Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. A year ago, I put my consultant hat on the shelf and decided to jump into museum management (a sentence I NEVER would have imagined writing five years ago). I'm open to any questions you want to raise in the comments.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2019

I was proud to work with amazing colleagues to lead major change at the museum. Geoffrey wrote: Some of the changes you imposed on the museum, including Abbott Square, generated criticism, mostly from some of the old guard types who wanted more traditional explorations of art and history. It was not easy. That’s true.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Communicating stories and opportunities to engage in ways that deepen your relationship with your supporters is a critical strategy for any mid-level donor program, and digital can support that. Though these pieces mostly do not include direct donation asks, they also generate incremental revenue. Cultivate and engage.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2015

The book is a deep account of repatriation of spiritual objects from museums to native people, written by museum people and Blackfoot people together. I hope this synopsis might inspire you to read their full incredible story. The Blackfoot mostly live in what is now the province of Alberta, where the Glenbow Museum resides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

We know that young people like Generation Z are future donors, so programs that help introduce philanthropy at a young age will a big pay off down the road. Throughout history, philanthropy plays a very important role because it directly impacts our wellbeing. Read on for more. In other words, philanthropy means the love of mankind.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I''ve mostly seen museums employ one of two methods for formal community advisors: Create special "spots" on the board of trustees for certain kinds of community representatives. CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. I struggle with both these options.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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MARCH 10, 2021

For a little history here, the game CryptoKitties was the first major use case for NFTs and has been a huge success. The NFT is the result of a partnership with the Muhammad Ali Center, a museum dedicated to Ali’s life. A lot of the success of a NFT drop is based on the hype and perceived value generated by the promotion work.

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MARCH 31, 2015

I recently had the pleasure of attending the South Carolina Federation of Museums Conference in Florence, SC. Typically, when I attend these types of industry conferences I am there as an exhibitor, which means I don’t get to attend the actual sessions or hear all of the interesting in-depth stories shared at these events.

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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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MAY 26, 2021

We did significant academic research on the millennial generation and emerging giving trends. At the time, the millennial generation was getting a bad rap; everyone envisioned them as kids absorbed only in their screens that didn’t care what happened around them. There is a psychology around generating engagement for a cause.

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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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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. And yet in the museum world, we still see interactives as being mostly for kids.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

One of the best parts of developing a book is learning new stories. For me, the early stage of writing a book is a treasure hunt--an excuse to seek out new examples and ideas that strengthen the story. Ravon and Amanda are using several social media channels to explore and share museum exhibitions, programs, and projects.

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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. Santa Cruz Collects is based on collections and stories from people throughout our county.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

That's why our museum, the MAH in Santa Cruz, focuses on social bridging. Rather than operating in a bubble of “art people” or “history people,” we strive to connect ALL people in our county. Homeless adults and history buffs improving a historic cemetery. In our community, we build bridges through art and history.

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JUNE 12, 2012

Their new report dives into lessons on how to engage volunteers in community change efforts, telling the unique story of KaBOOM!, In return, she'll invite you to join her no-charge webinar in July, "How to Tell Your 5-Star Stories" Hurry, the deadline is Wednesday, June 13th. The Knight Foundation published KaBOOM!:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. By calling ourselves a museum, we respond to those cultural institutions that have separated practice from production, exhibition from process, and work from play.

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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! They don't generate rental revenue (usually).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. For one year, a group of twelve schoolchildren age 9-11 were invited to work with staff at the Wallace Collection to develop a family-focused exhibition using the museum's artifacts. it's a Secret! , What made Shh. it's a Secret!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I used a brief pre-survey where I was able to collect information about success stories, challenges, and current social media usage. I incorporated examples from people in the room and then asked them talk about it. As the facilitator, you have design questions so they illicit stories.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. It is an incredible museum experience. The visitor is given a copy of her poster and the museum keeps a copy as well.

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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

MAY 27, 2015

I have an unusual education for the director of an art & history museum: a degree in electrical engineering. I've filled some gaps in my cultural education through a career in museums: reading, looking, exploring, listening. I can tell a local story from 1849. It taught me that you can design a different future.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2007

there may be some great opportunities for collaboration for museums, too. They are committed to making this technology accessible (and free!) to educators permanently. Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. Museum professionals tend to think this is OK because they think of the contributory act as the important part of the participation. When I talk about Web 2.0 nothing happens.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Gabriela Mistral. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. Roxane Gay.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

In the case of Slavery in New York , the end of the exhibition featured a story-capture station at which visitors could record video responses to a series of four questions about their reactions to the exhibition. 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

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. One thing you''ll notice when you walk in is a ton of user-generated content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. Simply tap the screen and pan your device in any direction.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Elisa’s focus is interactive arts, media design, and cultural management, and she has been involved in many pertinent projects, such as MUVI (the Virtual Museum of the Collective Memory of Lombardia). Environmentalists, the Museum of Natural History at CU, they all responded very enthusiastically to this.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. The Love Lounge I LOVE.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Two weeks ago, my museum was featured in a Wall Street Journal article by Ellen Gamerman, Everybody''s a Curator. I''m thrilled that our small community museum is on the map with many big institutions around the country. I''m glad to see coverage about art museums involving visitors in exhibitions. Community is not a commodity.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

"The words we use in attempting to change museum directions matter. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. I am glad this conversation is happening and that both museum professionals and local Santa Cruzans are engaged. But we do have ''and.''

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

Museum Visitor Experience. Museums have been all over bots on other platforms, see the Momabot on Twitter for example. So, it comes as no surprise that Museums have been early adopters of Facebook Messenger Bots. The Australia Democracy Museum also has a Facebook Messenger Bot, with similar objectives. The Pop Bot.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

What The Trend is an online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. And sometimes the easiest way to tell your organization’s story is, well, by actually telling it. Historical societies and museums might especially benefit from using this app. Images: Shutterstock.

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