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How Much Time Does Web 2.0 Take?

Museum 2.0

On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums. framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. I provided the Web 2.0 and sniff around.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 4: Customer Support

Museum 2.0

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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The #1 Skill Nonprofit Professionals Should Focus on in 2021

DipJar

Others are looking at no demand at all, and with it, no revenue, because their mission involved gathering large groups of people in places like theaters, galleries, and museums. Imagine you run a performing arts organization dedicated to saving theater programs in your local public school system. Mary’s University of Minnesota.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

Museum 2.0

The whole process of developing an exhibition tends to get stuck behind a museum's doors. In the past two decades, science centers have been in the lead in the exhibits arena, and we think we have a lot to share--and learn--with other museums. Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Juneteenth Resources

Media Cause

While slavery may have ended on this day many years ago, we at Media Cause are aware that its lasting impacts stay with us in the form of systemic racism. The holiday has been celebrated since 1865 and was officially made a federal holiday in 2021. Attend Events .

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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

Bloomerang

Yeah, the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. I’ve been to the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. Mary’s University of Minnesota. There are lots of other software systems out there, so no longer do you have to pay $20,000 to get Raiser’s Edge. Many mail houses and data systems. That’s right.

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Pointing at Exhibits, Part 2: No-Tech Social Networks

Museum 2.0

This can be an incredibly technical topic, as it focuses on the ways that platforms (online, exhibits, museums) can harness the individual activities of many visitors and create meaningful experiential outputs that connect people to each other. But designing an entire museum that functions this way probably isn't your goal. exhibition.