Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

This tool turns your smartphone or desktop computer into an audio recorder that allows you to easily share audio messages and podasts with your supporters. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Cinchcast :: cinchcast.com.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 14, 2011

Should museums play music - in public spaces and or in galleries? So I thought I'd open it up to the Museum 2.0 Pros for music: Music helps designers frame the atmosphere for the intended experience at the museum. Most museums are trying to please everyone. If so, how should they determine what to play?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Mary Warner, the Museum Manager at the Historical Society, wrote a series of moving articles for her museum newsletter and later for the AASLH’s Small Museum Online Community about her experiences tackling big issues in a small museum. How do we get the history of the poor? But how did this specific project get started?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In the most extreme cases, I've talked to folks from museums that are government-mandated to provide all content in multiple languages who say they are unable to invite visitors to make comments because they'd have to translate all of them and simply can't dedicate the resources to do so.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

Multimedia, Maps, Social : Upload and share multimedia content like video, audio, text, and images on your mobile website. Audio Tours Are Also Now Available from Guide by Cell! Do you host exhibits or operate a museum? Audio guides can add an extra dimension and additional detail to a tour. prompt numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

It’s first Valentine’s Day logo appeared in 2000, looks quite primitive compared to today’s this American Life style animated and audio doodle. Visit the Doodle Museum to view the history of doodles. Generosity Day: This got started in 2011 by Sasha Dichter, Scott Case, Ellen McGirt, and Katya Andresen.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. The Denver Community Museum (DCM) was a grassroots operation in almost every sense. This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2017

Go to the page for the book and hit the "Free with 30 Day Trial Membership" orange button to the right. You can also listen to a five-minute sample from the introduction to get a sense of what it sounds like.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2008

At the last ASTC, in a session on "Museums 2.0," I heard just as many muddled explanations of doing the same old thing (and wrapping it in new words) as truly interesting, relevant projects. Update: You can now download the final slides (no audio) here. Core Museum 2.0 Ideas professional development.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

This week, I'm launching a new site: the Voicemail Museum. It's an experiment that merges two of my greatest interests: finding novel, easy ways for visitors to contribute content to museums finding questions that draw such compelling responses that random peoples' answers would be worth browsing To participate, all you need is a phone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Foursquare is essential for nonprofits that are location-based (such as museums, food banks, and libraries ). Trottr allows you to record brief audio messages with your cell phone that are then hosted on the Trottr website. Foursquare. The technology does not yet exactly match the needs of the nonprofit sector, but its close.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

I recently read the BERI report on bilingual labels in museums and was blown away by its findings. in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. is a controversial topic, and the same is true in museums.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. MOMA has standard art museum labels. When I asked an art museum educator about this (“How should I look at art?”) The review was harsh. Is this enough? I’m begging here.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2015

Last week, Ian David Moss and I both blogged about the process of developing a theory of change for the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, one way we''re answering these questions is with a theory of change. It has audio, so make sure you have speakers or headphones.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2016

AUDIO - PRATFALLS PODCAST Immediately after leaving the Minnesota Historical Society, I sat down with Levi Weinhagen as a guest on his Pratfalls podcast. I'll be joining in via hangout to talk about distributed museums with Brad Larson, Ed Rodley, Paul Orselli, and lots of Boston area colleagues. Check it out.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Web and Audio Conferencing. Recording and playback : Record the audio and on-screen content of your meetings to send to others or review later. GoToTraining includes many of the same core web and audio conferencing features as GoToMeeting. Citrix Online's handy feature comparison can help you decide. and Android devices.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

Here in TechSoup’s San Francisco office, we use audio and video conferencing every day to talk with people working remotely in the Bay Area, New York, or Seattle, as well as with our partner nonprofits around the world. Some of the more well-known private operating foundations are the J.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2007

I’m working on a virtual museum project these days, and one question that often comes up is “What is the most fun thing we could let visitors do here that they can’t do in the real world?” After all, most of our ideas don’t require a virtual landscape; any museum could commission Kid Rock’s tour of the galleries. Consider television.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

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. Sounds like there might be some overlap with your museum audience? Both geocaching and museums are fundamentally about exploration and discovery.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2016

posted by Karla Lant Lead Writer, Museum of Science and Sustainability. This can easily happen in a virtual meeting too, because typically you're down to audio information alone. Lant serves as the Lead Writer for the Museum of Science and Sustainability. Virtual meetings are part of working in 2016.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

They are accepting film, audio, images and text on these issues: War & Dialogue : Women's Perspectives Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2006 Let us take you beyond the headlines and show you how war is affecting the lives of young women around the world-both in conflict zones and outside them. stories story museum women international

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Wandering around, exploring, collecting experiences… sounds like a museum visit to me! I read the (long) article fascinated, wondering if such a resource might exist for museum exhibitions, charting the top 10 exhibitions that use play, or storytelling, or any other core museum design tenet. There are surprises in store.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

Who's doing audio tours on iPods? Which museums have experience creating collection tagging systems? The Museum Computer Network and Museum Software Foundation have teamed up to bring you MuseTech Central , a site where you can share your own technical projects and search through a growing resource list of others.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 30, 2016

The Humane Society, The White House, the MET, and many smaller nonprofits are broadcasting news-as-it-happens, museum tours, and even feeding time for baby raccoons ! Check the video and audio quality. Hesitant about broadcasting your cause with Facebook Live? Facebook Live Tip #2: Get your feet wet with a small group.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. For example, sharing multimedia content like audio might not present well across some curation tools; in some cases you may need more than one tool. What Is Content Curation? The Human Element.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2005

Last week I posted about Dave Gilbert's experiment with podcasting "unnofficial audio guides" at Moma, a project called "Apologia: We love MoMA. These audio guides were inspired by a recent podcasting trend called "sound seeing," in which people record narrations of their vacations so others can enjoy.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

The goal was to design an audio tour for people who never do audio tours. Lessons Learned 3: This is not a museum talking (what a relief!) Being a museum must be exhausting – you have to know so much and speak so carefully. And widely accessible. Play any time, as much as you like, and play with any cellphone.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2007

I worked with a composer who transferred almost all of his audio files to me via IM. But what about the unique challenges and opportunities of museums? Here are some creative ways I could imagine museums using IM: Direct Line to the Info Desk. Are there specific ways IM could be applied in these institutions?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. In December of 2012, the rock musician Beck released his latest album, Song Reader. That''s expected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides. A Museum group is also forming to discuss and explore what museum's can do in SL. I also turned off my audio. Both events had their share of clunkiness.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

The platform provides high-quality video and audio, screen sharing, and interactive features to foster effective communication and collaboration. Doubleknot’s platform focuses on zoos, aquariums, museums, nature centers, and other education event options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2005

" Mal Booth, Head of Research Centre, at the Australian War Memorial Museum comes word of museum podcasting from down under. These are designed to accompany a 'treasure trail' in our museum over summer (in the southern hemisphere). Technorati Tags: museums , podcasting , nptech , net2

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Goldman relied on user-generated content for Imagining Ourselves at the International Museum of Women. BetterWorld Telecom provides audio conferencing, VoIP, and data services to nonprofits and mission-driven businesses. Asking for What You Want. Using Donor-Generated Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2006

These were mostly museums like MoMa (which I wrote about over a year ago here ) and a few others. Museum Podcasting Resources. They mostly focused on what I call the middle of the road approach. Jerry Coltin gave an excellent overview which included listening to and showing some examples of arts podcasting and video podcasting.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2008

This means you receive real-time audio data while running about your progress (updates each mile), and later, can review your run stats online. In many ways, it's the IDEAL inspiration for museums seeking to create a pervasive, sticky visitor experience that extends beyond the visit and is not totally screen-bound.

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