Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2007

Louis City Museum's amateur video contest. And therein lies an essential problem with this and other similar museum forays into Web 2.0: For those who haven't visited, the City Museum is part obstacle course, part art city, part shoelace factory. And in June, they launched a creative user-generated content contest.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

According to The Art Newspaper’s annual survey in 2021, visits to the world’s 100 most-visited museums plummeted by 77% in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Host a selfie contest encouraging visitors to snap pics with their preferred objects or in their favorite spaces, . Selfie stations . Exhibition hashtags .

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Virtual tours for museums. Your local museums may not be open for admission, but that doesn’t mean you can’t explore all they have to offer. Partner with your local museums to offer virtual tours to your donors, complete with fun, educational facts and some behind-the-scenes action. Sports tricks contest.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. and "why?" to "how?".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

The Museum of the Moving Image is hosting the 2006 Machinima Festival this weekend in NYC. Moderator: Carl Goodman (Deputy Director and Director of Digital Media, Museum of the Moving Image). Chris Burke is winner of Save the Net viral video contest - check out the video here. If I was going, I wouldn't miss this panel.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

Margaret shared these thoughts about "museums for use" on her blog , and I asked her to adapt a version for the Museum 2.0 Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use? During my time at RISD studying industrial design, I developed relationships with two museums on campus: the Museum of Art and the Nature Lab.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Work for many museum managers has gotten real recently, I suspect. Museums are a very small sector ( though larger than coal-mining! ). I’m not talking about a popularity contest. Art Museum Transparency is one good example of this; as are Museums Respond to Ferguson and #Museumsarenotneutral.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

This is an amazing April Fool’s idea from the Frederic Remington Art Museum : Their annual April Fool’s Day Ball invites users to contribute at normal event-pricing tiers (attendance, attendance + pre-party, attendance + after-party), but then not show up. Offer to highlight the winners on your social channels. BBQ for Good.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Truer words … If you feel like (re)making history, the British Museum is looking for help to create its own digital clone in Minecraft. Inspire ” video contest. Speaking of remakes, we at NTEN HQ have been recently enthralled with Puddles the Clown’s video remake of Lorde’s “Royals.” Shoot an awesome video, get a brand makeover.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009. In my experience, museum professionals aren’t big reality TV viewers.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. They just finished a YouTube video contest.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Taking a different approach, the Bishop Museum of Science and Nature , the largest natural and cultural history museum on Florida’s Gulf Coast, partnered with a local couple who are matching donations dollar for do llar up to $25,000 given before December 31. . Whatever you decide, get creative! Donation matches are time-tested.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

Chad Norman shares a post of some interesting nonprofit examples , including one from the South Carolina Aquarium that created the Be Rare Contest , which used QR codes as the focus of a city-wide scavenger hunt. Joe Waters shares an example used for Cause Marketing. QR Codes: fab or a fad for Museums?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 5, 2016

Recently, I sat down with Matthew Gibson, curator of natural history at the Charleston Museum , to find out how he and his team organized the Museum’s first Pokémon Go event. She received an email from Museum Hack that talked about how museums could “catch millennials” through embracing games like Pokémon Go. Most likely!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2008

I once asked Elaine Gurian how museums can change. Here's the problem with both of these ways: they require circumstances that are outside of most museum employees' control. Here's the problem with both of these ways: they require circumstances that are outside of most museum employees' control. There's no client, no cash.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Also, here’s a post I wrote about how early adopter nonprofits have used Instagram for contests , but also see this recent slideshare deck that examines contest best practices in depth. Met Museum Thomas Campbell or use your organization’s branded account like Udi Ofer, CEO of NJACLU.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's not every day that a visitor buys pizza for everyone in the museum. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. The museum itself was well-integrated into the event. Or that visitors form a spontaneous "laugh circle" on the floor. Online to onsite migration isn't always easy.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

Sometimes the negotiation is contested. The museum invites art-making in the elevator. institutional change relationships participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences game visitors' Sometimes the negotiation works beautifully. Sometimes the negotiation can be exploited for artistic means.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. I’ve seen again and again how outdoor programming has impact beyond what can happen inside the museum.

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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. Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation. Blog commenters are contributors, as are people who engage in contests. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2007

I read recently about an awesome project at the San Jose Museum of Art in 2001, Collecting Our Thoughts, in which visitors were invited to write the labels for an art exhibition (more another time). But it's a lot of fun, and it could be a great way to construct a personalized takeaway from a museum experience. Pick a plural noun.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. You might even host a quick superhero trivia contest to test your attendees on their superhero knowledge. The team that wins the trivia contest can win a special prize! The most impressive dish wins the contest. Chef Showdown.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. Some of these people are professional artists or exhibit designers, but most are just talented folks with an interest in museums.

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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. Same for any prizes, contests, sweepstakes, drawings, or competitions (essay contests, spelling bees, etc. Offer surprise drawings and contests during the year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Why Museum Professionals Should Use Flickr from the Musem 2.0 Indianapolis Museum of Art Visitors sharing photos in a group. Creative Commons Swag Contest and I won! Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest. March of Dimes Contest (features community voting). March of Dimes Contest (features community voting).

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2015

Our Storymakers campaign offered storytelling how-to webinars and events, culminating in a contest to identify the very best nonprofit videos. Image 6: Durango Discovery Museum. Refresh it with these 10 tips for creating captivating websites. You Want to Tell Better Stories. You Know That Stock Photos Are the WORST. spanhidden.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. If there are museum objects and visitors'' objects on display together, all should be afforded the same level of exhibit design, labels, etc. Constrain the input, free the output.

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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. Even ArtPrize , the "radically open" art festival that was judged last year by public vote alone, will incorporate a juried contest as well this year. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 There was Click!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

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. Opera San Jose gave a presentation on its #operaplot hashtag contest where participants has to tweet the plots of operas in 140 characters.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. We are delighted to honor TechSoup member Braided River as a winner of our 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest. Environmental Impact. " Exemplary Work.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. We are delighted to honor TechSoup member Braided River as a winner of our 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest. Environmental Impact. " Exemplary Work.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. We had many excellent submissions to the contest. Here are the top 10. Cary Creative Center — Third-Place Winner.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

In order to sustain this type of impact tech savvy art museums, zoos, historical sites, botanical gardens and many other types of arts and cultural nonprofits understand that technology is key to sustaining their growth. As part of understanding the need for technology , the more than 17 thousand museums in the U.S.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2007

Nik inquired as to how I feel about museum blogs. what's your take on museums that keep blogs? In general, yes, I think that museums maintaining blogs is an effective, cheap way to get changing content out to the public frequently. version of the news clippings tackboard on “Current Events” in hallways of some museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

I'm reminded of the March of Dimes - flickr contest - that asked people to photograph where they kept their change because a handful of change is what preemie weighs at birth. I read a post about user-generated content from the fresh+new blog which is focused on new media in museums. Not sure if this includes a cash prize.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums. framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. I provided the Web 2.0 and sniff around.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Considerations: have an impartial umpire or judge for the games so that its a fair contest for all. The Brooklyn Museum let a local artist take over their Instagram for a day. You can also use services like Discord to host a video chat to allow participants to game together, or Twitch to stream games. Live-Streaming.

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