Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Virtual open mic night. Let them share and show off for a night with a virtual open mic night fundraiser. Not ready to step back into a movie theater yet? Give your donors the full movie night experience with a virtual viewing party. Virtual tours for museums. Viewing party. Coaches talent challenge.

Raise 98

Raise Ideas Online Help 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

You can almost visualize swarms of companies jumping off into the abyss following competitors, self serving social media consultants and momentum created by mainstream media hype, each yelling “weeeee, social meeeeeedeeeeahhhh” and then realizing (maybe too late) with wide open eyes that they’re not prepared (no social media policy, no roadmap).

Social Media 50

Social Media Open Media Chicago 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2009

Over the weekend, I took my kids to the movie, Night of Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian has opened the conversation up to the world and is inviting people to submit a one-minute video sharing their vision for the Institution's future. They thoroughly enjoyed watching the exhibits come to life. (My

YouTube 62

YouTube Vlog Movie Museum 62

Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

Visitor (though, really my child) at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK As I said, last week, I’ve been to a travelin’ girl for the last couple of years. So, instead, I am offering 3 posts this month about what I learned from visiting more than 300 museums. Last week, I talked about what I learned about museum workers.

Museum 27

Museum Photography Phone Children 27

Museum 2.0

MAY 11, 2009

You know how Ira Glass recently broadcast his radio show This American Life live to movie theaters across North America? I'm doing a workshop with the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History which includes a public lecture on "the multi-platform museum" on May 18 at 3pm ET (GMT -5). What is a multi-platform museum?

Museum 22

Museum Platform North America Lecture 22

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

What role does “promoting human happiness” play in the mission statements and actions of museums? That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). Earlier today, the CFM offered a free webcast of Jane McGonigal’s talk on gaming, happiness, and museums.

Museum 21

Museum Game Structure South America 21

Care2

AUGUST 9, 2011

They are commonly used now on billboards at bus stops that advertise a movie or consumer product. You may have also seen QR codes when travelling and visiting tourist spots such as museums, walking tours, etc. You’ve probably see dozens of QR codes on your way to work. Absolutely.

Module 77

Module Mail Movie Camera 77

Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. Now that in-person events and venues are beginning to open up, consider hosting a virtual auction and giving away “Night On the Town” activities. Movie Nights. Before the movie starts, kick off the night with some bidding.

Ideas 59

Ideas Online Virtual Hosting 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0. I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. And yet many museums are fixated on creators.

Participatory 50

Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 50

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

Thank you to Susan Spero and all the folks at JFKU and Left Coast Press for starting a highly stimulating conversation this weekend at the colloquium on Museums and Civic Discourse. There were, as we say in the museum business, some good aha moments. What role should museums play in promoting discourse?

Museum 20

Museum Site Facilitation Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

For the past two years, I''ve been working on a project to activate the concrete space adjacent to our museum as a vibrant, community plaza. But we don''t yet know whether that person will be focusing primarily on booking movie nights or launching sketching clubs or engaging buskers. How do you know who you need before you open?

Public 20

Public Activities Active Activism 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. And yet many museums are fixated on creators. Second, open-ended self-expression requires self-directed creativity.

Participatory 44

Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

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.

Museum 20

Museum Denver Arts Lecture 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2007

Operation Spy, the narrative immersion experience at the International Spy Museum, does the same thing. It’s not surprising that the ad campaign for Operation Spy: “like the most intense movie you’ve ever seen, except you’re in it” is similar to that for virtual CSI:NY: “you’ve seen the show… now BE the show.”

Game 20

Game Experiment Second Life Open 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

No museum puts up a label that says: “Our last curator thought this painting was lousy and kept it in storage. Before the MAH exhibition, those historic surfboards rested deep in the collection storage of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. They were featured in the movie Grease. In the 1970s, Bruce Springsteen opened for them.

Arts 20

Arts North America Music Hawaii 20

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. Imagine if Netflix encouraged people to rate movies but did not provide customized recommendations based on their ratings. nothing happens. But without responsiveness, you have a broken feedback loop.

Participatory 35

Participatory Museum Rate YouTube 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2006

There is so much happening in Second Life with nonprofits, educational institutions, museums, and libraries that it is hard to keep up. The opening is Thursday evening. Machinima are movies filmed inside virtual worlds like Second Life. curator Shadow Fugazi put together a photo exhibition in Second Life.

Second Life 50

Second Life Life Machinima Darfur 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

Pop quiz: How much does it cost to go a museum? Museums can range from free to about $30 for admission. But even more than this confusion, I believe museums suffer from a lack of consistent expectations when it comes to price and purchase options. So why can’t museums do it? Is the more expensive movie worth more?

Movie 20

Movie Museum Culture Free 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 1, 2008

My more complete thoughts and reactions to the AAM (American Association of Museums) conference are forthcoming in a longer post soon. Today, I want to share slide presentations and interviews you might be seeking related to the sessions I chaired this week.

Slides 20

Slides Virtual Design Content 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2007

Some choice quotes: Stories tend to be unchanging, very linear, whereas games tend to be open ended. Movies are primarily visual, games are primarily interactive, so whenever we take control away from player at all we are taking away the most important thing about games. Movie: What’s going to happen next. How linear?

Game 20

Game Story Museum Movie 20

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition to being the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, he is the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. We created a sales gallery at Mystic Seaport Museum Stores, and began to invest in developing markets with collectors for artists. For example, our music, our movies.

Culture 51

Culture Global Interview New Mexico 51

Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2007

A museum experience I’ll always remember: In 2002, I worked at the Boston Museum of Science with a program in which high school students from a nearby charter school spent half their school time at the museum. They took regular classes, museum-specific classes, and had internship-style museum jobs.

Lesson 20

Lesson Museum Music Classes 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 27, 2007

Last week, there was a New York Times article about the recently opened Ripley’s Believe It Or Not and Madame Tussauds attractions in Times Square. Heck, sign me up for a ticket to the zombie museum. But when I took off my “entertainment” glasses and put on my museum eyes, my reaction wasn’t amusement. It was distaste.

Model 20

Model Museum Blended New York 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

Ian comments: Very few video games set out to tackle mundane applications akin to the home movie or the airplane safety video. I was struck, reading these articles about games, by the idea that introducing games, or comics, into the museum experience does not necessarily imply dumbing down or funning up the experience.

Game 20

Game Fun Museum Movie 20

Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The platform lends itself to investments in high-definition movies, high-resolution photos, and audio-clips — stories that help reveal "what your support is accomplishing." Moreover, the iPad will likely prove a good platform for developing kiosks in public spaces like museums, or even your organization's lobby.

Laptop 67

Laptop Audio Nonprofit Ipod 67

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

9) Movie screenings. Virtual tours can be surprisingly pleasurable and rejuvenating while not having to travel anywhere — just let a tour guide show you around a museum, ancient site, city, or gallery while live streaming to a group of people. Viewing films at home has been popularized by services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu.

Virtual 353

Virtual Ideas Fundraising Stream 353

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

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. A lot of what interests me about bringing 2.0

Museum 20

Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

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. Can museums afford to indulge in this kind of fantasy? It drives me nuts when I’m in a museum that has made a half-hearted attempt to thematically connected galleries or exhibits.

Game 20

Game Storytelling Lesson Museum 20

CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Here’s a look at the Faurschou Foundation’s Virtual Tour of their Museum in Brooklyn, NY: [link]. Virtual Movie Night. If we’re doing anything during this time, it’s watching a lot of movies. Set up a virtual movie night with Netflix Party ! But, this doesn’t have to be done alone.

Virtual 98

Virtual Ideas Fundraising Classes 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2023

And Boomers, if they are fortunate, are in the peak of their retirement years and actually have the time to open and read mail from nonprofits. Millennials and Gen X appreciate snail mail that isn’t a bill or a notice of a bill to come. The problem is that most print mail from nonprofits is boring.

Trend 247

Trend Marketing Digital Fundraising 247

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The interview includes stories about some of his projects, and a delving into questions about what makes viral content compelling, how to draw people into an uncomfortable environment, and ways that art--or museum content--can become more pervasive by being hidden in the corners of life. What do you think has made you successful?

Discussion 20

Discussion Game Oklahoma Museum 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

For instance, the San Francisco Museum of Art has 34,678 items in its collection. To share its entire collection with art lovers, the museum created the “Send Me” bot allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted. Is it complex or simple?

Liberia 109

Liberia San Francisco Ethiopia Museum 109

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When you count attendance to your museum, do you include: people who eat in the cafe? It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Summertime concerts at the history museum? Outdoor movies at the art museum? If a kid gets dragged to a museum with their parents, do they count?

St. Louis 55

St. Louis Impact Museum Denver 55

Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

There have been some fun semantic jousting matches recently on the ASTC listserv about the difference between science museums and science centers. And earlier last month, the Museum of Television and Radio announced a name change to the Paley Center for Media. The word Museum is not powerful enough, alone, to attract or repel visitors.

Museum 22

Museum Arts Library Listserv 22

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I've been thinking recently about the "why" behind encouraging social interactions among strangers in museums. After all, people visit museums in their own pods for a reason. There are two ways I think we can be using this in museums. First, I think we should support the proliferation of museum-based "I saw you's."

Museum 20

Museum San Jose Participatory Social 20

Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

And, instead of limiting your events just to those in the local area or to those who have the means to travel, you can actually open them to anyone on the internet! You can procure items that encourage residents to explore the city in a fun way, such as local restaurant gift certificates or tickets to museums or sports games.

Ideas 59

Ideas Fundraising Virtual Fun 59

Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This is the penultimate installment of Museum 2.0's s book club on Elaine Gurian's collection of essays, Civilizing the Museum. NMAI opened to the public in fall of 2004, and has endured very mixed reviews for its presentation of the Indian experience largely from the perspective of native communities, not curators or historians.

Culture 20

Culture Storytelling Challenge Museum 20