Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Monday, May 18th is International Museum Day , the mission of which is to raise awareness of the fact that, “museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”. 2019 saw more than 55,000 museums across 150 countries participate.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

These two adages were both in my mind last week when I asked people for the worst museum trends. In this decade museums worst trends were in labor and tech: 1. Susan Spero brought up the cost tuition rises had to the field: The rise in tuition which in turn has meant that museum studies programs have taken a huge hit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Participants will learn how to create a social media strategy, how to craft a content marketing plan, and current best practices for using social media for community engagement and fundraising. The program requires the completion of three webinars and costs $100 USD. The program requires the completion of three webinars and costs $100 USD.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2020

As a Historic Interpreter for Telfair Museums, I would lead visitors through the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters on a 45 minute guided tour of antebellum Savannah history discussing politics and urban slavery. When the Museum closed I was expecting the next few weeks to be different. I set up digital lunches.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2022

18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits is a blog and webinar series on website design, email marketing, online fundraising, and social media best practices for nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide. 8: World Fair Trade Day — #WorldFairTradeDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2021

18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits is a year-long blog and webinar series on website design, email marketing, online fundraising, and social media best practices for nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide. 10: World Lupus Day — #WorldLupusDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2021

It’s ideal for museums, zoos, and any place that accepts point-of-sale donations. 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits is a blog and webinar series offered by Nonprofit Tech for Good. Virtual Quiz Events :: virtualquizevents.com. Ideal for Cause Awareness & Giving Days.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

It’s 2019, and a whole lot is changing in the museum and nonprofit world. That’s not to mention how strained museums already are in terms of resources. According to the American Alliance of Museums, the average museum has 6 volunteers for every paid staff member , a ratio which s oars to 18:1 in museums with budgets under $250,000.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. But I couldn’t get there.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. Lots of inspiring and practical tips below - enjoy!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Every day for the past two months, a man has entered the largest gallery in my museum. It also complicates the question of what is acceptable in a museum. If an artist can come into a museum and smash stuff, what does that tell visitors? It is not acceptable to walk into a museum and destroy another artist''s work of art.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Where do museums fit in? Here is our statement.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

At our museum, Pinterest is a primary tool for brainstorming and sharing ideas. But what''s awkward for me is actually probably very good for museums. Museums, and museum staff members, tend to be highly visually-oriented. This is great for museums looking for authentic ways to engage with people online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

This is the seventh post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. The best practices below should help if you’re nonprofit is noticing a decrease in engagement and exposure.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. We talk a lot at our museum about empowering our visitors, collaborators, interns, and staff by making space for them to shine. QUESTIONS ON MY MIND: As we grow, how can we do as much growing as possible outside the museum''s walls?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2020

The museums of the world are collaborating to bring you #MuseumGames every Sunday, with a new crossword puzzle each week featuring clues from all sorts of museums. ??: While donations are going down, global interest in museums seem a boom industry. Do we refer to Mar a #museum social media guru, maven, connoisseur?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. " Indeed, her first post summarized some observations from her research on how museums were using Twitter for her masters thesis. I'm fascinated by social networking and am interested in finding ways for museums to appeal to all types of people.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 23, 2011

Social Media Best Practices for Museums & Galleries | Litotes : "Social Media Best Practices for Museums & Galleries Posted on May 20, 2011 by Sean Redmond Mermaid by Paul Stein Museums deserve better than mermaids. Saw this referenced a variety of places today. Let me explain…".

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2011

I asked Wendy Pollock and Kathleen McLean, authors of the new book The Convivial Museum , to share a guest post about the book. At first glance, our new book, The Convivial Museum , is about the most simple ideas. But while the ideas are simple, and they aren't new, how often are these basic acts of civility really put into practice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2018

Take for example the # AskACurator hashtag created by a digital expert who works with museums almost five years ago and still active today. Someone sent out a tweet wondering if London’s Natural History Museum and Science Museum went to war, which would win. Here’s an example of using Moments from a Museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. didn't mince words. Here are my three top takeaways.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2013

One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 18, 2013

These are the questions that underpin Museum Camp 2014 , a professional development experience in which diverse people from the arts, community activism, and social services will measure the immeasurable together. This is the second year that the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) is hosting Museum Camp.

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Twenty Hats

MAY 3, 2021

The Iron Hug is an acronym for the management practices that I have found most effective in fostering relationships with volunteers that lead to effective service and increase retention. It takes time, practice, and experience to get the “Iron Hug” just right. It requires some trial and error.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2013

Here in Santa Cruz, we''re brushing off our tents and lining up the counselor whistles for Hack the Museum Camp , a 2.5 We have 75 campers here from around the world who will be working in teams to develop exhibits based on artifacts from our permanent collection that challenge museum conventions and traditional exhibit design practice.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 25, 2016

Los Angeles County Museum of Art . Based on more than 20 years of experience and 25,000+ hours spent utilizing mobile and social media, Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits is a comprehensive 256-page book packed with more than 500 best practices. Service Works. snapchat.com/add/serviceworks. Ocean Conservancy .

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2009

The responses came primarily from post-secondary schools, but also included elementary schools, healthcare, museums, gardens, performing arts, and service organizations. SupportingAdvancement.com has published the results of their 2008 survey on how nonprofits are handling corporate matching gifts. 63% raised over $50,000.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2011

Many people ( Paul Orselli , Linda Norris , Pete Newcurator ) in the museum field have written about the question of museum "tribes"--based partly on Seth Godin's book , partly on the longstanding fan culture that pervades our lives through sport , celebrity, and shared experience of mass events. There are staff in plush costumes.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

The Washington Post covered the MAH's transformation as part of an article about museums engaging new audiences. The whole second half of the article was dedicated to our work: Smaller museums can be especially scrappy in finding ways to connect with the community. It’s something that any museum, of any size, can work toward.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2014

It''s not a great photo of people enjoying the museum. At any given time, we are on a hunter/gatherer mission for an upcoming project at our museum. One woman came up to me last Friday night at the museum to say: "I love reading the wishlist. It''s not what you think. It''s not a witty description of an upcoming event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Also, here’s a post I wrote about how early adopter nonprofits have used Instagram for contests , but also see this recent slideshare deck that examines contest best practices in depth. Best Practices and Tips for Nonprofits. Best Practices and Tips for Nonprofits by Nonprofit Tech for Good (2014).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? In essence, it is visible storage for the museum. Are there special cautions related to crowdsourcing for nonprofits?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For museums, gardens, zoos, and aquariums to serve all people in their communities, staff must be aware of the societal disparities and gaps that interplay with their operations, decisions, and programs. If you cannot attend when these sessions air, register now so you can watch them on demand after the conference.

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