Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

Passing the design ball” on projects similarly builds skills amongst team members. While I was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art working on a website redesign, we recognized the need to be transparent with our internal audiences and started hosting a series of monthly open forum presentations called “Website Wednesdays.”

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments. Nonprofits and museums depend on dedicated, but oftentimes limited, development staff to sift through countless prospects to determine which ones are priority. Source: Blackbaud.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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Qgiv

MAY 1, 2023

Read books written by AAPI authors and visit a museum to learn about significant figures in the AAPI community and their contributions. You can even visit virtual museums or look up educational resources online. Donate to support their work here. Try AAPI cuisine AAPI cuisine is like no other cultural cuisine.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Davey Awards honor the finest creative work from the best small shops, firms, and companies worldwide, and we are honored to be recognized amongst them for our work in branding, video, mobile, and web design. Here are this year’s winners. NRDC’s “Fighting Polluters Since 1970”. NRDC’s “Fighting Polluters Since 1970”.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Elaine Charnov – The NY Public Library.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2020

This week we're hearing from Eastman Museum's Kate Meyers Emery. They have created elevated and new digital opportunities for public access and engagement within their respective museums at a time when physical access is not possible. My team will also continue to protect and monitor the museum. I’m new to this but excited.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2011

I have a confession to make: I've never cared much about museums on the Web. When smart people talk about digital museums and virtual experiences, I nod and compartmentalize it as someone else's bailiwick. And it breaks a lot of conventional rules about museum homepages. Is this the future of all museum websites?

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Online virtual fundraising is one of the most popular ways for nonprofits to raise money. With the majority of daily activities taking place over the web, it’s no surprise that we’ve also observed a rise in virtual fundraising. Or, you do fundraise online, but with the advent of COVID you know you have to kickstart your online work.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

Visitor-contributed photos surround a collection piece in Carnegie Museum of Art's Oh Snap! It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. is a project that lets real-world and virtual visitors share their work in our gallery.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 12, 2020

In a field where we often work on our own, in isolation, people who are proactive about connecting constructively with others can feel rare. She founded the Museum Social Media Managers Facebook Group as well as the MCN Social Media SIG, and she currently is behind MCN’s social channels. Museums have made waves. You guys did.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. You can read other posts about this project by clicking Tech Virtual in the "Past Posts By Topic" sidebar on the right.)

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. The Tech Virtual is a project that allows people to conceptualize and prototype exhibits online. A contractor, Involve Inc.,

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I started the Museum 2.0 can be applied in museums to make them more engaging, community-based, vital elements of society. that are authoritative content distributors--like traditional museums. I believe that visitors can become users, and museums central to social interactions. I'm Nina Simon. What do I mean by 2.0?

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

From large in-person events to a more casual virtual gathering, a fundraising silent auction can bring in much-needed revenue and provide supporters with a fun-filled night. With giving projected to increase 5.1% Deciding whether the event will be in-person, virtual, or hybrid. Determining the auction budget.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2008

Which museums have experience creating collection tagging systems? The Museum Computer Network and Museum Software Foundation have teamed up to bring you MuseTech Central , a site where you can share your own technical projects and search through a growing resource list of others. How did this project come into being?

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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. How does their work relate to their physical institutions?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. I've been working for The Tech on this project since November of 2007, and it has been an intense and exciting three months. A month ago, I invited you to join this project.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 2, 2018

Even in the age of technology and virtual meetings, the most impactful moments of development happen in regular face-to-face meetings on a daily basis. It may not work the first time, but you’ve taken the first step to establishing a precedence for your meeting space. The temptation will always be there to get projects done quickly.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. Over the past few years, they've worked hard to make their rich content more accessible both through digitization and programs. The people who want that content may not be in the same city as the museum nor even aware of the museum's holdings.

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Wikipedia Content Museum Artist 54

The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 20, 2020

It takes work anytime to strike this kind of balance and today I want to share a bit about my communications planning philosophy in the hopes that it helps you think about what to communicate and how. Deciding what and how to communication on behalf of your non-profit can be a challenge anytime. In the midst of a pandemic?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2020

If you are a front-line fundraiser, work with your annual giving team. The folks working in your annual giving team are likely reeling right now as they cancel content and rework their plan for the end of the fiscal year. Once they have worked through the immediate issues, this is a great time to work with them on creating content.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2015

The Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library (MBWML) was established in 1958 and named to honor the mother of America's first president. The museum and library preserves the rich history of the Northern Neck through its collections, exhibits, tours, and educational programs. Celebrating a Region Rich with History.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2014

They are soliciting project proposals for innovative forms of audience engagement. The winner will receive 10,000 euro ($12,720 ish) and the potential to mount their project at the CCCB. Here is how they describe the challenge: What do we refer to when we talk about audience/s in cultural centres, museums and similar spaces today?

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

The sorry state of donor retention has been a topic of discussion for at least the past decade, since the Fundraising Effectiveness Project Report began collecting data. They “consume” or “buy” who you are, what you do, the values you stand for, and how you approach your work and treat the people you work with.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. This post explains that project and suggests a process by which you could approach this kind of “virtual-to-real” design. Projects Core Museum 2.0 What’s missing?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2012

Pinterest is an online sharing tool that allows you to construct virtual bulletin boards to collect and display images from across the web. While some museums are using the tool in clever public-facing ways , that's not what's happening here at the MAH. Project coordination on wikis. It's just part of the work itself.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Seb Chan has a lovely, long interview up at Fresh+New with Helen Whitty about the Powerhouse Museum's new mini-exhibition, the Odditoreum. The Odditoreum is another wrinkle in the study of visitors' understanding and interpretation of authenticity in museums. I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum).

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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. Then we’ll give you the strategies you need to find volunteers who can truly make a difference to your organization’s work. It’s no secret that nonprofits rely on volunteer work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Digital activism is defined by the Meta-Activism Project as “the practice of using digital technology for political and social change.&# She is the founder and executive director of the Meta-Activism Project. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. Mary Joyce is one of the thought leaders in the field.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Megan Smith incisively covered the sad state of staffing in the museum industry pre-coronavirus, as well as her fears for staffers post-coronavirus, in a previous post for Museum 2.0 , so I won’t belabor this one. Which planned projects seem worth the staff time and dollars you had allocated to them, and which don’t?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. On many levels, The Tech Virtual experiment was a success.

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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. Sounds like there might be some overlap with your museum audience? Both geocaching and museums are fundamentally about exploration and discovery.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. You can create small posters for sponsor businesses to show off that they are giving back and sponsoring your org, team, project, or campaign. Plug donor skills into the work. Touch the work.

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