Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

Last week, I visited the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle. I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). I'm always a bit nervous when I visit a museum I love from afar. What if it isn't what I expected?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 4, 2023

Large nonprofits using NPSP can purchase additional licenses, storage, and applications as needed. For example, a CRM designed specifically for museums might emphasize their ticketing features, whereas a CRM for general nonprofits might have some registration tools but lack a built-in ticketing component. Applications.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2008

I once asked Elaine Gurian how museums can change. She said it happens in one of two ways: either the place is small and inconsequential enough that no one is watching, or there's a passionate, gutsy director willing to risk his or her job. Where's the opportunity for risk in museums that are too big to avoid the media microscope?

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. CA: One of the best things that happened to me while volunteering for the local art museum is they funded my travel to Los Angeles and my tuition to take the week-long grant writing training bootcamp hosted by The Grantsmanship Center.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I started the Museum 2.0 can be applied in museums to make them more engaging, community-based, vital elements of society. is not just a buzzword; it’s a definition of web-based applications with an “architecture of participation,” that is, one in which users generate, share, and curate the content. “Web I'm Nina Simon.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

When my sister first started working with a nonprofit museum, she had a lot to learn about the fundraising process for the organization. The museum had notes saved in their donor management software about the seating preferences for their major donors and that particular donor preferred their regular seat toward the front.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

Slots on the list were first-come first-served, though newbies were usually placed early in the set so they would have a gentle onramp (and so seasoned poets could skip the kiddie pool if they chose to). Grant application feedback. You spend hours agonizing over the language for a grant application. The Cantab had a formula.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Looking to build an online membership application form for your nonprofit? Many tried-and-true methods for collecting member information—like paper applications or in-person conversations—take up a ton of time for both your constituents and your staff. It’s a great goal!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. A place that truly sees these initiatives as part of their mission to serve their local community. A place that makes it all pretty darn cool.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 11, 2009

I'm doing a workshop with the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History which includes a public lecture on "the multi-platform museum" on May 18 at 3pm ET (GMT -5). What is a multi-platform museum? It's a place that engages with visitors through many distribution mechanisms, including exhibits, programs, and the web.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 20, 2023

That’s why all nonprofits should have a clear, established policy in place for accepting in-kind donations. Here are the essential elements that your receipts should include: Donor info: The donation receipt should include the donor’s name and address, as well as their tax identification number if applicable.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

.  I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. 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

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 To me, this seems both discouraging and ungenerous to visitors.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

You hear the buzz all over the place: augmented reality this, augmented reality that. Before we look at possible applications of AR, let’s take a look at how it works! Markerless: Markerless or location-based augmented reality relies on pegging the AR object to a specific place using GPS or digital compass. You be the judge.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

I can understand why somebody interested in museums wouldn't want to cover ground on health sector management. I also understand why somebody interested in health care wouldn't want to know the ins and outs of museums. Both hospitals and museums rely to some extent on fundraising, giving rise to a cadre of fundraising professionals.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

And with the right event management tools, organizing your guests and tracking your fundraising progress can be done all in one place! Customize your event pages, simplify the registration process, and manage your guests all in one place! Pricing Eventbrite placing plans start with a free plan for small events.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Last week Ginny Fitzgerald, the Director of Visitor Services and Membership at Chicago History Museum, joined us to host a webinar about how she prepares her team for peak attendance times. Chicago History Museum defines their summer season as June 1 through August 31. Ginny has over 17 years of experience in visitor services.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds. Collaborative Experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. o is Transparency - and the best example of that is what the Indianapolis Art Museum has done with its pubic metrics on its web site.

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2012

The official selections will be announced by the end of July and the festival will take place at the Spirit of Texas Theater at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, Texas on September 12-14. They are accepting films through June 30, though it's only free to submit through June 15th. Submit now!

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Neon CRM Customs House Museum & Culture Center Grows Membership 330% Over 3 Years Read Now Keep Members Engaged Did you know that it costs four to five times more money to acquire a new customer than to retain current customers? Define your value proposition for members to illustrate how your membership model benefits them.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

The presumed answer is "yes" your museum needs a blog, a pony, or a set of comfy couches. Does your museum need a custom online social network? Many museums have been experimenting in these spaces by creating institutional profiles, museum affinity groups, and connecting with visitors and other museum professionals individually.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Endowments can be used by any size of nonprofit, but they’re most commonly used by larger nonprofits, such as museums, universities, and hospitals, for ongoing operations, scholarships, and other long-term projects. The best place to start appealing for endowment donations is with your board members and partnerships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Here’s the basics: Instagram is a free application for iPhone or Android that lets people take photos, apply filters to change the look of the photos and then share them. Met Museum Thomas Campbell or use your organization’s branded account like Udi Ofer, CEO of NJACLU. Instagram Overview.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

The site doesn't link them with foundations or grant applications; instead, it makes it easy to reach out to regular people for donations of as little as $1. But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0 People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." hour at the Museum. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Thanks to Kyle Evans, who forwarded me the fascinating, lengthy master’s dissertation.art: Situating Internet Art in the Modern Museum by Karen Verschooren at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. In it, Karen provides a survey of the evolving relationship of Internet art to art museums. Citizen science programs. On the website?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Surely this doesn’t apply to zoos, museums, and theaters does it? This is one of the places where arts and cultural organizations have an advantage because they have ticket sales data. How can arts and cultural organizations start leveraging content marketing? Absolutely! Know your Constituents. It takes some research.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

How can these themes make a positive impact on the local museum or symphony? Are the same trends applicable? Development Directors are walking the halls of the museum and able to look up a member’s benefits from their mobile device. As always, I read this article through the lens of our arts and cultural customers.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Among the wild places Braided River has featured, millions of acres have been moved to a stronger level of protection. Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Environmental Impact. Images: Braided River.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Among the wild places Braided River has featured, millions of acres have been moved to a stronger level of protection. Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Environmental Impact. Images: Braided River.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

If you've been keeping up with this blog series about applications of our annual Nonprofit Tech Staffing & Investments research, you've noticed that we refer to "Tech Adoption" when gauging the impact of staffing levels or investments on an organization. You can download the complete report for free here.] What is Tech Adoption? "We

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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. I provided the Web 2.0 and sniff around. There are also a few Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2015

This is the first in a two-part series about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s new theory of change. This week, Ian David Moss and I are each writing blog posts about our collaborative process to develop a theory of change at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. For three years, we hit the gas at my museum—hard.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. There are likely a number of interested parties in your community that want to make the world a better place. Have a succession plan in place for each volunteer position.

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