Forum One

MARCH 5, 2024

This Women’s History Month, we celebrate the work that the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum does each and every day to bring women’s stories alive and into focus. We invite you to explore one of the initiatives we’ve been honored to be part of creating to expand access to women’s stories in our nation’s history.

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M+R

MARCH 14, 2024

Museums can have a hard time soliciting smaller dollar annual gifts tied to mission, rather than a new exhibit, and this is a great place to turn the focus to why donor support matters. Pi Day, celebrating math and science, is the Museum’s signature day of giving.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Monday, May 18th is International Museum Day , the mission of which is to raise awareness of the fact that, “museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”. 2019 saw more than 55,000 museums across 150 countries participate.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

While many American museums require 37.5 The whole issue of wages gets at the heart of the faulty systems of capitalism, the culture of women’s work, and museums as privilege-concentrating institutions. In the last twenty years, or so, professionalization has changed museum work. Not the work we do, but the ways we do that work.

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VQ Strategies

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

collections or exhibit tours at museums, a fire fighting training center for a city, and the control tower at the – you guessed it – the airport [by now, we were all ready to sign up to volunteer at the airport!) Denver International Airport. CREATIVE GRATITUDE MESSAGES Social media posts Kudos cards (i.e.,

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Written by Seema Rao Last month, I shared some of my thoughts about the best of museums over the last decades. (I I'll mention now, Kate Livingston, listed Museum Twitter as one of the best things, and I definitely thought this as I read people's responses. Many respondents talked about a fundamental shift in museums from them to us.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

This month, we’ve been thinking about access barriers. But we also know that it hasn’t made an appreciable impact on the people coming to museums. This month I talked about two variables that are often ignored when we talk about access and equity: the way we do our work and the frames we use to judge our work. Prove their point?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2020

Nina Simon, Lauren Bentua, and many others would host us in the halls of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art. It’s hard to see now how these statements will manifest into meaningful action, especially since it seems like many of these same institutions have been languishing over issues of diversity, equity, access, and inclusion (DEAI) for decades.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

The FCC just did a series of four blog posts asking for feedback on their new accessibility plans. 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.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2019

This month, I’ve been thinking about access barriers. Last week, I talked a bit about the structural issues inherent in our systems and how they may play a part in our access issues. Last week, I talked a bit about the structural issues inherent in our systems and how they may play a part in our access issues. Wait, what?

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

American Jazz Museum Gold – Cultural Institutions Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater. Endowed by Dr.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. But I couldn’t get there.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2021

How many cultural organizations were actively prioritizing digital benefits and digital access in membership? With the first wave of lockdowns in Spring 2020, the primary value proposition of membership vanished overnight, and closures caused many museums to reinvent their benefits and programming in digital formats.

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Candid

MAY 18, 2022

About a month ago, Candid was tagged in a social media post from someone who had visited the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. We reached out to Amanda Moniz, Ph.D., the David M.

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Neon CRM

MAY 23, 2023

Visit the Asian American Arts Alliance Website If You’re Passionate About the Law, Support the South Asian Bar Association of North America Anyone familiar with the legal system knows how invaluable it is to have a support network of peers and access to ongoing education. to their members.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We are excited to share that the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal , NYU’s Congressional District Health Dashboard , and March of Dimes have been named Anthem Awards finalists. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

North Carolina Museum of History 1988.39.4 I’m always amazed when my colleagues tell me that the biggest barrier they face to “opening up” the content at their museums is from registrars—the people who care for collection objects. Followers of Museum 2.0 Can collections access be a way to entice new audiences?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments. Nonprofits and museums depend on dedicated, but oftentimes limited, development staff to sift through countless prospects to determine which ones are priority.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For example, we’ve seen our client at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture uncover visitor behavior in GA4 that they couldn’t see before. GA4 helps users get quick access to a useful report. While some of us exported our data from UA, those pre-made reports served the data needs of most people well.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2017

TechSoup offers many donated and discounted products for nonprofit museums and history organizations, such as historical sites and societies, of every type. Here's our guide to what's most popular with our over 8,000 museum TechSoup members. Our museum members particularly like Microsoft Project and SQL Server.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. The popular reference point for what a museum is--a temple for contemplation--is based on a Euro-centric set of myths and implies a white set of behaviors.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Super Session: Cultural Organizations as Community Connectors—How to Promote Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion. For museums, gardens, zoos, and aquariums to serve all people in their communities, staff must be aware of the societal disparities and gaps that interplay with their operations, decisions, and programs.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

I had too look no further than Shelley Bernstein's blog over at the Brooklyn Museum to find some thoughtful experimentation and useful examples. 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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

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. That is more curated.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 I like my parks hard to access, sparsely populated, and minimal in services. I like my parks hard to access, sparsely populated, and minimal in services. In the Tetons, I had a highly exclusive, hard to access, fabulous experience. blog posts from the past.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Their arts and culture funding goes towards artists, curators, conservators, scholars, and organizations to ensure equitable access to excellent arts and cultural experiences. The Shubert Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

An exhibiting artist approached me recently at an evening event at the museum. You know, the hours that you're open--they're not very accessible for people who work." But it's a question that many museums seem to address inadequately. Evening events provide rare opportunities to experience the museum after work.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk. What do you do?

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Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2023

Forum One helped the AARP Livability Index meet the needs of their audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In 2010, the Children''s Museum of Tacoma was getting ready to move to a new, bigger facility. When they moved to the new facility, they decided they wanted to radically expand access to the museum, AND increase revenue. Consider the ongoing lawsuits at the Metropolitan Museum on this very issue.)

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. The outcome was an immensely successful event that attracted audiences from all corners of the country.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2021

The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts: Elevating a world-class cultural landmark. Once they established their new brand, they needed an elevated web presence that could bring the brand to life and showcase their vision for the refurbished museum and expanded campus. The Frist Art Museum: Inspiring cultural curiosity in Nashville.

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Forum One

JANUARY 30, 2024

Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal Bronze Anthem Winner in Best Use of Data The Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal is a collaborative effort between Forum One and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. This groundbreaking online platform offers unparalleled access to millions of records from the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

One in four Americans now access the Mobile Web daily, yet only a tiny fraction of nonprofits have a mobile website. That said, I think the word is finally starting to trickle out that mobile campaigns can be done on a shoestring budget and are accessible to all nonprofits. British Museum :: m.britishmuseum.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

Take for example the # AskACurator hashtag created by a digital expert who works with museums almost five years ago and still active today. Someone sent out a tweet wondering if London’s Natural History Museum and Science Museum went to war, which would win. Here’s an example of using Moments from a Museum.

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