Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. The popular reference point for what a museum is--a temple for contemplation--is based on a Euro-centric set of myths and implies a white set of behaviors.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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EveryAction

MARCH 2, 2017

More to eat: Mintwood Place (Columbia Heights). Songbyrd may seem like a coffee place, but it brings a lot more to the table, including a robust live music and event calendar. The hottest ticket in DC has to be the National Museum of African American History & Culture. National Museum of American History (The National Mall).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2011

Neither does linking to desktop sites inside smartphone apps, in group text alerts, or on location-based communities like Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places. Children’s Medical Center of Dayton :: m.childrensdayton.org. Dallas Art Museum :: dallasmuseumofart.mobi. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum :: ushmm.mobi.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. The Knight Foundation believes arts and culture are at the core of community, connecting people to place and to each other. Areas served: US. Knight Foundation. Highland Street Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This morning, I checked in on the Pocket Museums on our museum's ground floor. After I took down all the "kick me" and "kick it" post-its covering the Pocket Museum title label in the men's room, I realized that this is the perfect example of an A-to-B test for gendered response to a participatory museum experience.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Why does your museum open its doors each day? Will they be visiting with children? What other museums do they follow/enjoy visiting? Processes can be arranged where an email is sent out based on a trigger which can be a number of things like activity (that does, or does not take place), time, customer behavior and more.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Museums have used games to engage visitors for decades. SR: I came to games before I came to museums. My grandmother cheated at Candyland and uno. :) Games, I think, have a nice Venn diagram of overlap between museum lovers. I love thinking we're getting new museum lovers through games. How did you get into museum games?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Last week, I received an inquiry from Mary Maher, editor of Hand to Hand, a magazine put out by the Association of Children's Museums , about Museum 2.0. Why, Mary asked, were there no posts about children's museums on this site? Why aren't children's museums represented on Museum 2.0?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2012

That said, as YouTube and other Google Products become more deeply integrated into Google+, the hook could evolve simply out of necessity and ease of using multiple Google Products in one place. Children’s National Medical Center. The Field Museum. Acción contra el Hambre. Amazon CARES. American Prairie Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2012

The site operations a Genocide Archive, a Museum, Education and Social programs, and a memorial garden and burial grounds. The exhibition in the Museum has three main sections. Favorite: On A Mission To Help Children in Rwanda. Germaine: A Social Entrepreneur. Her vision for the future of her country is young people.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" Children of the Lodz Ghetto ).

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. The Knight Foundation believes arts and culture are at the core of community, connecting people to place and to each other. Areas served: US. Knight Foundation. Highland Street Foundation.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Any excess contributions available can be carried forward for the next five years, subject to the 60% AGI limit previously in place. In coming at fundraising from a place of abundance, not scarcity , it’s not your job (or most productive strategy) to make judgments about what should/should not motivate people to give. Final Note.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. We are trying to change the visitors’ experience at the museum as well as ownership of what is in the museum, break down the walls between the public and the museum.

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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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2010

This is the third installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 I was excited to read The Great Good Place and see how we could do more of this. The bottom line is that PARTS of our building are very much third places.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2020

But here are some of my reflections from this year in museum work: Camp Life: I came to camping late and through my children. The long-term ramifications of this year on museums will transform the field. What’s your museum trigger word? You can put into place small changes. But those were localized. Others didn’t.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

In one common scenario, a parent gets their children involved in an organization and that child continues their support into the next generation. Also involved in your organization is her daughter Nina, a 22-year-old literacy coach who volunteers her time for many of your projects focused on children.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

Visitor (though, really my child) at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK As I said, last week, I’ve been to a travelin’ girl for the last couple of years. The song’s lyrics are basically a litany of places he sang. So, instead, I am offering 3 posts this month about what I learned from visiting more than 300 museums.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. Children are easy to applaud, and easy to ignore. One of the key constituencies for this plaza are families.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

A fundraising email is not the right place to thank Board members, reflect on events that already happened, spotlight a wonderful volunteer, or highlight a major donor. The mom has a job at a museum cafe, the older kids are in school, and the youngest attends a wonderful daycare center we are so fortunate to partner with.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2020

While it’s not our place to predict the outcomes we might see in the wake of this virus, nor can we provide health or legal advice, we hope that offering the following ideas and resource s ( by no means a comprehensive guide ) might help you and your staff approach the COVID-19 situation with a degree of calm and a plan of action.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I’m looking for a place to donate in honor of my mother’s 90 th birthday, and a gift made to the local symphony orchestra in Myrtle Beach seemed like the right thing to do. You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. Fast forward to 2017. Can’t think of any?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Between high-altitude hijinks, run-ins with wildlife, and very long days of hiking, I finished John Falk's new book, Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. In other words, if you are a curious person, you will go to museums to learn new things.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. EMPSFM is one of a handful of museums worldwide for which the death of the King of Pop is a very big deal. Are museums only relevant when they can serve our most pressing needs?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I often think museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested adults, alien and overwhelming to newcomers. Two years ago, my dad and I embarked on a podcast project called Museum Hater. Help people understand why you do what you do. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. People x (Food + Place) looked at photos taken by children in a park to understand what contributed to their sense of community.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 4, 2023

For example, a CRM designed specifically for museums might emphasize their ticketing features, whereas a CRM for general nonprofits might have some registration tools but lack a built-in ticketing component. Carl lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife Sarah and their two children Charlie and Evelyn.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Become a Member page on Florida Coalition for Children’s website The Florida Coalition for Children uses the members-as-advocates membership model to effect positive change in the child welfare system in Florida. Define your value proposition for members to illustrate how your membership model benefits them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2010

The lucky winner, Invisible Children, has won $1 million , but the Huffington Post is reporting that the second place winner, engaged in voter fraud. Invisible Children has also been accused of fraud during the duration of the contest. and Sdfj Dfsjlfkddjf. Change.org reported. I'm not surprised.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Seb Chan has a lovely, long interview up at Fresh+New with Helen Whitty about the Powerhouse Museum's new mini-exhibition, the Odditoreum. The Odditoreum is another wrinkle in the study of visitors' understanding and interpretation of authenticity in museums. I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum).

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s also a time for gifts and new clothes, making this a great chance to raise funds or donations of new clothing, especially for children. Find a venue to host the party and use “betting” on the horses to make donations to your cause, or adding a zero to your preferred horse’s number to place a bet on that horse (e.g #3 3 = $30 bet).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We started the summer with no money and a strategic vision to be a thriving, central gathering place.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

How do you help visitors know what they can and cannot do in your museum? Most museums have this figured out: they have signs, they have guards, they have cases over the objects. And this works pretty well in science museums, where designers talk about "hardening" exhibits to withstand the more aggressive touchers among us.

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