Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Click to see larger version.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Jasper Visser and his colleagues at the not-yet-physically-open National Historisch Museum of the Netherlands have impressed me with their innovative, thoughtful approach to developing a dynamic national museum. In this post, Jasper shares some lessons learned from a recent experiment to design a more social comment station.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. COST: Museum books tend to be expensive - because they are printed in small runs, the price for a 400-page paperback can be as high as $40. Why Self-Publish?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Founded in 1960, it has more than 30,000 members in over 240 chapters around the world. Not only as a professional member, I served as a chapter president and on International Board of Directors for the past 4 years. One of them was the curator of the world largest archaeological museum, Grand Egyptian Museum.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

Dear Museum 2.0 My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. They're simple --you can comment on any given chapter, or you can write a review of the whole book. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. readers, Today is my birthday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2010

The contest was tainted during the first round when several nonprofits that had placed in the top 100 were disqualified without reason amidst criticisms about the contest design. I don't think contests should be banned entirely, they just need to be better designed : 1.) I'm not surprised.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. We focused more on design.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. First published in Curator magazine in 2002, this essay presents five different museum "types" and their distinct opportunities and challenges.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

For me, it's the beginning of chapter 8, in which J. William Goldman does something similar with The Princess Bride, commenting about dreadfully dull chapters he has omitted for the reader's sanity. Can designers pull this off with physical spaces? But it's not so easy to integrate into larger-scale museum writing.

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2012

The official selections will be announced by the end of July and the festival will take place at the Spirit of Texas Theater at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, Texas on September 12-14. They are accepting films through June 30, though it's only free to submit through June 15th. Submit now!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. The Museum 2.0 In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

This week, thoughts on Chapter 12 of Elaine Gurian’s book Civilizing the Museum , "Threshold Fear: Architecture program planning." In this essay, Elaine discusses the various barriers to entry for non-traditional visitors to museums, that is, the threshold fear that keeps such potential visitors from walking in our doors.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

That said, I sympathize with the challenges involved in designing something like this--challenges we faced again and again when I was working on the Operation Spy immersive experience at the International Spy Museum. Could 5th graders handle a truly open simulation? Maybe, maybe not. And if you are leading the participant, why?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Dear Museum 2.0 readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Tags: participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2010

Hosting a session on Monday at 2pm on Design for Participation with participatory design gurus Kathleen McLean and Dan Spock, along with research extraordinaire Kris Morrissey and participatory art rockstar Mark Allen. The king of idiosyncratic museums. This is the LA chapter of the 826 Valencia tutoring enterprise.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Paul is the CEO and Co-Founder of Boston-based FableVision, which creates and distributes original educational media, mobile games and apps designed to move the world to a better place. Paul is also a children’s book author who collaborates with his twin brother and NY Times #1 Best-Selling Author/Illustrator, Peter H. Simon Scriver.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This is the second part of a two-part interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard on their book Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. I love this idea, but I often find that museum staff are really nervous about making any changes that might alienate current members/donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, healthcare, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. The winner gets $1 million and five finalists will receive $100,000. The top 100.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Between the giant squid brainstorming and experimentation, I gave a talk to the larger Smithsonian Institution about multi-platform museum experiences. The slides are also available for download.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2007

This is the final installment of the Museum 2.0 book club on Civilizing the Museum; The Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian. I’d like to do more book clubs in the future; please let me know if there are any particular books on museum theory, design, innovation, etc. that you would recommend for Museum 2.0.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

This week, we're covering the fourth objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : supporting (chapter 8). This chapter is perhaps the most surprising in the book, because it focuses on tools and techniques that predate Web 2.0 Why should museums care about customer support? by years: customer support forums.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

I created a directional pyramid to make a point about social content in museum; namely, that museums are not offering networked, social experiences—and therefore will have a hard time jumping to initiating meaningful social discourse. And I’m not advocating that the dream museum would be all level 5 experiences, all the time.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

On Tuesday, I reviewed Elaine Gurian’s essay, Choosing Among the Options , on museum archetypes and self-definition. Next Tuesday, we'll look at chapters 16 and 17, on the merits and limitations of the team approach to exhibition design.) What if you don’t want to be identified as one type of museum?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Design an unlimited number of customizable forms to enable new members to sign up or renew their membership. Doubleknot Doubleknot’s integrated software solutions are targeted toward nonprofits and cultural organizations, including zoos, aquariums, museums, science centers, botanical gardens, and so on. transaction fee. Online forms.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. This became particularly clear when it came to the cover design. Check out the other parts here. I disagreed.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. People who copy edited had a very clear job to do, and I did not allow people to copy edit more than one chapter per week.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. This service allows Facebook users to download custom Facebook Profile backgrounds designed with the branding of partner nonprofits. In fact, they even design the background for you. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Working with land, they bring people together to design and practice strategies for healing, health and reparative economics. ?. Black Youth Project — BYP has various local chapters. Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)— SURJ has various local chapters. Find yours here. Check your local events on Google.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

This week, we consider Chapter 11 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum , "Function Follows Form: How mixed-used spaces in museums build community," but first, a short and relevant note about my writing process. Museums are naturally tuned to some of these but not all. a disparate mix of useful services.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

In 1990, educator and cultural critic Neil Postman described a museum as "an answer to a fundamental question: what does it mean to be a human being?" Without an explicit "I" voice, the museum's perspective on humanity is oblique to say the least. Welcome to Pine Point is not a museum project. It tells layered personal stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. Hybrids include a mix of openness and curated decision-making by experts.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

But it’s designed to attract customers that care about what you care about, right? They can design that funnel. I think this is Museum of Modern Art in New York City. But yeah, masks, designer masks. But most of us don’t design our events this way. We need to design it to attract new folks.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Now, after attending with museum friends from around the country, I'm hooked. Unlike most museum experiences, where people quietly absorb the work in a room, people were very comfortable pulling each other to specific pieces and extolling their merits or less inspiring qualities. Very few wrote in typical museum or even gallery-speak.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

I've spent the last two weeks working on the third chapter of my book about network effects of social participation. And it's brought me back to a blog post I wrote a year ago about the Science Museum of Minnesota's Race: Are We So Different? But designing an entire museum that functions this way probably isn't your goal.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Chapter 9 focuses on "embracing" the groundswell, or finding ways to involve users in the development of new products, services, and strategies. How many museums have stacks of comment books that are only culled for the gushing quotes that belong on annual reports? But getting information from visitors is not enough.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2007

This week, a look at Chapters 16 and 17 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum. Many educators still feel like unequal partners, arguing that exhibition designers dump finished or nearly-finished products on them for interpretation. Why don't more museums do this?

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