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

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Museums are seeing such deep divides as well; the old order and the new one. I truly believe learning and scholarship are the engines of museums. Whenever I see something interesting in a museum, like a family guide done well or an interesting sign, I assume there were 100 meetings and at least one moment of an emotional outburst.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Recently, James wrote about some interesting ways museums are using Twitter for offline/online engagement. The San Francisco Bay Area has seen some extraordinary museum openings over the past several years. This provides a new level of transparency for the museum worker, and a higher degree of exposure.

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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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VQ Strategies

JULY 22, 2021

We know of one museum that is part of a larger institution and must abide by the larger organization’s plans, phasing opening by program and building in order to ensure the safety of the public and the staff.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

The term "philanthropy" has been in American parlance for a long time, referring to individual action, charitable behavior, and (more recently) the professional field of grantmaking foundations. Although that Commission refers more often to a voluntary sector, the idea of sectorness began to take hold. Look at it this way.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

When my sister first started working with a nonprofit museum, she had a lot to learn about the fundraising process for the organization. The museum had notes saved in their donor management software about the seating preferences for their major donors and that particular donor preferred their regular seat toward the front.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2020

For more information, refer to the Centers for Disease Control’s Interim Guidance for Businesses and Employers to Plan and Respond to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). . American Alliance of Museums: COVID-19/coronavirus Resources & Information for the Museum Field . If this is the case, be honest about it.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Museum passes Offer a local museum bundle for those looking to explore more of the cultural and historical opportunities your city has to offer. For example, you could create a bundle with art, history, and science museum passes. Conduct audience research Reference data from past auctions about what items sold well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I'm here in Chicago for a very brief trip on a panel about metrics and measurement for museums called "New Spaces, New Measures." Reference network: the significance rating of all the texts the author has touched, viewed, read. " My slides and resources are here. Quality of author's institutional affiliation(s).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2014

In Spanish, they are using the word "Publico," which refers more broadly to public/s. 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? Are cultural centres and museums meeting them?

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CauseVox

JUNE 7, 2022

For context, when we talk about major donors, we’re referring to donors who make a significant gift to your org – one that’s above and beyond the typical gift that arrives in the mail. She has served on the boards of The Food Project, Fuller Craft Museum, and Cambridge Family & Children’s Service.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2013

If you hear the term "The Cities", it refers to Minneapolis and St Paul, once known as the twin cities. Most people now refer to "The Cities" as any of the attached suburbs as well as Minneapolis or St Paul. Small Act staffer, Annie Lynsen , recommends art museums and the Nicollet mall. Good Eats and Drinks.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

She references my recent post about the Irvine Foundation's new approach to arts funding (which includes, but does not solely focus on diversifying audience engagement). I recently met Jada Wright-Green, a museum professional who runs a site called Heritage Salon that looks at issues and possibilities in the African-American museum community.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This guest post, written by Philippa Tinsley, Collections Manager for the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (UK), describes the innovative Top 40 exhibition they mounted in the summer of 2009. In my experience, museum professionals aren’t big reality TV viewers. Projects participatory museum.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 20, 2020

Remarkables are those communications that Seth Godin refers to as "purple cows." For Museums: Putting together virtual tours or coloring books inspired by your collections that help parents who are currently homeschooling kids. Anything that regularly shows up on your editorial calendar is in this category. They stand out.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

Today I got an early present from the San Francisco NPR station, KQED, which aired a piece on Museum 2.0 featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). This concept has spawned a question I like to obsess over: What would a museum look like that got better the more people used it?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. oneforty :: oneforty.com.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

North Carolina Museum of History 1988.39.4 I’m always amazed when my colleagues tell me that the biggest barrier they face to “opening up” the content at their museums is from registrars—the people who care for collection objects. Followers of Museum 2.0 To me, this seems both discouraging and ungenerous to visitors.

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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. Who's doing audio tours on iPods?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 2, 2019

People also refers to the concept of developing meaningful relationships with board members, executives and committee members. Barry Casey Masonic Memorial Library & Museum of Arizona. It also means getting rid of the wrong people.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2023

Try using this language on your Ways to Give page or planned giving microsite—here’s an example from the National Museum of Wildlife Art. Gifts for the Future Also referred to as deferred planned gifts, this is the most popular category because it contains the easiest and most accessible forms of planned giving.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In UA, the basic unit of collected data is referred to as a hit; UA records one pageview hit each time someone views a page. It might record that the user clicked play and then clicked pause after 16 seconds, or that they searched for the hours of a museum, clicked through to the information page, and stayed for 40 seconds.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 2, 2018

References. Disa McAlister, MNLM, is the founder of the Museum of Science and Sustainability, a portable museum serving the Greater Phoenix area. Anderson, A. Passive-Aggressive Behavior Will Destroy a Company's Culture. Retrieved from [link]. Jenkins, R. Leadership vs. Control. The Chronicle Of Higher Education.

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 9, 2014

For many arts/museum professionals, writing text in 100-word chunks is a daily activity. There are great references for better art writing, but we don''t always use them. Exhibit labels. Promotional text. Grant proposals. And unfortunately, a lot of that writing is lousy.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

We looked at the museum map on the wall. There was a recent post on the ASTC listserv from a museum planning to revamp their wayfinding system. The wayfinding question in museums—or any complex space—is multifaceted. At the Spy Museum, our content is separated into two sections, School for Spies and Secret History of 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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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

They were also involved in a chorus called the Tanglewood Festival Chorus (TFC, as we referred to it for the next 25 years). You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh created a Summer Adventure program.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In early 2019, Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh’s Engagement team, one arm of the Advancement and Community Engagement department, lost nearly every mid-level manager. Refer back to #1. Want to l earn more about how Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh applied the above three principles to their annual fund challenge ?

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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

JULY 9, 2014

At our museum, we''re making a big effort to increase our engagement with local Latino families. Blog posts like this one --which I probably never would have seen in my old news diet--have informed conversations at our museum about how we ask visitors to identify in demographic surveys.

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NTEN

AUGUST 13, 2012

If you've been keeping up with this blog series about applications of our annual Nonprofit Tech Staffing & Investments research, you've noticed that we refer to "Tech Adoption" when gauging the impact of staffing levels or investments on an organization. You can download the complete report for free here.] What is Tech Adoption? "We

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This month we’ve been thinking about “What is a museum?” (I'm I’ve been visiting museums my whole life. Does that make me the best judge of museums? People are the defining characteristics of museums. I’ve worked with and at plenty of museums that can sometimes feel empty. I'm not alone there.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. By calling ourselves a museum, we respond to those cultural institutions that have separated practice from production, exhibition from process, and work from play.

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