Content Culture Museum San Jose 
Media Cause
APRIL 16, 2021
The audience really appreciated the content as evidenced by the growth in average gift. . Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose (CDM). The Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose had two board members help kick off their Facebook Fundraising efforts when they first launched the giving tools on their page.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 4, 2015
In pop culture-land, relevance is all about now. If people on the street are talking about X, the museum should be talking about X too. I used to work at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. Our mandate was to be the museum of Silicon Valley--not of its material history, but its pulse of innovation.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 20, 2010
This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. The principles cover strategy, learning, capacity, and organizational culture. Examples: Wildlife Direct and Brooklyn Museum. Examples: San Jose Opera use of #Operaplot Twitter Hashtag.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 14, 2010
It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation. The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community.
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 5, 2008
Reason #258 I'm glad to live in California: Cultural Connections. Cultural Connections is a group of museum professionals who meet up a few times a year and host excellent programs on a variety of topics. I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA).
Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 15, 2007
I've been thinking recently about the "why" behind encouraging social interactions among strangers in museums. I've been arguing that "visitors as participants" means participating BOTH with content and with other visitors, but that begs the question: do visitors really want to have social experiences with each other?
Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 26, 2009
Here's the basic idea: while you are at the museum, you save digitizable content--either content you make (photos of yourself) or content you collect (museum-supplied text or media of interest). It's an outpost for some cheap content, and that's immediately obvious to me when I get there.
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