Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I just got home from the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis. I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Instead, I found a standard art museum. Impersonal guards.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

North Carolina Museum of History 1988.39.4 I’m always amazed when my colleagues tell me that the biggest barrier they face to “opening up” the content at their museums is from registrars—the people who care for collection objects. Followers of Museum 2.0 To me, this seems both discouraging and ungenerous to visitors.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19. In exhibits and galleries where photography is permitted, of course!) To pull this off well you'll want to print up some effective signage to orient people to what Pinterest is about and how the museum is using it. Many of the Pins include links to the product page in the online store.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Some of these challenges were about mission fit.

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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. They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click.

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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. Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 5, 2010

But recently, an online coupon company called Groupon has made big waves not by offering the best or most coupons but by focusing completely on amplifying that narrative of discovery, so much so that people get caught up in the excitement and use the site to purchase goods, services, and experiences they otherwise would not buy.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Useful definitions of participatory activities as "curatorial, interpretative, and inventive"--this is a reframing of the Forrester research framework for online participation which is probably more appropriate to the arts context. What's the relationship between the goals of participation and the techniques employed?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. What is Click? The art will be displayed in order of the average juried scores.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In 2024, postcards with QR codes designed to make an impact (LOL funny, powerful quotes, beautiful art, photography, etc.) QR codes can link to an awareness campaign , generate a phone call to an elected official, link to an online petition, an email opt-in form, an Instagram account, a RSVP page, etc.!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

While artists will love a new set of paintbrushes or acrylic paint, offer a unique experience like a tour of the local art museum for those who simply love the craft. Photography – Set the aspiring photographers at your auction up for success with a basket containing all the latest camera accessories. Request a demo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. Brooklyn Museum implemented a crowdsourced photography exhibit experiment called “ Click! Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# 2) Crowd Creation. 4) Crowd Funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

She also talked about “Instameets” where people who have Instagram accounts meet up and take a photo walk and post photos. The pairing of meetups, photography, and social platforms is not a new idea. She shared an example of how charity:water and museums have been using these for engagement of supporters for social good.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Both of these ideas can be applied to museums and potential approaches to use of 2.0 in museums. The first is the familiar concept of museums transitioning to being a platform for specific kinds of encounters and experiences. Many museums share content beyond their four walls through virtual exhibits, online collections, etc.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Ideal for launching online fundraising and awareness campaigns, your nonprofit needs at least a month to prepare your campaign materials and craft your messaging in order to build a sense of anticipation among your fans and followers. With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

With a Pinterest-like design, Clipix is the new generation of online content management. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

No, these are neither the words of a self-important curator nor a well-spoken museum director. the crowd-curated photo exhibition now open at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It is a substantive research contribution by the museum to the social technology field at large. As with any good museum exhibition, Click!

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

COVID-19, even though things are opening up and hope is kind of on the horizon, it has changed how, and why, and how much we are online. And it’s a huge driver of online fundraising, and also just awareness raising. Now, we know this. This is something that we know. So the statistics are showing that, yes, we are using it more.

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