Connection Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2018

Like it or not, technology is everywhere. While on vacation or a professional conference, you are probably exposed to innovative technology, increasing your engagement level. Today’s audiences, and ones of the future, are growing up with the expectation that technology will be used to enhance their experiences.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2020

All this technology and data have made it possible for nonprofits to use a range of metrics to measure growth and performance. Read next: 4 Ways AI is the Next Big Game-Changer in Museum Membership & Attendance. What is a KPI? That’s where the term KPI comes into play. KPIs Start with Goals. So what’s the solution?

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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? but none of them are great. Who's tackling them?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

So much so that many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices – and as the Mobile Web and related start-ups continue to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options available to your nonprofit in coming years. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. 2dCode :: 2d-code.co.uk. It is a must download!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

What role does “promoting human happiness” play in the mission statements and actions of museums? That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). Earlier today, the CFM offered a free webcast of Jane McGonigal’s talk on gaming, happiness, and 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

MAY 12, 2020

By Lori Byrd-McDevitt After a decade spearheading the social media presence at the world’s largest children’s museum, Lori now co-owns her agency 1909 DIGITAL where she helps others with their digital strategy. She is an adjunct in JHU’s museum studies faculty. Museums have made waves. It’s our time to shine. Let’s do this.”

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2008

I'm talking about a product that uses the tools of tracking, gaming, and me-to-we design to give a fabulous experience: Nike+. Nike+ provides a brilliant trifecta of sticky experiences, combining tracking, game mechanics, and me-to-we design to support a product, an activity, a community, and ultimately, healthy lifestyles.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

Which museums have experience creating collection tagging systems? The Museum Computer Network and Museum Software Foundation have teamed up to bring you MuseTech Central , a site where you can share your own technical projects and search through a growing resource list of others. Who's doing audio tours on iPods?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

That's my metaphor for embracing a topic that grabs my attention and is related to my work (nonprofits and technology) but I have no prior knowledge or experience. This month I'm exploring the topic of digital games for social change. I hope to learn about the full spectrum of games for serious outcomes. So I joined.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

For example, Jay Baer’s and Amber Nashlund’s new book, The Now Revolution , uses Microsoft’s version of QR codes called Tag technology , so readers can scan pages and get additional bonus materials on their phones. blog offers a laundry list of possible ways to use this new technology. Nonprofit Tech2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

Pokemon Go , the latest installment in the best-selling Pokémon video game series, launched as a smartphone app using augmented reality. Rather than chaining game players to their computer screens inside their houses, it sends players roaming their neighborhoods and communities to play the game.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When you find a bar with your favorite song on the jukebox, or a museum room that feels like your grandmother's living room, you suddenly feel a strong affinity and are able to see yourself reflected in the space. It may be great for a natural refuge to remain hidden, but that sounds like a disaster for a restaurant or museum.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 5, 2016

Pokémon Go’s popularity is proof that virtual reality technology isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. *. Has your organization thought about how to leverage technology like Pokémon Go? Pokémon Go is an augmented reality game that is available on mobile phones. Most people don’t know that Pokémon is a natural history-based game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I so happy to sneak into last night’s 501Tech Club New York City gathering last night to hear Shelley Bernstein, Brooklyn Museum, and Naveen Selvadurai talk about Nonprofits and Foursquare. For the Brooklyn Museum , they see the competition of mayorship as a source of identity and pride. say about you?

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn is a major gift fundraiser and nonprofit communications expert who uses technology to amplify her impact and do more with less. It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. There are quite a few professional associations today that can help you “network” and keep you on top of your game.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

specializes in designing museum experiences and exhibitions that are community informed, socially stimulating, technologically ambitious, and intriguingly experimental. With expertise in gaming, the social web, and collaborative exhibit development, I can bring new perspectives to the way you do business across your institution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

  I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership. 

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Jane McGonigal and the folks from IFTF have released a new future-casting game/collaborative experience called Signtific Lab. The thing that excites me about this is not the opportunity to use all the weird-colored cardstock hanging around the supply cabinets of most museums. If Signtific just asked the "What if?"

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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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 26, 2019

With technology making it easier for individuals to make a difference on their own, it’s even more critical that nonprofits (and all social good organizations) prioritize improving culture and morale to remain competitive in the employment market. Rachel shares five tips to help you up your website game.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

Two very interesting articles today by Ian Bogost , courtesy of Gamasutra , about the potential of games as a more generalized medium for interaction with content. In the first article, Why We Need More Boring Games , Ian argues for a wider application of gaming to our daily experience. Serious games offer one example.

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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

MAY 11, 2007

It's May 10, and the AAM (Association of American Museums) annual conference is starting this weekend. So, in honor of the conference (at which I was supposed to-but cannot-speak about games in museums), some discussion about games for conferences. It doesn't have a fabulous story or even very interesting game play.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. And despite the fact that I've enjoyed being at the museum for 12 hours plus for ten days in a row, I'm quickly realizing that if I want to really get some fun participatory projects going, I need some help.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Technology students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. also created a mobile app in conjunction with a Valentine-themed evening event to create a real-time "dating game" (with an artsy slant, of. The Dallas Museum. museum, expanding access to the mobile tours even further. innovating with technology.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Last week, I was in Minneapolis for the American Association of Museums annual meeting. Kathleen McLean led a terrific session called "Dangerous Ridiculous" about risk-taking in museums. Interestingly, at my museum, our team is naturally better at ridiculous than we are at dangerous. I host dating games.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 16, 2024

The platform provides a range of customizable virtual activities, including trivia nights, game shows, and interactive challenges to foster team spirit and stimulate active event participation. This software leverages technology to help you build a connection with your virtual event attendees and create an immersive event experience.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. But the more I learned, the more I wondered where the real threat is, and why children's museums have been so resistant to change.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2015

Hats off to organizers bringing people together through technology. Wonderful nerds put Wonder Woman’s invisible jet on display at the National Air and Space Museum. The arcade game industry has taken on beer as part of its redesigned user experience. A young woman has taken on the video game industry. Okay, decades.

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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

MAY 4, 2007

There's a game design source I used extensively at the beginning of development for Operation Spy: Gamasutra. If anyone out there is considering creating an industry catch-all site for museum-related content, I highly recommend Gamasutra as a model. Can museums afford to indulge in this kind of fantasy?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2007

Gaming in Museums And a few of my favorites you might have missed are: Better by the Dozen? My guess is that reflects the difference between some of the gamer/tech users of this blog, who are probably using a high volume of blogs regularly, and the museum folks, who are most passionate about things that affect their own lives and work.

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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." These kids see computers as tools for gaming, music, shopping, creating, and are imagining interfaces that suit their own interests and devices. I'm too used to my keyboard to imagine its future.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

It’s not a game—there’s no goal or restrictions on how you use it—instead, it’s a technology platform for immersion and interaction, like the web. Most museums already have websites. I’m not an expert on museums who can comment on why museums have websites and what they use that platform for.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Imagine that your museum is ready to start creating content on a small-scale in Web 2.0. Imagine you are the Boston Museum of Science, and you are ready to make some videos to post on YouTube. When I search for "Boston Museum of Science" on YouTube, I find 83 videos. You're ready to make a few videos to post on YouTube.

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