Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2020

This week we're hearing from Eastman Museum's Kate Meyers Emery. They have created elevated and new digital opportunities for public access and engagement within their respective museums at a time when physical access is not possible. My team will also continue to protect and monitor the museum.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 13, 2024

When you hear the term “digital archive,” you likely think of museums, historical societies, or libraries. Gwinn-Becker outlines the two core components of a robust digital archive and explains how fundraisers can use the archive to discover, reach, and engage more donors. What Types of Organizations Should Create a Digital Archive?

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Residents in the three counties that pay the millage will receive special benefits : free admission to the museum and expanded educational programming. I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. I’ve seen again and again how outdoor programming has impact beyond what can happen inside the museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2016

Five years ago, I left the consulting world to take the helm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) at a time of crisis and change. As I did at the one-year and three-year mark, here are some of the things I'm most proud of, mistakes I've made, and questions on my mind as we head into the next five years.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2010

I believe that the museum blogosphere is still underdeveloped and there's lots of room for people to share their inspiration, experience, and ideas. Diane is still getting her "blog legs" and the posts are a bit haphazard, but she's one of the most brilliant minds in arts innovation, and I can't wait to see where this blog goes.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2014

Public space is designed for neutrality. But what if we designed public space for community? These are the questions on my mind as I start working more intently on an outdoor plaza project. These are the questions on my mind as I start working more intently on an outdoor plaza project. But bonding is easy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

A month or two ago, museums and galleries around the world participated in a Twitter event called Ask a Curator. I asked Jim Richardson, who blogs at the Museum Next Blog and is the brainchild behind the event, a couple of questions: How did #askacurator come about? How did you get 340 museums to participate?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Classic live auction item ideas When you think of a live auction, there are probably several classic items that come to mind. Your corporate partners get more positive publicity for their businesses, while your nonprofit receives valuable auction packages for your event. It’s a win-win relationship!

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. My mind was a sponge. CA: One of the best things that happened to me while volunteering for the local art museum is they funded my travel to Los Angeles and my tuition to take the week-long grant writing training bootcamp hosted by The Grantsmanship Center.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 12, 2020

By Lori Byrd-McDevitt After a decade spearheading the social media presence at the world’s largest children’s museum, Lori now co-owns her agency 1909 DIGITAL where she helps others with their digital strategy. She is an adjunct in JHU’s museum studies faculty. Museums have made waves. It’s our time to shine. Let’s do this.”

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VQ Strategies

JULY 22, 2021

As I gratefully opened the bag of pretzels, I could have been thinking about what time I might eventually make it home or the plans I’d be missing that evening, but instead, my mind turned to volunteer engagement and how the past year has delivered so many unexpected changes in plans. For them, understanding their options was top of mind.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

North Carolina Museum of History 1988.39.4 I’m always amazed when my colleagues tell me that the biggest barrier they face to “opening up” the content at their museums is from registrars—the people who care for collection objects. Followers of Museum 2.0 To me, this seems both discouraging and ungenerous to visitors.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2019

I was a small fry at a big museum, volunteering for a project I had no business taking on. I learned this terminology later, from Beck Tench , who studies, mentors, and leads institutional change in public space. Fifteen years ago, my boss kicked me under the table. My boss and mentor Anna often encouraged me to stretch the limits.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2020

This may help to ensure that staff members feel supported in dealing with COVID-19 and are prepared to deliver a unified message to the public. . American Alliance of Museums: COVID-19/coronavirus Resources & Information for the Museum Field . Be transparent about COVID-19’s possible effects on your organization .

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

Who thinks social service organizations should fly under the same banner as those that organize the public for political change? It isn't the missions that have so much been invented, mind you — it's the idea of collective sectorness. Through intersection, museum professionals learn from health care professionals, and vice versa.

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Twenty Hats

AUGUST 18, 2020

In a Circle, like-minded professionals gather to discuss common challenges, suggest solutions, and expand their overall leadership skills. For eight months, 30 museum-based volunteer managers gathered to explore challenges specific to their brand of volunteer engagement. My second circle was much more specialized.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Author: Ellice Engdahl When Seema asked me to write a post “ taking stock of the industry ,” I started to run through all the things that have been bouncing around my mind since the world changed. It’s been informative to see the range of museum responses to a world in which people cannot physically visit our campuses.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Between high-altitude hijinks, run-ins with wildlife, and very long days of hiking, I finished John Falk's new book, Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. In other words, if you are a curious person, you will go to museums to learn new things. And this brings me back to the mountains.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. But when we started hosting formal community visioning workshops in 2013 with the Project for Public Spaces, we heard other opinions of downtown.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009. In my experience, museum professionals aren’t big reality TV viewers.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 25, 2007

Last week, I spoke with Jim Richardson, managing director of SUMO Design , about their very cool new project with the North East Regional Museums Hub : I like. museums is a website on which visitors can search for museums in the North East region of England. It furthers the idea of museums as multi-use venues.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it.

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Museum Conversation Columbus Local 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

Relative to other museums, I think we spend less time producing an "onstage" experience and more time collaborating with community organizations behind the scenes to empower them to produce. Our museum is growing, and I'm always weighing different ways to expand our impact. I feel great about this approach. Not exclusively.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Rather than asking people to donate material items directly to your organization, you can create a public wish list on an e-commerce site like Amazon where your donors can buy items you need directly online. With the common interest of supporting your organization, they’ll be sure to find like-minded people they can create bonds with.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Making the public-facing user experience feel seamless. Mind Shift: Expense Versus Investment. It's also trusted by institutions like Greenpeace, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Red Cross, and the White House. This causes struggles big and small, such as. Extracting or importing data. Think in Terms of Conversions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2017

I look forward to continuing my research plans, but I also have to keep in mind that there will be people questioning and challenging my work. On the last night of the conference, other scholars and I went to the final reception at the Grand Rapids Art Museum. This only motivates me more to continue in research.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 9, 2013

And thanks to you for engaging with their posts and with the reruns from the Museum 2.0 She knits together nostalgia and activism with a level of nuance rarely found in debates about the value of museums, libraries, and other cultural spaces. NAKED, BLEEDING THIEF BREAKS INTO MUSEUM, SPENDS THE NIGHT REARRANGING ITS STORAGE FACILITY.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2016

October 26-28 in National Harbor, MD , some of the best and brightest minds in the social good space will come together to share ideas, gain inspiration, trade best practices, and discuss the ways that technology is empowering us to do more good. One of my favorite times of year is fast approaching—bbcon.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2008

Start an exploratory project to open a small, probably struggling, museum? Forget your grand dreams and try to weave awesome strangeness into your regular museum job? It involves an exotic museum bedfellow, the suburban real estate developer. At the time, I was Master Teacher of Modern and Contemporary Art at the museum.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2008

What if witty cultural commentators reviewed museums the way they do music and restaurants? If Anthony Lane turned his cutting tongue from movies to museums? If Stephen Colbert "reported" on museums at times other than during the TV writer's strike? It's painful. And instructive. And revelatory. And painful.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Ensure all public-facing interactions are customer-service focused. They don’t have to be tangible gifts; offering opportunities to get together with other like-minded folks who share their values is plenty and can be greatly enjoyed and appreciated. Train all staff to be enthusiastic communicators.

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Everyaction

JULY 16, 2018

When looking for a data tool for social services organizations, four functions are especially important to keep in mind: 1. For online fundraising, it is important to utilize clean, simple, and easy to use forms, showing donors that they can trust your organization to provide them a simple and enjoyable experience in every interaction.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. In 2003, writer George Scheer inherited his grandmother's thrift store and decided to turn it into an artists' center and museum.

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Culture Alternative St. Louis Los Angeles 49

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This month we’ve been thinking about “What is a museum?” (I'm I’ve been visiting museums my whole life. Does that make me the best judge of museums? People are the defining characteristics of museums. I’ve worked with and at plenty of museums that can sometimes feel empty. I'm not alone there.

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