Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Where do museums fit in? Here is our statement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

Source: Powerhouse Museum. Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. think flickr and del.icio.us ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. It is an open study/storage facility displaying about thirty-three hundred objects from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. We are storage, after all.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

Earlier in 2013, I was amazed to visit one of the new “Studio” spaces at the Denver Art Museum. The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. They’re tagging with yarn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Awards were presented in five areas: Environment, Economic Development, Education, Equality and Health. Tags: TechAwards Santa Clara Tech Museum Tech Awards. I just attended the 2010 Tech Awards Gala Even. Inside there were 20 stations set up with this year’s laureates.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Here is the gist of my remarks: Community Engagement is one of those terms that is tossed around in museums but can become encrusted with coded meaning. Often museums use the word community engagement to mean bringing in low-income people, with “community” being a coded term for underprivileged people. They might be underserved or not.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

This guest post was written by Margaret Middleton , a Bay Area-based exhibit developer and fabricator. Margaret shared these thoughts about "museums for use" on her blog , and I asked her to adapt a version for the Museum 2.0 Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

For nearly a decade, Google has been developing and maintaining two different analytics solutions: Firebase, mostly used by developers to focus on app development and analytics, and UA, mostly used by marketers for website metrics. This kind of information can help organizations develop meaningful content. Implement it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0 On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. That's why I asked.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I just got home from the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis. I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Instead, I found a standard art museum. Impersonal guards.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

As many of you know, I've been working for the past year+ on a book about visitor participation in museums, libraries, science centers, and art galleries. The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. Want to buy a book ?

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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. Here is the process I offered them for developing and writing these plans. Part 3: Develop the ideas and explain the plan. It turned out well, and I hope it's useful for you. Part 1: Define your goals.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Jasper Visser and his colleagues at the not-yet-physically-open National Historisch Museum of the Netherlands have impressed me with their innovative, thoughtful approach to developing a dynamic national museum. Last weekend my museum presented itself at the Uitmarkt in Amsterdam.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

and with it flocks of museum studies / education / exhibit planning graduate interns. I’m always curious when I meet these folks, who are about my age, choosing a different entry path into the museum world. The value proposition of museum grad programs is cloudy in my mind. Sure, it’s great to learn museum theory and history.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Part 2: How do you develop the right questions? I'm genuinely interested in your answer.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. EMPSFM is one of a handful of museums worldwide for which the death of the King of Pop is a very big deal. Are museums only relevant when they can serve our most pressing needs?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Recently, James wrote about some interesting ways museums are using Twitter for offline/online engagement. The San Francisco Bay Area has seen some extraordinary museum openings over the past several years. This provides a new level of transparency for the museum worker, and a higher degree of exposure.

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VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

For example, even museums that have had to shutter their doors have found ways to engage volunteers in new ways – for example by having volunteers work virtually to review and “tag” photos in the digital archives so researchers and others can more easily search the collections. Develop a case statement. Prepare a presentation.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

One of the participants had to take an onsite museum role, where volunteers staff educational carts and engage with visitors, and transform it info a remote position. There’s a price tag attached for creating the replicas and mailing the boxes, and it may be sizable. There’s more potential to engage the viewer with a live demo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2010

Once a nonprofit has developed a presence and a network – and has integrated regular and engaging tweeting into the work flow, the next step is to host a Tweet Up. Name Tags: Make sure you have name tags and if are you hosting, be a good host and introduce people. Take Twitter for example. What’s A Tweet Up?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2008

At the last ASTC, in a session on "Museums 2.0," I heard just as many muddled explanations of doing the same old thing (and wrapping it in new words) as truly interesting, relevant projects. Core Museum 2.0 Ideas professional development. Tags: web2.0 Update: You can now download the final slides (no audio) here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

is very flexible and organic, able to develop and evolve and fit different shapes you can mould it into. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. situation unless museums can get the ???stickiness??? For me, the web and 2.0 public information???

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009. In my experience, museum professionals aren’t big reality TV viewers. Projects participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 11, 2009

I'm doing a workshop with the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History which includes a public lecture on "the multi-platform museum" on May 18 at 3pm ET (GMT -5). What is a multi-platform museum? I usually try to push myself to think about social engagement from the perspective of the smallest museum with the most limited budget.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. to support programs and exhibits.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2008

I once asked Elaine Gurian how museums can change. Here's the problem with both of these ways: they require circumstances that are outside of most museum employees' control. Here's the problem with both of these ways: they require circumstances that are outside of most museum employees' control.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 25, 2007

Last week, I spoke with Jim Richardson, managing director of SUMO Design , about their very cool new project with the North East Regional Museums Hub : I like. museums is a website on which visitors can search for museums in the North East region of England. It furthers the idea of museums as multi-use venues.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

It’s called Tag this Image! Tagging,” or assigning descriptors to pictures, websites, and other content on the internet, is a huge trend in 2.0. with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier. Tagging is useful. Separately at your own computers, you tag images.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. This multi-museum collaborative is undertaking a thoughtful process to tackle these issues.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Curiosity got the better of me, and that’s how I met Bob Whicker, a K-12 Education Development Executive for Apple. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

  I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership. 

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The ASTC (the Association of Science and Technology Centers) annual meeting is coming up in LA (home of my childhood), and Museum 2.0 In a world of increasingly sterile museum environments, the Museum of Jurassic Technology is a beacon of emotion, strangeness, and wonder. And if you want a more traditional Museum 2.0

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MARCH 12, 2008

One of the surprise benefits of Saturday's Museums and Civic Discourse session was the chance to sit down with Mitch Allen of Left Coast Press (formerly AltaMira press), publisher of the Museums and Social Discourse journal among many, many other museum publications. To his credit, Mitch didn't take offense. Are We There Yet?

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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. In co-creative projects, the public develops the test questions, and scientists co-produce scientific regimens to address the community interest. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away.

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