Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

North Carolina Museum of History 1988.39.4 I’m always amazed when my colleagues tell me that the biggest barrier they face to “opening up” the content at their museums is from registrars—the people who care for collection objects. Followers of Museum 2.0 To me, this seems both discouraging and ungenerous to visitors.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Classic live auction item ideas When you think of a live auction, there are probably several classic items that come to mind. Your corporate partners get more positive publicity for their businesses, while your nonprofit receives valuable auction packages for your event. It’s a win-win relationship!

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Artist Classes Arts Local 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

A month or two ago, museums and galleries around the world participated in a Twitter event called Ask a Curator. I asked Jim Richardson, who blogs at the Museum Next Blog and is the brainchild behind the event, a couple of questions: How did #askacurator come about? How did you get 340 museums to participate?

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Arts Twitter Examples Los Angeles 101

Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. My mind was a sponge. 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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Grant Interview Los Angeles Texas 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 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. We went from planning for one coffee shop and a small cafe to imagining a public market with five mini-restaurants and two bars.

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Community Build Arts History 34

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

Who thinks social service organizations should fly under the same banner as those that organize the public for political change? It isn't the missions that have so much been invented, mind you — it's the idea of collective sectorness. In a recent chapter on the history of the U.S. Look at it this way. I mean, really.

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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 Case Study Social Media Proposal 31

Everyaction

JULY 16, 2018

When looking for a data tool for social services organizations, four functions are especially important to keep in mind: 1. For online fundraising, it is important to utilize clean, simple, and easy to use forms, showing donors that they can trust your organization to provide them a simple and enjoyable experience in every interaction.

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Database Service Effective Organization 40

Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2019

I was a small fry at a big museum, volunteering for a project I had no business taking on. I learned this terminology later, from Beck Tench , who studies, mentors, and leads institutional change in public space. Fifteen years ago, my boss kicked me under the table. My boss and mentor Anna often encouraged me to stretch the limits.

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Reflection Change Museum Mentoring 44

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

Relative to other museums, I think we spend less time producing an "onstage" experience and more time collaborating with community organizations behind the scenes to empower them to produce. Our museum is growing, and I'm always weighing different ways to expand our impact. I feel great about this approach. Not exclusively.

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San Diego Work Museum Model 20

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 Conversation Columbus Local 20

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. 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. For events, ongoing series, or recurring celebrations online, consider the following options for publicity: 1.

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Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 337

Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

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. They have an open collections policy, and they see media artifacts as objects that connect people--to art, to history, to politics, and to each other.

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Culture Alternative St. Louis Los Angeles 49

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." A vision is a detailed history of the future. This is a detailed history from the future. You'll warm up your hand and get yourself in a positive frame of mind.

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History Pennsylvania Michigan Indiana 26

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This month we’ve been thinking about “What is a museum?” (I'm I’ve been visiting museums my whole life. Does that make me the best judge of museums? People are the defining characteristics of museums. I’ve worked with and at plenty of museums that can sometimes feel empty. I'm not alone there.

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Museum Place Life Ohio 36

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2009

In 2006, John Falk and Beverly Sheppard, seasoned museum researchers and practitioners, released a co-authored book entitled Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. This is a pretty powerful and provocative book—you talk about rethinking the whole business of museums.

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Knowledge Interview Museum Model 26

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. Connections between the publications are more important than strict regional boundaries.

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Chicago Library Public Culture 48

Qgiv

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. A volunteer recruitment letter is a more formal way of soliciting volunteers, but you can have your current volunteers personalize them for the prospects they have in mind. Request a Demo.

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Volunteer Strategy Guide Local 98

Forum One

JANUARY 3, 2023

2022 brought much experimentation for most, if not all, mission-driven organizations as we heard during last year’s Digital Impact Summit where we were joined by nonprofit and public sector organizations to discuss what was working and what wasn’t with their digital strategy. Making content more accessible than ever.

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Trend Museum Digital Product 71

Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

If anyone out there is considering creating an industry catch-all site for museum-related content, I highly recommend Gamasutra as a model. When I read this list, my mind leaps to fantasy. Can museums afford to indulge in this kind of fantasy? In my head, I say, “I am in a museum. Lets me be someone I could never be.

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Game Storytelling Lesson Museum 20

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. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Although the amount may seem small compared to Google’s mighty $10,000, there are a few considerations to bear in mind when deciding between the two programs. Attracting donors and volunteers to your website, increasing conversions, and enhancing supporter communications are a few to keep in mind. Public Libraries. Healthcare.

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Grant Nonprofit Digital Metrics 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

What comes to mind when you think of the word crowdsourcing either for funding or doing? The design might include a sequence of: - Open call for submissions, public vote/commenting and a group expertise select the finalists. Brooklyn Museum implemented a crowdsourced photography exhibit experiment called “ Click!

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

There have been some fun semantic jousting matches recently on the ASTC listserv about the difference between science museums and science centers. And earlier last month, the Museum of Television and Radio announced a name change to the Paley Center for Media. The word Museum is not powerful enough, alone, to attract or repel visitors.

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Museum Arts Library Listserv 22

Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

James Yasko is writing an article for an upcoming issue of Museum News on museums and Web 2.0. Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 Has your tagging system increased overall google hits for the museum?

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Museum Advice Interview Web 20

Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Yeah, the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. I’ve been to the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. So just keep that in mind. You may want to know things like their volunteer interest, their history. They’re so like history”? Steven: And it’s not 2:00 a.m. That’s right. Robin: Yes. Right, Robin?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

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. e-Newsletter. DollarPerMonth.org :: dollarpermonth.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Many nonprofit professionals are overwhelmed by the all choices and as mobile media continues to grow, prepare to be mind-boggled by all the new technology options that will be available to your nonprofit in coming years. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. e-Newsletter [see right column]. Timekiwi :: timekiwi.com.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

It’s about thinking about science centers and the public understanding of science as a human problem. We tried to find ways to make nano science interesting to the public, but it was mostly shiny futuristic potential that seemed to leave people cold. This interview is not really about an ebook. How did this project come about?

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Help Museum eBook Project 45

Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

Our entire strategy at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is rooted in community participation. We invite diverse locals to share their creative and cultural talents with our greater community at the museum. My museum can pursue radical collaboration because of our small size and local focus. Attend a rally.

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