Museum 2.0

AUGUST 24, 2011

There is a long interview with me in this week's Good Times (Santa Cruz's leading weekly). I had a wonderful conversation with Geoffrey Dunn and he did a great job pushing the conversation all over the cultural and educational map.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , with Aliza Sherman. How cultural norms influence participation. A team culture that prioritizes collaboration and excellence. ½ Generous medical, dental, and vision insurance.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2010

This month's Big Vision Podcast interview is a special one with. Tom Aageson, the co-Founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship. In addition to being the co-Founder of the Global Center, he is also the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. I hope you enjoy the interview with my pops.

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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). It's easier to secure grants for community-based programming or exhibitions, but it's not easy to get funding for some of the core work that museums do.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2017

My new audial obsession is the podcast How I Built This , in which Guy Raz interviews entrepreneurs who built notable companies. I can think of many extraordinary innovators in the nonprofit cultural sector--people and organizations creating brilliant programs, site-based experiences, and products. Change may be necessary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. That's the cultural norm in the nonprofit sector, with a couple of exceptions. The Indianapolis Art Museum has been doing just that by sharing its institutional dashboard out for everyone to view. Two years later, we might have some answers.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2015

Last week, I sat on the jury for the first Cultural Innovation International Prize given by the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona , and this week, I'm offering a workshop for museum professionals across Poland participating together in a "Museum Lab" in Warsaw. The second post , in which Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2011

As I drop 5 cent tokens into my slots of choice, I often wonder: could my museum be on this list? They are successful with audiences who already believe in the intrinsic power of art or the role art plays in civic engagement, but it's unclear how helpful they are to the people who aren't attending, participating, or supporting.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2009

In 2006, John Falk and Beverly Sheppard, seasoned museum researchers and practitioners, released a co-authored book entitled Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. I've split my interview with John and Beverly into two parts for comfortable reading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Interview with Donald Marinelli - Parents and their kids - web2.0 Howard Wright and Phillip Horn received awards for their visionary efforts in forming CAMT, ArtsNet, and furthering the field of arts management and technology. If you are in the business of education or arts, what degree do we know this future generation?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When you find a bar with your favorite song on the jukebox, or a museum room that feels like your grandmother's living room, you suddenly feel a strong affinity and are able to see yourself reflected in the space. It may be great for a natural refuge to remain hidden, but that sounds like a disaster for a restaurant or museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Seth quickly reached out to me via Roxy Allen suggested that I do an interview. There's no better example than the public dashboards of the Indiana Art Museum - Innovation is about opening up and letting the outside in. This conversation took place yesterday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Stay tuned for a video interview I did with him while in Vegas. But even more fun was this video interview with the good folks at the Gifts In Kind International who I ran into in the lobby and they pulled out their copy of the book and shared a few thoughts about they’re applying the ideas. Independent Sector in Atlanta.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

on July 18th and subsequently had a chance to interview her at her fabulous virtual office in Second Life. We created and ran the web site for the Liberal Arts College in an atmosphere which, upon reflection is a lot like Linden Lab. I learned a lot from San Jose Art Museum. Mixed Reality Event ???

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

NEWS Below is a roundup of blog posts and podcast interviews I've published since my last Have Fun Do Good Link Love (where did the month go?): 4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This is the second part of a two-part interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard on their book Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. How would you recommend that museums transition in this direction? So then what is a museum’s value?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. This post is a summary of the essay; on Thursday, an interview with Elaine expanding on some of these concepts.) So how can museums confront their typological challenges?

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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). the question of how cultural objects are defined and valued and 2. We are discussing how to do that [with the CU Museum].

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Imagine that your museum is ready to start creating content on a small-scale in Web 2.0. Imagine you are the Boston Museum of Science, and you are ready to make some videos to post on YouTube. When I search for "Boston Museum of Science" on YouTube, I find 83 videos. You're ready to make a few videos to post on YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

One of the themes I’m going to discuss is the Art and Science of Engagement. The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. Register here.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. 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.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. 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. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

On Tuesday, I reviewed Elaine Gurian’s essay, Choosing Among the Options , on museum archetypes and self-definition. Today, discussion with Elaine about ways museums choose their direction, how change is possible, and new museum types to be added to the list. What if you don’t want to be identified as one type of museum?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And you all got to know Elizabeth because she’s all over the place speaking, she’s doing podcasts, she’s getting interviewed. I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. She works over at CCS.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 29th annual awards included around 3,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the world’s largest awards of its kind. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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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. No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 This post is even more relevant today to the broader conversation about audience diversity in the arts than when it was published three years ago. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. blog posts from the past.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Two weeks ago, my museum was featured in a Wall Street Journal article by Ellen Gamerman, Everybody''s a Curator. I''m thrilled that our small community museum is on the map with many big institutions around the country. I''m glad to see coverage about art museums involving visitors in exhibitions. It''s not cheap.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

posted by Maureen O'Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum. I was able to participate thanks in part to professional development grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Sigma Alpha Iota. It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

posted by Maureen O''Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers).

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

At The National World War II Museum in New Orleans, fundraising is all about data and their data is all about their donors. The Museum uses their data to get know their donors at a deeper level: what they care about, what motivates them, and how to keep them engaged with their organization. “We

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

A simple search will reveal countless articles related to health, lifestyle, family, and popular culture. Or an arts organization could write about the top 10 museums to visit in a lifetime. Interview Donors and Volunteers. You can also interview staff and volunteers as they are preparing for an event.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

Radiolab does what I hope all great museum exhibitions can do--take a deep topic and make it compelling on many levels. Robert and Jad aren't content experts, but they are interpretative experts, skilled interviewers and producers. Which brings me to museums and how we present content. Reread Robert's response.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Well, that 80%, 60% of that money goes to large institutional organizations like hospitals and universities, and large cultural institutions, like museums, zoos, and libraries, and religious organizations. Or something you know about them that you maybe you just saw them at an art gallery or something like that. So you can have.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

Dear friends, This is my last post as the author of Museum 2.0. I'm thrilled that Seema Rao is taking this blog and museum community into its next chapter. You can find all my archived Museum 2.0 Today, I want to share a bit about what Museum 2.0 When I think of Museum 2.0, I started the Museum 2.0

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