’re missing out if you haven’t already joined the program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 situation unless museums can get the ???stickiness??? public information???

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. COST: Museum books tend to be expensive - because they are printed in small runs, the price for a 400-page paperback can be as high as $40. Why Self-Publish?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

It’s called Tag this Image! Tagging,” or assigning descriptors to pictures, websites, and other content on the internet, is a huge trend in 2.0. with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier. Tagging is useful. Separately at your own computers, you tag images.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 25, 2007

Last week, I spoke with Jim Richardson, managing director of SUMO Design , about their very cool new project with the North East Regional Museums Hub : I like. museums is a website on which visitors can search for museums in the North East region of England. It furthers the idea of museums as multi-use venues.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It might record that the user clicked play and then clicked pause after 16 seconds, or that they searched for the hours of a museum, clicked through to the information page, and stayed for 40 seconds. In contrast, the event model records the actions people take, for example clicking or scrolling. Implement it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Me: Have you ever been to this museum? meetup for Elite Yelp!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Imagine that your museum is ready to start creating content on a small-scale in Web 2.0. Imagine you are the Boston Museum of Science, and you are ready to make some videos to post on YouTube. When I search for "Boston Museum of Science" on YouTube, I find 83 videos. You're ready to make a few videos to post on YouTube.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

Today I got an early present from the San Francisco NPR station, KQED, which aired a piece on Museum 2.0 featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). This concept has spawned a question I like to obsess over: What would a museum look like that got better the more people used it?

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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

Museum 2.0 and museums discussed at the “Hot Topics in Exhibit Design” session. As you know, Museum 2.0 And Museum 2.0 To aid you in your search, I'd like to point out a few tools. First, at the very top left corner of this page, there's a search box. is celebrating one year in the blogosphere. That's a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Last week, I received an inquiry from Mary Maher, editor of Hand to Hand, a magazine put out by the Association of Children's Museums , about Museum 2.0. Why, Mary asked, were there no posts about children's museums on this site? Why aren't children's museums represented on Museum 2.0? stuff naturally.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. Recently, I learned about an innovative, super-low tech tagging pro ject in a library that does this beautifully. First, some background on tagging. Why are folksonomies useful?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

I’ve received a few inquiries over the last year about museums and geocaching. to ask him all the dumb questions about geocaching and museums you can imagine… and a few more. Thousands of people geocache for a variety of reasons: to explore new places, to have outdoor adventures, to search for surprises out in the world.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

Which museums have experience creating collection tagging systems? The Museum Computer Network and Museum Software Foundation have teamed up to bring you MuseTech Central , a site where you can share your own technical projects and search through a growing resource list of others. Who's doing audio tours on iPods?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Consider Google and other search engine advertising (or see if Google will partner on a Google Grant). Actively optimize for search engines so that the people who need to find the information will. • Tags: accessibility X-Prize NPII awards Obama TRACE clearinghouse Vanderheiden FCC.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2008

Now that there are over 200 posts on this blog, I'd like to start acting intelligently to organize the content--beyond the tags I assign to individual posts--so that you can most quickly find the posts you most want to read. But rating is just the tip of the organizational iceberg. spirit) that is driven by your interests and site use.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Museum professionals tend to think this is OK because they think of the contributory act as the important part of the participation. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. I think this is why the Top 40 exhibition at the Worcester City Gallery and Museum was such a success.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums. framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. Search for your institution on Yelp and TripAdvisor.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous space for the workshop in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and an expert in using social. I said yes.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 6, 2015

Glancing through it in your car in the parking lot before entering the event, you notice a name you don’t know well (the attendee from the previous scenario) and read that your staff has noted that they are new to town, but had uncovered in a google search that they were a major donor to the arts organizations of their previous town.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

But it was still fun to see how many of my Blackbaud colleagues serve on arts boards, perform at theatres and orchestras, or regularly take their children to their local zoo, museum or aquarium. Go search #showyourculture on Twitter and Facebook and check them out. Use these tags: #showyourculture + @blackbaud.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

With Google or Flickr , you can try to guess the tag associated with a set of images. These games represent the rise of search, tagging, and openness on the web. Museums should drool over this. Imagine if the wayfinding was good enough that people created geocaching games based on locations in the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Found via the NpTech Tag at blip.tv. tools and nonprofits, be sure to tag 'em with 2ndwave (And, if you're wondering how Nancy embedded her powerpoint, she did it with SlideShare (more here ). Tagging and Social Bookmarking Social Bookmarking Showdown is a quick overview/review of the major social bookmarking services.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

They didn't put them up the way you or I put up photos of the family hoe-down; they worked with Flickr for about six months as part of Flickr Commons , a hopefully growing initiative to connect public image collections with this hugely popular photo-sharing and tagging site. Museums Engaging in 2.0 Tags: web2.0 It's the people.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

You can upload photos to it, tag them, share them, comment on them, and search for them. Tagging makes photo search flexible and powerful. On Flickr, they are searchable both by title and by tag. Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out web2.0 Where do you go? So what makes Flickr so useful?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. In February 2001, AAM commissioned a study about the trustworthiness of museums and found that "Almost 9 out of 10 Americans (87%) find museums to be one of the most trustworthy or a trustworthy source of information among a wide range of choices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

I just scanned the list to SXSW in search of nonprofit oriented panels (in addition the two I submitted) and found a number of them for your consideration. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. Tags: sxsw. So, yes, please vote for these panels, but .

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

There are some obvious ties to the role of "community" in museums. Recently, some museums have launched initiatives to rebrand as community spaces, acknowledging and attempting to harness the positive social energy around visitation. Could museums do this? around gameplay. How do these game companies steer the discussion?

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