Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2008

At the last ASTC, in a session on "Museums 2.0," I heard just as many muddled explanations of doing the same old thing (and wrapping it in new words) as truly interesting, relevant projects. Update: You can now download the final slides (no audio) here. Core Museum 2.0 So here's my draft presentation.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

Here in TechSoup’s San Francisco office, we use audio and video conferencing every day to talk with people working remotely in the Bay Area, New York, or Seattle, as well as with our partner nonprofits around the world. For organization type, private foundations should choose Other Purposes and Activities from the drop-down menu.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

This week, I'm launching a new site: the Voicemail Museum. It's an experiment that merges two of my greatest interests: finding novel, easy ways for visitors to contribute content to museums finding questions that draw such compelling responses that random peoples' answers would be worth browsing To participate, all you need is a phone.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2015

Last week, Ian David Moss and I both blogged about the process of developing a theory of change for the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, one way we''re answering these questions is with a theory of change. It''s a logical flowchart that connects activities to outcomes to impact.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

I’ve received a few inquiries over the last year about museums and geocaching. to ask him all the dumb questions about geocaching and museums you can imagine… and a few more. to ask him all the dumb questions about geocaching and museums you can imagine… and a few more. Leary , is something of an expert. I sat down with Seth!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. For example, sharing multimedia content like audio might not present well across some curation tools; in some cases you may need more than one tool. What Is Content Curation?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums. framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. activities you can initiate without requiring frequent content updates.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2007

The site will be active until Oct 16, so keep the ideas coming! Wandering around, exploring, collecting experiences… sounds like a museum visit to me! I know plenty of museums that hand out maps, but few that structure those maps as core parts of the visitor experience. In a museum, we're limited by the physical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

TechSoup's Virtual Office space was pretty busy last night, hosting an earlier mixed reality event in Cambridge and SL , featuring Pathfinder Linden , head of educational activities for SL. A Museum group is also forming to discuss and explore what museum's can do in SL. I also turned off my audio.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. In December of 2012, the rock musician Beck released his latest album, Song Reader. That''s expected.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. How can you grow your email list to activate and build your organization’s power? Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. You just need to show proof of membership.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2007

There's no concern that the person will never read the email or pick up the message--IM is primarily a real-time activity. I worked with a composer who transferred almost all of his audio files to me via IM. But what about the unique challenges and opportunities of museums? Working with contractors and remote teams.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2008

This means you receive real-time audio data while running about your progress (updates each mile), and later, can review your run stats online. Nike+ provides a brilliant trifecta of sticky experiences, combining tracking, game mechanics, and me-to-we design to support a product, an activity, a community, and ultimately, healthy lifestyles.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2009

In my continuing quest to find elegant ways to integrate technology into the museum experience, we come to interpretative material and the simple question, "How can you create natural ways for visitors to retrieve the information of most interest to them relative to an artifact or exhibit?" Here's one lovely answer: Meta.L.Hyttan.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Using the right virtual events software and also with a little hardware, you can recreate many of your favorite fundraising activities over a livestream to give an experience that’s as close to the real thing as possible while also providing plenty of new and unique benefits. A Gala is a well-known charity fundraising event.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

How would you design a recommendation system for a museum? We've all become familiar with online retailers who address you by name and offer suggestions--some helpful, some annoying--based on your past activity and purchases. When it comes to museums, recommendation systems are a natural solution for the problem of the customized tour.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Exhibit labels in science centers ask more questions than any other kinds of museums, and yet the questions are often awful--teacherly, overly rhetorical, and totally meaningless. asked by a cop or mother, garners the full attention of asker and askee alike, museum questions like "what is nanotechnology?,"

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 27, 2008

If your museum has many voices in the real world, you will most powerfully and honestly convey yourself virtually if you can reflect the diversity of your institution. The marketing director for a mid-size science museum, Jeff, recently showed me a YouTube channel he’d discovered which was created by a camp staff member at the museum.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I particularly like the MP3 experiments , events at which Improv Everywhere distribute an audio file to people for free as a podcast. Participants gather in a physical venue with their own digital audio players, and everyone hits “play” at the same time. Then he asks you to take a deep breath.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In this age of increasing hacks and cybercrime, the Norman Rockwell Museum has a lot of digital assets, museum operations data, and private patron data that need to be protected. Find out why Frank Kennedy, IT manager at the Rockwell museum, chose Veritas Backup Exec to be a key part of the museum's security strategy.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

And these thousands of lawsuits aren’t just being brought against big brands with an active ecommerce base. AA standards, which includes captioning and audio description requirements. Museums, libraries, and zoos. which specifies levels of compliance. Federal programs are legally required to comply with WCAG 2.0

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? But for museum and art wonks, it could be. Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

Certainly many of these activities seem to be just as banal as pointing out the exits on a Boeing 767. I was struck, reading these articles about games, by the idea that introducing games, or comics, into the museum experience does not necessarily imply dumbing down or funning up the experience.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. With one exception, no single activity cost more than $30 to produce/maintain. The Love Lounge I LOVE.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Someday we want to collect audio and video, too, but we’d need a pretty serious operating budget to do that and at least one full-time employee. The collection is history, but it’s also inspiration, example, and a guide to what’s out there for people who want to be actively involved. Geography is fluid, though.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2010

When a technologist calls me to talk about their brilliant idea for a museum-related business, it's always a mobile application. There are lots of wonderful (and probably not very high margin) experiments going on in museums with mobile devices. Most visitors to museums attend in social groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

Museum Visitor Experience. Museums have been all over bots on other platforms, see the Momabot on Twitter for example. So, it comes as no surprise that Museums have been early adopters of Facebook Messenger Bots. The Australia Democracy Museum also has a Facebook Messenger Bot, with similar objectives. The Pop Bot.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

How can you make your museum website more effective in driving traffic and raising awareness of your institution? But there is a simpler, more impactful way for museum websites to become more visible, cited, and visited in the online landscape. Museums are creating “walled gardens,” and it hurts online visibility and impact.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

James Yasko is writing an article for an upcoming issue of Museum News on museums and Web 2.0. Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 Has your tagging system increased overall google hits for the museum?

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2011

Your slides can be embedded with flash animation, audio and narration, Flickr streams, Google and YouTube video, and even your Twitter feed and Facebook wall. Sharing a video of a recent success or showing the real-time activity on your Twitter feed is a powerful visual for reaching out to patrons, donors, and constituents.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

This guest post was written by Georgina Bath Goodlander, the Interpretative Programs Manger for the Luce Foundation Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The “Ghosts of a Chance” alternate reality game (ARG) ran from July 18 until October 25, 2008 and was a collaboration between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and CityMystery.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2007

Welcome to the first installment of the Museum 2.0 While every post at Museum 2.0 Elaine Gurian, author of this summer’s book, Civilizing the Museum , will also be popping into the conversation as her time and interest permits. And if you're planning ahead, next week we'll look at chapter 6, Timeliness: A discussion for museums.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

They oversee activities and play a large role in determining how you spend your budget and the goals you set. You can procure items that encourage residents to explore the city in a fun way, such as local restaurant gift certificates or tickets to museums or sports games. People can bid either in-person or virtually with a mobile app.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. If your nonprofit does awareness tours, hosts events in multiple cities, or is active around your hometown, Tripline can help staff share their location-based activism and advocacy online. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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