Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2021

Bonfire enables nonprofits to easily design and raise funds by selling t-shirts online. Designed to inspire generosity in children, members are mailed monthly postcards featuring nonprofits and then the family can listen to the impact of their giving through Alexa. Bonfire :: bonfire.com. Gifted :: gifted.com. Helpen :: helpen.com.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2021

While the pandemic has had a significant impact on artists and cultural institutions, it has forced many to take a fresh look at how they are building immersive, innovative digital experiences for arts and culture. The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts: Elevating a world-class cultural landmark.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

American Jazz Museum Best Arts Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room and Gem Theater.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

The Internet was primarily a desktop PC or laptop experience and reading news and sending and receiving email accounted for the majority of time spent online. And yet despite limited budgets, the early adopter nonprofits began using responsive web design in 2012 in order to adapt quickly to the new realities of Internet browsing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2019

Or maybe hello museum world! Previously, I had worked at the same museum for 17 years.) So, when you visit more than 300 museums, parks, and historic sites, what do you learn? This week, I wanted to start with us, museum and cultural workers. Hello World! The metaphor certainly works in terms of filling big shoes.

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Forum One

MARCH 30, 2023

Forum One’s recent design work with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) Simmons Talks series was a dream come true: an opportunity to put passion behind a design that I believe in and honor the work of others who inspire me. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We ended up with a gallery in the museum instead.

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Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2023

Forum One partnered with March of Dimes to consolidate their more than 40 web platforms to develop an easy and streamlined experience for audience members to engage as they like, as well as create a website that could clearly communicate their mission.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Written by Seema Rao Last month, I shared some of my thoughts about the best of museums over the last decades. (I I'll mention now, Kate Livingston, listed Museum Twitter as one of the best things, and I definitely thought this as I read people's responses. Many respondents talked about a fundamental shift in museums from them to us.

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Forum One

MARCH 16, 2023

Your museum may even be planning some audience research in the near future. What if you were to turn the table and start with a virtual exhibit in order to learn what resonates best with your audiences beyond those who can easily visit your institution, and use those lessons to inform your in-person experience? Find out more here.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. But I couldn’t get there.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2014

Sadly, most of these places are not intentionally designed to bring us together. Public space is designed for neutrality. But what if we designed public space for community? What if we designed spaces and interventions to bring people together? Pop Up Museums where people share the objects they hold most dear.

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Forum One

JANUARY 30, 2024

NYU Congressional District Health Dashboard Silver Anthem Winner in Digital & Innovative Experiences Forum One partnered with NYU Langone School of Public Health to develop the Congressional District Health Dashboard. We extend our heartfelt congratulations to all the winners of this year’s Anthem Awards. million records.

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Forum One

MARCH 2, 2023

The home of animation and development by designers. The designers are taking over the development chair. Forum One designers have enjoyed creating animated websites that fit in small budgets, as we can now test design ideas ourselves. Welcome to Webflow! You read that right.

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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 17th Annual Davey Awards received nearly 3,000 entries from ad agencies, digital agencies, production firms, in-house creative professionals, graphic designers, design firms, and public relations firms.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Forum One received 11 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of government, DEI, education, arts, health, cultural institutions, and annual reports for corporate communications. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Museums have used games to engage visitors for decades. SR: I came to games before I came to museums. My grandmother cheated at Candyland and uno. :) Games, I think, have a nice Venn diagram of overlap between museum lovers. I love thinking we're getting new museum lovers through games. How did you get into museum games?

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Forum One received 12 awards in six categories in this year’s awards for excellence and distinction in website design, development, and digital strategy across the categories of environmental awareness, health, art, cultural institutions, and associations. The Frist Art Museum. Without further ado: the winners! cities. .

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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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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

This week we’ve found apps from museums. Mobile apps are an interesting way for museums to advance their educational missions beyond people’s expectations. ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. iOS/Android: ArtClix enhances uses mobile to enhance the museum experience. Frogloop has you covered.

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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Pop-Up Museum [n]: a short-term institution existing in a temporary space. Over the past few years, there have been several fabulous examples of pop-up museums focusing on visitor-generated content. Maria Mortati runs the wonderful SF Mobile Museum , which roams the Bay Area showing mini-exhibits on evocative themes.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It gave me a chance to really think about how we have been opening up our museum and what it means for our community. Museums can be incredible catalysts for social change. We're doing it in Santa Cruz and it has absolutely transformed our museum into a thriving community institution. The theme of TEDxSantaCruz was "Open."

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

I am putting the finishing touches on another social media lab designed for arts organizations. I had too look no further than Shelley Bernstein's blog over at the Brooklyn Museum to find some thoughtful experimentation and useful examples. In addition, the Museum has taken those tips and created a mashup with the YELP api.

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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 17th Annual Davey Awards received nearly 3,000 entries from ad agencies, digital agencies, production firms, in-house creative professionals, graphic designers, design firms, and public relations firms.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Every few months, a major news outlet does an "expose" about data collection on museum visitors. These articles tend to portray museums as Big Brother, aggressively tracking visitors'' actions and interests across their visit. And then I started thinking: we do that all the time in museums. We''re trying to personalize.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2021

Website design is an art, a science, and a testament of collaboration and creativity. The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The website helps visitors tackle personal questions of reflection around racial awareness, perspective, and experience. Voting closes this Thursday, May 6th.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Museum technology nerds: this post is for you. I've been thinking recently about distributed content experiences--ways for people to interact with museum content (art, history, science, etc.) as they make their way through the world outside the museum. At the museum? but none of them are great.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. I chose to focus my thesis on Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs. The purpose of my thesis was two-fold: To research and analyze community and civic engagement practices, methods, theories and examples in other museum programs.

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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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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.” The process of sharing the meal and conversation is central to the event experience. It was March 2020. Carefully curate topics and participants.

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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 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. We talk a lot at our museum about empowering our visitors, collaborators, interns, and staff by making space for them to shine. QUESTIONS ON MY MIND: As we grow, how can we do as much growing as possible outside the museum''s walls?

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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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