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A Decade of Museums and Museum Work

Museum 2.0

I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. But I couldn’t get there.

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How Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Increased Member Conversion and Retention Rates

Connection Cafe

For example, create a contest/game via social media that leads to prizes or discounts. Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh utilized their resources to develop an innovative retention strategy. Participants earn special stamps when they visit one of the museums or attend an event for a chance to win a grand-prize.

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49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More

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More involved in-person fundraisers or campaigns that require lots of resources can eat into your profit margins. 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. Sports tricks contest. Virtual holiday lights tour and contest.

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City Museum Video Contest: Cool Idea. What Happened?

Museum 2.0

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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Guest Post: A Tale of Two University Museums

Museum 2.0

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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Nonprofit and Flickr Resource List: Not listed, Add in the Comments

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a few resources that might be of interest: How to do you explain flickr to those who haven't heard of it? 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.

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Things We Like (September 2014)

NTEN

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. 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. Read more posts on our blog. Drop him a line at his new email address: ash@nten.org.

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