Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We are excited to share that we have been selected for 12 Davey Awards for our “Creative David” excellence in web design. The Davey Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts , a top-tier body of select professionals from the “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

Organized by the International Awards Associate (IAA) , a group of industry innovators, creators, designers, and communications professionals deeply committed to recognize and honor the outstanding performance, talent, and effort of the best digital and creative professionals around the world. National Air & Space Museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. I'm generalizing grossly here, but for the most part, I find European museums to be conservative. I find North American museums to be risk-averse.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

Here are a few of the hashtags I''ve seen applied to photographs of museum objects on Instagram lately: #heytherebigfella #biggysmallistheillest #forbrightfuture #myfavorite #instagood #bestday #withmyhomies #whatever #learnedfromthebest #revolutionary #nowicandie These tags all do a great job capturing the magic of exploring a museum.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When basketball players are offering more cogent commentary on racial issues than cultural institutions, you know we have a cultural relevance problem. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Colleges are addressing greater cultural and racial understanding in various courses.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

We are excited to share that Forum One has been selected for 7 Davey Awards for our excellence in web design! The Davey Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts , a top-tier body of select professionals from the “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. We work hard to name and build our culture in many ways.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. The museum gets better the more people use it.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Bridging cultural differences? These are the questions that underpin Museum Camp 2014 , a professional development experience in which diverse people from the arts, community activism, and social services will measure the immeasurable together. Last year , the focus was on risk-taking in exhibition design.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Designed to assist and support an organization (and most commonly hospitals, museums, libraries, and arts organizations), these groups historically focus on raising funds, sometimes manage the volunteer corps, and nearly always maintain their own governance system.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

Last week''s New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons. In the article, David discussed ways that several large art museums are working to attract major donors and board members in their 30s and 40s. David describes himself as a "museum brat."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

Last week, my museum hosted Hack the Museum Camp , a 2.5 day adventure in which teams of adults--75 people, of whom about half are museum professionals, half creative folks of various stripes--developed an experimental exhibition around our permanent collection in our largest gallery.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Ever wish for a low-cost, energizing professional development experience where you can work intensely with diverse colleagues in a risk-tolerant environment? Three of them are being hosted at my museum , and one at a mystery location. You Can't Do That in Museums Camp - July 10-12, 2013. and this one is going to be awesome.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2013

Here in Santa Cruz, we''re brushing off our tents and lining up the counselor whistles for Hack the Museum Camp , a 2.5 We have 75 campers here from around the world who will be working in teams to develop exhibits based on artifacts from our permanent collection that challenge museum conventions and traditional exhibit design practice.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2016

So I went ahead and picked out some of the top sessions for Arts & Cultural organization to make planning your conference journey just a little bit easier. Kathryn will help you ensure that your funding proposals have a greater chance of rising to the top!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. And yet in the museum world, we still see interactives as being mostly for kids.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator.

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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. Bingo night. Online scavenger hunt.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The W³ Awards competition honors creative excellence on the web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, videos, and marketing programs. The site offers an intuitive and high-performing experience across devices, with a smooth ticketing process and user-centered design. AARP Livability Index.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The W³ Awards competition honors creative excellence on the web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, videos, and marketing programs. The site offers an intuitive and high-performing experience across devices, with a smooth ticketing process and user-centered design. AARP Livability Index.

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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?" HUMANS ARE THE BEST AGENTS OF PARTICIPATION When I wrote the book, I was coming from the perspective of an exhibit designer. and "why?" to "how?".

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2015

I''m not sure how well this is working for us in museum-land. As our culture explodes in embracing creativity across the professional/amateur spectrum, museums have two choices: we can sharpen the line. If done poorly (uncritically), it turns the museum into yet another place to watch cat videos. An inspiration.

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Media Cause

JULY 21, 2021

Last Summer, I officially transitioned from an Account Strategist to a Designer at Media Cause. Just saying that now…that “I am a Designer” feels surreal to me. I’ve always had an interest in design and art, but I never thought that it could become part of my career. The First Steps.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fundraising is a HUGE field and there are many great oranizations that help improve the quality of the sector like the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). AS works with nonprofits across a wide range of industries, including arts and culture, the environment, foundations, and government. Website: [link]. Alexander Haas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Different culture has different understanding of philanthropy and we use different words to represent various aspects of the concept. In most cultures, philanthropy existed a long time ago. The world’s largest association in advancing philanthropy is probably the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) in the US.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Our contributors covered a lot of topics this year, but we found that posts focused on fundraising and on organizational culture were particularly popular. Find out what you should be reading to learn more about strategic planning, organizational culture, fundraising, marketing and more in this helpful post. By Robyn Mendez, Blackbaud.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Fundraising is a HUGE field and there are many great oranizations that help improve the quality of the sector like the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). AS works with nonprofits across a wide range of industries, including arts and culture, the environment, foundations, and government. Website: [link]. Alexander Haas.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2008

One of the surprise benefits of Saturday's Museums and Civic Discourse session was the chance to sit down with Mitch Allen of Left Coast Press (formerly AltaMira press), publisher of the Museums and Social Discourse journal among many, many other museum publications. To his credit, Mitch didn't take offense. Are We There Yet?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2017

I can think of many extraordinary innovators in the nonprofit cultural sector--people and organizations creating brilliant programs, site-based experiences, and products. Why aren’t more cultural organizations franchising, scaling, and replicating like comparable businesses? There are no NDAs in the nonprofit culture sector.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Trade Associations A trade association is an organization where members are professionals in a specific industry. A membership value proposition could be: “Join the largest network of construction professionals in the country!” “Be Here are four of the most common types of membership models for nonprofits: 1.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 11, 2010

While it hasn't happened here in awhile, a new Museum 2.0 Many museum and library professionals use the concept of the third place to describe the idealized vision of a cultural institution as a place for community use and civic engagement. For four weeks starting June 1, each Tuesday there will be a Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0 On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. The most reliable question I'm using works in art museums.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

There were many, covering the personal and the professional (which, as this community knows well, is also personal), but I kept looking for some elusive grand unified theory to tie them all together. Cultural institutions aren’t always the best at this—we are often all in or all out. At last it came to me: balance, informed by empathy.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." When the music video was focused on Mexican culture, the researchers found that the white and Asian participants demonstrated a decrease in prejudice against Latinos, both immediately after the activity and six months later.

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