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.

Question 49

Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

They often project, and even push, their attitude onto others. On a given day, measure your reactions. There were also the people whose idea of forecasting the future and budgeting was basically storytelling and conjuring. These were the people who call problems “opportunities.” They don’t dig deeper into negativity.

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Mind Attitude Movie Summary 27

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. It’s this kind of attitude that fosters growth—celebrating success while also recognizing that every milestone is a step to something even bigger, should you choose to measure and plan.

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Michigan University Giving Student 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

In museums, attention to the visitor--her desires, his preferences--has grown over the last few decades. I wonder how many young artists, poets, designers have the same Ayn Rand-ian attitude and will never make it far enough to be asked about their process by others. But products are successful when they are useful and used.

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Audience Artist Design Language 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

For instance, the San Francisco Museum of Art has 34,678 items in its collection. To share its entire collection with art lovers, the museum created the “Send Me” bot allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted.

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Liberia San Francisco Ethiopia Museum 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. 3: Have a measurement strategy on the front-end, not the back-end. Many nonprofits are not measuring their integrated social media campaigns and often push the task to the backburner. Measure your results, not just numbers.

Facebook 101

Facebook Network Metrics Nonprofit 101

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

Last Friday, I witnessed something beautiful at my museum. I've been documenting lots of small bridging incidents at our museum over the past few months. It could have been the attitude of the museum that supports participation and conversation. At museums, we mostly bond with the friends and family with whom we attend.

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Community Teen Build Social 42

Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

Was it a museum professional or an outsider? I'm kneedeep in the final run-up to the opening of Operation Spy at the Spy Museum, but in the fleeting moments between disasters and near-disasters, I'm thinking about AAM. Several were created or conceived by a single person, often an artist/non-museum professional.

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Life Create Change Museum 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Museum work includes many intellectual labors that draw on deep reserves of knowledge and years of experience. Just as porn was famously hard to define, good writing is easy to enjoy and hard to measure. They weren’t similar in temperament or attitude. Understanding work, time, and efficiency in museums aren’t easy or universal.

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Work Time Museum Analysis 38

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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Library Museum Reflection Alternative 20