Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Forum One has partnered with NRDC to develop its website as well as additional digital assets, such as an immersive storytelling experience to celebrate the organization’s 50th anniversary in 2020 and an offshore drilling position tracking tool to help constituents easily find their legislators’ positions on offshore drilling.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2021

This year’s tools tap into fundraising trends that have emerged as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, from t-shirt fundraising for virtual events to contactless in-person giving. Omaze is an online sweepstakes platform that offers once-in-a-lifetime experience and prizes that raise money for nonprofits. Bonfire :: bonfire.com.

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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

JULY 1, 2019

In the spirit of this belief, I’ve decided to unleash the Museum 2.0 After 13 years of blog being my own personal stage for learning and sharing, it’s time to open it up. For that reason, I’m thrilled to announce that over the next two months, I’ll be transferring ownership of Museum 2.0 I know Museum 2.0 to Seema Rao.

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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?

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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

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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sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Indeed, prior to COVID-19, the core benefits of membership were related to the onsite experience: unlimited free admission, member rates for in-person events, and discounts on gift shop purchases and concessions. 100+ Membership Leaders Share Their Priorities For Digital Transformation in Museum Membership.

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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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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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2021

Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN. NMAAM is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced, and inspired by African Americans. The 50,000 we’ve reached was an annual, in-person figure.

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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. We''re trying to personalize. We''re trying to personalize. We''re trying to adapt.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

From filtering email spam to offering up personalized Netflix recommendations, AI already underlies many routine aspects of our lives in ways we don’t even realize. Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2019

They build wings in museums, sponsor new research at hospitals, and provide large amounts of financial support for special projects. Offer volunteer opportunities to give them hands-on experience with your team. Personalized Thank Yous. Instantly send personalized acknowledgements to big donors and charitable sponsors.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2015

Trendswatch 2015 , the annual forecasting report from the Center for the Future of Museums , is now available! So when AAM and Blackbaud hosted Trends Watch 2015: Using Open Data and Personalization at Museums with Elizabeth Merritt , Michael Edson , and Stephen Watson , attending it was a definite no-brainer!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The best live auction items are relevant to your unique event audience’s interests, hard to come by for the average person, and reasonably priced. Art that has personal meaning for your community is also a safe bet. However, a live auction is only as good as the items that are available for bidding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

But to be effective, nonprofit leaders also must excel at using their personal brands and voices in service of their organizations’ missions and strategies on Instagram and other social media channels. Aside from having a personal branding strategy, what exactly makes an effective personal brand for a nonprofit leader?

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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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CauseVox

MAY 25, 2021

Now, with vaccines readily available and COVID cases declining in many areas, admission-based organizations like museums, zoos, and science centers are gearing up to reopen their doors or expand their current capacity to invite their communities back in. In-person memberships for people who prefer a traditional on-site experience.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. The popular reference point for what a museum is--a temple for contemplation--is based on a Euro-centric set of myths and implies a white set of behaviors.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2017

Seema wrote it (original post here ) in response to her experience last week at MuseumCamp. Like Seema, I've been looking for ways to increase active resistance of racism, hate, and bigotry--both as an individual and as the leader of a museum. What does this have to do with museums? Museums are ideas. They are hope.

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2013

Check out this inane AT&T commercial about a woman whose absorption in her smartphone is so great that Facebook updates become substantiated as pieces of art in the museum through which she strolls. It also suggests that for young people, masterpieces in museums are not nearly as interesting as a good friend''s new haircut.

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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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Forum One

MAY 3, 2021

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. To provide tools and guidance to empower people’s journeys and inspire conversation about race, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) developed “Talking About Race.” Fighting Polluters Since 1970.

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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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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Why does your museum open its doors each day? For arts and culture organizations, brand purpose is often about facilitating learning and engaging visitors in unforgettable experiences that provide educational and social value. What other museums do they follow/enjoy visiting? Get to know your subscribers and followers.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In 2010, the Children''s Museum of Tacoma was getting ready to move to a new, bigger facility. When they moved to the new facility, they decided they wanted to radically expand access to the museum, AND increase revenue. The Children''s Museum of Tacoma is two years into their "pay as you will" model, and it looks like a success.

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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

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. MISTAKES I MADE: Taking criticism too personally and letting it impact my emotional health too much.

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Twenty Hats

MAY 3, 2021

You absolutely must be friendly and supportive when working with volunteers: saying ‘hi’, thanking them, remembering details and stories from their personal lives, acknowledging recent personal milestones, and more. G ain their trust by being a friendly person and providing a stable environment for volunteering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

Some orchestras have been successful doing this by working with musicians who serve on the orchestra’s marketing committee and already understand or use social media personally. They have to understand the value to them personally to do so, and also not feel they are being taken advantage of. User Experience Integration.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

At our museum, Pinterest is a primary tool for brainstorming and sharing ideas. Individual staff members use these tools both personally and professionally. Part of that has to do with my personality--I love to write, and I rarely take photographs. But what''s awkward for me is actually probably very good for museums.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Press Here is a "normal" book that uses book-ish tools--pacing, spatial arrangement of images on the page, text as instruction--to break the fourth wall and create an interactive experience. The text points out that, "Everything the book says, the person reading the book has to say." Hilarity ensues.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Every day for the past two months, a man has entered the largest gallery in my museum. It''s a powerful experience for those who participate. It also complicates the question of what is acceptable in a museum. If an artist can come into a museum and smash stuff, what does that tell visitors? This is not a crime.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 This is a personal and crowd favorite--and one of the scariest posts I ever wrote. It’s an uncomfortable truth which is forcing me to examine my arguments for inclusivity, access, and populism in museums. Yes, I am a jerk—but only when it comes to my own experience.

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