Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

Dear Museum 2.0 As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). I am closing down my consulting business at the end of April, but the Museum 2.0 Here are a few things that make the MAH an exciting museum to me: It's small.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

That said, I am a firm believer that a mobile website is the building block upon which to center your other mobile campaigns, but since January 2010 when I first featured 10 Nonprofit Mobile Websites , there hasn’t been much progress made. British Museum :: m.britishmuseum.org. Dallas Art Museum :: dallasmuseumofart.mobi.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2011

The Big Wild launched the first-ever mobilized petition in August 2010 for a QR Code campaign. Dallas Art Museum :: dallasmuseumofart.mobi. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art :: nelson-atkins.org/mobileguide. Smithsonian National Postal Museum :: postalmuseum.si.edu/mobile. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum :: ushmm.mobi.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2011

I asked Wendy Pollock and Kathleen McLean, authors of the new book The Convivial Museum , to share a guest post about the book. At first glance, our new book, The Convivial Museum , is about the most simple ideas. This image of opening night at the Oakland Museum of California, April 2010, is by photographer Daniel Kokin.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Farra, along with Thomas Negron and Charles Lenchner, invited Foursquare founder Naveen Selvadurai and Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein to their June 501 Tech Club. Heads up: The 2010 Nonprofit Tagline Awards is on! Read the article for Farra's takeaways and tips for nonprofits. American Cancer Society.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. and "why?" to "how?". Humans empower each other.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Imagine you've just been tasked with developing an innovative, future-thinking national museum for your country's history. Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). The Museum directors released Blueprint as a showcase for these plans. Where would you start?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I just attended the 2010 Tech Awards Gala Even. Tags: TechAwards Santa Clara Tech Museum Tech Awards. A Guest Beneblog by Teresa Throckmorton, Benetech's CFO Walking into the Santa Clara Convention Center last night looked very much like so many other black tie events – but that’s where the similarity ended.

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sgEngage

JUNE 21, 2012

This figure is one percentage point higher than in 2010. Fundraising growth in the arts subsector was helped by an $800 million cash gift to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas from the Walton Family Foundation. This was the largest cash donation ever recorded to an art museum in the United States.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Congratulations, David Sklar of Stepping Stones Museum for Chilren ! It's all part of our November Member Appreciation Month, which you can read more about here. Right now, however, I'd love to give a book to an NTEN Member: Zilch, by Nancy Lublin.

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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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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. The Denver Community Museum (DCM) was a grassroots operation in almost every sense. This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

and how your museum, for example, could make good use of it. Check out Britt's list of the 4 things you could do with it for your museum (or park or school. Thankfully, Britt Bravo wrote a piece on the new web2.0 tool to explain what it is. cross between Yelp, Google Maps, and Twitter. yard, or other public location). .

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 25, 2011

Musical Instrument Museum. At the 2010 retreat, we benefited from the guidance of two fantastic facilitators in Raquel Gutiérrez and Cassandra O'Neill , who asked participants to bring with them an object that represented the reason they became involved with the nonprofit sector. Maureen Baker , Manager for Individual Giving.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." He was mandated to turn the ship around financially and to expand the reach of the museum in the community. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The Brooklyn Museum just finished the public stage of GO , a "community-curated open studio project." GO invited people to visit artists' studios throughout Brooklyn over one weekend and to nominate up to three favorites; the top ten will be considered for an upcoming group show at the museum. 1,708 artists participated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2012

Solid Women ”, winner of Best Medium Organization, presents a powerful, affirming story of 5 women succeeding in rebuilding their community after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, through the microloans facilitated through Fonkoze. Winning Best Small Organization is “ Protect Our Defenders ”, a gripping account of sexual assault in the military.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I just discovered that my keynote at the 2o10 NODEM conference on digital media and heritage is available online. If you're into video, check out this 25 minute talk I gave on the conference theme "from place to presence."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

I spent the weekend queuing up posts for my forthcoming blog-cation--nine weeks of guest posts and reruns from the Museum 2.0 I went to several big museum conferences in 2004-2006 where I identified and started admiring heroes in the field. As the readership for Museum 2.0 To me, Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Residents in the three counties that pay the millage will receive special benefits : free admission to the museum and expanded educational programming. Reading through the 300+ comments online reminded me eerily of the extraordinary 2010 ArtsWave report on the public value of art (full report here , my synopsis here ). Rebuttal: none.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2011

installation of Windows Server 2008 and Exchange Server 2010 improved. allows the Oberlin Heritage Center to uphold high standards and museum. history museums,” said Patricia Murphy, Executive Director of Oberlin. allows the Oberlin Heritage Center to uphold high standards and museum. Heritage Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

In 2010, the conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland. One of them was the curator of the world largest archaeological museum, Grand Egyptian Museum. At one of the pre-conference master classes, I met 2 young women from Cairo. It was her first time to attend such a large conference. I was there as a new trainer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

She again invited me to present at the Nasscom NILF Conference in 2010 and teach workshops. It was designed for learning – almost like an exhibits at any children’s museum in the US. One thing that I loved was the playground. My favorite was the world time zone calculator.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

In the fall of 2010, America was horrified by the tragic actions of gay young people who took their lives after suffering prolonged bullying and harassment. The United States Memorial Holocaust Museum had 1100 pictures of children who were victims of the Holocaust. It Gets Better. Remember Me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

About $500,000 came from unnamed individuals in the early days and in September 2010, Omidyar Network announced a grant of up to $750,000. By November 2010, Jumo noted in a New York Times article that they’ve raised $3.5 The Jumo website had its soft launch back on March 18, 2010. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0 People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." hour at the Museum. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Users can share them on Instagram while also choosing to share them to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare. It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). Met Museum Thomas Campbell or use your organization’s branded account like Udi Ofer, CEO of NJACLU.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

Giskin Anomaly Right around Thanksgiving 2010 a strange story began to unfold in Balboa Park, San Diego. Lessons Learned 3: This is not a museum talking (what a relief!) Being a museum must be exhausting – you have to know so much and speak so carefully. Now, that game, GISKIN ANOMALY , is live.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

Santa Cruz, the British Museum, Apple, Google, Adobe, and numerous other. was awarded a Knight 2010 News Challenge grant for Stroome , a collaborative video editing and publishing platform designed to. He has spoken publicly about his work to audiences at the Smithsonian, UC. conferences and public events around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Comments on the FCC's Accessibility Plans (June 2010) My main recommendation to the FCC is to be more ambitious about accessibility. Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals. I'm also going to copy portions into the comments section of their specific posts.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

There are lots of great science museum resources, but not where these kids can walk after school. I came on in 2010 to start the statewide nonprofit network. For example, the Exploratorium is an extraordinarily participatory museum, but it''s not nearly as participatory as a Community Science Workshop.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

He has spoken publicly about his work to audiences at the Smithsonian, UC Berkeley, Stanford, United Nations University, New York University, UC Santa Cruz, the British Museum, Apple, Google, Adobe and numerous other conferences and public events around the world. Thomas Grasty - Stroome.

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