Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM also hosts its annual report on Issu, a great third-party platform for a well-designed digital reading experience. Full disclosure: This is from our founder George, who also co-founded PowerPoetry.org , the largest teen poetry platform in the US. ICA Fund Good Jobs. The grassroots climate justice advocates at 350.org

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. For years we have been producing digital media to fulfill our mission of educating the public about science and history.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

So, how can we use family or experiences to get people to donate? As kids become teens, encourage them to volunteer with your organization. Do you have a young curator’s program or zookeeper-in-training type of program for tweens and teens? Could your teen volunteers help run the kids programs? Be creative.

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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. When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. In the meantime, here are some. Sometimes it is.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2010

Its founders, Willie and Mell Pruitt, came to the area in the 1950s and were concerned that no one seemed to be documenting the history of the local African American community. My favorite part was a wall of photos and transcribed oral histories from local elderly community members. Have you ever had an experience like this?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. The event was oversold, and participants raved about the experience. Performances just for teens. Late night mixers at museums for young adults.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

In my experience, the "needs" of audiences often look suspiciously like the "wants" of the people speaking. It is incredibly valuable for cultural institutions to present experiences that might be surprising, unexpected, or outside participants'' comfort zones. That site was not optimized for Robin''s experience as an adult.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Find representatives of this community--staff, volunteers, visitors, trusted partners--and learn more about their experiences. That's a more complicated question. It's pretty simple.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

45% of Millennials said technology has made them more impatient than they were five years ago , and all consumers are demanding instant gratification through seamless consumer experiences, especially in the age of the smartphone. In today’s world, 59% of customers say companies need cutting-edge digital experiences to keep their business.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. What makes Machine special is its brand of humor and accessibility, combined with a real dedication to experimenting on the borders of art, science, and ideas.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. The group was mostly young (teens to thirties) and nerd-diverse: a little bit punk, a little bit hacker, a little bit craft grrl. Or that visitors form a spontaneous "laugh circle" on the floor. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

History Museums OPPORTUNITIES - History museums are in many ways the best-suited for visitor participation. As cultural anthropology has swung away from a vision of authoritative history and toward the embrace of multiple perspectives, there is potential for those stories to come from all over the place, including visitors themselves.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. We want to focus on experiences and the experience of culture is an interaction, that's why these places need to be live.

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NTEN

AUGUST 3, 2011

Games for Change spoke with Darren about their work with Channel 4 Education in the UK, how they approach creating innovative and immerse games, and the difference in experience between creating commercial titles and "games for change.". When we get to work on longer projects all this cumulative knowledge and experience comes into play.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. Coming off that experience, we wanted to prove that we could have great design AND great participation in this show.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2015

It''s also incredibly frustrating--especially if you are new to a field or if networking sounds like a creepy, painful experience. If you want to hear more about my work at AAM, I''ll be speaking: Monday April 27 at 2:30pm in a solo talk on "Building Stronger Communities" at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. This may be true.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. Every time we encourage a volunteer to launch her own collections research, or empower teens to launch their own program series, or invite new partners into our projects, we invite them to participate.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. Thank you to everyone who recommended a favorite post from the past or who helped out with a guest post.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. The Minnesota History Center team solicited visitor nominations for exhibition topics and then built an exhibition out of those contributions.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Gabriela Mistral. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. Edmonia Lewis.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

For those who haven't attended, the Museums and the Web conference brings an international audience from art, history, cultural, and science museums together to talk about new ways to engage with their audiences via the web. The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens. Sharing Authority.or

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

Both attract locals and tourists who may travel out of their way for the thrill of collecting another place or experience. For a related teen project , I was invited to teach roughly 200 middle- and high-school students about geocaching (a GPS-based scavenger hunt) so that they could send miniature sculpture pieces out into the world.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. I happened to be at DAM for work and got to experience this amazing exhibit. It is an incredible museum experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. It was the ultimate digital media multi-tasking experience. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. local time). Media isn't just happening to kids.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. Consider the experience of the Computer History Museum and their Yelp!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Here are a few design rules I use to think about what kinds of designed dialogue environments are right for different experience goals. If your goal is to encourage visitors to perceive themselves as partners in the content co-creation experience, make room for their thoughts sooner rather than later. A lone "What do you think?"

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Flake, and the testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, prompted survivors to share experiences online about why they haven’t spoken out about their own histories of abuse, assault or rape, using the hashtag #WhyIDidntReport. Like many survivors and parents, the past two weeks have been particularly difficult.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

We''re more successful when we target particular communities or audiences and design experiences for them. At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we''re approaching this challenge through a different lens: social bridging. It''s impossible for any organization or business to do a great job being for everyone.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

We are hiring for a School Programs Coordinator to wrangle the 3,500+ students and their teachers who come to the museum every year for a tour and hands-on experience in our art and history exhibitions. How should we think about the role of onsite museum experiences in future educational partnerships?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Going to MAH and seeing the LOVE exhibition on First Friday was a wonderful experience. Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. After the Breakup, I."

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Here are some sample end-of-year fundraising campaign themes : Let’s Make Hunger History. Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Keep it simple, clear, and straight to the point, using as few words as possible. In fact, start with a them or key message for your year-end fundraising campaign. Every Kitten Deserves a Chance.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

They were a rich collection museum with some local history—they had many dolls, a famous toy collection. So Strong did that a long time ago, and a lot of people went to experience the study storage, but still enough people didn’t come, so then they decided to become an interactive children’s museum. It did that more than once.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

Especially new to collecting data about broad societal outcomes and experiences. Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless? We want visitors to be inspired by history experiences at the museum to get more involved as changemakers in our community.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience. In most cases the goal is the same: to attract new audiences and help them understand how the institution (and the arts experience) might fit into their lives.

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