Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The main audiences for memberships are value members, who think of it as a good deal, lifelong learners, who want to come to as many programs and exhibits as possible, and donors, who support the museum. This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. That said, the fact that we work with contemporary artists can also create a lot of stress in our institutional systems.

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Arts Interview Teen Artist 46

Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Use competitions and contests to generate new ideas from new audiences. Use a predictive market to tap a global audience of experts to develop projections for likely problems – such as where the next pandemic will occur. Crowd-funding New Ideas: Funding platforms for artists, musicians, and inventors: Kickstarter and IndieGoGo.

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Reflection Conference Communication Network 47

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Perpetual beta: the museum is always in flux, incrementally releasing new versions, refining procedures, and responding to audience desires. We invited local artists and community groups to perform. We experimented with everything--hours, front desk staffing structure, community programs. We scrounged for free couches.

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Museum Artist Remix Professional 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Creating a sustainable engagement platform within your existing structure takes time, creativity and dedication. Here are the three most basic: 1) Who's the audience ? The same constructs which were discussed around combating issue fatigue can be used in creating a cultural movement around an issue.

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Culture Build Change Media 84

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. My first reaction was skepticism.

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers. Consult with an attorney if you plan to do this. Get creative.

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Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 343

Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

Like many people who've worked in science centers and interactive experience museums, I've always been perplexed by the fact that hands-on workshop audiences top out around age 14. Most hackerspaces have very transparent legal structures and operate on a consensus model. This isn't just a geek thing. They're organized around members.

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Museum North Carolina San Francisco Structure 24

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. This isn''t unique to audience participation; it''s a reality that any new project or course of action stirs up all kinds of anxieties about organizational change.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

There hasn’t been a history of collaboration between the museum and the film center and we wanted the chance to partner more deeply, and build a platform where we could continue to do so. And we realized of course that the majority audience would be watchers, not storytellers. So what did you do next?

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Story Interview Museum Audio 53

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. This isn't unique to audience participation; it's a reality that any new project or course of action stirs up all kinds of anxieties about organizational change.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One worked closely with the AARP Livability Index team to meet the needs of its audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide. Overall, this work has helped empower NRDC’s content managers, engage their audience members in their mission, and amplify their impact.

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 68

Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One helped the AARP Livability Index meet the needs of its audiences with an easier-to-use website and accessible data that informs consumer and policy decisions nationwide. Overall, this work has helped empower NRDC’s content managers, engage their audience members in their mission, and amplify their impact.

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 46

Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

At large, I am proud of the countless hours of cross-departmental and community collaborations that will inspire me forever, hand-in-hand with colleagues who have invested their best efforts on behalf of the people we are committed to serving. The entire system and structure of this country has been built on racism.

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Museum Detroit Arts Leadership 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Does crowdsourced creativity reach a different (younger) and new audience segment? How to structure crowd sourced philanthropy based on voting or feedback depends on the outcomes of the project, a theory of change. Open call for submissions, experts select a smaller group of finalists, public vote/commenting to select winners.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail Note from Beth: In 1993, I worked as the "network weaver" for an online network for individual artists called "Arts Wire" where I facilitated online conversations, provided technology support and training. Collaborator. This time, we asked our Flickr audience for suggestions to fill the empty space.

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Museum Arts Artist Conservancy 82

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

We've been friends since we were seven, so we already had a very long collaborative history. Louis is a traditional artist and I was in the journalism field. Jonah: I started Free Range with a friend of mine, Louis Fox, when we were 22 years old. We wanted to combine our talents and felt graphic design would be a good place to start.

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Storytelling Causes Interview Free 40