Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. A year ago, I put my consultant hat on the shelf and decided to jump into museum management (a sentence I NEVER would have imagined writing five years ago). The possible determinism of cultural geography.

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2022

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) was planning the next installment of their already-successful and well-attended event, “A Seat at the Table.” For NMAAHC, the idea of “A Seat at the Table” happened conceptually before the museum even opened in 2016. It was March 2020.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

What does this have to do with museums? It is why in the great museum upheavals of 2020 no white male director of import ended up getting toppled. It is why art museums have greater financial resources than other ones. The big next step for most museum professionals will be the hardest. Here’s the thing.

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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

MAY 6, 2016

Five years ago, I left the consulting world to take the helm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) at a time of crisis and change. We have spent the past three years planning and raising money for a project to build a creative town square for our city on the front porch of the museum. We started bootstrapping growth.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

"If we start losing cultural diversity, we begin to lose our whole sense of community because community is defined by culture. My dad is the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship. They also enrich the community's culture, and they use cultural capital. That's cultural entrepreneurship."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Audiences are a portion of the humans in the museum ecosystem. The reason I think of a museum as human-centered is that to become audience-centered your organization has to center people. When I ran an adult studios program, I started reading a great deal about the rise of craft culture (this was in the pre-Pinterest days).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I often think museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested adults, alien and overwhelming to newcomers. What is the appropriate way to evangelize cultural institution use to the unconverted? Help people understand why you do what you do.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I'm here in Chicago for a very brief trip on a panel about metrics and measurement for museums called "New Spaces, New Measures." I learned years ago that technology doesn't drive change as much as our cultural response to technology does." " He talks about the cultural shift from information scarcity to abundance.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 24, 2024

AS works with nonprofits across a wide range of industries, including arts and culture, the environment, foundations, and government. Previously, CAP has served clients in education, human services, youth serving organizations, religious organizations, and arts, culture, history, and environmental.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Particularly in an age of cultural and political division, Bedoya argues that leaders in the arts need to responsibly and boldly intermediate among many voices, using a combination of ethics and aesthetics to make policy and artistic decisions. Adam argued for museums to become "less visitor-oriented," and I argued the opposite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

It takes you through the technologies and tools for each channel for different goals and offers up lots of case studies from organizations such as National Wildlife Federation, Red Cross, AARP, Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, American Museum of Natural History, SEIU and others. The book offers some recipes for culture change.

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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. How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project? Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 2, 2018

If you witness a person is consistently taking over a conversation to talk about themselves, you can veer the focus back by kindly acknowledging what they were saying using reflective language, and then saying, “but this meeting is about X and we need to hear from Mr. Y.” Passive-Aggressive Behavior Will Destroy a Company's Culture.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

He casts the whole idea of a great jazz jam in the context of the tragedy of the commons--like a poetry open mic, the jazz club is a community whose experience is fabulous or awful depending on the extent to the culture cultivates and enforces a healthy participatory process. This is an issue we are actively grappling with at our museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. While there are many ways for museums to reach new audiences, when it comes to specialized knowledge, it's often a question of reaching the niche who care deeply about German watches from 1822 or the evolutionary shift in raccoon striping over time.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

How many times have you heard this phrase in the context of cultural institutions? It''s presumptuous to suggest that we know what people "need" in a cultural context. Very, very few museum visitors are in the "dog and baby" category. Some need to conduct programs in multiple languages. For me, the answer is too many.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Residents in the three counties that pay the millage will receive special benefits : free admission to the museum and expanded educational programming. But the arguments trotted out represent how far we have to go in articulating the public value of arts institutions (and helping our supporters speak the same language). Rebuttal: none.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I attended because I'm seeking new ways to share the MAH's model and support the development of more community-centered cultural institutions around the world. Treating the museum as a community platform? Other times, a visitor might use the exact language of our strategic documents. Is it partnerships and participation?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2015

When you love pricing, it can be easy to slip into pricing jargon…which might sound like a foreign language to some. While the blog post is targeted for performing arts organizations, many of them appeal to museums, zoos and aquariums as well. One of the best things about this list ? Why does this matter? Why does this matter?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. A Seat at the Table It was March 2020. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

The image below, created by Meredith Farkas , is more balanced, providing a "cultural landscape" of fear, loathing, and obsession with Web 2.0. To many people, the culture of Web 2.0 If we want to work with directors, trustees, and other skeptics to evolve museums and other content providers alongside Web 2.0, Churn rate.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

All weekend, we've heard uplifting stories about amazing work you all are doing to involve people from all walks of life in museums. There is no other museum conference going on somewhere else in the world today where professionals are sharing proud case studies and helpful tips on how to exclude people. But museums do exclude people.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. They may also begin to cultivate a “language” of talking about this with others.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. My answer: neither.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2010

This morning, I gave the keynote address for the Washington Museums Association annual conference. It features lots of museum-based examples. But in this post, I wanted to highlight a goofy little (non-museum) project that inspires me in its simplicity and openness to mass collaboration. It's called One Million Giraffes.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

While the evaluation component of the report is focused on the extent to which these various projects promote science learning and behavior change among participants, the rubric of participatory models introduces a language that can be useful to many kinds of institutions and projects. Contribution, collaboration, co-creation, and co-option.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Arts & Culture. included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, healthcare, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. The grant categories will be: Health. The Planet.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Imagine a concise, well-designed report on audiences for cultural activities in a large urban city. They created psychographic profiles of eight target types of cultural consumer in Rotterdam, based on existing European market segmentation research. They used clear, evocative language (even in translation!)

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Unsurprisingly, some of my favorite museums are small, funky places run by iconoclasts—but that’s not useful to most professionals who work for organizations in which they have little control over size or leadership matters. Third, you need to align your idea with institutional culture. It’s nice to have both.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

Also, it requires adding the words “social media&# to any professional conduct language or a social media policy. .&# How can you get others in your organization to participate and contribute content, including musicians? This can be sensitive issue for some orchestras at particular times.

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