Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development. Here are the slides so you can see what we shared. Here are a few things that I think helped make this experience valuable: We started from communities' needs, not the museum's.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

These are the notes and slides for a keynote speech I'm giving this Saturday at MuseumNext in Indianapolis. All weekend, we've heard uplifting stories about amazing work you all are doing to involve people from all walks of life in museums. But museums do exclude people. If not, please share a comment and let's talk online.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and we’ll be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on this afternoon. So I know you got some slides to pull up but the floor is yours. So on the next slide, you can see we partner with more than 500 nonprofits annually worldwide.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 62

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

You can see or download my slides and you can watch the video of the talk. Unsurprisingly, some of my favorite museums are small, funky places run by iconoclasts—but that’s not useful to most professionals who work for organizations in which they have little control over size or leadership matters. It’s nice to have both.

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Before the session, I spent some time reviewing Museum Facebook Pages – luckily the MIDEA project has them organized into this handy list. I had hoped to find a good example of a museum or an arts organization with a custom landing tab. Aliza Sherman's "Birth of A Superfan" as it applies to Facebook and Museums.

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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!” The audio starts noisy. but it gets better.

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