Museum 2.0

MARCH 19, 2014

Here are a few of the hashtags I''ve seen applied to photographs of museum objects on Instagram lately: #heytherebigfella #biggysmallistheillest #forbrightfuture #myfavorite #instagood #bestday #withmyhomies #whatever #learnedfromthebest #revolutionary #nowicandie These tags all do a great job capturing the magic of exploring a museum.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2017

TechSoup offers many donated and discounted products for nonprofit museums and history organizations, such as historical sites and societies, of every type. Here's our guide to what's most popular with our over 8,000 museum TechSoup members. Our museum members particularly like Microsoft Project and SQL Server.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2017

followed by the painful news about racism-fueled rallies and mob violence in Charlottesville, VA. Like Seema, I've been looking for ways to increase active resistance of racism, hate, and bigotry--both as an individual and as the leader of a museum. What does this have to do with museums? Museums are ideas. They are hope.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2013

That said, some recent upgrades to Facebook Pages have a big impact upon your nonprofit’s presence on Facebook and with the site-wide launch of the new News Feed and Social Graph Search coming soon, many more changes are likely to come. The Field Museum Community Page. The Field Museum Official Page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Field Museum Online Store. The Field Museum is an educational institution concerned with the diversity and relationships in nature and among cultures. Paul Getty Museum Store. Metropolitan Museum of Art Store. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art museums.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments. Nonprofits and museums depend on dedicated, but oftentimes limited, development staff to sift through countless prospects to determine which ones are priority.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

Take for example the # AskACurator hashtag created by a digital expert who works with museums almost five years ago and still active today. Someone sent out a tweet wondering if London’s Natural History Museum and Science Museum went to war, which would win. Here’s an example of using Moments from a Museum.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

Dear Museum 2.0 readers, I have some exciting news. As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). I am closing down my consulting business at the end of April, but the Museum 2.0 commitment to one post per week.

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Candid

DECEMBER 3, 2021

A weekly update with the latest news from PND. Met Museum receives $125 million pledge for Modern Wing renovation. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has announced a $125 million pledge from trustee emeritus Oscar L. Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang to fund the renovation of the museum’s Modern Wing.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We are thrilled to share the news that Forum One has been nominated for the award of Outstanding Non-PR Agency of the year in this year’s prestigious PRWeek Awards. Now in its 23rd year, the PRWeek Awa rds is regarded as the communications industry’s highest accolade.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2012

The vast majority of nonprofits have yet to utilize the new Twitter profile design that was launched on September 18. The good news is that upgrading to the new design is extremely easy – it can be done in just a few clicks by following these four simple steps. Guggenheim Museum :: @ Guggenheim.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2011

I have a confession to make: I've never cared much about museums on the Web. When smart people talk about digital museums and virtual experiences, I nod and compartmentalize it as someone else's bailiwick. And it breaks a lot of conventional rules about museum homepages. Is this the future of all museum websites?

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VQ Strategies

MARCH 22, 2022

Recently, an article about Disney came across my news feed and caught my attention. Reading this immediately reminded me of my years working in museums, developing exhibitions and training and supporting volunteers who worked as interpreters in our blockbuster shows. Believe it or not, quite a bit.

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Twenty Hats

MAY 3, 2021

N ever be afraid to say ‘no’ or be nervous to break news that a suggestion made by a volunteer was not selected to be implemented; always explain why the decision was made so that the volunteer has all of the pertinent information and feels part of the process even if their feedback did not result in a change.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

The Internet was primarily a desktop PC or laptop experience and reading news and sending and receiving email accounted for the majority of time spent online. Hermitage Museum 2015. Hermitage Museum 2005. GlobalGiving 2015. globalgiving.org. Global Giving 2005. web.archive.org/www.globalgiving.com. hermitagemuseum.org.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We are thrilled to share the news that Forum One has been nominated for the award of Outstanding Non-PR Agency of the year in this year’s prestigious PRWeek Awards. Now in its 23rd year, the PRWeek Awards is regarded as the communications industry’s highest accolade.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. " Indeed, her first post summarized some observations from her research on how museums were using Twitter for her masters thesis. I'm fascinated by social networking and am interested in finding ways for museums to appeal to all types of people.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Every few months, a major news outlet does an "expose" about data collection on museum visitors. These articles tend to portray museums as Big Brother, aggressively tracking visitors'' actions and interests across their visit. And then I started thinking: we do that all the time in museums. We''re trying to personalize.

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AFP Blog

MAY 25, 2011

Children's Museum Uses Smartphones to Educate Adults - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : "If Karen S. But while she laughs at the thought that the Virginia museum would ever have that kind of money, Ms.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The new Pages accidently went live yesterday for a few minutes before Facebook was ready, but just long enough to let the genie out of the bottle. Then a new Admin Dashboard was launched last month, and just a few days ago the Walls on Facebook Pages got a new look. All of these changes have now been completed.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

If you are new to Twitter, please check out this post for more context. Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. So here is a list of suggestions that hopefully will improve the way your museum thinks about using Twitter. I am a museum of Native Cultures and Art!"

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

The power of social media in a global context is two-fold: There’s huge potential with these news tools for real movement building, bringing organizations, campaigns and people together behind a movement and not just one brand or one call to action. Build buzz and spread news – be the hub and resource for news and information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

They mostly only follow other politicians and news media. National Museum of American History :: @ AMHistoryMuseum. They are active in our communities, in our schools, and have valuable knowledge and experience that our nation’s elected officials could learn from and be inspired by, and yet very few U.S.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. EMPSFM is one of a handful of museums worldwide for which the death of the King of Pop is a very big deal. Are museums only relevant when they can serve our most pressing needs?

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AFP Blog

JUNE 6, 2014

Fundraising by Text Message: What Worked and What Didn’t - Online Fundraising - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : To help provide a permanent home for the towering glass “Lime Green Icicle Tower” sculpture pictured here, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, placed a sign next to the artwork asking (..)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2011

People that browse the Mobile Web most often are looking for breaking news or current information about what’s happening at your nonprofit. They are looking for timely news items and recent blog posts. They are looking for timely news items and recent blog posts. Location and contact information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

People either start ignoring your updates because you’re always in their news feed, or they “hide&# you altogether. If your nonprofit is location-based (zoos, museums, health clinics, food banks, etc.) I am a big believer that less is more on Facebook. Not following on a 1:1 ratio on Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. COST: Museum books tend to be expensive - because they are printed in small runs, the price for a 400-page paperback can be as high as $40. Why Self-Publish?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2010

These are some thoughts on a very small museum called the Brazos Valley African American Museum. I was fortunate enough to visit it during the Texas Association of Museums conference, and it brought up some reactions and emotions that I wanted to share with you. Jesus” to help them deliver fourteen children.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2020

This month, I’d planned to have a celebration of the fellow people in museums, including your coworkers and colleagues you’ve never worked with. In this time when convenings have become treacherous, museums, zoos, and aquariums, as a collective, possess much of the affordable public space in the world. Then, a pandemic descended.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The strategy was designed to create a ‘surround sound’ across social media and news websites. . For instance, when LCV Victory Fund’s efforts were covered in prominent news outlets like the Washington Post, we amplified that story by doing paid advertising to put it in front of our mid-level donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

A month or two ago, museums and galleries around the world participated in a Twitter event called Ask a Curator. I asked Jim Richardson, who blogs at the Museum Next Blog and is the brainchild behind the event, a couple of questions: How did #askacurator come about? How did you get 340 museums to participate?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2011

Jason Beaubien was reporting on the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, the gleaming new art museum built as a "gift to Mexico" by the world's richest man, Carlos Slim. The news report , strangely, focused on the question of whether the Soumaya Museum is a rich man's indulgence or a truly "worthy" cultural institution.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

I have two brief pieces of news to share: 1. My post on naming conventions in museums was adapted into a piece for the Jan/Feb issue of Museum (formerly Museum News). Please add comments on the original post or on the AAM site to continue the discussion. We now have high-speed internet at my home.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The new website also applies insights from usability testing to improve the experience of exploring community data to help individuals and families decide where to live, and exploring data to help community leaders and policymakers serve more of their residents. Pacific Science Center. GOLD – Science Website.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009. In my experience, museum professionals aren’t big reality TV viewers. The following week it shot up the chart from number 40 to number 14!

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