Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Particularly in an age of cultural and political division, Bedoya argues that leaders in the arts need to responsibly and boldly intermediate among many voices, using a combination of ethics and aesthetics to make policy and artistic decisions. Adam argued for museums to become "less visitor-oriented," and I argued the opposite.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. The Museum 2.0 In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. Who's sharing authority and how? Their task is both especially important and challenging.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

Start an exploratory project to open a small, probably struggling, museum? Forget your grand dreams and try to weave awesome strangeness into your regular museum job? It involves an exotic museum bedfellow, the suburban real estate developer. At the time, I was Master Teacher of Modern and Contemporary Art at the museum.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I've added a fourth model to this citizen science typology, one may be more appropriate to facilities like museums than to scientific organizations: co-option. In this model, the public uses institutional facilities or resources to develop and manage projects of their own devising. Contribution, collaboration, co-creation, and co-option.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. Cultural institutions are increasingly developing APIs and linked-data repositories. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Submitted by Leslie Hatfield.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Elizabeth Merritt is the director of the Center for the Future of Museums , a new project of the American Association of Museums (AAM). When I was given the opportunity to found the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM) I had been working for nearly 10 years with Museum Assessment and Accreditation at AAM.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. Cultural institutions are increasingly developing APIs and linked-data repositories. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Submitted by Leslie Hatfield.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. Cultural institutions are increasingly developing APIs and linked-data repositories. It was organized by Ed Schipul. Submitted by Leslie Hatfield.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What’s harder: coming up with great experimental ideas or jumping through institutional hoops to make the experiments happen? Today, an interview with staff from a museum with an incredibly healthy attitude towards experimentation with social media. I’m curious to hear what the CEO experience is like with all of this.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2011

The Index is based on actual revenue statistics from nonprofit organizations of all sizes representing arts, culture, and humanities; education; environment and animals; healthcare; human services; international affairs; public and society benefit; and religion sectors. Bell, President, American Association of Museums (AAM).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

My interest in gaming in museums was ignited by working on Operation Spy, an immersive, narrative, live-action game experience at the International Spy Museum, and fueled by the CSI:NY virtual experience. The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I don’t have an identity grounded in an single culture, nation or land. As one example, you can view the building where Daum is located now, under construction in 2008. The Whale Hunt: A Storytelling Experiment by Jonathan Harris. At one time, I would have referred to this as being nomadic. Our Stories. Usahidi means testimony.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

They bridge many divides — including cultural, linguistic, and age-related. Steve Daigneault puts his 15 years of experience as a grassroots organizer, communications specialist and online strategist to work for M+R clients like PBS, the Legacy Foundation and the U.S. Their four central points may sound familiar: Stories are universal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3. Culture Change. Beth Kanter, Social Media Strategy Is Everywhere in the Organization - Indianapolis Museum of Art. What can learn from the experience of other organizations? Experiment. How will you learn from the pilot for your next experiment? Tactics and Tools.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

This interest stems back to the very beginning of the Museum 2.0 Since 2006, I've heard terms like "wikimuseum" and "YouTube museum" spring from the mouths of many well-meaning, interested museum directors and leaders, but I haven't seen enough concerted work to define what these metaphors really mean and how they can be used.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

Their questions made me think about a blog post I wrote in 2008, The Future of Authority. letting museum visitors contribute and collaborate in museums), I now see this as a crucial issue also for more democratic and inclusive practice (i.e. Other person: "But doesn't that erode museums' authority?" Me: "Sort of."

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Political campaigns have proven to be amazing laboratories for experimenting with new online fundraising and organizing tactics, from the Dean Campaign and Meetup, to mybarackobama.com. So what can online fundraisers and campaigners learn from this year's experiments?

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