Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." He was mandated to turn the ship around financially and to expand the reach of the museum in the community. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

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Care2

AUGUST 9, 2011

They are commonly used now on billboards at bus stops that advertise a movie or consumer product. You may have also seen QR codes when travelling and visiting tourist spots such as museums, walking tours, etc. You’ve probably see dozens of QR codes on your way to work. Absolutely.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

Today I got an early present from the San Francisco NPR station, KQED, which aired a piece on Museum 2.0 featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). This concept has spawned a question I like to obsess over: What would a museum look like that got better the more people used it?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

What role does “promoting human happiness” play in the mission statements and actions of museums? That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). Earlier today, the CFM offered a free webcast of Jane McGonigal’s talk on gaming, happiness, and museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0. I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. And yet many museums are fixated on creators.

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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

MARCH 10, 2008

Thank you to Susan Spero and all the folks at JFKU and Left Coast Press for starting a highly stimulating conversation this weekend at the colloquium on Museums and Civic Discourse. There were, as we say in the museum business, some good aha moments. What role should museums play in promoting discourse?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 1, 2008

My more complete thoughts and reactions to the AAM (American Association of Museums) conference are forthcoming in a longer post soon. In fact, the slides (while minimal) contain content that was not covered in the session, since we focused only on the questions of most audience interest.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

RELEVANCE IS A MOVING TARGET FOR CONTENT Most of us aren’t steering whole institutions and mission statements. We’re working on a smaller scale, with specific content or programs. But the changing tides of relevance that affect institutions affect content too—sometimes even more acutely. They were featured in the movie Grease.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Museum professionals tend to think this is OK because they think of the contributory act as the important part of the participation. Imagine if Netflix encouraged people to rate movies but did not provide customized recommendations based on their ratings. When I talk about Web 2.0 nothing happens. Why does this happen?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

How would you design a recommendation system for a museum? When it comes to museums, recommendation systems are a natural solution for the problem of the customized tour. When it comes to museums, recommendation systems are a natural solution for the problem of the customized tour.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. And yet many museums are fixated on creators. This is a problem for two reasons. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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. Access to password-protected content like checklists for camping with kids or sample lesson plans for outdoor educators. Access to exclusive digital content. Show the work, don’t just tell.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

Pop quiz: How much does it cost to go a museum? Museums can range from free to about $30 for admission. But even more than this confusion, I believe museums suffer from a lack of consistent expectations when it comes to price and purchase options. So why can’t museums do it? How much for a family? How much for a student?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Families like the idea that museum memberships offer a low-cost alternative to recreational activities like the movies, which cost money every time you go. With a membership, you can come to the museum whenever you want--something more visitors may take advantage of as more expensive recreational activities are cut from family budgets.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2017

As programmers of events and performances, collectors of things, and producers of content, our main business seems to be a battle for the attention of our audiences. As cultural institutions, we are a “field” competing against “industries”—gaming, movie, TV, and amusement—that have the money to spend on weapons of mass audience engagement.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2008

Why don't people come back to museums? To grapple with this question, I started considering other content and venues in our lives that we do and do not choose to have repeat experiences with. Why do we go to the same restaurants again and again, but not the same movies? What defines the experiences that we like to repeat?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Netflix isn’t selling movies; it’s selling the activity of movie-watching. Just by providing a platform for you to rate movies, Netflix celebrates and ascribes value to your preferences. Sure, Netflix gives you access to critics’ opinions as well, but it’s your stars that show up under the movie title. It cares about you.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Despite the shortcomings in Apple's v1 product, I believe that the iPad — and successors from other vendors — will change how people interact with online content. Skeptics doubted the iPod in 2001 , but it went on to help revolutionize how people consume music and audio content.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

Two very interesting articles today by Ian Bogost , courtesy of Gamasutra , about the potential of games as a more generalized medium for interaction with content. Ian comments: Very few video games set out to tackle mundane applications akin to the home movie or the airplane safety video. And really, is it very surprising? situations.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 3, 2007

The staff brought in Darcie and artist Michael Brown to help them create "An experiment that provokes questions about art and its presentation in museums." Why is it in an art museum?" As Darcie put it: "In the museum field, we know that learning happens when there is discussion and conversation. I wish I had seen it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

In this post, an exploration of ways that museums can support promoters, convert detractors, and generally energize visitors to share their experience with others. Supporting Promoters Somewhere out there, there are people who love your museum. Ratings and Reviews Imagine a visitor who leaves your museum enthused about her experience.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 27, 2007

Heck, sign me up for a ticket to the zombie museum. But when I took off my “entertainment” glasses and put on my museum eyes, my reaction wasn’t amusement. I imagined museum folks reading the article and snapping the paper closed with smug smiles on their faces: "See. It was distaste. This is why we have to avoid Disneyfication."

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

The nonprofit creates books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Orangutan Outreach used a donation of Adobe Creative Suite to produce and electronically distribute high-quality digital content for thousands of "adoptive parents." Organize environmental movie nights.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2007

A museum experience I’ll always remember: In 2002, I worked at the Boston Museum of Science with a program in which high school students from a nearby charter school spent half their school time at the museum. They took regular classes, museum-specific classes, and had internship-style museum jobs.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2007

Tim O’Reilly has an interesting post up about the ascension of short-format content—the YouTube clip over the 2 hour movie, the blog post over the journal article. One of the comments listed other, non-web-based collaborative uses of short-format content, including potluck dinners. Potlucks are a great model for “good sharing.”

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2007

Rather than “liberating” people to the whole virtual world, we constrain them to a world of directed content and clear goals. Operation Spy, the narrative immersion experience at the International Spy Museum, does the same thing. There are many Second Life and museum purists who bristle at these kinds of projects.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

into the museum is the potential to encourage more positive in-museum interactions among strangers. I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2023

1) Infographics [re-designed] In the 2010s, infographics created by nonprofits were consistently the most engaged, posted, shared, and retweeted content on social media, but around 2018, the infographic craze came to an abrupt halt. In 2024, what’s old is new again. In 2024, infographics are primed to make a comeback.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

With a virtual format, you have the advantage of offering more variety since you can easily change the video source and even use pre-recorded video content. 9) Movie screenings. Then move into the entertainment portion where you might consider engaging a band, DJ, or another entertainer for a livestream performance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

CHBN provides a free service for broadcasting member-generated political video content. Podcasting The ABCs of Podcasting from PND covers how Web sites of public radio stations, museums, and other education-oriented nonprofits are turning to podcasting as an increasingly popular and inexpensive way of delivering audio programming.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

If you’re struggling to think of content for a livestream fundraiser, a great option is to make it an awards ceremony. Here’s a look at the Faurschou Foundation’s Virtual Tour of their Museum in Brooklyn, NY: [link]. Virtual Movie Night. If we’re doing anything during this time, it’s watching a lot of movies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

This type of blog content is standard in nonprofit communications and should continue to be reported on regularly; however, some of your most shared, retweeted, and +1′d blog posts will be those that are out of the ordinary. Or an arts organization could write about the top 10 museums to visit in a lifetime. Photo Essays.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

If anyone out there is considering creating an industry catch-all site for museum-related content, I highly recommend Gamasutra as a model. Can museums afford to indulge in this kind of fantasy? It drives me nuts when I’m in a museum that has made a half-hearted attempt to thematically connected galleries or exhibits.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The interview includes stories about some of his projects, and a delving into questions about what makes viral content compelling, how to draw people into an uncomfortable environment, and ways that art--or museum content--can become more pervasive by being hidden in the corners of life. At first, it was a surprise.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

TV Shows + Movies: The 13th (Documentary) . Moonlight (Movie). Mudbound (Movie). Diversity Inclusion Toolkit —A curated collection of content for developing inclusive teams. . “The Answer to Police Violence is Not “Reform” It’s Defunding” Alex Vitale. The Death and Life of Marsha P.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

There have been some fun semantic jousting matches recently on the ASTC listserv about the difference between science museums and science centers. And earlier last month, the Museum of Television and Radio announced a name change to the Paley Center for Media. The word Museum is not powerful enough, alone, to attract or repel visitors.

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