DipJar

APRIL 14, 2022

Behind an unassuming Woolworth’s storefront in Greensboro, NC, Civil Rights history was made on a February day in 1960. The story of that day, the movement it spawned, and its lasting impact are told at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. Museum programming, which included films and lectures, was also moved online.

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Story North Carolina Museum Pennsylvania 98

Neon CRM

MAY 23, 2023

If You’re Passionate About Fighting Racism and Violence, Support Stop AAPI Hate Stop AAPI Hate ’s mission is to “advance equity, justice, and power by dismantling systemic racism and building a multiracial movement to end anti-Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) hate.” Who would you add to the list?

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Saba North America Support Museum 52

Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2023

NRDC Gold for Nonprofit Website Since 1970, NRDC has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.

Award 75

Award Museum Policy Seattle 75

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying.

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Museum Work Social Media History 21

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The Western Museum Association was kind enough to invite me to speak on a panel about engagement at their annual meeting in Boise. Phillip’s early remark about museums was an invocation for everyone. As an outsider, he immediately saw that museums were operating “under a business model that doesn’t work.”

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Museum Audience Conversation Associations 30

Forum One

MAY 13, 2022

Her technical and management experience working with many of our clients, such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and The Elisabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation , has informed the way that she supports staff and sets up systems for success. Molly’s leadership has been critical to Forum One’s success.

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Virginia History Mentoring Museum 88

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 History Netherlands Create 36

Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

When my sister first started working with a nonprofit museum, she had a lot to learn about the fundraising process for the organization. The museum had notes saved in their donor management software about the seating preferences for their major donors and that particular donor preferred their regular seat toward the front.

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Software Management Donor Guide 98

Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. The outcome was an immensely successful event that attracted audiences from all corners of the country.

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History Accessibility Museum Award 74

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Robinson Museum and is listed on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. Grambling State University is a member-school of the University of Louisiana System and Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Grambling also advances the study and preservation of African American history, art, and culture. .

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University Louisiana Childhood Student 52

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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Game Museum Design Digital 55

Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2020

Many museum conferences have a moment of unfettered camaraderie and unvarnished joy--that moment is at karaoke. Because museum people are the most creative, devoted, and scrappy people in the world. As the museum field eventually bounces back, there will be pressure for us to accept not only the pre-covid status quo, but even less.

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Museum History Mentoring Pledge 58

Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Since 1970, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been working to safeguard the earth—its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. The Frist Art Museum. The Frist Art Museum is a destination for art, culture, and community in the heart of Nashville, TN.

Award 74

Award Communication Colorado Museum 74

Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. Forum One worked with the NMAAHC team to design and launch the Talking About Race section of the website, extending our design system and inviting user experience to share relevant and engaging resources for diverse audiences.

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Award Communication Arkansas Drupal 70

Twenty Hats

MAY 3, 2021

She even took it upon herself to coach a new volunteer in the same placement on our hours logging system! Lisa Marie Porter, MA, CVA, has been working in Museums in the public sector since 2001. The volunteer accepted this and is now flourishing. It takes time, practice, and experience to get the “Iron Hug” just right.

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Relationship Leadership Museum Policy 73

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

bbcon 2021 Virtual , happening October 13–15, will bring together thousands of arts & cultural professionals from zoos, museums, aquaria, performing arts organizations, gardens, and beyond for three days of cutting-edge thought leadership, virtual peer networking and unforgettable experiences.

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Arts Culture Virtual Guide 66

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. For years we have been producing digital media to fulfill our mission of educating the public about science and history.

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Game Culture Museum Change 140

Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2020

It’s for this reason that I’ve found the Native community a particularly vital voice in this difficult period—after all, resistance and resilience are intrinsic elements of indigenous history and contemporary identity. She can be found @prarietrawler on Twitter.

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Digital Hunger Artist Museum 48

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. Pokemon Go).

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Museum Experiment Digital Podcast 20

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

Rather than just doing an activity, visitors should be able to contribute in a way that provides a valuable outcome for the institution and the wider museum audience. This week, I saw a great example at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum that blew me away with its power and simplicity. It is this station that grabbed my attention.

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Participatory Museum Action Experiment 44

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. Meeting both of these demands is best achieved through a unified database system that offers fundraisers a holistic, 360 degree view of their donors.

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Arts Culture Data Management 44

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

True inclusion and equal representation of all people requires overhauling both systems and ways of thinking. True inclusion and equal representation of all people requires overhauling both systems and ways of thinking. Yolanda is the first African American President in the more than 40-year history of WID.

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Strategy Fundraising Philanthropy Nonprofit 82

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 Participatory Interaction Classroom 35

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The book of the same title that he edited is rocking my world, both as a museum professional who cares about inclusion and as a new mother. As we start the process at our museum of updating our permanent history gallery, one of our specific goals is to increase intergroup understanding in our community.

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Measure Arts People Museum 47

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Alexander Haas is an Atlanta-based fundraising consulting firm that serves clients nationwide, including those in higher education, museums, schools, performing arts, human services, healthcare, and religious organizations. Alexander Haas. Website: [link]. Graham-Pelton. Website: [link]. Focus Fundraising. Website: [link].

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Consultant Fundraising Phoenix Atlanta 52

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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Museum History Arts Artist 47

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 14, 2010

This external profile technique was also used at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum when it first opened to let visitors connect with the stories of particular people affected by the Holocaust. There are some profile systems that bridge internal and external identity to help visitors imagine themselves in historical or potential scenarios.

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Museum International Roles Greece 34

Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

How would you design a recommendation system for a museum? Recommendation systems are tools that offer suggestions, most commonly in the "if you like that, you'll love this!" When it comes to museums, recommendation systems are a natural solution for the problem of the customized tour.

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System Design Movie Museum 22

Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

A: When we brought technology to Achieve in 2014, we had our own content management system and a suite of tools similar to what Qgiv offers. We had built our system well before WordPress became popular. We decided in 2016 to pivot toward open source content management systems as the foundation of our technology platforms.

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Florida Social Media Technique Indianapolis 52

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Understanding the history of Google’s analytics suite is useful in better understanding GA4. Google answered these challenges with a system that ultimately became GA4, and announced no further development of UA. Here we’ll summarize those questions and answers. What is Google Analytics 4? Which visits lead to engagement?

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FAQ Organization Analytics Google 58

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Our county board of supervisors had brought their official meeting to the museum. They urged the politicians to fix a broken system. 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.

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Platform Impact Childhood Museum 31

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. Soon, the co-curators gave quick speeches about the exhibit.

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Brain Museum Culture Interaction 94

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.

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Causes Change Museum Social 50

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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Museum Track Boston Relationship 42

Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2015

Visitors in front of the African Elephant Diorama at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC photo) This guest post was written by Karen Wise, Vice President, Education and Exhibits at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. “I History exhibits with hundreds of objects and no coherent story.

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Los Angeles Museum History Artist 20

Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Alexander Haas is an Atlanta-based fundraising consulting firm that serves clients nationwide, including those in higher education, museums, schools, performing arts, human services, healthcare, and religious organizations. Alexander Haas. Website: [link]. Graham-Pelton. Website: [link]. Focus Fundraising. Website: [link].

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Consultant Fundraising Phoenix Atlanta 52