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

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. At the historic site?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. This combination of technical ability, neutrality, and fierce belief in freedom of expression is undervalued in society and by many existing library systems. We’re not even talking about “radical librarians.”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 21, 2013

TechSoup donor partner Shopify recently introduced its new, fully integrated point of sale (POS) system. The Shopify POS lets you synchronize sales from your online store with those made at an event or in a brick-and-mortar store (museums with gift shops, take note!). Check out this post on the Shopify Blog for more information.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

From operating systems to office productivity suites to graphic design software, Microsoft has made over 250 products available for donation through TechSoup. To receive product donations from TechSoup, an organization must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit or a public library. Faith-based 501(c)(3) organizations.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. COST: Museum books tend to be expensive - because they are printed in small runs, the price for a 400-page paperback can be as high as $40. Why Self-Publish?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When you find a bar with your favorite song on the jukebox, or a museum room that feels like your grandmother's living room, you suddenly feel a strong affinity and are able to see yourself reflected in the space. It may be great for a natural refuge to remain hidden, but that sounds like a disaster for a restaurant or museum.

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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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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2008

When you design a new interactive, talkback station, or traditional exhibit for your museum, what best practices and design requirements do you consult? Museums don't have a well-developed body of industry-wide best practices. The solution is a design pattern library, a place where Yahoo! Do you use classic books?

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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

Today I got an early present from the San Francisco NPR station, KQED, which aired a piece on Museum 2.0 featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). This concept has spawned a question I like to obsess over: What would a museum look like that got better the more people used it?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. These tags would be added to the books in the catalog to build a kind of recommendation system. To do this, the library didn't create a complicated computer system or send people online.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

AUGUST 11, 2011

The Perkins History Museum has an impressive collection on the history of education for people who are blind and deafblind. However, they are also planning to create an online museum and archive that will be fully accessible to all. (I Can the various systems allow for data sharing or possibly even interoperabilty ?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. Recently, I learned about an innovative, super-low tech tagging pro ject in a library that does this beautifully. The library created a book drop for every tag. Sounds complicated?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

These solutions are similar to constituent relationship management systems (CRMs) but they manage member information rather than donor information. Benefits of membership management software Most membership nonprofits find membership management software to be worth the investment because these systems allow you to: Attract new members.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One way to create a major donor program or donor perks system is to replicate one from another organization. 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. This can include museums, archives, galleries, etc. Invitation-only Slack Group.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

On Tuesday, I reviewed Elaine Gurian’s essay, Choosing Among the Options , on museum archetypes and self-definition. Today, discussion with Elaine about ways museums choose their direction, how change is possible, and new museum types to be added to the list. What if you don’t want to be identified as one type of museum?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. In February 2001, AAM commissioned a study about the trustworthiness of museums and found that "Almost 9 out of 10 Americans (87%) find museums to be one of the most trustworthy or a trustworthy source of information among a wide range of choices.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. Why would an art museum create an ARG? And the "stuff" of the game is real stuff, artifacts created by players and sent to the museum. To expand their audiences.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

In this post, an exploration of ways that museums can support promoters, convert detractors, and generally energize visitors to share their experience with others. Supporting Promoters Somewhere out there, there are people who love your museum. Ratings and Reviews Imagine a visitor who leaves your museum enthused about her experience.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 2023

American Jazz Museum Gold – Cultural Institutions Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole. This project took home six awards this year!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

Why should museums care about customer support? While I’ve never heard of a museum with such a heavy call volume that they’ve outsourced their front desk to Bangalore, many museums, small and large, suffer at the phones. The reason museums resist peer-to-peer visitor support is fear of erroneous and unvetted information.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

You can put a display at the front of the museum. The Boston Library main branch used to have an “ask a librarian” booth in the front featuring a person sitting at a card table with some books. The Santa Cruz Public Library has a corkboard at the front where users can write their own picks cards and post them up.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole. This project took home six awards this year! congressional districts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. Young people have access to computers in schools and libraries, but there is a difference in the quality of experience. Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. local time).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2007

On Musematic , Holly Witchey has rigorously recorded her recent experience at WebWise, a " IMLS/RLG/OCLC/Getty sponsored conference" on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World that was held March 1-2. I wonder what the library people in the room thought when they heard this. Libraries are the ultimate 2.0 I like this.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. MoFuse :: mofuse.com. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2010

The folks at the New Media Consortium have released their annual Horizon Report , a roundup of up-and-coming technologies relevant to museums, archives, and libraries. The Horizon Reports ARE really useful if you need arsenal to explain the relevance, utility, or educational value of new technologies in your museum.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Many look to the library for access. Internet access is now one of the most sought after public library services and. Online systems help emergency response teams get vital information more. Libraries,” [link] Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2010. Core state testing. and businesses.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

So you’re going to see some of those things kind of come in here with systems, check boxes, lists, you know, just deal with it. Mostly it’s in libraries. But you can go to the library. Go to the library, spend an afternoon, do some research. I think this is Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. • National Library of Medicine. • Institute of Museum and Library Services. • National Endowment for the Arts. State Government Grants.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2007

Welcome to the first installment of the Museum 2.0 While every post at Museum 2.0 Elaine Gurian, author of this summer’s book, Civilizing the Museum , will also be popping into the conversation as her time and interest permits. And if you're planning ahead, next week we'll look at chapter 6, Timeliness: A discussion for museums.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

Software support can be a major help when first getting up and running with a new system. Request demos from your top options and invite team members to join so they can understand how each system works. Multiple integrations with leading payment processors, content management systems, and CRMs. User-friendliness. Integrations.

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