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VolunteerHub Helps Holocaust Museum Houston Increase Volunteers by 478%

Volunteer Hub

Holocaust Museum Houston needed a volunteer management solution to help them recruit, engage, and manage volunteers, following expansion. VolunteerHub provided the features the organization needed and helped increase active volunteers by 478%. Expansion led to an increased need for volunteers and software.

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Opening Up Museums: My TEDxSantaCruz Talk

Museum 2.0

The theme of TEDxSantaCruz was "Open." It gave me a chance to really think about how we have been opening up our museum and what it means for our community. Museums can be incredible catalysts for social change. The first way we open up is by inviting active participation. But they're not there yet.

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Design Series: Understanding Audience Needs

Forum One

I think that the most powerful design technique is to engage in active listening and empathy-building exercises with your internal stakeholders. This fosters a culture of open communication and empathy within the team. For example, a quick “Crazy 8s” exercise only takes a few minutes and allows everyone a safe and open space to ideate.

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How Museum Hack Transforms Museum Tours: Interview with Dustin Growick

Museum 2.0

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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How the Currier Museum of Art Prepared for Its Reopening

Connection Cafe

After our complete closure on March 16, 2020 due to COVID-19 , our museum staff was busier than ever preparing to navigate these uncharted times. In our meetings, we discussed when we could open pending curatorial timetable to prepare the exhibitions that were left in the middle of being set up in March! Thursday: open 10 am to 8 pm.

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Guest Post by Seema Rao: How Museums Can Resist Racism and Oppression

Museum 2.0

Like Seema, I've been looking for ways to increase active resistance of racism, hate, and bigotry--both as an individual and as the leader of a museum. Seema and I have started an open google doc to assemble ideas for specific things museums and museum professionals can do to resist oppression. Museums are ideas.

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Embedding Purpose-Driven Communications into Email Marketing

sgEngage

Why does your museum open its doors each day? What other museums do they follow/enjoy visiting? open rate, CTR. Processes can be arranged where an email is sent out based on a trigger which can be a number of things like activity (that does, or does not take place), time, customer behavior and more.