Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I just got home from the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis. I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Instead, I found a standard art museum. Impersonal guards.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

North Carolina Museum of History 1988.39.4 I’m always amazed when my colleagues tell me that the biggest barrier they face to “opening up” the content at their museums is from registrars—the people who care for collection objects. Followers of Museum 2.0 Can collections access be a way to entice new audiences?

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Large-Format Photography. Large-format photography books are at the center of each Braided River campaign. Environmental Impact.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Large-Format Photography. Large-format photography books are at the center of each Braided River campaign. Environmental Impact.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. to support programs and exhibits.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Here's a site that already has the audience everyone wants: women and moms who make most of the household buying decisions.” If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19. In exhibits and galleries where photography is permitted, of course!) Pinterest Guidelines. Just use your beard!".

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The first of these reasons is practical.

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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. Visitors co-opt institutional facilities every day for their own agendas, whether to impress a date, bond with family, or work on their photography skills.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Some of these challenges were about mission fit.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. How did the authors come up with the intriguing blend of curatorial, interpretative, and inventive opportunities shown in the Audience Involvement Spectrum's Venn diagrams?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Groupon is an audience development machine, and it's highly relevant to cultural institutions looking to attract people with promises of exciting new discoveries within. A coupon goes up for half-price museum admission or spa treatments, and users have one day to buy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2007

The NYT article is about a photography show by artist Thomas Struth at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Manhattan. Struth takes photographs of museum-goers as they gaze, pick their noses, chat on cell phones, and fidget in front of classically great works of art. What are we looking for in a museum? Find captive audiences.

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NetWits

MAY 9, 2012

Check out this infographic from Tamba and see if Pinterest attracts your target audience. (P)interested As Arts and Cultural Organizations (museums, zoos, galleries, festivals and foundations), you have so many powerful images to choose from. Museum of the Moving Image. Clyfford Still Museum. Laguna Art Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

All are large nonprofits with large regional, national, or international audiences. I look at follower accounts for pinterest accounts as well as the average followers per board. The board topics with the most followers from this sample of seven early adopters include: Photography. Photography. National Wildlife Federation.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Once you’ve identified your audience, you can begin seeking out specific gift items to add to your auction baskets. While artists will love a new set of paintbrushes or acrylic paint, offer a unique experience like a tour of the local art museum for those who simply love the craft. Include experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Does crowdsourced creativity reach a different (younger) and new audience segment? Brooklyn Museum implemented a crowdsourced photography exhibit experiment called “ Click! Does being engaged in the creation of the work spur more appreciation for the art form and hopefully attention and participation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

She also talked about “Instameets” where people who have Instagram accounts meet up and take a photo walk and post photos. The pairing of meetups, photography, and social platforms is not a new idea. She shared an example of how charity:water and museums have been using these for engagement of supporters for social good.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Julia Campbell will provide a framework for evaluating the best platforms for your unique organization, as well as ideas for creating great social media content your audience will love. We have a huge audience. So nonprofits are building Alexa Amazon skills to reach new audiences and build relationships with potential donors.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

No, these are neither the words of a self-important curator nor a well-spoken museum director. the crowd-curated photo exhibition now open at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It is a substantive research contribution by the museum to the social technology field at large. As with any good museum exhibition, Click!

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