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Favorite Software and Hardware for Museums and History Organizations

Tech Soup

TechSoup offers many donated and discounted products for nonprofit museums and history organizations, such as historical sites and societies, of every type. Here's our guide to what's most popular with our over 8,000 museum TechSoup members. Get the Latest Microsoft Products for Every Part of Your IT System.

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How Do You Capture Compelling Visitor Stories? Interview with Christina Olsen

Museum 2.0

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Designing Recommendation Systems that Go Beyond "You'll Like This"

Museum 2.0

How would you design a recommendation system for a museum? Recommendation systems are tools that offer suggestions, most commonly in the "if you like that, you'll love this!" When it comes to museums, recommendation systems are a natural solution for the problem of the customized tour.

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Guest Post: Lessons Learned Designing a Mobile Game for Balboa Park

Museum 2.0

When I worked briefly with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative to conceptualize a mobile phone-based game to connect visitors to the park to its cultural institutions and history, I knew Ken would be the perfect person to make it happen. The goal was to design an audio tour for people who never do audio tours.

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Sending Collections on the Road: Geocaching and Museums

Museum 2.0

I’ve received a few inquiries over the last year about museums and geocaching. to ask him all the dumb questions about geocaching and museums you can imagine… and a few more. Some people use a higher-tech logging system by tracking the items online to see who has found them and where they’ve gone. I sat down with Seth!

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How Much Time Does Web 2.0 Take?

Museum 2.0

On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums. framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. I provided the Web 2.0 and sniff around.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

One way to create a major donor program or donor perks system is to replicate one from another organization. For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. Welcome packet.

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