Museum 2.0

MAY 12, 2020

By Lori Byrd-McDevitt After a decade spearheading the social media presence at the world’s largest children’s museum, Lori now co-owns her agency 1909 DIGITAL where she helps others with their digital strategy. She is an adjunct in JHU’s museum studies faculty. Museums have made waves. It’s our time to shine. Let’s do this.”

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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? During my time at RISD studying industrial design, I developed relationships with two museums on campus: the Museum of Art and the Nature Lab.

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MARCH 30, 2022

It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. CA: One of the best things that happened to me while volunteering for the local art museum is they funded my travel to Los Angeles and my tuition to take the week-long grant writing training bootcamp hosted by The Grantsmanship Center.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2017

We benefit from the resources, brainpower, and strength of organizations and individuals to help us support NGOs and public libraries worldwide. We were introduced to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through our common interest in libraries. Saved libraries $169,542,344 and counting. We invite you to do the same.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

Here are just three participatory processes I think are in serious need of improvement: Public comment at city council meetings. Occasionally, the funder will offer limited opportunities for feedback on the proposal. It''s rare that you get direct feedback about your proposal without aggressively asking for it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals. Specific comments on the proposed Clearinghouse. Specific comments on the proposed Chairman’s Awards. I'm much rather post something in a blog than go through a formal sending of a snail mail letter!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. But when we started hosting formal community visioning workshops in 2013 with the Project for Public Spaces, we heard other opinions of downtown.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2011

In the Netherlands, State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra slashed 200 million euros from the national budget for the arts, leading to the close of the innovative National History Museum project and crippling many superbly inventive and inspiring organizations like Mediamatic and the Waag Society. Well, they only cost me $8 apiece.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2013

I''m heading to the American Alliance of Museums'' annual conference this weekend, and I''m psyched to reconnect with friends and mentors and meet new people who can inspire and stimulate fresh ideas. Developing transparent formats for exhibition proposals from outside. Small-scale evaluation for non-professionals. Let me know.

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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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

This guest post was written by Ruben Huele and describes the scenario-based strategic process used at the Dutch Natural History Museum, Naturalis , to innovate the redevelopment of their permanent collection. The new building of Naturalis, the Dutch National Natural History Museum, opened in 1998.

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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. to support programs and exhibits.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2016

Kathryn will help you ensure that your funding proposals have a greater chance of rising to the top!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figuero - Claiming Space for Brown Women in the Digital Museum Landscape Based in Washington DC, Brown Girls Museum Blog is a new-ish site led by graduate students Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figueroa. The Museum of Impact is a pop-up project of short-term exhibitions on urgent topics of social justice.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Sarah Janczak suggests a visit to Landmarks'' public art series at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) - a current highlight is Skyspace from James Turrell. For a historic outing, Carolyn Appleton proposes a self-guided tour of the Texas State Capital. You can connect with your fellow herbivores using the #15ntcveg hashtag.

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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0 People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." hour at the Museum. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. The organization's project on The Last Polar Bear reached more than 20 million people. Environmental Impact. The organization's impact is astonishing.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. The organization's project on The Last Polar Bear reached more than 20 million people. Environmental Impact. The organization's impact is astonishing.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? But for museum and art wonks, it could be. Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Last week, Jim Richardson and I hosted MuseumNext , a 24-hour workshop for museum professionals focused on bringing new, wild museum projects into the world. We also ended the entire event with one of my favorite exercises, the Exquisite Corpse game, in which participants co-created comics of their craziest museum dreams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

public information??? context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 situation unless museums can get the ???stickiness??? For me, the web and 2.0 For others, the concept of ???public had connotations of finality, something you couldn???t

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Greater Giving

APRIL 22, 2021

percent of the total revenue for public charities in the form of tuition, membership fees, paid services and sales, etc. There are professional grant writers that can be hired to prepare your application’s proposal and give you a leg up on the other nonprofits competing for the grant. Government Grants. Federated Funds.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Diane is both visionary and no-nonsense about deconstructing the barriers that many low-income and non-white teenagers and families face when entering a museum. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. blog posts from the past.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Last week, Elaine Gurian and I talked about radical change in museums. Former museum start-up queen, Jen is taking a small organization whose goal is to promote girls’ involvement in math and science through research and programming to new, innovative, exciting places. And at that time they were doing a public awareness campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Much commentary and critiques about the semi-public ballotting process. So how do we propose to pay for it? While Forum One points out that Michael Edson of the Smithsonian American Art Museum will give a talk called " By The Time You Need A Blog, It's Too Late " at next week's seminar on blogging.

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

Others are looking at no demand at all, and with it, no revenue, because their mission involved gathering large groups of people in places like theaters, galleries, and museums. Imagine you run a performing arts organization dedicated to saving theater programs in your local public school system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Public Insight Network in Minnesota is a network of 75,000 people who help make Minnesota Public Radio News by sharing their observations, insights, and experiences with reporters and editors who may share these insights through a story or on the web site. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Collaboration in the community-driven model doesn’t just mean you invite the public to meetings about what you’re doing, it means they are invited in, invested in, and share responsibility for the work you’re doing together. Communities use adoption as collective decision making and prioritization.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Diane is both visionary and no-nonsense about deconstructing the barriers that many low-income and non-white teenagers and families face when entering a museum. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. Louis homeless shelters to introduce them to the local museums. Why can't new visitors do the same?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

ve ever read a post, blog entry or article in a major publication that suggested we were pushing towards divorcing ourselves from reality and physicality, and moving entirely into these immersive virtual spaces. more preposterous than proposing an immersive MUVE communications revolution). t think I???ve Come on, get real already.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2020

As a public history practitioner, I know that reform will always be insufficient. The city of Seattle continues to propose an income tax that is, in my opinion, incredibly fair. We’ve tried it in so many ways, shapes, and forms that the continued harm done *still* significantly outpaces the gains we’ve won. Does it need to happen?

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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. Here’s an example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

All inter-user communication happens in public comment boards connected to projects and galleries. Yes, it is possible for someone to reveal private information on a public comment board, but the number of community eyes on each board means that that kind of content can be seen publicly and addressed quickly. There is no private chat.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

After a contentious and much-publicized debate, the decision was made to capture all remaining wild condors and bring them to the San Diego and Los Angeles Zoos for captive breeding. It was a packed hearing and all these people were bringing up challenges (to the proposal). Early bird registration ends this Friday, September 9th.

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