sgEngage

JULY 18, 2023

By liking, commenting, reposting, or sharing, you and your followers can keep a conversation going across your networks. Event updates: Whether it’s a conference or virtual concert, set up a hashtag and share it with your attendees. Are you an art museum that posts behind-the-scenes looks at your collection on Instagram?

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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

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. I''m open to any questions you want to share in the comments. We talk a lot at our museum about empowering our visitors, collaborators, interns, and staff by making space for them to shine. In the meantime, here are some.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. didn't mince words. Here are my three top takeaways.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2021

According to The Art Newspaper’s annual survey in 2021, visits to the world’s 100 most-visited museums plummeted by 77% in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Photo Credit: Devon Rose Turner, Natural History Museum, London. . Like” their posts and comment if appropriate, . Exhibition hashtags . Final takeaways .

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2015

One of the most powerful books I read while doing research was We are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence ( read it free here , great appreciation to Bob Janes for sharing it with us). I hope this synopsis might inspire you to read their full incredible story. The museums were not.

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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. I walked into the women's bathroom and saw what I expected to see--a bunch of quirky objects on display with stories written on post-its. A couple stories. and I hope you share them in the comments. No objects.

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sgEngage

APRIL 28, 2022

Another frequent tip from Blackbaud Champions was to help volunteers see the bigger picture by involving them in brainstorming, strategic planning, and crucial meetings so they are in the loop and can execute tasks with a sense of shared purpose. . . – Rebecca Barnes, volunteer manager at Tellus Science Museum .

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Museum 2.0

MAY 1, 2013

In three weeks, Kathleen McLean and I are co-hosting a freewheeling talk show at the American Alliance of Museums conference. Kathy and I have each spent a lot of time advocating for experimental practice and risk-taking in museums, both as consultants and on staff. Please share your story in the comments.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

Last week, I visited the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle. I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). I'm always a bit nervous when I visit a museum I love from afar. She told family stories.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. A year ago, I put my consultant hat on the shelf and decided to jump into museum management (a sentence I NEVER would have imagined writing five years ago). I'm open to any questions you want to raise in the comments.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We are excited to share that Forum One has been selected for 7 Davey Awards for our excellence in web design! The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

We'll share big ideas for using social media for nonprofit program delivery and some good tips for crowdsourcing for social change. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely. Social networks are transforming how people support causes, how ideas are shared and how nonprofits raise money. Submitted by Sarah Davies.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Dear Museum 2.0 friends, I know I that I haven't been sharing a lot on the blog, but behind the scenes, you've inspired me to write more than ever. I'm in research mode, and I'm seeking stories and case studies from diverse institutions about attempts, successes, failures, and discoveries related to relevance.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Have you ever been to a museum with no permanent exhibits ? On a recent trip to Chicago, I checked out the Museum of Contemporary Art. Plus, I know the next time I’m in Chicago, the museum will be a totally different experience, so I’m highly motivated to go back. Use Your Space Creatively.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

Earlier in 2013, I was amazed to visit one of the new “Studio” spaces at the Denver Art Museum. The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. Who are all of these people? What inspires them?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

I hope you'll enjoy this resource and share it widely (with attribution). You can also post comments on any chapter, adding your reactions and questions to the published content. The chapters are short stories, and most can stand alone. The chapters are short stories, and most can stand alone. Or how Food What?!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

Not creating Flickr slideshows to tell your nonprofit’s story. Quite often your nonprofit’s story can be much better told through images. If your nonprofit is location-based (zoos, museums, health clinics, food banks, etc.) Nonprofits that don’t get shared or retweeted will not do well on the Social Web.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Author: Seema Rao This month, inspired by the panel at Western Museums Association , we've been discussing all things audience, community, and visitors. I asked the somewhat provocative question: Can museums go TOO far with audience engagement/ being visitor-centered? The museum wanted to engage more black families.

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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?" I was surprised by her question.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact. The Denver Community Museum (DCM) was a grassroots operation in almost every sense.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late. In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Psst, also consider entering the Muse Awards come 2020, but that's a story for another day) @artlust doing a charming job hosting us at #museawards #AAM2019 !

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Whoever wrote this comment card: thank you. We did three things to supplement Belle''s paintings (installation shots here , peopled shots here ): We issued a call to locals who are immigrants, or whose family immigrated, to share an artifact and story with us. Many, many visitors responded emotionally to these stories.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

A man walks into a museum. He shares a story. He creates a visual representation of his story. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Some of the stories were quickies, but others were powerful and personal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Amber and Julie shared a story about the importance of leadership making self-care an cultural norm. Have story? Share it in the comments below. Ping pong and Wii for when you need to take a break from making interfaith cooperation a norm. How does your organization’s leadership model and support it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Instagram, the popular Millennial photo sharing site, is gaining traction with world leaders, government leaders and nonprofit executive directors. Instagram is about photo sharing and tell stories in photos. The platform attracts many brands because of the opportunities for brand story telling. Visibility.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2008

What if witty cultural commentators reviewed museums the way they do music and restaurants? If Anthony Lane turned his cutting tongue from movies to museums? If Stephen Colbert "reported" on museums at times other than during the TV writer's strike? They did their share of nasty stuff. It's painful. And revelatory.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In all scenarios, audiences experience the National Council impact story, strengthening the connection and interest they have in the institution and the important work it is doing. Attendees commented how this was nearly like being in person at an event and made their experience more personal and collaborative. Pacific Science Center.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In all scenarios, audiences experience the National Council impact story, strengthening the connection and interest they have in the institution and the important work it is doing. Attendees commented how this was nearly like being in person at an event and made their experience more personal and collaborative. Pacific Science Center.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

Visitor-contributed photos surround a collection piece in Carnegie Museum of Art's Oh Snap! so I was intrigued when I heard about a recent success from Jeffrey Inscho, Web and Digital Media Manager at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. is a project that lets real-world and virtual visitors share their work in our gallery.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 20, 2020

It takes work anytime to strike this kind of balance and today I want to share a bit about my communications planning philosophy in the hopes that it helps you think about what to communicate and how. Leave a comment below and I'd be happy to help you out there. Perhaps even more of a challenge. Need help brainstorming?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

So, to close out the year, I thought I’d share this list of books with you, especially if Santa gave you an Amazon gift card. It is filled with great examples and stories from around the world. The book is well-researched and offers frameworks for thinking about how to link technology to a theory of change.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Work for many museum managers has gotten real recently, I suspect. Which brings me to the larger comment about social media. Museums are a very small sector ( though larger than coal-mining! ). Art Museum Transparency is one good example of this; as are Museums Respond to Ferguson and #Museumsarenotneutral.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

When people ask about blogging, the question of comments comes up more frequently than any other. There are many good ways to measure a blog's value , but somewhere inside ourselves, we feel that comments are the thing that validate a blog's existence. So when people ask, "Why don't more people comment?," Museum 2.0's

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