Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition , an experiment in crowd-sourced exhibits. This compelling experiment in the wisdom of the crowds started off with an open call for works through the museum's various Web 2.0 I'm curious about how or if Click was gamed.

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MAY 22, 2012

Imagine you've just been tasked with developing an innovative, future-thinking national museum for your country's history. Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). The Museum directors released Blueprint as a showcase for these plans. Where would you start?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

"Putting Fun into Functional" is a really fabulous powerpoint presentation by Amy Jo Kim of shufflebrain , a unique game design company. Each one of these amplifies the extent to which the player/user feels connected to the game or experience offered. There have got to be some great ways to apply these mechanics to museums.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late. In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

Visitor (though, really my child) at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK As I said, last week, I’ve been to a travelin’ girl for the last couple of years. So, instead, I am offering 3 posts this month about what I learned from visiting more than 300 museums. Last week, I talked about what I learned about museum workers.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2009

I've been designing game-like experiences with museums for a long time. But this week, I participated in a game design workshop with Ken Eklund that totally changed my perspective. My starting point is interactive exhibit design; Ken's is game design. As they played, we talked openly about how the game was progressing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

Let’s play a game. It’s called Tag this Image! For internal web managers, tagging also improves accessibility for people who are blind by adding text descriptors to images so that site visitors understand the content of those images. The games take the game I posed in the beginning (Tag this image!)

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Between high-altitude hijinks, run-ins with wildlife, and very long days of hiking, I finished John Falk's new book, Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. In other words, if you are a curious person, you will go to museums to learn new things.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. Why would an art museum create an ARG? All motivation to play comes from the players themselves, since it's not clear where the game is going or what the point is.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. They're playing video games. But I don't think that theory holds up.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 5, 2007

In the spirit of "networking" and related social conference challenges, I offer this simple game. Print out the image below ( click to download fullsize powerpoint version), bring it to the conference of your choice, and enjoy! The blackout with the best story wins a post on the topic of your choice on Museum 2.0.

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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? meetup for Elite Yelp!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2007

What museum hasn't benefited from a giant blow-up dinosaur on its front lawn? Flying into San Jose yesterday, I laughed out loud when I looked out the window and saw Clifford the Big Red Dog below me, a cheerful addition to the skyline (thanks to the Children's Discovery Museum). Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences game.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Turns out these games aren't only compelling to people who are approaching hour 4 with a ten year old in the car. Users of Google Earth, Google, and Flickr (among others) are using these applications as virtual game boards for joyrides around the world. Flickr content gets pulled into memory games. Playing 20 questions?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2008

One of the surprise benefits of Saturday's Museums and Civic Discourse session was the chance to sit down with Mitch Allen of Left Coast Press (formerly AltaMira press), publisher of the Museums and Social Discourse journal among many, many other museum publications. To his credit, Mitch didn't take offense. Are We There Yet?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

How do you find your way around a multi-faceted museum? I spent some time playing with this question last week at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a large general museum that is moving toward redesign of the permanent galleries. Do you interrogate the map? Create a plan for yourself? Get deliciously lost? This is the holy grail for me.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

This is typically a video plus text, although some projects just use a simple image instead of a video. But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions. Jim's is a fun game involving sock puppets.

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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. You can also see the images I used, which were constructed with an extremely cool presentation software called Prezi, here. What amazing thing is this designer or author or game creator doing that I can take a slice of and stick into my museum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2010

For example, just take a look at the explosion of mobile apps for museums. It was a low risk experiment on AppMakr to test drive the service before selecting a vendor and to learn what was involved. I'm seeing more and more nonprofits add iPhone apps (or other mobile apps) to their marketing mix.

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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. A set of screensavers and background images. Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures. Feature your donor images and quotes in social media advertising.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

Thirty-two "weeks" of events were condensed into the 10-week game, and each week, both in-game characters and real people--players all over the world--documented life in the new reality and swapped stories, solutions, and possibilities for survival. Good game design can encourage serious visitor participation on specific topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

is a new art form that re-uses commercial video-game environments to make animated films. Combining aspects of animation, game development, puppetry, graffiti, fan fiction, and improvisational theater into a moving image art form, machinima represents the latest frontier of digital popular culture.

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MARCH 23, 2021

Example 2: The American Museum of Natural History in New York shows a clear hierarchy of content. They take advantage of the space by including images as well. The site uses storytelling and the main call-to-action to learn about sustainability and its connection to cooking wild game. When to use a hamburger menu.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2010

This morning, I gave the keynote address for the Washington Museums Association annual conference. It features lots of museum-based examples. But in this post, I wanted to highlight a goofy little (non-museum) project that inspires me in its simplicity and openness to mass collaboration. It's called One Million Giraffes.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

But, is this new technology a passing fad, a mere game, or can it be leveraged to create truly meaningful experiences that shape our world for the better? How does the game work? When they arrive at the location, players see an image of a Pokémon overlaid onto the real world that they can then collect. You be the judge.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

But over the last couple of months, I've learned about two tagging projects that actually get me excited-- CamClickr at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Posse at the Brooklyn Museum. Because these projects take the basic act of tagging and wrap it in two powerful motivators--gaming and community. And that brings us to CamClickr.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2007

The article includes a gallery of images of these imagined computers, which have keys for things like "Harry Potter," "games," and "friends." The classic mental image of a kid banging away at a keyboard, trying to be "like mom" has changed. Tags: children's museums design usercontent.

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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. We made a giant mobile for the center of the museum out of origami birds folded from visitor comments received in the past year.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Then build the email so that every word, every image, every bit of formatting supports them to take that action. The mom has a job at a museum cafe, the older kids are in school, and the youngest attends a wonderful daycare center we are so fortunate to partner with. That means you may need to leave out a few things.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2008

I'll be speaking at the end of the month at the AAM meeting in Denver, chairing sessions on virtual worlds (Tuesday 9am) and design inspirations from outside the museum field (Tuesday 10:30am). Each year at the Game Developer's Conference, these three share the most interesting gleanings from a year of game design research.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 21, 2009

I’ve often wondered why I’ve never seen a museum with a punch card system. But many large museum membership database systems are dismal at tracking members’ or visitors’ repeat attendance. But many large museum membership database systems are dismal at tracking members’ or visitors’ repeat attendance.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2008

When you design a new interactive, talkback station, or traditional exhibit for your museum, what best practices and design requirements do you consult? Museums don't have a well-developed body of industry-wide best practices. In 2006, I wrote about how game mechanics can improve the stickiness of a museum experience.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors." This is the opposite situation of the previous design goal, one typical in science and children's museums.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Here's a simple game. I finished reading the Museums and Social Issues journal on Civic Discourse, and it's brought up a groundswell of internal debate for me about museums and comfort. Yes, museums should be safe. An exhibit interprets a well-known and loved object or image as rooted in hate. Interaction comfort.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Last week I announced the end of Game Friday. But this week, I got the opportunity to interview Jason Nelson, creator of digital art and avant garde game wonder game, game, game, and again game and how could I resist? game, game, has had about 5 million hits. game, game, and.

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