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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?
Museum 2.0
MARCH 22, 2010
These are some thoughts on a very small museum called the Brazos Valley African American Museum. I was fortunate enough to visit it during the Texas Association of Museums conference, and it brought up some reactions and emotions that I wanted to share with you.
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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." This seems like an appropriate time to share the story.
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. Or maybe education staff are not willing to engage real-time visitors in dialogue around controversial issues.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 3, 2005
Through a fish bowl blog, we can learn more about the everyday life of the institution and how staff contribute to the Walker's mission. And, for a museum that is presenting contemporary art -- anything that helps us demystify the artistic process and better understand the art is, in my opinion, a good thing.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 19, 2006
That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. Several avatars were also in "real life" in New York City. Educators need to intervene and make creative alliances.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 28, 2008
Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. In February 2001, AAM commissioned a study about the trustworthiness of museums and found that "Almost 9 out of 10 Americans (87%) find museums to be one of the most trustworthy or a trustworthy source of information among a wide range of choices.
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