Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Last March, I wrote up some general notes about community engagement based on a mind-map I did at a #MuseumNext talk. Here is the gist of my remarks: Community Engagement is one of those terms that is tossed around in museums but can become encrusted with coded meaning. These people can be local or national (virtually).

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

How can arts and cultural organizations start leveraging content marketing? Surely this doesn’t apply to zoos, museums, and theaters does it? There are 5 steps to start a content marketing program at your arts and cultural organization. The most successful content is the content that is personalized for an audience.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2020

This week we're hearing from Eastman Museum's Kate Meyers Emery. They have created elevated and new digital opportunities for public access and engagement within their respective museums at a time when physical access is not possible. My team will also continue to protect and monitor the museum. I’m new to this but excited.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Every membership program needs a structure that appeals to its intended audience. Understand Your Target Audience One of the most important steps in refining your membership model is to gain an understanding of your target audience by conducting an audience analysis. of those who have interacted with you before.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I believe that the museum blogosphere is still underdeveloped and there's lots of room for people to share their inspiration, experience, and ideas. Asking Audiences. For a year now, Peter Linett and his friends at Slover-Linett Strategies have been blogging thoughtfully about connecting with arts audiences in new ways.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2017

One of the biggest questions on my mind as I listen is: why isn’t my industry scaling up the way these businesses do? I can think of many extraordinary innovators in the nonprofit cultural sector--people and organizations creating brilliant programs, site-based experiences, and products. Change may be necessary. Skills mismatch.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Author: Ellice Engdahl When Seema asked me to write a post “ taking stock of the industry ,” I started to run through all the things that have been bouncing around my mind since the world changed. Cultural institutions aren’t always the best at this—we are often all in or all out. What parts don’t? Bring your bodhichitta to your brand.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

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. Jada is passionate about supporting the future of African-American heritage institutions and working to diversify the museum field as a whole.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

How Abundance Can Connect Arts Organizations With Audiences by Marc van Bree. A month or two ago, museums and galleries around the world participated in a Twitter event called Ask a Curator. The project was a success, but I felt that it lacked real engagement between the public and the museums and Ask a Curator came to mind.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. Our audience has quadrupled in size, and the people walking through our doors increasingly reflect the age, income, and ethnic diversity of our County.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Each of them comes from the extended family of museums: close enough to be relevant, far enough to spark new thinking. He writes with an open, curious mind. His posts open up questions and ways of thinking about audiences, marketing, management, and engagement that get me thinking differently. Butts in the Seats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Stowe Boyd wrote about this “ bench learning ” and there are a few examples from Aquariums and Museums. These two results show that organizations and projects are heading in the right direction keeping their audience and overall goals in mind when using social media.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums?

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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

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? The curatorial team or a multidisciplinary team who have the audience in mind when decisions are made about the best way to connect visitors to the collection?"

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

For the most part, Kickstarter projects are managed by young, creative individuals with small projects (and smallish funding goals) in mind. But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Last week, I was in Minneapolis for the American Association of Museums annual meeting. Kathleen McLean led a terrific session called "Dangerous Ridiculous" about risk-taking in museums. Interestingly, at my museum, our team is naturally better at ridiculous than we are at dangerous. I found this idea really powerful.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2015

"We want our museum to be relevant." But what does it mean for a cultural institution to be relevant? In pop culture contexts, relevance is about currency. Lecture on bees for an audience of beekeepers? How do we build relevance in cultural institutions? I've heard (and said) this many times. That's relevant.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

Start an exploratory project to open a small, probably struggling, museum? Forget your grand dreams and try to weave awesome strangeness into your regular museum job? It involves an exotic museum bedfellow, the suburban real estate developer. At the time, I was Master Teacher of Modern and Contemporary Art at the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I wanted to get a better understanding of context for this audience and the approaches they were already using. It is also important to be mindful of how different generations use online social networking and the trends. Understanding audience motivation and peer influences. Micro conversions or steps. A way to track process.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 9, 2009

Yesterday, I enjoyed three hours of graduate students' presentations of social media plans for museums in the Pacific Northwest. There are three parts: the institution or initiative's content and audience goals, the institution's assets, and the project concept that will match goals to resources in an achievable way. For example.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ruth is a curator of pictorial collections for Puke Ariki, a museum/library/visitor center in the small city of New Plymouth, New Zealand. institutions that were doing innovative work in audience engagement. (We Puke Ariki has about 70 full-time staff members, of whom 10 work for the museum, and the institution is pretty siloed.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. So strategy really focuses on organizational direction, establishing values, mission, ensuring the organization embodies its cultural ethos. It builds a culture of trust and respect.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2009

Museums site) asked me if I'd like to come to England this fall and put on some kind of camp with him, I was thrilled. We are using a hybrid unconference/workshop model in which participants work collaboratively to explore and brainstorm a few pre-selected "wild ideas" for future museum initiatives related to audience participation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2009

In 2006, John Falk and Beverly Sheppard, seasoned museum researchers and practitioners, released a co-authored book entitled Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. This is a pretty powerful and provocative book—you talk about rethinking the whole business of museums.

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Forum One

JANUARY 3, 2023

The power of collaboration across and within sectors can reach new audiences in a way that a single entity cannot, especially as it relates to investments in data transparency and impact. The National Museum of African American History and Culture built an army of volunteers who have so far helped transcribe over 400,000 pages of the 1.7

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Growing a Strong Volunteer Culture Every year, thousands of new librarians and archivists graduate from MLS programs. Never mind your work experience, what do you really want to be doing that the library can help you accomplish? You go online, and that’s why physical culture is at risk.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

Although fundraising for arts organizations has unique challenges—like justifying the need to ask for support from donors for your arts and culture versus donating to the efforts of front-line workers—art in all forms is something that every community needs. This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? But for museum and art wonks, it could be. Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Andrea has been a leader in the museum technology field. I cannot identify a single strategy-level decision maker with visitor-centered expertise and enough cultural competency to develop and apply successful, proven methodologies in-house, let alone share with other institutions nationwide and beyond. And it shows.

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Classy

MARCH 31, 2021

With this in mind, it’s important to continue to refine your recurring giving program to attract , convert, nurture, and retain new donors. You can choose which of these frequencies to offer on any donation form or campaign to hyper-target giving options to different segments of your audience. .

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

When selecting a gift for a friend or a loved one, you usually keep their interests in mind while you’re shopping around. Once you’ve identified your audience, you can begin seeking out specific gift items to add to your auction baskets. To keep the bids rolling in all night, keep trendy items in mind when selecting your auction items.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Many platforms also offer social media sharing features on their pages to help your event reach a wider audience and boost event participation. Doubleknot While Doubleknot is a donor management platform primarily built for cultural organizations like museums and zoos, it also offers event management capabilities.

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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. The messages or story is created, shared via intermediaries and consumed by a target audience that takes action. What’s missing? Organizational and Community Facebook Guidelines.

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