Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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Museum Culture Professional Training 21

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 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. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

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. Sounds good?

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Museum Participatory Arts Attitude 34

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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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Sound familiar? While aquariums, museums, theaters and zoos don’t have the marketing budgets of retailers, they can implement the same principles when they reach out. They have a “nothing is too much” attitude and reward customer loyalty with incentives, free shipping, price matching, free personal shopping and an open return policy.

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Arts Culture Learning Lesson 36

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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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

They often project, and even push, their attitude onto others. They can sound like the same language. 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