Forum One

JANUARY 30, 2024

By amplifying the voices that ignite global change, these awards honor work across seven core causes: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Education, Art & Culture; Health; Human & Civil Rights; Humanitarian Action & Services; Responsible Technology; and Sustainability, Environment & Climate. million records.

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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 For that reason, I’m thrilled to announce that over the next two months, I’ll be transferring ownership of Museum 2.0 Seema is a brilliant museum educator, a generous spacemaker, a prolific writer, and a creative troublemaker. I know Museum 2.0

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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

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

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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Forum One

MAY 3, 2021

Help them win the People’s Voice Award by voting today. 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. Fighting Polluters Since 1970.

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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

JUNE 8, 2022

The Zero to Three Policy Center, an organization is an independent, non-partisan research-based voice that educates the public and political leaders about the unique developmental needs of babies and toddlers. National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Is your museum running on interns? It is a strong, museum-focused complement to an excellent three-parter on Createquity about the ethics and future of unpaid arts internships. I got my first real job in a museum (at the Guggenheim) after a life-changing internship. My supervisor was amazing, caring, and supportive.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

To mark its anniversary, NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories and moments from the last 50 years. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. Forum One engaged with the newly rebranded Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (formerly Arkansas Arts Center) at a critical moment in their journey. I’m Determined.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

To mark its anniversary, NRDC launched an immersive storytelling experience featuring powerful stories from the last 50 years. National Air & Space Museum. It operates two landmark facilities that collectively welcome more than eight million visitors a year, making it the most visited museum in the country.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

Last week''s New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons. In the article, David discussed ways that several large art museums are working to attract major donors and board members in their 30s and 40s. David describes himself as a "museum brat."

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2007

blog has set up an experiment using VoiceThreads, a multimedia presentation software that allows people to add their voices to the presentation. My friend Nina who writes the Museum2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2011

I asked Wendy Pollock and Kathleen McLean, authors of the new book The Convivial Museum , to share a guest post about the book. At first glance, our new book, The Convivial Museum , is about the most simple ideas. That's why we've included so many voices and perspectives in this book. And that's where this book comes in.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

Last week, I visited the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle. I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). I'm always a bit nervous when I visit a museum I love from afar. What if it isn't what I expected?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

When we say we want our museum to be "audience-centered," what do we mean? However, I have enormous respect for the customer-centered model when it is executed in ways that truly invite visitors in on their own terms and deliver satisfying experiences. Many of my favorite museums, libraries, and zoos are customer-centered places.

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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. I eagerly read hundreds of words and then moved onto the next one.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2012

Most nonprofits are still experimenting to discover their Google+ voice and hone in on a frequency of publishing content to the stream that makes Google+ both viable long-term and worth the time spent exploring Google+. The Field Museum. As traffic continues to grow , new tools and functionality are added almost daily.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2020

This week we're hearing from Eastman Museum's Kate Meyers Emery. They have created elevated and new digital opportunities for public access and engagement within their respective museums at a time when physical access is not possible. My team will also continue to protect and monitor the museum. I’m new to this but excited.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I believe that the museum blogosphere is still underdeveloped and there's lots of room for people to share their inspiration, experience, and ideas. I hope next year at this time, all six on this list will still be going strong and accompanied by a chorus of new voices. The Museum of the Future. Asking Audiences.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

During a workshop on museum visitor participation, someone spoke up and objected: "this might work in California, but it will never work in Texas." I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. In Asia, I''ve noticed museum visitors are willing--enthusiastic, even--to take photos with strangers.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2007

One of my most exciting moments of ASTC this year was picking up a copy of the newly released Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , a collection of essays ten years in the making, edited by Kathy McLean and Wendy Pollock. The book opens with a list of reasons why museums might use "visitor-response elements in exhibitions."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2007

This week, with the gracious help of Eric Siegel of the New York Hall of Science , Museum 2.0 is launching an experiment in collaborative exhibition design. In the spirit of that question, Museum 2.0 If you don't have a microphone, you can contribute text, but the voice component is pretty powerful. Projects design.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

An organization, company, or other entity can have all of the diversity numbers in the world, but until everyone feels included and that there is a place and voice for them, it is all for naught. So, our work is called IED for inclusion, equity, and diversity.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It’s pretty normal for Western museums, for example, display objects taken from Non-Western countries. The first thing they wanted to tackle, and I’d argue the essential challenge of our work, was the relationship between museums and communities. Museum work is invisible to those not in the field, as are our norms.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Crossing Cultures features paintings by Belle Yang that relate to her family''s immigration experiences. They diversified the voice of immigration in the exhibition and encouraged people to share their own histories verbally. In my experience, offering many different forms of participation garners more quality interactions.

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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. He is curating the experiences he shares. This shot is a painting at a museum visited during a professional conference for museums.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

Instead, I had a powerful learning experience--one I'm still grappling with over a year later. When should you choose not to participate in an experience? When should you turn down the invitation to share your voice? There are many ways for voices to get chopped and twisted. Most people don't notice at all.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2020

This month, I’d planned to have a celebration of the fellow people in museums, including your coworkers and colleagues you’ve never worked with. In this time when convenings have become treacherous, museums, zoos, and aquariums, as a collective, possess much of the affordable public space in the world. Then, a pandemic descended.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Teens are developmentally focused on social identity-building and may feel more compelled to share their voices and express themselves than others than other visitors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

I can understand why somebody interested in museums wouldn't want to cover ground on health sector management. I also understand why somebody interested in health care wouldn't want to know the ins and outs of museums. Both hospitals and museums rely to some extent on fundraising, giving rise to a cadre of fundraising professionals.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. The Museum 2.0 A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

This week, I'm launching a new site: the Voicemail Museum. It's an experiment that merges two of my greatest interests: finding novel, easy ways for visitors to contribute content to museums finding questions that draw such compelling responses that random peoples' answers would be worth browsing To participate, all you need is a phone.

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