Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ruth is a curator of pictorial collections for Puke Ariki, a museum/library/visitor center in the small city of New Plymouth, New Zealand. Puke Ariki has about 70 full-time staff members, of whom 10 work for the museum, and the institution is pretty siloed. Where do you start? Ruth Harvey has a brilliant solution to this problem.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 9, 2009

Yesterday, I enjoyed three hours of graduate students' presentations of social media plans for museums in the Pacific Northwest. Jill Hardy worked with a museum that is trying to attract a younger, more diverse adult audience. For example.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Too often, cultural institutions design participatory projects that require visitors to learn new tools or make sacrifices to contribute. Librarians--and all cultural professionals--address challenges creatively every day. No museum would stop offering an educational program that was "too successful."

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This is the second part of a two-part interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard on their book Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. I love this idea, but I often find that museum staff are really nervous about making any changes that might alienate current members/donors.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. So strategy really focuses on organizational direction, establishing values, mission, ensuring the organization embodies its cultural ethos. It builds a culture of trust and respect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

That's what led me on the next phase of my adventure. When I graduated in 2003, I moved out here to California and worked with the San Jose Museum of Art before getting a job with Linden Labs. How did you explain your job to your parents or other family members or people are not immersed in Second Life culture?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 29, 2020

Now, onto the question: (Blog research) what’s one thing about living in this phase of museum work you need to share? I wrote on [link] about this and more :-) ) — Mar Dixon (@MarDixon) March 28, 2020 museum folk are magic. 4) To all the other departments in our museums.[gif].let’s Why online collections matter.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

I firmly believe that all people have something meaningful to contribute to our communities, cultural work, and society at large--including youth. The recruitment phase is just the start of FoodWhat’s relevance challenge. Part Ex-Con, Part Farmer, Part Queen Each spring, Doron Comerchero walks into Pajaro Valley High School.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

1: Create a Facebook culture inside your organization. Networked Nonprofits have a created a Facebook culture inside their organizations. It looks at communications in three phases with each having specific metrics. Here’s an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. What’s missing?

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Facebook Network Metrics Nonprofit 101

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

Dear friends, This is my last post as the author of Museum 2.0. I'm thrilled that Seema Rao is taking this blog and museum community into its next chapter. You can find all my archived Museum 2.0 Today, I want to share a bit about what Museum 2.0 When I think of Museum 2.0, I started the Museum 2.0

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2021

trillion in COVID-19 relief to support for individuals, families, nonprofit organizations, healthcare, education, and cultural institutions. 200M in funding for Institute of Museum and Library Services for libraries. On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act into law to provide an additional $1.9

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2020

As with most legislation, it is unlikely that this bill will become a law in its current form as passed by the House, however it begins a conversation among the House, Senate and Administration on the next phase of COVID-19 relief. 5M for the Institute of Museum and Library Services. for broadband to assist in closing the homework gap.

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