Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Museum technology nerds: this post is for you. I've been thinking recently about distributed content experiences--ways for people to interact with museum content (art, history, science, etc.) as they make their way through the world outside the museum. At the museum? Could you give out free coasters at bars?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. Given TCG''s multi-year Audience (R)evolution initiative, I took the opportunity to write a new talk about what revolution has looked like at our small museum in Santa Cruz. We heard again and again that the museum was cold and uncomfortable.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. The MAH fundamentally has two jobs: we bring art and history out into our community, and we invite our community in.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. Additionally, board members often have high-level connections in business, education, or even local and state government. Collaborate with local businesses. Connect with civic groups.

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MARCH 30, 2022

It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. CA: One of the best things that happened to me while volunteering for the local art museum is they funded my travel to Los Angeles and my tuition to take the week-long grant writing training bootcamp hosted by The Grantsmanship Center.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (our fiscal year ends on June 30), and several people have written to me asking for the numbers behind our turnaround. The busiest day in both 2011 and 2012 is our longtime community program, Free First Friday.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Our county board of supervisors had brought their official meeting to the museum. The supervisors toured the exhibition with some of the 100+ local partners who helped create it. In it, I argued that museums could give up control of the visitor experience while still maintaining (a new kind of) power.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I’m looking for a place to donate in honor of my mother’s 90 th birthday, and a gift made to the local symphony orchestra in Myrtle Beach seemed like the right thing to do. You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. Fast forward to 2017. Be creative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Lots of research shows that donors don’t want the organization to spend money on free merchandise. Design them free on Canva. You just need to show proof of membership. These exist already!

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Or, you can take David Neff ''s local advice: skip the lines at Franklin''s and instead check out the amazing BBQ, bar, and history behind Freedman’s. For a unique sight, view La Belle, a famous 17th century shipwreck, preserved and being restored in its entirety in situ at the Bullock Texas State History Museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Me: Have you ever been to this museum? several years.

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APRIL 23, 2021

For instance, you might partner with a local restaurant to auction off a free meal. Art & History Museums Maitland is planning a virtual 3-day online art auction for summer 2021. Check out their Instagram homepage: [This is a screenshot of Art & History Museums-Maitland’s Instagram account.].

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JUNE 12, 2012

Get your browser tabs ready: below are ways you can apply for funds, share your organization's best videos, win free webinars, and more. They are accepting films through June 30, though it's only free to submit through June 15th. This week, our Member Round Up features great opportunities to do just that. Have more news to share?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

I’ve received a few inquiries over the last year about museums and geocaching. to ask him all the dumb questions about geocaching and museums you can imagine… and a few more. Sounds like there might be some overlap with your museum audience? Both geocaching and museums are fundamentally about exploration and discovery.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Skill-sharing free schools. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. In 2003, writer George Scheer inherited his grandmother's thrift store and decided to turn it into an artists' center and museum.

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MARCH 23, 2021

Example 1: Walk Free , an international human rights group focused on the eradication of modern slavery, has three different levels in its megamenu. Example 2: The American Museum of Natural History in New York shows a clear hierarchy of content. The clear hierarchy emphasizes the second level as pillars of what they do.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

I spent the weekend queuing up posts for my forthcoming blog-cation--nine weeks of guest posts and reruns from the Museum 2.0 I went to several big museum conferences in 2004-2006 where I identified and started admiring heroes in the field. As the readership for Museum 2.0 To me, Museum 2.0

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JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. Some things to ask for might include: Book collections Technology, like phones, laptops, tablets Certificates to local businesses Art pieces. BONUS – See this idea in action! Garden Party Auction. BONUS – See this idea in action!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. There are lots of great science museum resources, but not where these kids can walk after school. Where it didn''t work, no local support stepped up.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Groupon is a website that offers deeply-discounted deals on goods and services, mostly from local businesses. A coupon goes up for half-price museum admission or spa treatments, and users have one day to buy. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History sold 1,318 half-price memberships last week.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. My answer: neither.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

I was fascinated by the project’s innovative approach to collecting, sharing, and connecting people through locally-produced media. We’re building new cataloging software that we eventually hope to provide free of charge to jumpstart other collections. Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

You can download it for free right now. We hope it's a useful set of recipes you can riff off of to co-create your own project on a local issue that matters to you. We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole.

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JULY 20, 2017

These program range from small local orgs to national multi-affiliated orgs. Local organizations can opt to join a charity program hosted by the event organizers. In this example, Free to Breath ’s DIY Community Walk offers a community walk virtual event for those who can’t attend their walk in person. Can’t attend the walk?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

On Tuesday, I reviewed Elaine Gurian’s essay, Choosing Among the Options , on museum archetypes and self-definition. Today, discussion with Elaine about ways museums choose their direction, how change is possible, and new museum types to be added to the list. What if you don’t want to be identified as one type of museum?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. e-Newsletter. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

For examples of text-free avatars, see the United Way of Southwest Michigan and Amnesty International : Instagram Bios. If you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum or zoo, then also add your address. Geotagging on Instagram is especially beneficial to localized nonprofits. Second, write a compelling Instagram bio.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Black Youth Project — BYP has various local chapters. Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)— SURJ has various local chapters. Take time to celebrate your local community and find ways to support them during this time of celebration. We’ve highlighted a few events local to our offices: Bay Area Juneteenth Events.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

Last month at the AAM conference, a speaker said, "we should all be using measures of quality of life to measure success at our museums." Many museums (mine included) are fairly new to collecting visitor data. When we started more robust data collection at our museum, we wanted a community baseline. I got excited. "We

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

The number of low-cost or free online resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech for Good 2.0 e-Newsletter [see right column]. e-Newsletter [see right column]. Zeen :: zeen.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The number of low-cost or free, web-based resources and tools available to nonprofits today is astounding. That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 They also offer their premium services for free through their Animoto for a Cause program.

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