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. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 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. Outstanding Website.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Here is the gist of my remarks: Community Engagement is one of those terms that is tossed around in museums but can become encrusted with coded meaning. Often museums use the word community engagement to mean bringing in low-income people, with “community” being a coded term for underprivileged people. They might be underserved or not.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Our county board of supervisors had brought their official meeting to the museum. The supervisors toured the exhibition with some of the 100+ local partners who helped create it. They urged the politicians to fix a broken system. Museums could make the platforms for those experiences. They shared their hopes.

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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

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. We are unapologetic about focusing local.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that truly sees these initiatives as part of their mission to serve their local community. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. to support programs and exhibits. Not really.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2020

Last week, I rambled about how work is a system. I've spent most of my working life at the mercy of city and state road construction, as Ohio seems to always been in repair ;> As someone who doesn't always listen to local traffic, I was thankful for his insight. Caution was something I even found myself typing all afternoon.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

I’ve received a few inquiries over the last year about museums and geocaching. to ask him all the dumb questions about geocaching and museums you can imagine… and a few more. Some people use a higher-tech logging system by tracking the items online to see who has found them and where they’ve gone. I sat down with Seth!

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

Museum of Contemporary Art. To date, the Upworthy community has dedicated nearly 2 billion minutes of attention to important stories for a better world, ranging from the criminal justice system to advertising’s effects on body image to clean energy. It’s hard to believe we’re only two days away from. Another film, Body Team 12.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. What we do know is that this is a vastly improved feedback system. Maybe this is good fodder for a future Museum 2.0 you tell me.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

On a recent trip to DC, an old friend showed me around a new exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide. The paper is perforated with one section for the promise, which visitors keep, and another section for a signature, which visitors leave at the museum.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 28, 2007

Coleman, co-founder of BEA Systems, the fastest growing technology company in history, and Fruchterman, recipient of the 2006 MacArthur Genius Award, will talk about their passion for social improvement. Program and Q&A Location: de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University Space is limited. Thursday, May 24, 2007 5:30-6:30 p.m.

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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. And for those who have, they quickly understand that the Museum has much more to offer than can be absorbed in a day.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

For instance, you might partner with a local restaurant to auction off a free meal. Art & History Museums Maitland is planning a virtual 3-day online art auction for summer 2021. Check out their Instagram homepage: [This is a screenshot of Art & History Museums-Maitland’s Instagram account.]. Continue to use email.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Some of these challenges were about mission fit.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Museum professionals tend to think this is OK because they think of the contributory act as the important part of the participation. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. I think this is why the Top 40 exhibition at the Worcester City Gallery and Museum was such a success.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

And with the influx of 100+ people moving here on a daily basis , it’s a good thing the locals continue to remind everyone to “ Keep Austin Weird. How can you explore doing something similar at your museum? Even the beer we serve is from local breweries! Take advantage of social media.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

The mom has a job at a museum cafe, the older kids are in school, and the youngest attends a wonderful daycare center we are so fortunate to partner with. The thing I am most excited about is we are partnering with some local companies to offer our moms priority for jobs. Your email system should be able to help you do that.

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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. Many of us are familiar with local businesses sponsoring local sports teams.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2011

At my grocery store, if you bring your own shopping bag, they give you tokens that you can use to donate money to local nonprofits. As I drop 5 cent tokens into my slots of choice, I often wonder: could my museum be on this list? Would it be appropriate to ask for donations here alongside the food bank and the women's shelter?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2015

On December 18, at 10am PT/1pm ET, I invite you to join the denizens of Museum 2.0, Museum Commons , and Incluseum for a 30-min tweetchat about how and why we can give for change at #RadicalGiving. I had just taken the job as director of a museum that was struggling financially. Please join us on Friday on twitter to talk more.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

People from across the country will gather at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to experience MCON in person and over 20,000 people will stream the event online. Told through the eyes of a local woman, this film explores the philosophy of Time magazine’s persons of the year: The Ebola workers of West Africa.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Instead of serving everyone at a single location, consider a catered meal delivered to each of your donors from a local restaurant. Try reaching out to local musicians or up-and-coming performers, and you might be surprised by the response — many individuals love the chance to create awareness for good causes. 13) Scavenger hunts.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2010

In my experience, lobby feedback systems generate three kinds of responses: Effusive, generic platitudes: "Great Museum!" An unresponsive system can't do that. Even when the comments are good, museum staff processes are rarely set up to learn from them and adapt programming accordingly. Probably not. Can you remove it?"

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more. Engage local artists to create art from recyclables in their homes and auction the pieces out during the online event. This would involve setting up one-on-one virtual conversations with your arts organization’s local celebrities. Don’t be discouraged.

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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. congressional districts.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

A partnership project between The Tech Museum , local technology companies like Intel , Applied Materials , and Nokia , and Santa Clara University's Center for Science Technology and Society , the Tech Awards itself is a testament to collaborative innovation and achievement.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). It's easier to secure grants for community-based programming or exhibitions, but it's not easy to get funding for some of the core work that museums do. It's inherent in what we do.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Even if you have a system that lets members login to get discounts or view special information, it can be a barrier that some patrons are not willing to go through. My kids love to print helmet stickers at the local fire museum and I’m inclined to add my email address to get it sent to my inbox for a record of our visit.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

I was fascinated by the project’s innovative approach to collecting, sharing, and connecting people through locally-produced media. This combination of technical ability, neutrality, and fierce belief in freedom of expression is undervalued in society and by many existing library systems.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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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. congressional districts.

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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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