Museum 2.0

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.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County.

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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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EveryAction

MARCH 2, 2017

The hottest ticket in DC has to be the National Museum of African American History & Culture. The newest addition to the Smithsonian cadre, its collections feature powerful moments in African American history, culture, and community and is a must-see. National Museum of American History (The National Mall).

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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 24, 2010

Last week, I visited the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle. I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). I'm always a bit nervous when I visit a museum I love from afar. What if it isn't what I expected?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Museums have used games to engage visitors for decades. SR: I came to games before I came to museums. My grandmother cheated at Candyland and uno. :) Games, I think, have a nice Venn diagram of overlap between museum lovers. I love thinking we're getting new museum lovers through games. How did you get into museum games?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Engagement Meter looks at giving history (recency, years given, upgraded gifts), interactions (event attendance, volunteering, communication preferences, website visits), and e-mail (subscribes, opens, clicks) to give you a temperature reading on each donor in your database. . So how do you keep track of them?

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Engaging donors: With both segmented communication strategies and targeted fundraising, you can start to build a more personal relationship with your donors that will keep them connected to your cause. To manage that for the lifetime of your relationship with them, you’d use segmentation. Let’s use the following example family.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2017

I first read about Story House Belvédère on Jasper Visser’s excellent blog, The Museum of the Future. I visited Story House Belvédère as part of the new Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museum Projects I am involved in. The neighborhood is a mix of people and communities by design and has a rich social history.

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Everyaction

JULY 5, 2018

Arts and culture organizations such as media companies, magazines, public radio stations, museums, theaters, and arts advocates have unique needs when it comes to data management.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Corporate sponsorship package Your nonprofit may have strong relationships with corporate partners in your community, whether they’re small businesses, large corporations, or anything in between. It’s a win-win relationship! For example, you could create a bundle with art, history, and science museum passes.

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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. Her clients include Oxfam America, the American Museum of Natural History, and the American Red Cross. Cultivate and engage.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. On the other hand, a photobooth where people were prompted to take a photo with a stranger they met at the museum was barely used.

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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. At the same time, our community relevance was limited.

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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. How do institutions build deep relationships with community partners? The Blackfoot mostly live in what is now the province of Alberta, where the Glenbow Museum resides.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Our county board of supervisors had brought their official meeting to the museum. In it, I argued that museums could give up control of the visitor experience while still maintaining (a new kind of) power. Museums could make the platforms for those experiences. Traditionally, museums and cultural organizations offer programs.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

And, if you want to join us in Santa Cruz for more professional hijinks, consider an internship at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We offer unpaid internships for three reasons: We prefer to focus on developing paid opportunities for people who are in our community and can be a part of the museum for a long time.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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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. Now Friday nights at the museum have become something people can count on, and they keep growing.

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Everyaction

JULY 16, 2018

The database used to track interactions with donors can have a large impact on the efficacy of an organization’s fundraising efforts, and especially for organizations such as museums, theaters, and media companies, it is important to use a software which can manage major donors, planned giving programs, grants, and more.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2012

A woman walks into your museum. They wrote a comment about their experience that got turned into a bird by other visitors in the public sculpture hanging in the middle of the museum. They wrote a comment about their experience that got turned into a bird by other visitors in the public sculpture hanging in the middle of the museum.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Musical Instrument Museum. The newly revived/revamped program this year paired about 25 business leaders and principals, and is designed to foster more meaningful, longer-term relationships between the participants.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

This summer, we''re offering some amazing museum internships, as well as MuseumCamp : a weekend-long professional development experience that is part retreat, part conference, part summer camp. INTERNSHIPS If you want to join us in Santa Cruz for more professional learning, consider an internship at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It started as a handout for a session that Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of Museums, and then I realized it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing with all of you. The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2011

In early January, the American Museum of Natural History announced that it would hold a Brain Tweetup for 75 of its Twitter followers. When I attend a museum alone, I like to take my time reflecting on the collection and the space. Notes from a Tweetup by Jay Geneske. Would we look up from our smart phones?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. Being Intentional About Your To Do List.

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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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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

MAY 11, 2009

I'm doing a workshop with the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History which includes a public lecture on "the multi-platform museum" on May 18 at 3pm ET (GMT -5). What is a multi-platform museum? You know how Ira Glass recently broadcast his radio show This American Life live to movie theaters across North America?

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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. We had a push-pull relationship; I’d ask for opportunities, she’d say yes but also help me understand how far I could safely go. Fifteen years ago, my boss kicked me under the table.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This is the biggest wealth transfer in human history and may be one of the largest moments for philanthropy ever. Use it to deepen a relationship. The Cleveland Museum created a society with annual events to illustrate the impact of their work.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

While informal involvement or input for a specific project is always useful, there''s also value to more sustained participation--and the relationships and accountability that comes with it. CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

AUGUST 11, 2011

In fact, their web content management , email management , and constituent relationship management needs (which I am working to address on a strategic level) are shockingly complex, because all of these initiatives work in very different ways toward very broad goals.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2014

Last week, I was talking with some colleagues at my museum about the upcoming American Alliance of Museums conference and asked them what kinds of people they wanted to meet at AAM. The people in the "Future of History" session (also Tuesday at 3:15) include some really incredible innovators who inspire me.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

It’s important to cultivate new relationships to not only support your current auction but also boost future fundraising efforts. Art & History Museums Maitland is planning a virtual 3-day online art auction for summer 2021. For instance, you might partner with a local restaurant to auction off a free meal.

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