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Audience-Engagement Successes and Failures

Museum 2.0

Audience-centered for me is a subset of human-centered. Audiences are a portion of the humans in the museum ecosystem. The reason I think of a museum as human-centered is that to become audience-centered your organization has to center people. We did what we could to foster audiences who thought like us.

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How Useful is the "Audience vs. Expert" Dichotomy?

Museum 2.0

When it comes to user participation in cultural institutions and the arts, it's popular to launch projects that pit visitors against experts. at the Brooklyn Museum, where you could track how people of various levels of art expertise rated crowd-contributed photographs. This isn't a direct "audience versus expert" comparison.

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The Diversity Question in the Arts Blogosphere

Museum 2.0

But this month, it's as if there was a subliminal email sent to a crew of bloggers in the arts suggesting a salon about audience diversity, and how/why to move in that direction. A rare blog post that combines personal narrative with statistical charts. This never seems like a good idea.

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Approach Social Media Like Thomas Edison

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community. Participants had to answer these questions: -What were the objectives, audience, and how did integrate with your marketing or audience development plan?

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Selling a Product vs. Building a Movement

Museum 2.0

Sure, I admire cultural organizations that have a strong mission to change education or diversify access or transform the role of art in everyday life, but I'm an insider. The election season, as well as a recent research study on museum membership, has change my perspective on this.

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The International Museum of Women Wants Your Story (Men Too!)

Have Fun - Do Good

Image & Identity: Culture behind clothes Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2007 Appearances aren’t everything, or are they? Clothes can express a part of who we are or the culture we represent. This is an amazing chance for up and coming women filmmakers to have their work viewed by a worldwide audience.

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Book Club Part 8: Time to Change

Museum 2.0

This is the final installment of the Museum 2.0 book club on Civilizing the Museum; The Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian. I’d like to do more book clubs in the future; please let me know if there are any particular books on museum theory, design, innovation, etc. that you would recommend for Museum 2.0.

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