Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2008

What if witty cultural commentators reviewed museums the way they do music and restaurants? If Anthony Lane turned his cutting tongue from movies to museums? If Stephen Colbert "reported" on museums at times other than during the TV writer's strike? It's painful. And instructive. And revelatory. And painful.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. What values change in that not so subtle shift between people, things, and the common space shared between them?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

I hadn’t spent enough time with people to be think it was an unreachable fiction. There were also the people whose idea of forecasting the future and budgeting was basically storytelling and conjuring. These were the people who call problems “opportunities.” Why do people do this? Pollyanna wasn’t a fool.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 8, 2014

Your mission is all about helping other people. Don’t worry, it’ll help people understand the real ‘you.’ This is a geolocation social media tool where people can use their smartphones to “check-in” to a location (aka your organization). Businesses offer discounts and ads for people that check-in each time they’re on site.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. As you implement the strategies given in this guide, you’ll be able to find and recruit people who want to dedicate their time and talent to helping your organization. Request a Demo.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2007

there may be some great opportunities for collaboration for museums, too. Tags: storytelling Technology Tools Worth Checking Out web2.0 They are committed to making this technology accessible (and free!) to educators permanently. Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Like other museums that have hosted Bodyworlds and its sequels, the exhibit has doubled overall museum attendance for 2007--and it's only been here for three months. According to Wikipedia , 20 million people have viewed a Bodyworlds exhibition. Consider the Creation Museum. First, what makes something uncomfortable?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Each blog post is given a score from 1 to 10, representing how interesting and relevant people have found your content. Microblogging in a Museum Context. Organizational Versus Personal Voice on A Blog. Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2006

At its worst, it's the automated voice from your bank that you'd like to shove back into whatever mechanized hellbox she came from. So often people bemoan the limitations of unfacilitated exhibits--the phenomena that goes unnoticed, the deep learning overlooked. Everyone who walks up to a museum kiosk knows it isn't "alive".

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2007

Recently, I’ve become a little disheartened by the extent to which the web has dominated my—and others’—thinking about ways that museums can integrate 2.0 But today I had an experience that reinvigorated my love for and belief in tangible projects that can fill museums with content that is user-generated, shared, and explored.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

Thirty-two "weeks" of events were condensed into the 10-week game, and each week, both in-game characters and real people--players all over the world--documented life in the new reality and swapped stories, solutions, and possibilities for survival. But the biggest question in my mind is: what lessons can museums (and game designers, and etc.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2023

That said, before mailing out that postcard campaign, ask yourself: Would people like or share this on social media? Social media started as a community building and storytelling tool, then evolved into hyper-focused marketing and advertising tool, and will now will revolve back to its roots. Hang it on their refrigerator?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

There was once a time when people used to record their lives and thoughts in leather-bound diaries. Some people are simply more important than others and we want to pay more heed to them. What would a collective "gasp" look like when people heard of Steve Job’s death or Beyonce’s pregnancy? They are larger in our minds.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 12, 2007

The characters are simply rendered, but the voice acting is good and the artificial intelligence (AI) engine that coordinates the conversational flow is impressive. Real enough that I turned off the game after just a few minutes the first time I played because I couldn’t bear watching these people fight. What are we focusing on?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

More and more people are adopting social media messaging, including Facebook Messenger , to contact nonprofits with questions, comments, or requests. Museum Visitor Experience. Museums have been all over bots on other platforms, see the Momabot on Twitter for example. What is a Chat Bot? Why Use One? The Anne Frank House Bot.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2017

This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (brief video clip from opening night here ). it uses art, history, artifacts, and storytelling to illuminate a big human story and an urgent social issue.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This is the penultimate installment of Museum 2.0's s book club on Elaine Gurian's collection of essays, Civilizing the Museum. As Elaine puts it in the essay, When I was last involved in such an endeavor, it was when the Boston Children's Museum was small, insignificant, and unselfconscious. have portrayed Indians inaccurately."

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

In 1990, educator and cultural critic Neil Postman described a museum as "an answer to a fundamental question: what does it mean to be a human being?" Without an explicit "I" voice, the museum's perspective on humanity is oblique to say the least. Welcome to Pine Point is not a museum project.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. It showcases diverse voices. Participating in this made me wonder: could a museum or library run a project like 3six5?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

Was it a museum professional or an outsider? I'm kneedeep in the final run-up to the opening of Operation Spy at the Spy Museum, but in the fleeting moments between disasters and near-disasters, I'm thinking about AAM. Several were created or conceived by a single person, often an artist/non-museum professional.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2008

On Tuesday, I'll be chairing a session at the AAM (American Association of Museums) conference called Eye on Design: Inspiration from Outside the Museum , in which we will feature creative and intriguing design elements from worlds away from museums--guitar stores, baseball stadiums, and more. What will people love and hate?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

We the People :: petitions.whitehouse.gov. We the People is an online petitioning service launched by the Obama Administration that enables U.S. Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages. What The Trend :: whatthetrend.com. Government. Vine :: vine.co.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A directory of quotes by famous people, this websites list thousands of inspirational quotes useful for Tweeting and Facebook Status Updates. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

It does everything a great documentary story can do: it takes you into another world, introduces you to unforgettable people, defies expectations, and delivers tough realities instead of fairy tales. All this delightful non-fiction makes me wonder: why aren't museums great at telling these same kinds of deep, intense stories?

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