NTEN

MARCH 18, 2013

Small Act staffer, Annie Lynsen , recommends art museums and the Nicollet mall. Luckily we have Minneapolis local, Jason Samuels , who created several maps to help everyone out. Here's his map of Cheap Eats, Coffee, and Shops near the Minneapolis Hilton and another map directing you to dining out on the town.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In addition to the case studies NTEN has compiled , here are some more examples the Communities of Impact and I have spotted: Children’s museum data informs health policy. Please share links and shout-outs in the comments section. The nonprofit Splash has developed an entire site called Proving.It Social media trailblazers open up.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 11, 2010

While it hasn't happened here in awhile, a new Museum 2.0 Oldenburg is the individual to whom the term "third place" is attributed, and this well-researched 1989 book put him on the map. Oldenburg celebrates places that are less structured, less designed, less facilitated, and less content-rich than most museums want to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Why Museum Professionals Should Use Flickr from the Musem 2.0 Indianapolis Museum of Art Visitors sharing photos in a group. Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. Leave a comment with a url! A List of Examples. Overview article from December NTEN newsletter. Voter's s (flickr and other social media sites).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Residents in the three counties that pay the millage will receive special benefits : free admission to the museum and expanded educational programming. Reading through the 300+ comments online reminded me eerily of the extraordinary 2010 ArtsWave report on the public value of art (full report here , my synopsis here ).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2012

A woman walks into your museum. They wrote a comment about their experience that got turned into a bird by other visitors in the public sculpture hanging in the middle of the museum. No information about who she is, why she's here, what she's looking for, and what she gets out of her connection to the museum.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2007

We're learning a lot, and your comments and contributions are wonderful. Wandering around, exploring, collecting experiences… sounds like a museum visit to me! There must be meaningful interplay between the map and the gamespace. First of all, thanks to all who have contributed to the Human + coLAB. And now, back to Game Friday.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Nikki created "The Ministry of Rules" --a shadow organization that existed for one week during half-term break, staffed by visitors who served as "Inspectors" investigating, exploring, and poking fun at the rules that make museums and galleries go. How did the museum staff respond to this experience? How did this project come about?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. This multi-museum collaborative is undertaking a thoughtful process to tackle these issues.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2007

I've been tracking the blog with Google Analytics for the past five months, and it's had 5,062 total visitors, 8,337 total pageviews, and 3,236 unique visitors. , Hierarchy of Social Participation , and Institutional Blogs: Different Voices, Different Views The top posts by comments are: Warning: Graduate School Spawns Legions of Zombies!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2015

While the blog post is targeted for performing arts organizations, many of them appeal to museums, zoos and aquariums as well. TRG Arts describes this as a graphical representation of the seat map where the ticketed seats are represented in colors. Let’s continue the conversation in the comments below or on twitter @laurabeussman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

If you think about what a museum curator does, it is very similar. He kindly put together two mind maps with links to tools that are free and easy to get started with. Let me know in the comments. Robin has tested hundreds of tools – from free to enterprise level. You”ll find them linked here. The Practice.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Stringing Connections , in which visitors could describe relationships between works in the exhibition and make them visible by tying pieces of yarn between them on a large map of the gallery. As one participant said, "the museum feels friendly in a way it usually doesn't." People make the museum friendly, not activities.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Many institutions do this unintentionally--by providing post-its or comment books, pens or crayons. I encourage you to share your own rules and thoughts on this in the comments. Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Nina Simon, Museum 2.0   (We'll be doing the nitty gritty in October)    For some reason, I landed on this excellent post by Nina Simon that categorizes different types of museum blogs.  Here's a remix of the approaches mapped to other types of nonprofits: Blue:  Institutional Information Blog.

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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. You can also integrate maps and social media features. Do you host exhibits or operate a museum? You can even repurpose comments in your audio tour so that visitors can hear other opinions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 29, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! We welcome your comments and feedback. museums, recreation centers, etc.)

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 17, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

The team at Thinkery has done an excellent job in getting the word out in all the right publications (Austin’s Culture Map, Austin’s Social Planner, among others) since they launched this innovative idea in December 2013. How can you explore doing something similar at your museum?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Thanks to Kyle Evans, who forwarded me the fascinating, lengthy master’s dissertation.art: Situating Internet Art in the Modern Museum by Karen Verschooren at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. In it, Karen provides a survey of the evolving relationship of Internet art to art museums. At the info desk with the maps?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2010

This morning, I gave the keynote address for the Washington Museums Association annual conference. It features lots of museum-based examples. But in this post, I wanted to highlight a goofy little (non-museum) project that inspires me in its simplicity and openness to mass collaboration. It's called One Million Giraffes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

The article includes a link to a google map where you can look at the economic impact in each state. With unemployment and cutback, for many a trip to the art museum can appear to be a luxury. Brian Reich, in the comments, suggests that while said, it is a market correction.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2015

This is the first in a two-part series about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s new theory of change. This week, Ian David Moss and I are each writing blog posts about our collaborative process to develop a theory of change at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. For three years, we hit the gas at my museum—hard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

I'm also prepping for a panel session I'll be doing at the Museum Computer Network Conference later this fall on Web Analytics. Chris talks about the importance of mapping your social media strategy and identifying a key metric or two for each strategy that tells you whether you've been successful. There are differences between ???measures

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A few comments over at Kikono too. context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 situation unless museums can get the ???stickiness??? Several commenters offer very good easons why they don't use their real names. era websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The steps include reading, commenting, and sharing stories of personal behavior change. Surfrider Foundation , profiled in the book, by gathering research about what motivates its audiences and through what channels and having a strategy session with staff to map out the different levels of engagement and metrics for conversion.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

This is the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s book club on Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , a collection of essays edited by Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean. Ultimately, the arguments against including visitor voices come down to a lack of respect for visitors as meaning-makers in museums.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2008

When you design a new interactive, talkback station, or traditional exhibit for your museum, what best practices and design requirements do you consult? Museums don't have a well-developed body of industry-wide best practices. maps and Yahoo! by a community of designers who rate, comment, and adapt them for use.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2013

He’d like to learn more about the museum.”. So what does this six month map look like? Comment below to let me know what step you’re at in the process or share your own tips and tricks for welcome series. Picture this: Bob : “Jim, I’d like to introduce you to my friend Alex. Jim : “It’s nice to meet you Alex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. Networked Love, Bonding, Intimacy: Our Interactive Culture Clouds Visual mapping of relationship circles: exploring tools for appropriate social technology in conference cultures where work and pleasure meet. Bring your yoga mat!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2007

Many in-museum 2.0-style If you want people to be able to tag artifacts with keywords, comments, or ratings, you need a unique identifier for each artifact, a way for visitor submissions to populate a database, and automated programs for aggregation and display of visitor data. Creating the backbone for a robust 2.0 It's messy.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2007

But it’s a term that seems to be exciting a lot of folks in the museum field, and for good reason. Radical trust is appealing because it represents loosening of museum authority and openness to visitor input. Do you trust them enough to publish these tags on a sign in the front of the museum or in a tagcloud on your homepage?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

I was planning to write a post today about the use of story in museums. A lot of museums--and web, radio, etc--are pursuing projects in which visitors share their personal stories around a topic, whether that be broad and profound ( storycorps.net ) or light and specific ( map mashup of Overheard in NY ). It was interesting.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2006

There have now been a couple comments on this blog to the effect of: "Visitors already create content in museums through their thoughts and social interactions." One person commented that the more interesting question is not how we build a platform for visitor content creation but how we facilitate sharing of that content.

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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 easier to secure grants for community-based programming or exhibitions, but it's not easy to get funding for some of the core work that museums do. Some things move at different paces.

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