Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2016

A few months ago, the MAH board and staff started discussing whether and how to create a formal policy for advocacy activities. Why create an advocacy policy? Regardless of your institutional mission, nonprofits are all in the advocacy business. A small team of trustees and staff members worked together on our advocacy policy.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2019

Museums, like all professional fields, are spaces policed by unwritten norms and regulated by our credentialing systems. For example, many museums focus on issues like ticket prices or transportation as a way to remove access barriers. Basically, when our staff is unhappy or overworked, it’s hard for them to make the visitor happy.

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Accessibility Museum Classes Stats 30

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. Successful argument: Great museums improve quality of life and the value of the region. it’s just not about a museum, it’s a local AND regional “quality of life” issue.

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Detroit Arts Public Support 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

The Museum of the Moving Image is hosting the 2006 Machinima Festival this weekend in NYC. Machinima with Issues Engaging and provocative uses of machinima as art, advocacy, and evidence will be presented and discussed. Moderator: Carl Goodman (Deputy Director and Director of Digital Media, Museum of the Moving Image).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. A crew that has the capacity to build a sign at the last minute. It's inherent in what we do.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2015

Year after year, MCON proves to be an unforgettable experience for artists, media, social entrepreneurs, corporate, nonprofit and public leaders, and passionate people from across the country. MCON 2015 is happening June 24-25 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole. It also won the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture a Silver Vega Award! Endowed by Dr.

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 68

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Like other museums that have hosted Bodyworlds and its sequels, the exhibit has doubled overall museum attendance for 2007--and it's only been here for three months. When it comes to advocacy in museums, working from "natural extensions" can both give people a pat on the back and challenge them at the same time.

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Content Museum Voice Wikipedia 20

Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

This 157-page report created a useful tool for Zero to Three’s advocacy at any stage. Their work includes research, education for families and health professionals, support for families directly affected by the maternal health crisis, and advocacy. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Award Communication Colorado Museum 80

Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

American Jazz Museum Platinum – Cultural Websites 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.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

The key is to move MySpace friends onto normal advocacy lists as soon as possible. Podcasting The ABCs of Podcasting from PND covers how Web sites of public radio stations, museums, and other education-oriented nonprofits are turning to podcasting as an increasingly popular and inexpensive way of delivering audio programming.

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Wiki Vlog Machinima Bookmarking 50

Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole. It also won the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture a Silver Vega Award! Endowed by Dr.

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 46

M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

Are there artists or other influencers who might be interested in partnering with your organization to support you through NFTs? Her clients include the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the American Museum of Natural History, and the American Red Cross. . What types of content might have value? Twitch and Tiltify: What are they?

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Game Stream Disaster Digital 98

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

There are lots of things visitors can’t do in museums. But what about the things that museum professionals can’t (or feel they can’t) do? This week at the ASTC conference, Kathy McLean, Tom Rockwell, Eric Siegel and I presented a session called “You Can’t Do That in Museums!” And so my question is, why are we keeping them away?

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2007

This week, a look at Chapters 16 and 17 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum. Why don't more museums do this? Many museums, especially large ones, exhibit the worst of the feudal cubicle wars--the Collections Department vs. the Exhibition Department vs. the Education Department.

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