Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. Maybe think about activities you could support that would offer parents a place for their kids to go and learn, like a movie series, art classes, or a small-scale concert. Maybe it’s the same with some of you, too.
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.
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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. This is a problem for two reasons.
Museum 2.0
APRIL 22, 2015
People who go to midnight movies. Or Santa Cruz County teens who want to make social change. 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. Others are passing fancies. These types aren't perfectly distinct.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 10, 2006
It will be interesting to see if this advice holds true for the voters of the future based on Dannah Boyd's post " What i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens. "Do young people have email accounts? Do they login to them semi-regularly? Its part of the " Have Money Will Vlog."
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.
Museum 2.0
MAY 16, 2007
The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? 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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