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RIP: del.icio.us

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to PC World , Yahoo will shut down several of its Web properties, including Delicious, according to a leaked Yahoo presentation slide that was posted on Twitter. I queried my friends on Twitter and my library, museum, archivist, and educator colleagues suggested Diigo. I was hoping this was just a rumor.

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. You can follow along with the sessions today through Wednesday using #ERL11.

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Two Opportunities at the MAH: MuseumCamp and an Incredible Job

Museum 2.0

Dear Museum 2.0 friends, I want to share two great opportunities to get involved at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in 2017. Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Aspiring, Thriving, or Struggling Changemaker? Join us for MuseumCamp 2016.

Museum 2.0

Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp. Yes you can sleep at the museum. You do NOT need to work in a museum to attend. MuseumCamp will be August 31-September 2, 2016.

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Creature Comfort: Where are the Couches in Museums?

Museum 2.0

In the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s four part series on comfort in museums, we get down to the basics: creature comfort. So for this last piece, we look at going the other way: making museums more physically comfortable. And on the walls, my friend explained, was art from the museum itself. There was funky music.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my network below. One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. | View | Upload your own.

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