Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

Dear Museum 2.0 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 Here are a few things that make the MAH an exciting museum to me: It's small.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Museums have used games to engage visitors for decades. SR: I came to games before I came to museums. My grandmother cheated at Candyland and uno. :) Games, I think, have a nice Venn diagram of overlap between museum lovers. I love thinking we're getting new museum lovers through games. How did you get into museum games?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

Margaret shared these thoughts about "museums for use" on her blog , and I asked her to adapt a version for the Museum 2.0 Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use? I immediately recalled a phenomenon I witnessed as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2011

In the most basic terms, I see Historypin as the interface between people (you can be in the exact spot you’re looking at on the map, or around the world), places (the geography, the buildings), and things (the events, small and large, that change those people and places over time).

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Qgiv

MAY 1, 2023

Community festivals, government-sponsored activities, and educational activities for students are all essential parts of this month-long celebration. Read books written by AAPI authors and visit a museum to learn about significant figures in the AAPI community and their contributions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

You’ve come to the right place: Benetech. We use technology today to help hundreds of thousands of students with disabilities succeed in school, as well as help human rights activists around the world document abuses and seek justice. We are Silicon Valley’s deliberately nonprofit software company.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

From accountants to college students, from administrators working in construction offices to legal professionals, many are considering new career directions to gain more meaningful work and to serve the greater good in their communities. It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2012

The site operations a Genocide Archive, a Museum, Education and Social programs, and a memorial garden and burial grounds. The exhibition in the Museum has three main sections. They wanted to share their stories on my blog and through video and photos. Here is their stories. Germaine: A Social Entrepreneur.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I’m looking for a place to donate in honor of my mother’s 90 th birthday, and a gift made to the local symphony orchestra in Myrtle Beach seemed like the right thing to do. You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. Do you offer a student membership discount?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. A tag is a user???s

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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. They walk dogs at your animal shelter, ask for donations on your behalf, and spend their Saturday afternoons tutoring students. Students make great volunteers! However, some people do.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2017

I was selected to go to this year’s ARNOVA conference as an Undergraduate Diversity Scholar, a new initiative to bring underrepresented students and undergraduates to a mostly graduate and research-based conference. During a poster presentation, I even had the opportunity to meet two groups of ASU graduate students showcasing their work!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Despite this preparation--and the years I'd spent in similar gyms as a college student--it took almost all my willpower not to turn around and walk out the door immediately after entering. How could a person possibly feel intimidated, truly frightened, of entering a museum? Go to a place of worship that is not your own.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

This is an amazing April Fool’s idea from the Frederic Remington Art Museum : Their annual April Fool’s Day Ball invites users to contribute at normal event-pricing tiers (attendance, attendance + pre-party, attendance + after-party), but then not show up. It can be stressful to find a fun place to take Mom to celebrate her awesomeness.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2009

I spend a lot of time talking to people about social media--how it can be a model for real-life content venue interactions and how it can connect museums and cultural institutions to users in new ways. This is the reason that many museums and cultural organizations decided they needed websites in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Last week Ginny Fitzgerald, the Director of Visitor Services and Membership at Chicago History Museum, joined us to host a webinar about how she prepares her team for peak attendance times. Chicago History Museum defines their summer season as June 1 through August 31. Ginny has over 17 years of experience in visitor services.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. A place that truly sees these initiatives as part of their mission to serve their local community. A place that makes it all pretty darn cool.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2012

I've always been a bit confused when people talk about the impact of a museum or arts institution as being about "more than numbers." I understand that some museum offer extraordinary, intimate programs. I was visiting with Adam Lerner, Director and Chief Animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. It makes sense.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

I’ve received a few inquiries over the last year about museums and geocaching. to ask him all the dumb questions about geocaching and museums you can imagine… and a few more. Thousands of people geocache for a variety of reasons: to explore new places, to have outdoor adventures, to search for surprises out in the world.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2012

While some museums are using the tool in clever public-facing ways , that's not what's happening here at the MAH. At our museum, our programs team is using Pinterest to develop ideas for upcoming community events. It aggregates design inspiration in a central place we all can share. And that central place happens to be public.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

A man walks into a museum. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Better yet, the graduate student who led this project, Anna Greco, documented the whole project and did in-depth analysis of the visitor contributions.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

However, a student this summer pointed out another meaning of the term: in psychiatry , a neologism is a unique term coined and used by someone with a mental illness, evidence of a thought disorder. I can understand why somebody interested in museums wouldn't want to cover ground on health sector management. That certainly fits here.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

The good news is that digital literacy is becoming part of lesson plans for K-12 students in public schools. Unfortunately, like public libraries, public schools are also constrained by tightened budgets and smaller staffs and can't always provide the individual attention that some students require. The Role of Schools.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Last week, I received an inquiry from Mary Maher, editor of Hand to Hand, a magazine put out by the Association of Children's Museums , about Museum 2.0. Why, Mary asked, were there no posts about children's museums on this site? Why aren't children's museums represented on Museum 2.0? stuff naturally.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

I'm trying to reposition our museum as a cultural hub supporting creative and intellectual community growth. Our conversation made me reflect on the museums that most inspire me from a public service perspective--institutions with missions that stretch far beyond their walls. These museums work differently.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The Discovery Center is a one-hour simulation in which groups of students (grade 5 and up) role play in a realistic, interactive environment. The students are each given roles on one of three teams--the Oval Office, a military command center, and a press room. The topic is the invasion of Grenada. You will make history.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It started as a handout for a session that Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of Museums, and then I realized it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing with all of you. The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

You’ve come to the right place to learn more about how to plan a silent auction for fundraising. Now that you have your planning committee, it’s time to figure out where and how exactly your fundraising silent auction will take place. Let’s say your auction is dedicated to increasing educational opportunities for students in need.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

And, when you add new places to the Foursquare database, it can get interesting. For example, a museum could create a fun treasure hunt by having people check at specific galleries or works of art. Harvard University did an experiment with having students use it to explore the campus.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. How is the exhibit living on at the museum and what is it like to take over someone else’s project? We’d like to share some thoughts and ideas in this guest post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2010

The lucky winner, Invisible Children, has won $1 million , but the Huffington Post is reporting that the second place winner, engaged in voter fraud. The contest was tainted during the first round when several nonprofits that had placed in the top 100 were disqualified without reason amidst criticisms about the contest design.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. During the ensuing discussion, one woman asked, "Which audiences are least interested in social participation in museums?" So what's a museum to do--especially one that is funded to encourage youth and teen participation?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2010

Let's say you're a young person eager to break into museums. Over my first year in museums, I worked at five different institutions as an educator, exhibit builder, exhibit cleaner, art model, and whatever else I could find. Now, several years of full-time museum work later, I'm consulting.

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