Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2010

Last week, I took in the new Galileo science show at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. I used to perform these kinds of shows at the Capital Children’s Museum, and I was impressed by the whole production. There’s no history museum doing a send-up of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It also drove me nuts.

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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. The reason I think of a museum as human-centered is that to become audience-centered your organization has to center people.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

On October 20, a young woman named Kate will move into Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and live there for a month. This post is not about the Month at the Museum concept or implementation. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. That will come later.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

We operate at the intersection of technology and social impact, and therefore our ideal candidates will demonstrate these dual interests and experiences. Our Benetech Labs is busy looking for the next tech social enterprises that could make similar global impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I started the Museum 2.0 can be applied in museums to make them more engaging, community-based, vital elements of society. that are authoritative content distributors--like traditional museums. I believe that visitors can become users, and museums central to social interactions. I'm Nina Simon. What do I mean by 2.0?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. Nonprofit dashboard reports, which communicate critical information in a concise, visual, and more compelling way, are mostly used by board or staff for discussion at internal or private meetings or used as part of reports back to funders for grants. .

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 26, 2022

Data is king: We have to know what our data is telling us so we can make decisions about how to allocate resources internally, measure our impact, and tell the stories that need to be told, on the right channel, at the right time, to the right people. And the tools we have at our disposal today to demonstrate that impact are better than ever!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 26, 2022

Data is king: We have to know what our data is telling us so we can make decisions about how to allocate resources internally, measure our impact, and tell the stories that need to be told, on the right channel, at the right time, to the right people. And the tools we have at our disposal today to demonstrate that impact are better than ever!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." He was mandated to turn the ship around financially and to expand the reach of the museum in the community. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

One of the best personal brands that I’ve seen on Instagram from a nonprofit leader is Thomas P Campbell the CEO of the Metropolitan Museum. This shot is a painting at a museum visited during a professional conference for museums. You will see photos of Met art works as well as art in other museums. Visibility.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

Two weeks ago, we inaugurated a Creativity Lounge on the third floor of our museum. Lisa was thrilled that her work was on display at the museum. We started a pretty fascinating (and yes, a little frustrating) dialogue about the puzzle and the question of what constitutes desired engagement in the museum.

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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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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. And despite the fact that I've enjoyed being at the museum for 12 hours plus for ten days in a row, I'm quickly realizing that if I want to really get some fun participatory projects going, I need some help.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

A man walks into a museum. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Two years later, this project is still one of the most fondly remembered participatory experiences at the museum--by visitors and staff. He shares a story.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

AUGUST 11, 2011

Perhaps the quality of harmony is the most impressive, since our sector demonstrably abounds in dedication and creativity. The Perkins History Museum has an impressive collection on the history of education for people who are blind and deafblind. And - oh, yeah - they also have a school on campus. An internationally acclaimed school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

But even more fun was this video interview with the good folks at the Gifts In Kind International who I ran into in the lobby and they pulled out their copy of the book and shared a few thoughts about they’re applying the ideas. He also kindly demonstrated on a video how to do social networking in Japan the old fashion way.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0 People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." hour at the Museum. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. They talked about community building.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. Some of these people are professional artists or exhibit designers, but most are just talented folks with an interest in museums.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

Also consider the mobile upswing in global audiences worldwide and in developing countries (more than one billion mobile-broadband subscriptions worldwide in 2011 according to the International Telecommunication Union). Do you host exhibits or operate a museum? We Have a Solution. Audio Tours Are Also Now Available from Guide by Cell!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum invites community members to participate in the development and creation of an exhibit. Museum staff create an exhibit by a traditional internal design process, but the exhibit, once open, invites visitors to contribute their own stories and participation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 14, 2007

I wanted to share with you the blurb about him from the New Mexico Business Weekly : Tom Aageson, Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation , has been named the Allen Stamm Humanitarian of the Year by the United Way of Santa Fe County.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2010

In my experience, lobby feedback systems generate three kinds of responses: Effusive, generic platitudes: "Great Museum!" Even when the comments are good, museum staff processes are rarely set up to learn from them and adapt programming accordingly. Of course, people visit grocery stores much more frequently than they do museums.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Today, an interview with staff from a museum with an incredibly healthy attitude towards experimentation with social media. They use Yammer internally to communicate. Three things stand out in this interview: Like the Brooklyn Museum , COSI’s social media strategy is focused on local community connections, not national outreach.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2011

want to move to Santa Cruz and work at my museum? We are looking for an obsessively detail-oriented, highly resourceful, financially savvy, culture-loving individual to be the Administrative Manager of The Museum of Art & History. Or do you know someone who might be perfect for this job?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When you count attendance to your museum, do you include: people who eat in the cafe? It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Summertime concerts at the history museum? Outdoor movies at the art museum? If a kid gets dragged to a museum with their parents, do they count?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 2, 2009

Many museums are experimenting with “back channel” platforms that allow visitors and staff to chat and share content while onsite at the museum. I set it up, demonstrated it in the first session, and then participants were off to the races with their own laptops. For some educators and curators, this may sound like a nightmare.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Because we want to make sure that if we’re going to invest in you, your board and your closest circle of advocates has already demonstrated their support. Again, how many of you have attended an event or go to a museum? Because at the time, the team internally was really small.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

The longer I consult with museums and cultural institutions, the more time I spend peering into people's eyes, wondering: do folks here feel able to innovate? Instead, he uses illustrative examples from each to support broad theses about leadership styles, internal structures, and operational strategies. Innovation is for everyone.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

This post was written by my colleague Nora Grant, Community Programs Coordinator at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Pop Up” has become an international buzz term to describe ephemeral, experimental projects--from pop up restaurants to pop up boutiques--but a “Pop Up Museum” is still somewhat mystifying.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

At the MAH, our goal is for museum participants to reflect the age, income, and ethnic diversity of Santa Cruz County. This argument is also often linked to related arguments that changing participant demographics without addressing internal demographics of staff and board is inadequate and potentially exploitative.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

Similarly, for International Women's Month. If you think of artists like Gaugin, or artists who paint naked indigenous women-- as women it's easier for us to get into a museum if we're naked in a painting. I did a poster around that. We have the side that's constantly struggling with all the media messages we get.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

In some cases, the information is intended for use in court cases or international prosecution, to support a human rights report, or advocacy campaign. Even when no local or international justice seems imminent, documenting the human rights context is vital to build readiness for the moment when there is an opportunity for justice.

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