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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Inside the Design of an Amazing Museum Project to Capture People's Stories

Museum 2.0

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We ended up with a gallery in the museum instead.

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Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

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Carolyn’s Nonprofit Blog was inspired by the many people who have reached out to Carolyn since it was launched in 2011 to ask for advice about becoming a grant writer and nonprofit fundraiser. It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. Many readers asked How do you become a grant writer?

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How We Doubled Attendance in a Year: One More Post about How Events Changed Our Attendance

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But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (our fiscal year ends on June 30), and several people have written to me asking for the numbers behind our turnaround. The busiest day in both 2011 and 2012 is our longtime community program, Free First Friday.

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Blueprint Book Club Part 3: The Future of the National Vending Machine

Museum 2.0

This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. How is the exhibit living on at the museum and what is it like to take over someone else’s project?

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

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As of Febuary 2011 however, they have added a feature that goes a step beyond: streetview history. The Whale Hunt: A Storytelling Experiment by Jonathan Harris. Recently, overcoming a freak October snowstorm in Washington DC, I went to the National Museum of the American Indian , and then to the National Museum of American History.

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

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Whether it’s social media platforms or content that has captured the interest of the community – from citizen journalism to video storytelling. Externally, map all the various technologies in play already and that could be put to use. When put into straightforward terms like this, community-driven methodologies sound pretty simple.

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