Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In our data culture , we suggest your nonprofit takes the time to put one together as a means of showing your organization’s transparency — and bragging about your success in the past year. DREAM also hosts its annual report on Issu, a great third-party platform for a well-designed digital reading experience. ICA Fund Good Jobs.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

Traditional membership programs issue paper/plastic cards and use a combination of direct mail and email marketing to reach their constituents. It’s not too late for museums and cultural organizations, but the longer you wait to introduce digital offerings to your members, the more you stand to lose.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2015

Memejacking is simply a type of newsjacking that connects your communications to a meme — that is, a pop culture trend. And, if you're thinking that only teens like memes, look at the range of people who drenched themselves for the Ice Bucket Challenge. As communications tactics go, memes are cheap and easy to make.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I wrote The Participatory Museum for two reasons: to explore the "how" of participatory design in museums, cultural centers, libraries, and science centers to create a version of this blog that was more "shareable" with organizational leaders and trustees By many measures, the book has been a success.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

History Museums OPPORTUNITIES - History museums are in many ways the best-suited for visitor participation. As cultural anthropology has swung away from a vision of authoritative history and toward the embrace of multiple perspectives, there is potential for those stories to come from all over the place, including visitors themselves.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Third, you need to align your idea with institutional culture. Or maybe education staff are not willing to engage real-time visitors in dialogue around controversial issues. The Minnesota History Center team solicited visitor nominations for exhibition topics and then built an exhibition out of those contributions. That’s fine.

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