Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

It’s not clear that money awards would be an important driver of this Phase: the gift of attention to the issue would be the main payoff. The bigger question is about how to structure the second phase. Awards programs are around providing incentives to encourage certain kinds of behaviors.

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Accessibility Award Proposal Phase 100

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2014

I''m prepping for a week of talks to museum, zoo, and library folk, and this is the question that is driving some of what I plan to share. I''m struggling with this now as we embark on our next phase as an organization--one with more distributed leadership. TORONTO: Thursday January 30 at the Textile Museum from 4-6pm.

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Change New Jersey Articulate Museum 35

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. Many of the book sections started as blog posts on Museum 2.0.

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Participatory Museum Statistics Process 21

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Payne," member of the incredibly popular Santa Cruz roller derby team, wants to pitch a partnership with our museum. She doesn't have a specific idea for a partner event or exhibit, but she feels like we have a lot to offer each other in terms of publicity and a shared focus on enhancing cultural experiences in the community.

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Phase Library Museum Homeless 38

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

What should be measured are shifts in awareness, comprehension, attitude and behavior related to donations, purchase, branding, reputation, public policy, employee engagement, and other shifts in audience beliefs or behaviors related to SMART objectives. It looks at communications in three phases with each having specific metrics.

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Facebook Network Metrics Nonprofit 101

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The Museum 2.0 I went alone, sent with a blessing from my boss at the International Spy Museum. As Museum 2.0 The first training I went to was on Public Narrative, led by master facilitator Sarah El-Raheb. Public Narrative is an activist storytelling technique for rallying others to your cause. Learn from them.

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Training Train Conference Learning 21

Connection Cafe

JULY 14, 2014

Maybe a news network runs a story about a public garden. Who is visiting your museum? If you’re a museum, blog about your exhibits, the excited kids from a recent field trip, or what a sister museum is doing. A friend asks them to support a favorite nonprofit’s 5K event. Who is volunteering? Talk about your mission.

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Museum Social Media Classroom eBook 38

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ruth is a curator of pictorial collections for Puke Ariki, a museum/library/visitor center in the small city of New Plymouth, New Zealand. Puke Ariki has about 70 full-time staff members, of whom 10 work for the museum, and the institution is pretty siloed. Where do you start? Ruth Harvey has a brilliant solution to this problem.

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Badge Museum New Zealand Participatory 40

NonProfit Hub

JULY 20, 2015

For example, museums have to pay for large (and often valuable) collections, security and insurance. However, the higher overhead rate does not mean a museum is less effective than a food bank at achieving its mission. Harold said the response to the first phase was overwhelmingly positive. Is their board diverse?

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Ratio Donor Charity License 28

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2020

There’s power in giving ourselves permission to be the one to imagine the next phase…what am I contributing to what comes next?” — adrienne maree brown To be clear: I am an abolitionist. As a public history practitioner, I know that reform will always be insufficient. The vision and the will to support that vision must precede action.

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Seattle Phase Proposal Challenge 48

Connection Cafe

JULY 14, 2014

Maybe a news network runs a story about a public garden. Who is visiting your museum? If you’re a museum, blog about your exhibits, the excited kids from a recent field trip, or what a sister museum is doing. A friend asks them to support a favorite nonprofit’s 5K event. Who is volunteering? Talk about your mission.

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Museum Classroom eBook Social Media 30

Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2009

Smith , a museum technologist who bridges the gap between academia, curatorial work, musical composition, and technology. He writes about the lessons he's learned about how to talk tech with curators, educators, and other museum beings who don't know what "OCR" means (like me). That’s an electronic publication. It’s not pretty.

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Language Museum Professional Application 20

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. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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Museum Participatory Artist Arts 24

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2007

Recently, I’ve been grappling with the question of whether or not it is useful to create project-specific blogs for big museum initiatives during the development phase. For two years, I’ve been working on the same project at the Spy Museum. So why make it public? It lets other people in on our trade secrets.

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Project Develop Museum Reflection 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

In 2006, their publication Next proclaimed that the Weston Innovation Centre, and the accompanying Agents of Change initiative, represented the “new” face of the Ontario Science Centre. Most visitor-generated museum experiences are about creating, not curating, content. Why not museums? This is where things get interesting.

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Experiment Create Museum Amazon 20

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Enhance the organization’s standing with the general public. Again, how many of you have attended an event or go to a museum? So we’re going to kind of pivot to the final phase of our conversation today, around some of our case studies. We have a number of publications that will be coming out as well this year.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

This is the last phase of the project, which now includes all 54 countries of the African Union. The African Development Bank also intends that the platform will improve governance and public accountability of elected officials. Historical societies and museums might especially benefit from using this app. Open Data in Africa.

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