Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

Take for example the # AskACurator hashtag created by a digital expert who works with museums almost five years ago and still active today. Someone sent out a tweet wondering if London’s Natural History Museum and Science Museum went to war, which would win. Here’s an example of using Moments from a Museum.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

Note the clear language to identify the object, the action, the background or context, and then most importantly the artistic style that the output should create. These images could be used for a wide variety of storytelling and attention-grabbing hooks for content. Creative Ideas for Social Impact Imagery. Public link: [link].

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. Over the past few years, they've worked hard to make their rich content more accessible both through digitization and programs. The people who want that content may not be in the same city as the museum nor even aware of the museum's holdings.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Here in Barcelona, it's standard to see three languages on labels (Catalan, Spanish, English), and in Scandinavia I've seen as many as six. Even in North America, it's becoming typical to see two languages on the walls. As far as I see, an institution like this could: focus on non-language-based participation.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 21, 2020

Alison Koch shared these thoughts originally as part of Museum Computer Network 's 2019 Ignite. First, I think that museums need to think about their staff as a stakeholder group worthy of just as much time, attention, energy, and evaluation as visitors or donors. They were that true and that powerful. I hope you enjoy them.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2016

Here's one of my favorite stories about the London Science Museum and their work to make their science shows relevant to families with deaf or hearing-impaired family members. This chapter explores the difference between connecting with new people by building new doors vs. connecting with new people by changing the content of the room.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Every few months, a major news outlet does an "expose" about data collection on museum visitors. These articles tend to portray museums as Big Brother, aggressively tracking visitors'' actions and interests across their visit. Facebook decides what content you see, what ads you see, and your personal ratio of puppies to snow warnings.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

I recently read the BERI report on bilingual labels in museums and was blown away by its findings. in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. is a controversial topic, and the same is true in museums.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 4, 2014

"I hate museums." She''s visited museums, she didn''t enjoy them, she''s more of a sports person, it''s not part of her life, it''s not her thing. He didn''t feel welcome in museums, feels like they aren''t for him, he wasn''t invited, it isn''t comfortable. Imagine two people saying this. It''s almost impossible to do so.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

A man walks into a museum. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Two years later, this project is still one of the most fondly remembered participatory experiences at the museum--by visitors and staff. He shares a story.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We’ve found that highly tailored content targeted at your most valuable donors can have a big impact. Working with Oxfam America’s mid-level Impact Circle, we designed a strategy that delivered a more personalized service at scale: branded email appeals with highly tailored content inviting people to join the named mid-level program.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

What does "big data" look like for museums? Several museums around the world have worked hard to make their data accessible by providing free access to datasets, applying Creative Commons licenses to digital content, or creating APIs (application programming interfaces) that allow programmers to build their own software on the museum''s data.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I often think museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested adults, alien and overwhelming to newcomers. Not excited generally or about the institutional content, but sincerely pleased that that person in particular has arrived.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. Another thinks that users should not only contribute content but also have a hand in determining how it is used.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether that community is career-oriented (like professional associations) or something related to a person’s interests or identity (like museums or community groups), it’s important to them. Be Thoughtful About Your Timing Timing is everything, and it will inform the content of your renewal letter. Let’s take a look.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

specializes in designing museum experiences and exhibitions that are community informed, socially stimulating, technologically ambitious, and intriguingly experimental. I am available for consulting and strategic development, and creative design and leadership of exhibition, technology, and museum planning projects.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2009

In my continuing quest to find elegant ways to integrate technology into the museum experience, we come to interpretative material and the simple question, "How can you create natural ways for visitors to retrieve the information of most interest to them relative to an artifact or exhibit?" Here's one lovely answer: Meta.L.Hyttan.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

It gives me feedback on the content, plus it help me generate content. How do we motivate musicians to create content? Also, it requires adding the words “social media&# to any professional conduct language or a social media policy. Determine the content they can provide. What do they get out of it?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I''ve mostly seen museums employ one of two methods for formal community advisors: Create special "spots" on the board of trustees for certain kinds of community representatives. CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. I struggle with both these options.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

On a recent trip to DC, an old friend showed me around a new exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide. The paper is perforated with one section for the promise, which visitors keep, and another section for a signature, which visitors leave at the museum.

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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? It's painful. And instructive. And revelatory. And painful.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2007

Recently, I’ve become a little disheartened by the extent to which the web has dominated my—and others’—thinking about ways that museums can integrate 2.0 But today I had an experience that reinvigorated my love for and belief in tangible projects that can fill museums with content that is user-generated, shared, and explored.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

For example, when we held community meetings about the development of a new creative town square next to our museum, a group of middle/upper-class moms talked about not feeling safe downtown. When I've talked with those same folks in bridged groups, they use more circumspect language (i.e. But those concerns are real.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But if you are using their language or really innovative elements, you should credit them. For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Use warm values-based language and feelings into your messaging. Access to exclusive digital content.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Not the content (which most people skim in about 13 seconds or less). The mom has a job at a museum cafe, the older kids are in school, and the youngest attends a wonderful daycare center we are so fortunate to partner with. Make the Ask using as specific language as possible. We are so excited for them! . Your gift of $29.88

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Very, very few museum visitors are in the "dog and baby" category. I don''t know if they need grounding in core content or exposure to new practices. Some need to conduct programs in multiple languages. But I don''t typically hear this phrase deployed to argue in favor of a risky program format or an unusual piece of content.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The Museum 2.0 I went alone, sent with a blessing from my boss at the International Spy Museum. As Museum 2.0 There was a workbook full of useful content. It was like learning another language. Again, the content was rich, deep, and focused (I'll write more about it next week). But I was shy, painfully shy.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

All weekend, we've heard uplifting stories about amazing work you all are doing to involve people from all walks of life in museums. There is no other museum conference going on somewhere else in the world today where professionals are sharing proud case studies and helpful tips on how to exclude people. But museums do exclude people.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place, and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. Santa Cruz, the British Museum, Apple, Google, Adobe, and numerous other. Thomas Grasty - Stroome.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. My answer: neither.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

A partnership project between The Tech Museum , local technology companies like Intel , Applied Materials , and Nokia , and Santa Clara University's Center for Science Technology and Society , the Tech Awards itself is a testament to collaborative innovation and achievement. With subtitles video content is more searchable and sharable.

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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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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. And for those who have, they quickly understand that the Museum has much more to offer than can be absorbed in a day.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

While the evaluation component of the report is focused on the extent to which these various projects promote science learning and behavior change among participants, the rubric of participatory models introduces a language that can be useful to many kinds of institutions and projects. Contribution, collaboration, co-creation, and co-option.

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