Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Nikki created "The Ministry of Rules" --a shadow organization that existed for one week during half-term break, staffed by visitors who served as "Inspectors" investigating, exploring, and poking fun at the rules that make museums and galleries go. How did the museum staff respond to this experience? How did this project come about?

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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 2.0

MAY 31, 2011

Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Museums in Houston, I was honored to chair a fabulous panel on empowering museum staff to take creative risks ( slides here ). Beck beautifully described her entry into museum work. What kind of support do you need to be confident about taking a risk in your work?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

I once asked Eric Siegel, the Director of the New York Hall of Science, why museums are rarely innovative shining stars on the cutting edge of culture. He commented that as non-profits, museums are built to survive, not to succeed. Unlike startups and rock stars, museums aren't structured to shoot for the moon and burn up trying.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

One thing that I mindful of as a trainer is that always experience a method as a participant first before using it. I designed this exercise after a delightful experience visiting the Barnes Foundation Museum where the art work is hung on the wall in a way to facilitate pattern recognition and learning about art concepts.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

We have HIGHLY innovative staff who push our available technology structures to capacity. With that in mind, we are pleased to see that nearly 15% of survey respondents considered themselves as Leading organizations, and only 5% indicated they were at the first level, Struggling. (We What is Tech Adoption? "We

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Two institutions I see making this "or" choice in exciting ways are the Brooklyn Museum and the Oakland Museum in California. You can't always do "and."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2015

"We want our museum to be relevant." We need to think about the structure of how our institutions function--from hours of operation to explicit and implicit rules of use--to make our work relevant to the patterns of contemporary life. I've heard (and said) this many times. Relevance is relative and relational. Interrogate form.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

My goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers). And then at the end, when she asked how many of us could do this in our own museums, no hands went up. We loved it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

It is also important to be mindful of how different generations use online social networking and the trends. The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors." This is the opposite situation of the previous design goal, one typical in science and children's museums.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. 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. Some organizations use donor perks or benefits to do this.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

When you think of MySpace, what is the first thing that comes to mind? 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.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 11, 2010

Dear Museum 2.0 They may ask models directly to pose for the in more structured encounters. Other names that emphasize interactivity are, to my mind, equally goofy. readers, I need your help. Drawers receive clipboards or easels and are encouraged to people watch and draw others.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

The essays in this section, on “Expressing and Co-Creating,” present projects in which visitors create exhibition content, contribute to its creation, or get a heavy done of meaning-making in their experience of museum content. Who controls the content in the museum? Who controls the museum experience? First, museum content.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

With all of this in mind we have been honored to have Amnesty International, charity:water, PBS, The Holocaust Museum, and dozens of other privacy-committed nonprofits participate in Analysis Exchange projects. . We also have a rigorous Terms of Service that every member agrees to in advance of participating in Analysis Exchange.

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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. When I read this list, my mind leaps to fantasy. Can museums afford to indulge in this kind of fantasy? In my head, I say, “I am in a museum. Lets me be someone I could never be.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

I spoke to them on different days, so I've taken some liberty with structure here, but their words are maintained intact. The whole process of developing an exhibition tends to get stuck behind a museum's doors. What are the key design elements in your mind? One of the biggest questions in my mind is about honesty.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Andrea has been a leader in the museum technology field. We are seated on a legacy of more than 25 years of comprehensive contributions to the museum education field, including formative and summative evaluations of how our exhibitions and engagements with various communities have performed. And it shows.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. My goal was to be open-minded and supportive of disagreement while retaining control. Check out the other parts here.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

I've become convinced that successful paths to participation in museums start with self-identification. The easiest way to do that is to acknowledge their uniqueness and validate their ability to connect with the museum on their own terms. Who is the "me" in the museum experience? Not so at museums.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Cost Structure: Understand the pricing model of the software you’re evaluating. Doubleknot While Doubleknot is a donor management platform primarily built for cultural organizations like museums and zoos, it also offers event management capabilities. Some charge a flat fee, while others use a percentage of ticket sales or donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. even if you know who they are.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

My interest in gaming in museums was ignited by working on Operation Spy, an immersive, narrative, live-action game experience at the International Spy Museum, and fueled by the CSI:NY virtual experience. The Open Source Museum project at The Tech is a grant-funded grand experiment. Will this project thrive or fall flat?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Yeah, the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. I’ve been to the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. How do you structure your database? So just keep that in mind. I look at how is it structured, the big internal structure. So there is a way to structure your database so that it is organized and consistent.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Again, how many of you have attended an event or go to a museum? And the way that I’m going to talk about these case studies is the purpose, the structure, and the outcome of each. And I bet if you shoot her a quick note, she won’t mind that at all. So the first case study is about parlor meetings. Steven: I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

What comes to mind when you think of the word crowdsourcing either for funding or doing? How to structure crowd sourced philanthropy based on voting or feedback depends on the outcomes of the project, a theory of change. Brooklyn Museum implemented a crowdsourced photography exhibit experiment called “ Click!

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

During one of the most exciting periods in NASA's history, some of the toughest, most mission-critical work was being done behind the scenes by the astute minds of Johnson, Vaughn, and Jackson. Rosalind Franklin. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. Are you inspired by women in the arts? Shero Thought Leaders. Roxane Gay.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2008

I'm at the Science Center World Congress in Toronto this week, enjoying the best (international idea sharing) and worst (fatuous self-congratulation) of the museum conference experience. A CEO who changes his mind each week is no friend to staff, no matter how innovative his thinking is. Museum management needs to do the same.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

Contrasting that rich human narrative with the kind of gleamy tweaky technology narrative that was emerging from the NISE-NET meeting made me realize that generally speaking, science museums ignore many of the aspects of life that are the most resonant--mortality, sex, humor, tragedy, pity, joy. So we had the key players. That’s not easy.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

There are lots of museums (and organizations of all kinds) looking for ways to inspire users and visitors to produce their own content and share it with the institution online. The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence Sue Lawty. The activity is compelling.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Why do you care about and or work in museums? I don't work in museums because I love them. When I visit a new city, I don't clamor to visit museums. And while I'll visit museums out of professional (and occasionally personal) interest, I don't do it because of a deep emotional connection. And check out the comments.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2014

I''m personally struggling with this a bit and would love your recommendations of books that can help in thinking about how to add structure in a way that supports and builds with minimal ossification. This book uses the classic business book formula--pithy missives mixed with diverse examples--but it does so really, really well.

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