Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. MySpace is, but Facebook isn’t.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 25, 2007

Last week, I spoke with Jim Richardson, managing director of SUMO Design , about their very cool new project with the North East Regional Museums Hub : I like. museums is a website on which visitors can search for museums in the North East region of England. It furthers the idea of museums as multi-use venues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. o is Transparency - and the best example of that is what the Indianapolis Art Museum has done with its pubic metrics on its web site.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

The presumed answer is "yes" your museum needs a blog, a pony, or a set of comfy couches. Does your museum need a custom online social network? Some of the most popular are LinkedIn (a professional network), Facebook (social and professional), and MySpace (anything goes). Why might a museum create its own social network?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

I’ve received a few inquiries over the last year about museums and geocaching. to ask him all the dumb questions about geocaching and museums you can imagine… and a few more. puts it, “MySpace for inanimate objects.” Sounds like there might be some overlap with your museum audience? Leary , is something of an expert.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

In this presentation, she details five core "game mechanics" that make games compelling, fun, and addictive, and talks about how they are being applied in successful web applications like MySpace and Netflix. There have got to be some great ways to apply these mechanics to museums. How can you "level up" in a museum?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2007

No more dealing with one team member on AIM, another on gchat, one who thinks IM services are evil, and the fourth on the museum floor with a cell phone. But how could it be used uniquely for visitors in museums? This is similar to initiatives where museums create MySpace accounts, in that you are going to “where the people are.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

The organization is asking supporters to change their Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook avatars at 1:10 on Friday, March 6th to the "oneten" avatar. 100% of the royalties from Celebrating Women go to the International Museum of Women. Post a Women for Women International digital badge on Facebook, MySpace, your blog, or your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

If you already have a presence on MySpace, check this out - causes has just launched an application at MySpace. The Brooklyn Museum is seeking a more diverse group of people to evaluate the photographs submitted for a crowd curated exhibition called Click. Who has installed it? What are the results? Ever wanted to be a curator?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. As researcher Danah Boyd has pointed out, teens spend time on Facebook, MySpace, and other social networks because that's where their friends are.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

When you think of MySpace, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, even ExhibitFiles are tools that allows people--strangers and friends--to connect with one another. into the museum is the potential to encourage more positive in-museum interactions among strangers.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

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. create and manage a Facebook group or page, or a MySpace page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

In A Museum? If you're looking to engage and inspire new supporters, setting up an organizational presence on one of the larger social networks like Facebook or MySpace is the best step. Here's a question I get all the time: How much time and resources does it take to implement social media?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

A few weeks ago, a friend shared this video with me about people who intentionally create ugly MySpace pages. Would you go to a museum of bad visitor-generated content? Museums will be most successful not if they throw open their doors without oversight, as MySpace has, but if they can evolve into structured venues for participation.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2007

application like MySpace or Wikipedia. What is the collective item to which all are contributing on MySpace? Imagine a museum event or exhibition in which visitors can make a toy or creative object that will then go on display at the museum for the day. This is the MySpace model. Think about potlucks from the 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2007

I was talking recently to David Klevan, Education Manager for Technology and Distance Learning Initiatives at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (say that three times fast), about some of their awesome experiments with online discussion groups, blogs, and 2.0 Go downstairs and flip through the comment book at your museum’s front desk.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

The very first game post I ever wrote was about incorporating game mechanics into museum experiences. While her main audience is software and game developers, I think the material translates directly to other experience providers (like museums). and other software tools more appealing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Last week, Elaine Gurian and I talked about radical change in museums. Former museum start-up queen, Jen is taking a small organization whose goal is to promote girls’ involvement in math and science through research and programming to new, innovative, exciting places. We didn’t want to build MySpace. But we’re a non-profit.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. Why would an art museum create an ARG? And the "stuff" of the game is real stuff, artifacts created by players and sent to the museum. To expand their audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

An interesting point about using MySpace: "It can definitely be used for recruitment and as a mass communications tool, particularly for younger voters who tend to use email less. The key is to move MySpace friends onto normal advocacy lists as soon as possible.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

There are some obvious ties to the role of "community" in museums. Recently, some museums have launched initiatives to rebrand as community spaces, acknowledging and attempting to harness the positive social energy around visitation. Could museums do this? around gameplay. How do these game companies steer the discussion?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

In this post, an exploration of ways that museums can support promoters, convert detractors, and generally energize visitors to share their experience with others. Supporting Promoters Somewhere out there, there are people who love your museum. Ratings and Reviews Imagine a visitor who leaves your museum enthused about her experience.

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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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

I wrote a post a couple of months ago about Amy Jo Kim’s excellent presentation, “Putting the Fun in Functional,” in which she examines several “game metrics” and how successful sites like MySpace make use of them to promote stickiness. Like Netflix, museums are portals that offer access to a wide range of content. But that’s work.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

I created a directional pyramid to make a point about social content in museum; namely, that museums are not offering networked, social experiences—and therefore will have a hard time jumping to initiating meaningful social discourse. And I’m not advocating that the dream museum would be all level 5 experiences, all the time.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

She told me an anecdote about an experience with the Stanford Art Museum exhibition, Question , which included a keyboard where visitors could type their own thoughts about art, to be projected on a wall along with quotes by famous people. That audience--our visitors--expects that museum content has been developed with them in mind.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Last Friday, I had a discussion with Chris Catanese from the Museum of American Finance about things museum can learn from the technology (and web 2.0) On the face of it, museums are a lot more like banks than they are like dot coms. When it comes to products that are user-centric (as museum products should be!),

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 21, 2006

How can museums learn from it? Where do museums fit in? Many museums have a fascinating relationship with process exposure—lips sealed when it comes to their own final products, megaphones on when it comes to exposing the processes of others. What’s appealing about this, and what’s prurient?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

They're visually muddled, and even when you do get the information, job titles are often confusing at best; at my museum, the woman who maintains the artifacts is called the "Collections Manager." MySpace, LiveJournal, and Facebook all provide ways for you to seamlessly view and click through friends and friends of friends.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

No one would contest the idea that most museum exhibitions, art shows, films, books, in short, most content experiences, have value both for the new and return user. Most visitor-generated museum experiences are about creating, not curating, content. Why would someone want to contribute metadata to the museum experience?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

If we want to work with directors, trustees, and other skeptics to evolve museums and other content providers alongside Web 2.0, They don't call a friend to share news; they blog, twitter, facebook, and myspace it. And even if you understand what a site does, what can it do for your museum? non-threatening and inviting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

From Ruby Sinreich at Lotus Media comes a pointer to the Findhabeas.com campaign on myspace and possibly other places. While Forum One points out that Michael Edson of the Smithsonian American Art Museum will give a talk called " By The Time You Need A Blog, It's Too Late " at next week's seminar on blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. Digital media is being shaped by the private sector (YouTube, MySpace, etc). Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. local time). They document their learning."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

How can you make your museum website more effective in driving traffic and raising awareness of your institution? But there is a simpler, more impactful way for museum websites to become more visible, cited, and visited in the online landscape. Museums are creating “walled gardens,” and it hurts online visibility and impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

This week, we consider Chapter 11 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum , "Function Follows Form: How mixed-used spaces in museums build community," but first, a short and relevant note about my writing process. It has its own myspace page. Museums are naturally tuned to some of these but not all. It's a laundromat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

If Danah is so deeply rooted in social spaces, like MySpace and others, it???s Maybe for nonprofits, it is in the marketing area, where taking people into your world makes sense or for museums. s no wonder she does not see SL as a next step. Where, if it all, might immersive environments be of value?

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