Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The easier you can make it for me, the more likely I am to take my family to visit a zoo, museum, or aquarium, or attend a performance. For museums, science centers, aquariums and zoos, offer online purchase options so we can skip the line. Make it easy for me to stay informed. Make it easy for me to purchase tickets.

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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 question they're asking: Given the news ways of acquiring and sharing knowledge through technology: the internet, social networking, video sharing, and cell phones—where do you see the Smithsonian's museums and websites going in the future?

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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.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." He was mandated to turn the ship around financially and to expand the reach of the museum in the community. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

Today I got an early present from the San Francisco NPR station, KQED, which aired a piece on Museum 2.0 featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). This concept has spawned a question I like to obsess over: What would a museum look like that got better the more people used it?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. Have you asked yourself similar questions? If you have asked yourself some of these questions, here are some thoughts about how to build lifelong relationships—starting at a very young age.

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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.

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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. There were also plenty of unresolved questions.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 3, 2007

The morning after I wrote the post on questions as a basis for exhibit design, I bolted up in embarrasment. At ASTC 2006, Darcie Fohrman talked about an exhibition called QUESTION at the Cantor Arts Center in Stanford in 2004. The curators identified all kinds of questions: "Is there such a thing as bad art?" "Why

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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 in the case of Abbott Square (the plaza in question), we''re building something new. creative placemaking design Museum of Art and History programs public space' or all of the above.

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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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Surely this doesn’t apply to zoos, museums, and theaters does it? The most common question following this is “How do I know what the key personalities are for my organization?” One of the classic baseball movies is “Field of Dreams” with it’s famous line “If you build it, they will come.” Absolutely! Know your Constituents.

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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. Institutionally, this is a question of moving around assets, elevating some stories and archiving others. They were featured in the movie Grease. But we make those decisions and changes all the time.

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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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

With unemployment and cutback, for many a trip to the art museum can appear to be a luxury. The article includes a link to a google map where you can look at the economic impact in each state. In response, arts organizations are cutting staff, trimming budgets, canceling shows, shortening seasons or closing their doors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

I read an interesting post called " Jumping Off the Social Media Cliff " which raises a great question, "Are you a lemming or a base jumper?" What I mean by that is a question as to whether your organization is following others blindly into the chasm of social web participation or are planning and preperations being made first?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Perhaps the best example of a non-human opponent of this kind is 20q , an artificially intelligent game that is remarkably good at 20 Questions. Netflix isn’t selling movies; it’s selling the activity of movie-watching. Like Netflix, museums are portals that offer access to a wide range of content. It cares about you.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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. Family Lifetime memberships – When a donor joins an organization like the YMCA or a museum, can you extend the membership to the entire household. This can include museums, archives, galleries, etc.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2017

As cultural institutions, we are a “field” competing against “industries”—gaming, movie, TV, and amusement—that have the money to spend on weapons of mass audience engagement. The world our audiences live in is constantly changing, begging the question: How do you create digital strategies that compete in this constantly changing landscape?

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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. Chris bravely served as our "applause-o-meter" (see right) so that we could prioritize which questions to answer first.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

At a recent talk, a colleague from the Exploratorium asked me a very simple question. How, he asked, could a large museum that serves hundreds of thousands of people per year foster the same sense of personal connection and community that a small one can achieve? I didn't quite know how to answer this question.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2008

Why don't people come back to museums? To grapple with this question, I started considering other content and venues in our lives that we do and do not choose to have repeat experiences with. Why do we go to the same restaurants again and again, but not the same movies? What defines the experiences that we like to repeat?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2007

question that plagues many newcomers to Second Life. Operation Spy, the narrative immersion experience at the International Spy Museum, does the same thing. There are many Second Life and museum purists who bristle at these kinds of projects. why push them into a didactic mode of interaction? But here the tension rises.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. However, they may be willing to be a resource for prospective volunteers to ask questions and help them gauge whether volunteering with your organization is right for them.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2016

Here's the second chapter of the book, which answers a basic question: what IS relevance? Imagine you are considering going out to see a movie. You feel confident you’ll enjoy that movie. This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance in advance of its release. You buy a ticket.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

Fred created the Net Promoter Score, a metric related to the number of people who answer affirmatively to the question: "How likely are you to recommend X to a friend or colleague?" Supporting Promoters Somewhere out there, there are people who love your museum. Why don't museums allow visitors to rate and review their experiences?

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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.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2007

Tim O’Reilly has an interesting post up about the ascension of short-format content—the YouTube clip over the 2 hour movie, the blog post over the journal article. The difference is that the collective item in question (the meal) is very clearly defined at a potluck. Think about potlucks from the 2.0 Social connectiveness?

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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. Can museums afford to indulge in this kind of fantasy? The unifying story is espionage, and the game-like question: “Do you have what it takes to be a spy?” Where am I?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2015

People who go to midnight movies. If you are reading this via email and would like to share a comment or question, you can join the conversation here. A community by AFFINITY is defined by what we like. It is made up of people who end the sentence "I like __" or "I do " in the same way. Some affinities are lifelong passions.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

This gives you the opportunity to ask questions and engage with one another as they normally would have at the event. 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.

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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?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

But what if you are in an educational setting, like a museum? This was a huge challenge in designing Operation Spy , a live action narrative immersion game at the Spy Museum. I don’t have the solution to these questions. Most museum labels assume the visitor starts with little or no knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

The conversation with Yeshi is “smart,” meaning that she asks and answers questions with a variety of images, maps, text, and videos. For instance, the San Francisco Museum of Art has 34,678 items in its collection. The bot unlocks all of the artwork of the museum for virtual viewing by anyone, anywhere and at any time.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

TV Shows + Movies: The 13th (Documentary) . Moonlight (Movie). Mudbound (Movie). Various series on the National Museum for African American History and Culture Website —Explore African American history through digital activities on the Smithsonian Learning Lab platform. The Death and Life of Marsha P.

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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?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I've been thinking recently about the "why" behind encouraging social interactions among strangers in museums. I've been arguing that "visitors as participants" means participating BOTH with content and with other visitors, but that begs the question: do visitors really want to have social experiences with each other?

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