Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Local Oakland Tweeter @trafficologist Standing Beside Her Profile Pic in the Twitterstream. I met James Leventhal via Twitter and we ended up working together on a project. Recently, James wrote about some interesting ways museums are using Twitter for offline/online engagement. California is part of the OMCA’s mission.

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Trend Oakland San Francisco California 91

Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2010

This morning, I gave the keynote address for the Washington Museums Association annual conference. Again and again, I've been inspired by projects that invite collaboration in informal, ongoing, flexible ways. It features lots of museum-based examples. Their theme was “Building Community through Collaboration.”

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Collaboration Museum Minneapolis Oakland 34

Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Two institutions I see making this "or" choice in exciting ways are the Brooklyn Museum and the Oakland Museum in California. Tags: programs visitors.

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Audience Museum Oakland Participatory 40

Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

I spent last week working with staff at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) on ways to make this encyclopedic art museum more open to visitor participation across programs, exhibitions, and events. Foot in the Door is a straightforward contributory project. The staff did a wonderful job documenting the project.

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Participatory Museum Arts Artist 46

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Created by video artist Wendy Clarke, and eventually part of the Exploratorium's collection, the Love Tapes project features visitors of all kinds sharing their personal experiences of love. Part of their power, like that of the PostSecret project, is their originator's love for them and desire to see them grow.

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Voice Museum Vietnam Music 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

Traditional exhibition design, in which the museum has a specific story or message to tell, doesn't easily accommodate visitor co-creation. This realization--that a single museum voice was not the best way to tell a particular story--formed the basis for MN150 , the exhibition explored in this post. How did this project get started?

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Interview Minnesota Museum History 21