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Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto: Are Museums Evolving with their Innovative Web Strategies?

Museum 2.0

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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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. Never mind your work experience, what do you really want to be doing that the library can help you accomplish?

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

I don’t know how you find the time to do this, Elizabeth, in addition to your full-time job which is a lot, but you’re also an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. As I shared, I’m a Senior Vice President at CCS and an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. It’s how my brain works.

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences. In this case, a heck of a lot.

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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

Bloomerang

Yeah, the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. I’ve been to the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. Mary’s University of Minnesota. But the one universal global thing is that data, data is just bad. Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain.

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[VIDEO] Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

Bloomerang

Well, that 80%, 60% of that money goes to large institutional organizations like hospitals and universities, and large cultural institutions, like museums, zoos, and libraries, and religious organizations. So these are key things you want to keep in mind. They’re top-of-mind ownership. They’re your identity.

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Positivity, Time, and Work

Museum 2.0

Museum work includes many intellectual labors that draw on deep reserves of knowledge and years of experience. Your old prejudices and hang-ups, your own beliefs about credentials, are hanging out in your mind, no matter how you try to avoid it. Understanding work, time, and efficiency in museums aren’t easy or universal.

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