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

JUNE 9, 2009

What rules or control issues may prevent certain kinds of interactions? Kylie Pine worked with a small, traditional history museum very unfamiliar with social media but interested in embarking on online discussion. Tags: web2.0 Part 2: Define your resources and boundaries. Go forth and do awesome things. marketing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!)

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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. In some cases, such as AS220 labs , they are part of larger community art spaces. Tags: programs Unusual Projects and Influences membership.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The Art Gallery of Ontario sold 4,285 half-price admissions in one day last month. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History sold 1,318 half-price memberships last week. I was thinking about this when a librarian friend told me "the first thing I do when I have a prolonged interaction with a patron is waive any fines on their account.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors." The image at the top of this post is from one of their simple visitor feedback interactives which was built into a familiar, casual rolodex. A lone "What do you think?"

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

MuseumNext had four main sections: Interactive activities , including an opening workshop with a group of designers associated with an extremely wonderful exhibition called Doing it for the Kids featuring sustainable toy designs. Tags: professional development.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Paul Orselli made a thoughtful and challenging comment, saying: many data visualization art pieces, albeit elegant, seem to be inherently "push" technologies. Name Voyager is a site that allows people to explore names through American history in an interesting way, whereas Nymbler provides an outcome-driven service.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

It combines a job bank with news about developments in the gaming world and, my favorite, an impressive collection of feature articles on the art, business, and production of games. Getting people to play scientist or art historian may be a tougher sell than getting them to play James Bond. Where am I?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

They were a rich collection museum with some local history—they had many dolls, a famous toy collection. So Strong did that a long time ago, and a lot of people went to experience the study storage, but still enough people didn’t come, so then they decided to become an interactive children’s museum. It did that more than once.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

This was particularly directed at MN150, which featured visitor-nominated milestones of Minnesota history, and Children of the Lodz Ghetto, which invites users to conduct original research on the path taken by thousands of children during the Holocaust. Tags: professional development. You can view and download all the slides here.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these webinars to be interactive. Dang, she’s done a lot of Bloomerang webinars over our 10-year history and is just one of my favorite people. So Free Arts Minnesota, I gave them $100 gift. They’re world-changers and history makers, and you’re going to fit right in.”

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

The Brooklyn Museum of Art is a great example of a museum really embracing these environments for community-building purposes. The exhibition uses the stories of three remarkable children in history as a launching point for a platform on which kids and families can make “promises” for how they will impact or change the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

This week's Ask Britt question, sent in by a reader, is, "How can I combine the creative arts with social impact? The arts are a wonderful way to make a difference in the world because they are fun, engaging, and oftentimes help you to tell stories, all key elements to attracting and keeping people involved in a cause. Great question!

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

These challenges are combining to make it harder to find new donors and track their interactions across channels. You might collect contact information and record donation histories. In order to ask for donations via direct mail, you’ll need to get familiar with the art of writing letters. So, what can you do?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

We have a show coming up right now about synthetic biology, where engineers are building life forms that are new to existence, new to the history of life. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. And then the third thing is, it allows us to challenge these people as though we were ordinary, curious folks.

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

There are four main powers that platforms have: the power to set the rules of behavior the power to preserve and exploit user-generated content the power to promote and feature preferred content the power to define the types of interaction available to users These powers constitute a set of controls which constitutes a real and valuable authority.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2007

In honor of tomorrow’s book club post on Elaine Gurian’s essay, Free at Last, a preliminary post on the ecomonics of high quality interactive experiences. Many peoples’ most memorable museum experiences come from interactions with staff. Interactive exhibits are expensive to develop and maintain.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

Then, that profile is saved onto an RFID card that you use to access all of the interactive exhibits in the Lab. This makes sense in the context of a hands-on museum full of interactive exhibits in which you are modifying digital assets. But what's the right visitor profile for a history museum or an art museum?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

It's interesting that science museums have started to gravitate towards "center" to convey interactivity, and yet childrens' museums are rarely called centers and don't seem to suffer under the Museum label (though drunken variations of the Funatarium abound). Tags: informatics marketing. I have a personal aversion to the word Center.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

This week, I've had multiple conversations with colleagues in the arts, symphonies, and urban planning about the fear professionals have about "losing control" when opening up new opportunities for people to participate. The power to define available interactions. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books. Each Web 2.0

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