Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

We try to design every new program with a partner organization with an audience for whom that kind of content or format is already appealing. This community was ready for a museum that reflected the unique creative identity of Santa Cruz.

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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. It depends.

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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. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. help to evaluate resumes of kids). You just need to show proof of membership.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2013

It will be hosted by Eric Siegel, chief content officer at the New York Hall of Science and consummate rabble-rouser. Small-scale evaluation for non-professionals. And FYI, we will soon be opening a full-time Education Associate job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Supporting staff in a time of growth.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an aha moment for me at the time about self-confidence and self-evaluation, and it's one I've carried into my career. I've often argued that art and history museums should adopt this approach and encourage visitors to explore their potential as artists or historians, not just audiences for content.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In the past year, I've seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

, an exhibition produced with schoolchildren at the Wallace Collection in London, is a lovely example of co-creation that demonstrates the multiple benefits of inviting audience members to act as partners in arts organizations. These young curators really made 18th century design, art, and armory accessible and intriguing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2005

While doing research on the Web for the course content, I stumbled upon an article called " A Field Guide to Cross Cultural Projects " which lead me to an educational technology integration model called CultureQuest.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

When it comes to content , programs , and interactives (parts 1-3 of the series), the challenge is to push the barrier towards less comfort, not more. I visited a friend last weekend who works at a coffee shop in downtown Santa Cruz, right next to the Museum of Art and History. In the final installment of Museum 2.0’s

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 9, 2009

There are three parts: the institution or initiative's content and audience goals, the institution's assets, and the project concept that will match goals to resources in an achievable way. What is the evaluation plan? What is the promotion plan? How can the institution reach out to the target audience? What are the maintenance needs?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. event, the Computer History Museum had 15 reviews on Yelp!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Two weeks ago, I wrote about t he use of the word "quality" in the arts and its many forms. Inspired by Stacy, I wanted to share some of the work we are doing at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History to clarify what we mean by engagement. This is a big year for us in naming and evaluating our work. Engagement?

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

Telling engaging stories about your nonprofit requires more than just broadcasting an overview of your mission and history to the world. For instance, people working in creative fields might appreciate more visually-driven content, while those in the business or technical fields may prefer more data-backed content.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

This means good marketing should allow you to: Take a critical look at your marketing strengths and weaknesses Evaluate your progress toward you current goals Set new goals based on your progress Clarify and help you connect with your target audience. Evaluate Results for Next Year. Let’s walk through an example of a SMART goal.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Elisa’s focus is interactive arts, media design, and cultural management, and she has been involved in many pertinent projects, such as MUVI (the Virtual Museum of the Collective Memory of Lombardia). Environmentalists, the Museum of Natural History at CU, they all responded very enthusiastically to this. There are two strategies.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

No one would contest the idea that most museum exhibitions, art shows, films, books, in short, most content experiences, have value both for the new and return user. There’s no expectation that the content will have evolved in your absence; instead, the user evolves, and brings new meaning-making to the content experience.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Impact Convergence 2016 brings together leaders, practitioners, and professionals from around the globe who are interested in impact and evaluation. It is our turn to make history. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project / Austin, TX / $575.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content? It's a shame that several of these projects are labeled as "experimental" and don't have formal evaluation built into their cheap, fast processes. This is a question I'm really interested in. Neither Click!

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

The more data points you have on your donors—from email and street addresses to job titles and company names, giving capacity, philanthropic history, contact preferences, and general interest—the more you will be able to target your asks and create fundraising campaigns that speak directly to them.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. Some people commune with the art. Our museum''s vision statement begins with the phrase, "The Museum of Art & History is a thriving central gathering place.". Some visit the archives.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 5, 2014

Let''s say you create a station where visitors contribute content. Consider three very different talkbacks in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History''s fall exhibition, Santa Cruz is in the Heart: cocktail napkins, rear view mirrors, and refrigerator certificates. How do you measure success? Also, a sidenote.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. What do you track? What domains of impact should be considered (e.g. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, if you have to leave early, you just want to review the content later on, share with a friend or a colleague, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff in your hands later on today. Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective. Does that make sense?

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

Throughout the course of history, some very brilliant minds have endeavored the obscure task of forecasting the future of technology. As we embark hundreds of years down the road from some of these grand musings and green field possibilities, it is important to look back and evaluate what we as humans have actually accomplished.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

The most important one for our conversation—95% of donors consider content created by nonprofits to be trustworthy! According to Donorly’s fundraising strategy guide , multichannel marketing is an approach “that combines digital and print content [and] is likely to reach the widest audience and lead to better results.”.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

people who engage with your content online? Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. Summertime concerts at the history museum? Outdoor movies at the art museum? If someone has an epiphany about art outside the museum, do they count? volunteers?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2009

Both times, the central square in which it was situated was well-trafficked with people enjoying art, hanging out with friends, and working. Why would I want to talk about Iraq on a visit to an art museum? Second, because this was an art project, I doubt that Jeremy had explicit goals for how many people would engage and in what ways.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. So if you have to leave early or just want to review the content, don’t worry, we’ll get all that good stuff in your hands. Rachel: Mm-hmm.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

This is not to say that science centers are more censored than art or history museums—every kind of museum has its own hang-ups. Imagine an art museum that allowed patrons to bang on the exhibits the way you can in a science center. So how do we evaluate and make decisions about self-censorship?

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