Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

at the Brooklyn Museum, where you could track how people of various levels of art expertise rated crowd-contributed photographs. I've been thinking about this as I prep some interactive prototypes for the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum, a Seattle-based museum of pop culture. There was Click!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Citrix Online's handy feature comparison can help you decide. Public libraries must either have valid 501(c)(3) nonprofit status or be listed in the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) database. Not sure which web conferencing tool makes sense for your nonprofit or library? Web and Audio Conferencing.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2018

But as the executive director of a museum, I spend a lot less time raising awareness and a lot more time on will-building and behavior change. Sometimes being a writer and speaker--raising awareness--can feel risky and fragile in comparison. That feels good. And that feels great. We did it through action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Laura Quinn is the founder of Idealware, which offers a consumer reports like analysis and comparison of nonprofit software. is the author of the popular Museum 2.0 Blog that covers how museums are using social media. Jordan Viator. writes for the Convio Connection Cafe Blog. Deborah Finn. Social Change Activists. Nina Simon.

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Technology Companies Netsquared Social Media 75

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. We made a giant mobile for the center of the museum out of origami birds folded from visitor comments received in the past year.

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Participatory Museum History International 44

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2011

As I drop 5 cent tokens into my slots of choice, I often wonder: could my museum be on this list? If you want to go to the museum and I want to go to the baseball game, we're each making our own choices with our recreational time and money. Would anyone put their token in our slot?

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Arts Museum Roles Public 54

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

While I've written before about types of questions that tend to be more successful in this regard, today I want to share a simple exercise I've been using with museums of all types to help staff members develop better questions for visitor response. Here's what you do: Get a group of staff members together around a table.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2007

When things don't change, or change at an imperceptible rate, there's less fodder for comparisons and quests. All this leads me, naturally, to wonder what kinds of random, private, inadvertent games people play in museums. What are your favorite casual museum games? Stasis provides a different kind of game environment.

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Game Museum Contest Environment 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2007

I was talking recently to David Klevan, Education Manager for Technology and Distance Learning Initiatives at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (say that three times fast), about some of their awesome experiments with online discussion groups, blogs, and 2.0 Go downstairs and flip through the comment book at your museum’s front desk.

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Comment Discussion Generation Difference 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I think in the future I'll try to always test several things in parallel--it was a good experience both for the ego and for the part of my brain that can make better judgments of things in comparison to each other than in isolation. When I practice rock climbing at an indoor gym, I take the same approach.

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Test Seattle Comparison Interview 37

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2011

The Indianapolis Museum of Art’s dashboard is an oft-cited example. Note from Beth: Check out this case study about The Indianapolis Museum of Art’s Dashboard). 5) Scenario Comparison Dashboards. 2) Status Dashboards. 4) Tracking Dashboards.

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Indianapolis Museum Nonprofit Denver 102

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When you count attendance to your museum, do you include: people who eat in the cafe? It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Summertime concerts at the history museum? Outdoor movies at the art museum? If a kid gets dragged to a museum with their parents, do they count?

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St. Louis Impact Museum Denver 55

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 16, 2012

Museum of Modern Art. Museum of Modern Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. For each of the six measured criteria, each organization is ranked in comparison to all other nonprofit organizations being evaluated. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. National Public Radio. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Social Media Web Media United States 96

CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

We typically see organizations that do peer-to-peer fundraising not only help create a sense of community, but they also raise about 2x as much in comparison to other digital fundraising initiatives. Here’s a look at the Faurschou Foundation’s Virtual Tour of their Museum in Brooklyn, NY: [link]. Crowdfunding. Virtual Movie Night.

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Virtual Ideas Fundraising Classes 98

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Bottom line, this comparison has made me realize that the thing that excites me about data visualizations is this empowerment. The general wisdom is that people will be more invested if it's "about me." But that's about me as an object of the exhibit, not I as the subject, I who am empowered to tinker with the parameters and my responses.

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Data Exercise Empowerment Comparison 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 5, 2014

This is especially useful in exhibitions or areas with multiple different talkbacks; it allows us to do A/B comparisons across talkbacks and learn which of our designs worked best (presumably, for the same group of visitors). design evaluation Museum of Art and History participatory museum usercontent'

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Test Museum Participatory Measure 43

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

Doubleknot – Best software for recurring events and programs Overview: Doubleknot’ s event registration platform is best suited for nonprofit cultural organizations, such as zoos, museums, and botanical gardens. Flexible payments and promotions, with options for coupon codes and member discounts.

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Software Management Registration Nonprofit 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

If you want a detailed comparison of these and other social bookmarking services, you can read one at Consultant Commons. Tagging in Art Museums. There are many social bookmarking services available on the web. The ones most often mentioned by members of the nonprofit technology community include this short list: Del.icio.us.

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