Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions. The all-or-nothing funding approach makes many project creators conservative about their ambitions. The museum's page is much simpler.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. Why Museum Professionals Should Use Flickr from the Musem 2.0 Indianapolis Museum of Art Visitors sharing photos in a group. Nature Conservancy Photo Contest. It isn??????t A List of Examples. How-To Resources.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

I spent Saturday in beautiful Monterey, ocean pounding outside the window of a conference room, where about 40 museum folks were pondering a question more elusive than the origin of the waves: can museums change the world? The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2009

In 2006, John Falk and Beverly Sheppard, seasoned museum researchers and practitioners, released a co-authored book entitled Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. This is a pretty powerful and provocative book—you talk about rethinking the whole business of museums.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

If you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum or zoo, then also add your address. Tag Partners and Corporate Sponsors. Partners and corporate sponsors are notified if they are tagged in your posts. Kudos to Conservation International ! Verified Badges. In addition, apply to get verified.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

About three months ago Beth Kanter wrote about the Crowdsourcing of Vision at the Smithsonian Museum. Tags: crowdsourcing. I've been keeping a careful eye out for thoughtful comments that could turn into guest posts. That's where this post about crowdsourcing came out of it! Jon Husbands is a Listener, watcher and facilitator.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Elizabeth Merritt is the director of the Center for the Future of Museums , a new project of the American Association of Museums (AAM). When I was given the opportunity to found the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM) I had been working for nearly 10 years with Museum Assessment and Accreditation at AAM.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2007

When people talk about museum projects in Second Life and other virtual worlds, I'm often disappointed by the short-sightedness of the vision. VAN GOGH GOES EXPERIENTIAL The video below is a gorgeous example of the possibility of substantive, emotional experiences with museum content via virtual world representations.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2007

What does your museum have to say about it? What do visitors expect of museums, and what do museums expect of themselves, when it comes to timeliness? This is partially driven by museums, which want to be seen as "forums" for discourse, but also by the expectations of a media-saturated public. Pluto just got demoted.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Cindy Olnick, Director of Communications, Los Angeles Conservancy). With all of this in mind we have been honored to have Amnesty International, charity:water, PBS, The Holocaust Museum, and dozens of other privacy-committed nonprofits participate in Analysis Exchange projects. . The AE project was very enlightening for me as well.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

This week, we're looking at the first section, Talking Back and Talking Together , which features comment boards, talk-back walls, and discussion forums at a variety of museums. At the Boston Museum of Science's video kiosk on wind power, 3/4 of people were most interested in making their own video (as opposed to watching others).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

As a side note, my positive feelings about the onsite Zealandia experience were somewhat undermined by their branding as a "conservation attraction" on their website and on billboards around Wellington. Tags: storytelling marketing design Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2010

When I was in Taiwan, I heard again and again from museum professionals: "We are very conservative in Taiwanese museums. This post is a photo essay focusing on an area at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts called the Digiark. Tags: design comfort. This may be true. Relax, enjoy, learn, think, talk, relax.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

But the event also drew folks from out of state, including Splash’s Eric Stowe , Idealware’s Laura Quinn , Innovations for Poverty Action ’s Lindsay Shaughnessy, Maine Conservation Voters ’ Gianna Short, and many others. “I I was taken completely off-guard by the interest in the conference,” says Andrew.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

James Yasko is writing an article for an upcoming issue of Museum News on museums and Web 2.0. Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. into their repertoire?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 6, 2009

Several of the projects I'm working on these days relate to the concept of "extending the museum experience." And so when it comes to designing online extensions to the museum experience, we need to apply a different set of expectations from those we use to design onsite experiences. But most online experiences are not linear.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

It's Labor Day, and across the country, a working dichotomy is manifest in museums. For mostly practical reasons, museum staff offices have shifted over the last couple decades further and further from the public. Arguably, much of what happens behind the scenes at museums has little bearing on the visitor experience and vice versa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

In the last few years, the Smithsonian American Art Museum. has been looking at our museum’s online information in the same way. A few weeks ago, American Art’s director, Elizabeth Broun, continued the discussion by holding an unprecedented all-day staff retreat to discuss the use of social media within the museum. • • •.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. What are the essential differences and similarities between libraries and museums?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2007

It's late at night at the Museum Curator smackdown. Museum folks often talk about the time decades ago when museums began to shift from places for objects to places for visitors. My background is in science and children's museums, where it's relatively easy to keep visitors in the foreground. Is the fix in?

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The 2010 mid-term election campaign saw unprecedented fundraising from both traditional political players like the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and new, secretive conservative entities like American Crossroads. Kennedy, Partners In Health, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Tags: Care2 Webinars.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

Traditional exhibition design, in which the museum has a specific story or message to tell, doesn't easily accommodate visitor co-creation. This realization--that a single museum voice was not the best way to tell a particular story--formed the basis for MN150 , the exhibition explored in this post.

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