Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

For organizations using both apps and websites, there were challenges in seeing how the data interacts—are web visitors the same people using the app? Google answered these challenges with a system that ultimately became GA4, and announced no further development of UA. Which visits lead to engagement?

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FAQ Organization Analytics Google 58

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We whip out our logic model. But we also know that it hasn’t made an appreciable impact on the people coming to museums. I loved how she brought up so many issues, often combining structural issues with the related effects. From the very start, we are often setting ourselves up for challenges. That is, except museums.

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Accessibility Museum Australia Voice 32

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I did a scan of the several hundred organizations registered for the webinar, many from Jewish education organizations, looking at their social media engagement practices as well as a literature scan of alumni network engagement with social mediaHere’s some reflections: Alumni Networks: Benefits, Challenges, and Strategy.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2011

Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Museums in Houston, I was honored to chair a fabulous panel on empowering museum staff to take creative risks ( slides here ). Beck beautifully described her entry into museum work. What kind of support do you need to be confident about taking a risk in your work?

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Denver Museum Oakland PowerPoint 55

Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. This is the only post written by me, Nina Simon.

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Place Discussion Culture Museum 41

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it.

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Museum Conversation Columbus Local 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

My goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers). My model is the shining star. My model is the shining star. Louis were quick to add, 'It's not a museum.'

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Action Ideas St. Louis Museum 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

About three months ago Beth Kanter wrote about the Crowdsourcing of Vision at the Smithsonian Museum. A crowd’s aggregated collective response to a question or challenge creates a perspective or a position. Their mental models began with these fundamental assumptions during their education and their first jobs.

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Aggregator Model Leadership Method 82

Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

Like many people who've worked in science centers and interactive experience museums, I've always been perplexed by the fact that hands-on workshop audiences top out around age 14. They are more than just workshop spaces--they are member institutions, like museums. Isn't this one of our dreams for museums?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Last week, Jim Richardson and I hosted MuseumNext , a 24-hour workshop for museum professionals focused on bringing new, wild museum projects into the world. We also ended the entire event with one of my favorite exercises, the Exquisite Corpse game, in which participants co-created comics of their craziest museum dreams.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). It's always seemed challenging here to find funds for interpretative materials. Now the teen arts council model is no longer considered innovative. Can you give me an example?

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Arts Interview Teen Artist 46

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum invites community members to participate in the development and creation of an exhibit. Museum staff create an exhibit by a traditional internal design process, but the exhibit, once open, invites visitors to contribute their own stories and participation.

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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 11, 2010

Dear Museum 2.0 People Watching Portraits – customers can choose to either be drawers or models (models will wear a button or badge on the bracelet to indicate interest). They may ask models directly to pose for the in more structured encounters. Here's the challenge: I need to settle on a final name for the cafe.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. 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. This can include museums, archives, galleries, etc. Allow voting for the board (if you have this membership model).

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Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 330

Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2009

I've been designing game-like experiences with museums for a long time. I've always believed in prototyping at the simplest level possible, but when it comes to group dynamics we often argue that without a full-size model or the actual space, it's hard to see how people will really interrelate. It had a very simple structure.

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Game Design Museum Interaction 21

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

The essays in this section, on “Expressing and Co-Creating,” present projects in which visitors create exhibition content, contribute to its creation, or get a heavy done of meaning-making in their experience of museum content. Who controls the content in the museum? Who controls the museum experience? First, museum content.

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Voice Create Museum Arts 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Now, as is 2006, visitors are still taking things apart, making shoes out of junk, and tackling real world challenges (and each other). Some staff are wearying of the messiness, noise, and lack of structure in their new face. Both of these examples illuminate a basic challenge in co-created experiences or exhibitions— growth.

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Experiment Create Museum Amazon 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. Some museum pros have been puzzled by this. or to start their own.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

I spoke to them on different days, so I've taken some liberty with structure here, but their words are maintained intact. The whole process of developing an exhibition tends to get stuck behind a museum's doors. By then, I hope we have enough good models and people who want to be a part of this that it will have a life of its own.

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NSF Interview Case Study Museum 20

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And so the report really challenges us to think about five things. Four is considering the level of depth of our DEI practices and challenging ourselves to engage in deeper, more meaningful ways. Again, how many of you have attended an event or go to a museum? And I would say this is a pretty replicable model, right?

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 62

Museum 2.0

JULY 30, 2014

Our work to transform the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History into a participatory and community-centered place has been heavily supported by the James Irvine Foundation. Interestingly, they argue instead that structural change--including but not exclusively programmatic change--is what makes the difference in participant makeup.

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Report Malaysia Memphis Museum 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2007

Yesterday, I turned in my keys and said goodbye to the Spy Museum and to Operation Spy, the narrative, immersive game experience I've been developing/building over the last two years. Adventure is a slice of a large museum, and it's been closed to the public for the last few years (only available to be rented for special events).

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Museum Game Indiana Facilitation 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. Brooklyn Museum implemented a crowdsourced photography exhibit experiment called “ Click!

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

The longer I consult with museums and cultural institutions, the more time I spend peering into people's eyes, wondering: do folks here feel able to innovate? Instead, Light defines innovation as "an act that challenges the prevailing wisdom as it creates public value." It only matters if it matters. Innovation is for everyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

For the leadership development, there were four guiding questions that we explored throughout our journey – and now as I’m back I will continue to reflect and take action based on these: What does it mean to be a leader in the face of complex challenges. The structure was: Overview: 3 minutes to share the problem.

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Leadership Develop Exercise 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

There are lots of things visitors can’t do in museums. But what about the things that museum professionals can’t (or feel they can’t) do? This week at the ASTC conference, Kathy McLean, Tom Rockwell, Eric Siegel and I presented a session called “You Can’t Do That in Museums!” And so my question is, why are we keeping them away?

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

This post was written by my colleague Nora Grant, Community Programs Coordinator at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Pop Up” has become an international buzz term to describe ephemeral, experimental projects--from pop up restaurants to pop up boutiques--but a “Pop Up Museum” is still somewhat mystifying.

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Museum Grant Lesson History 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

In the last few years, the Smithsonian American Art Museum. has been looking at our museum’s online information in the same way. The challenge: how could we make it easier for our online visitors to find things of interest even if that information is buried deep in our site? Museums are changing. Collaborator.

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