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Everyone's Smithsonian: Video, Slides, and an Open Strategic Planning Process

Museum 2.0

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Between the giant squid brainstorming and experimentation, I gave a talk to the larger Smithsonian Institution about multi-platform museum experiences. The slides are also available for download.

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Memo from the Revolution: Six Things I've Learned from our Institutional Transformation

Museum 2.0

TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. Given TCG''s multi-year Audience (R)evolution initiative, I took the opportunity to write a new talk about what revolution has looked like at our small museum in Santa Cruz. You can download all the slides here. The couches didn''t match.

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City Museum Video Contest: Cool Idea. What Happened?

Museum 2.0

Louis City Museum's amateur video contest. And therein lies an essential problem with this and other similar museum forays into Web 2.0: It sounded like a great project from an innovative, creative place. It sounded like a great project from an innovative, creative place. follow-through. What happened? if I'm lucky.

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One Million Giraffes (and small "c" collaboration)

Museum 2.0

This morning, I gave the keynote address for the Washington Museums Association annual conference. You can download the slides and see my whole presentation here. It features lots of museum-based examples. One Million Giraffes is pretty much what it sounds like--a project to collect artistic renderings of one million giraffes.

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How to Write Fundraising Emails That Get Results

Get Fully Funded

The mom has a job at a museum cafe, the older kids are in school, and the youngest attends a wonderful daycare center we are so fortunate to partner with. When you are brainstorming, your words might not sound so polished, which is fine. We have never been so scared of sliding into homelessness,” Jasmine said. “We

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Reflections on Mixed Reality Events in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides. A Museum group is also forming to discuss and explore what museum's can do in SL. Both events had their share of clunkiness. that didn't last long or ruin the event.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

You can see or download my slides and you can watch the video of the talk. Unsurprisingly, some of my favorite museums are small, funky places run by iconoclasts—but that’s not useful to most professionals who work for organizations in which they have little control over size or leadership matters. It’s nice to have both.

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