Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. This is the only post written by me, Nina Simon.

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Media Cause

JULY 21, 2021

I took several different types of project based design courses over the span of a year: DesignLab , Udemy, Skillshare, General Assembly , and School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (SMFA). My goals evolved throughout the year+, but they all revolved around learning, and gaining experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

But, try as we might, we couldn’t find any research that looked at arts groups’ adoption and attitudes toward digital and social media nationally that also asked all-important questions about how groups are measuring what they’re doing. Arts organizations are not alone in this. What are they learning from their experiments? was created.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

posted by Karla Lant Lead Writer, Museum of Science and Sustainability. The best marketing campaigns aim to influence culture. Join the open source culture. The open source culture allows many organizations to use the innovations and labor of others and in turn contribute your own organizational strengths and capabilities.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We've gotten a little more organized at The Museum of Art & History , and we've now released opportunities for summer internships. These are unpaid part-time and full-time opportunities to help design public programs, develop new uses for the museum, perform visitor research, and pursue unusual projects.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Residents in the three counties that pay the millage will receive special benefits : free admission to the museum and expanded educational programming. Your cultural outlet is art galleries and symphonies. The whole 'we know how to spend your money better than you' attitude is condescending and false." Rebuttal: none.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

There are people or even organizational cultures comfortable with using the existing tools and are slow to change, while early adopters and agile cultures keep learning and moving. .&# It is not uncommon that when a new technology emerges that has the potential to replace or improve upon an existing technology, people resist.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

What role does “promoting human happiness” play in the mission statements and actions of museums? That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). Earlier today, the CFM offered a free webcast of Jane McGonigal’s talk on gaming, happiness, and museums.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I got my copy of the fall issue of Museums and Social Issues this week. The theme is "Civic Dialogue," and the journal includes articles on the historical, cultural, media, and museum practice of getting people talking to each other (including one by me about such endeavors on the web). A place many museums are not.

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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. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? The Museum 2.0 For more on the differences among different types of museums (with examples), check out this post.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

No museum puts up a label that says: “Our last curator thought this painting was lousy and kept it in storage. Before the MAH exhibition, those historic surfboards rested deep in the collection storage of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. Our new curator thinks it speaks to contemporary issues and put it front and center.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

About three months ago Beth Kanter wrote about the Crowdsourcing of Vision at the Smithsonian Museum. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars have been spent on visioning, strategic planning, culture change initiatives, coaching and more effective internal communications.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I've added a fourth model to this citizen science typology, one may be more appropriate to facilities like museums than to scientific organizations: co-option. Working with the museum or using the museum as a platform to do your own thing? There is no "best" level of participation for museums and cultural institutions overall.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2016

The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History used Giving Blueday to raise funds to begin development for their Wooly Mammoth Exhibit. U-M saw it as an opportunity to engage with their audience, make them aware that they’re a nonprofit organization, and build a culture of philanthropy with their students. Advanced Planning.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

How, he asked, could a large museum that serves hundreds of thousands of people per year foster the same sense of personal connection and community that a small one can achieve? I think small museums are generally better than large ones at fostering local communities of visitors and members.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Frequently, when cultural professionals talk about making museums and libraries more open to young people, we focus on social events and on the idea that these are people who would really LIKE to interact with others in the cultural space. This is a cultural thing. What's your experience?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

This week, thoughts on Chapter 12 of Elaine Gurian’s book Civilizing the Museum , "Threshold Fear: Architecture program planning." In this essay, Elaine discusses the various barriers to entry for non-traditional visitors to museums, that is, the threshold fear that keeps such potential visitors from walking in our doors.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Today, an interview with staff from a museum with an incredibly healthy attitude towards experimentation with social media. Three things stand out in this interview: Like the Brooklyn Museum , COSI’s social media strategy is focused on local community connections, not national outreach. David: That’s right.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Juneteenth, also known as Jubilee Day, Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, and Black Independence Day, is celebrated on June 19th, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans, and often also a celebration of African-American culture. The holiday has been celebrated since 1865 and was officially made a federal holiday in 2021.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

1: Create a Facebook culture inside your organization. Networked Nonprofits have a created a Facebook culture inside their organizations. Want to look at a few inspiring custom landing pages, check these out or cruise through these landing pages of art museums or other nonprofits. What’s missing?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2009

I've wondered for a long time about the potential for museums (especially interactive science centers) to operate on a "pay to play" model where visitors choose specific content of interest to invest their time and money into. So why haven't we seen museums that operate like arcades? I'm skeptical of these arguments.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Participating in this made me wonder: could a museum or library run a project like 3six5? From my perspective, there are two primary barriers that would prevent a museum from running a project like this: Perception of lack of significance. The reasons to do so are many, particularly for a history-focused institution.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Welcome to the second in the four-part series on comfort (and its boundaries) in museums, a day late but just as tasty. I came out of it truly amazed by the power of the museum—not just to elicit laughter, but also to induce bizarre and voluntary acts of silliness in front of and with strangers. By sending people on missions.

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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. And you really can only share your passion unless you have a kind of energized spirit and positive attitude, terrific.

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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. What are the essential differences and similarities between libraries and museums?

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