Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

Visitor (though, really my child) at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK As I said, last week, I’ve been to a travelin’ girl for the last couple of years. So, instead, I am offering 3 posts this month about what I learned from visiting more than 300 museums. Last week, I talked about what I learned about museum workers.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The easier you can make it for me, the more likely I am to take my family to visit a zoo, museum, or aquarium, or attend a performance. For museums, science centers, aquariums and zoos, offer online purchase options so we can skip the line. Create experiences where parents and kids can interact together.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2014

By Scott Gilman : Louisville Cardinals, horse racing, nonprofits, music, movies, various rants. Think Speed-Dating, Not Dinner and A Movie. Tweets about #marketing, #nonprofit and #nptech,#arts and #museum best practices. Manager for Blackbaud’s Interactive Strategy team. Movie lover & Tech geek.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. Maybe think about activities you could support that would offer parents a place for their kids to go and learn, like a movie series, art classes, or a small-scale concert. Maybe it’s the same with some of you, too.

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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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Surely this doesn’t apply to zoos, museums, and theaters does it? For example, if you have a Monet exhibit coming to your museum, you can create content about Monet’s biography, France in the time of Monet, or how Monet’s work is still applicable today. It’s GREAT to have something people interact with. Absolutely!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

Thank you to Susan Spero and all the folks at JFKU and Left Coast Press for starting a highly stimulating conversation this weekend at the colloquium on Museums and Civic Discourse. There were, as we say in the museum business, some good aha moments. What role should museums play in promoting discourse?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0. I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. And yet many museums are fixated on creators.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. And yet many museums are fixated on creators. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2006

There is so much happening in Second Life with nonprofits, educational institutions, museums, and libraries that it is hard to keep up. There is also an interactive brain memory board. Machinima are movies filmed inside virtual worlds like Second Life. curator Shadow Fugazi put together a photo exhibition in Second Life.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2017

As cultural institutions, we are a “field” competing against “industries”—gaming, movie, TV, and amusement—that have the money to spend on weapons of mass audience engagement. As programmers of events and performances, collectors of things, and producers of content, our main business seems to be a battle for the attention of our audiences.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Pollyanna was one of my godmother’s favorite movies. But, then I found myself interacting with the forced cheeriness of “I’m happy” colleagues. It seemed a bit like a fable, this girl who looked for the good in everything. I hadn’t spent enough time with people to be think it was an unreachable fiction.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Netflix isn’t selling movies; it’s selling the activity of movie-watching. Just by providing a platform for you to rate movies, Netflix celebrates and ascribes value to your preferences. Sure, Netflix gives you access to critics’ opinions as well, but it’s your stars that show up under the movie title. It cares about you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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. More than “observing, but less than “touching” is “interacting.” This can include museums, archives, galleries, etc. Put your own personal flair on this fun tactic from a hugely popular movie.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2007

But this yearly music/film/interactive conference/festival/creative happening has risen to the top of must-gos for techy, arty, gamey folks. This year, one of the keynotes at the Interactive festival was delivered by Will Wright, legendary game designer who created Sim City, the Sims, and now, the forthcoming Spore. Me neither.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2007

Operation Spy, the narrative immersion experience at the International Spy Museum, does the same thing. It’s not surprising that the ad campaign for Operation Spy: “like the most intense movie you’ve ever seen, except you’re in it” is similar to that for virtual CSI:NY: “you’ve seen the show… now BE the show.”

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

into the museum is the potential to encourage more positive in-museum interactions among strangers. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content. But are these potential interactions safe?

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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. Ian comments: Very few video games set out to tackle mundane applications akin to the home movie or the airplane safety video. And really, is it very surprising?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 27, 2007

Heck, sign me up for a ticket to the zombie museum. But when I took off my “entertainment” glasses and put on my museum eyes, my reaction wasn’t amusement. I imagined museum folks reading the article and snapping the paper closed with smug smiles on their faces: "See. It was distaste. This is why we have to avoid Disneyfication."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2007

A museum experience I’ll always remember: In 2002, I worked at the Boston Museum of Science with a program in which high school students from a nearby charter school spent half their school time at the museum. They took regular classes, museum-specific classes, and had internship-style museum jobs.

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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. This can be a great way for them to get to know your staff and interact with donors during your next event or project. Volunteers are the backbone of any nonprofit organization.

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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. Can museums afford to indulge in this kind of fantasy? It drives me nuts when I’m in a museum that has made a half-hearted attempt to thematically connected galleries or exhibits.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

He started out as a poet, started messing around on the internet with digital media, and launched into a series of highly unusual interactive projects. How could we embed these secrets, these hidden discoveries, into museums? What do you think has made you successful? At first, it was a surprise. Everyone else, make your exhibitions.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

But what if you are in an educational setting, like a museum? This was a huge challenge in designing Operation Spy , a live action narrative immersion game at the Spy Museum. Most museum labels assume the visitor starts with little or no knowledge. Consider the example posed in the Peter Sellers movie Being There.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

For instance, the San Francisco Museum of Art has 34,678 items in its collection. To share its entire collection with art lovers, the museum created the “Send Me” bot allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted. Gather data against your goals.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When you count attendance to your museum, do you include: people who eat in the cafe? It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Summertime concerts at the history museum? Outdoor movies at the art museum? If a kid gets dragged to a museum with their parents, do they count?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I've been thinking recently about the "why" behind encouraging social interactions among strangers in museums. After all, people visit museums in their own pods for a reason. Missed connections" or "I saw you" is the section of the personals where people describe people they almost interacted with in real-time.

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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 2.0

JANUARY 3, 2008

But what about interactive exhibits that give visitors active roles in the uncomfortable situation? Two examples, both from science museums. The exhibition starts with four interactive rooms in which you can confront your own fear: fear of creepy crawlies, fear of loud noises, fear of electric shock, and fear of falling.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Maybe it's a live music concert, or a museum visit, or a play. Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience. Some of the most successful museum programs I know of that draw people again and again happen on a regular schedule.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2007

As part of the article I’m working on for the journal Museums and Social Issues on using web 2.0 to promote civic discourse in museums, I’m developing an argument about the “hierarchy of social participation.” A successful level 2 experience builds on killer content (level 1), not interaction for its own sake. Watch a video.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Despite the shortcomings in Apple's v1 product, I believe that the iPad — and successors from other vendors — will change how people interact with online content. 2) Storytelling: The iPad offers a new format for one-on-one sharing of compelling interactive stories.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Today, we take a page from Wallace Stevens and look at some alternative ways to structure museum admissions and pricing. What if visitors could stream into the museum, with the expectation that at some point they would encounter a staff member who could facilitate the purchase of admission? Get rid of the admissions desk.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Welcome to the second in the four-part series on comfort (and its boundaries) in museums, a day late but just as tasty. I came out of it truly amazed by the power of the museum—not just to elicit laughter, but also to induce bizarre and voluntary acts of silliness in front of and with strangers. By sending people on missions.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2008

At any given time, do you know: how many visitors are in your museum? how many members are in your museum? Shockingly, for many museums, large and small, the answer to these questions is no. The store and the museum entrance are strangers. In Macy's or at the movie theater, I'm just a credit card.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Branding themselves as the “Play” button for the Web, Wibbitz automatically converts text-based posts and articles into engaging, interactive videos so your supporters “never have to read again.” Qwiki automatically turns pictures and videos from events you’ve captured on your iPhone into brief movies to share.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Well, that 80%, 60% of that money goes to large institutional organizations like hospitals and universities, and large cultural institutions, like museums, zoos, and libraries, and religious organizations. He said, “My God, I want to give you $450,000 to help you expand the program, and I’m going to produce a movie about this.”

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