NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Farra, along with Thomas Negron and Charles Lenchner, invited Foursquare founder Naveen Selvadurai and Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein to their June 501 Tech Club. Who's your Mayor?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Watching him watch her didn't teach me more about gymnastics, but it exposed me to a world of passion about it. And that got me thinking about how bad museums are at doing the same thing--using passion to promote visitor engagement in new content. Museums shy away from presenting passionate views. Why is it here?

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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

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. But I learned enough to know what I wanted from full-time employment and how to get it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2007

Inventory isn't a museum activity that inspires curiosity in many visitors. This summer, the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art ( Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde) is trying to change that. People often talk about non-collecting museums as the museums of the future.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. Regulars may drop in multiple times a day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous space for the workshop in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. ArtsLab SF View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I said yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

I'm going to be teaching two intermediate/advanced workshops, one on mapping metrics to social media strategy and the other on listening. (The Have the expertise/time or capacity. I'm going to be teaching two intermediate/advanced workshops, Tags: listening metrics ROI RSS. Knowing the audience. Pick the right tools.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

The bad news is that I don’t get much face time with the dog. We tried this at the Denver Art Museum last week, and it is incredibly challenging—you can’t just put out a box of chocolates and expect people to talk. Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

How, he asked, could a large museum that serves hundreds of thousands of people per year foster the same sense of personal connection and community that a small one can achieve? I think small museums are generally better than large ones at fostering local communities of visitors and members.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

Spring is here and it’s time to talk to strangers. April 5 is the first day of a class I’m teaching called Social Technology, in which we are focusing on designing an exhibition that features social objects , that is, exhibits or artifacts that inspire interpersonal dialogue. Tags: Talking to Strangers design. So how about it?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Elizabeth Merritt is the director of the Center for the Future of Museums , a new project of the American Association of Museums (AAM). When I was given the opportunity to found the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM) I had been working for nearly 10 years with Museum Assessment and Accreditation at AAM.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 27, 2007

Last week, there was a New York Times article about the recently opened Ripley’s Believe It Or Not and Madame Tussauds attractions in Times Square. Heck, sign me up for a ticket to the zombie museum. But when I took off my “entertainment” glasses and put on my museum eyes, my reaction wasn’t amusement. It was distaste.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. In February 2001, AAM commissioned a study about the trustworthiness of museums and found that "Almost 9 out of 10 Americans (87%) find museums to be one of the most trustworthy or a trustworthy source of information among a wide range of choices.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2007

These days, it's not just about improving your reflexes; experts have expanded the concept of "valuable" play to include MMOs like World of Warcraft (which teach teamwork, social leadership, and may help you get a job ), and many corporations are turning to game companies to develop educational games for training and recruiting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Microblogging in a Museum Context. Gnomedex Real Time Fundraising Experiment. Teaching Your Kids About Philanthropy.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2007

I used to teach gadget workshops for kids in museums. In fact, I’d argue that by saying “If something starts to smoke…” in the beginning of each workshop, I introduced an element of suspense to what otherwise might feel like a pretty “safe” activity—a museum program. Tags: game interactives. * you lose ?

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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

Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. Where's the conference tag? Update: Tactical Philanthropy announces the 2007COF tag! However, some nonprofits feel that Second Life is a waste of time and resources. Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools." " Have any to add?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. local time). local time). "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! How do you create good instructional media in a reasonable amount of time and do a good enough job that helps people learn something by viewing it?

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A. And the last time you did a webinar for us, I was in some random airport terminal hoping that the overhead announcements wouldn’t come on while I was introducing you. He’s doing webinars all the time. But don’t be shy. You can use either of those.

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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. If you can teach science, how can you be stupid? She asked him, "How did you do this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

My social media plans for 2010 involve 1) developing my own knowledge and skill set, 2) helping to develop a strategy for my organization- Metro United Way in Louisville, KY - and 3) teaching within my organization to develop the knowledge and skills of others. Tags: Books pinko marketing relationships.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And last time we had you, you were stuck in Australia. or whatever time it was when you did the last webinar. or whatever time it was when you did the last webinar. Yeah, the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. I’ve been to the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. Robin: I was, yeah. Robin: True story. Robin: Yes.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2007

Spend enough time driving on the west coast, and you’ll see more of their yellow bumper stickers than I BRAKE FOR VEGANS. The guides pull you, teach you, challenge you, and entertain you. Live facilitation has a varied role in museums. In children’s and science museums, explainers are everywhere. Because of the guides.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. What are the essential differences and similarities between libraries and museums?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Why do you care about and or work in museums? I don't work in museums because I love them. When I visit a new city, I don't clamor to visit museums. And while I'll visit museums out of professional (and occasionally personal) interest, I don't do it because of a deep emotional connection. And check out the comments.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. I’m using a wiki to do so, and a few intrepid generous folks have signed up to give feedback on the evolving draft.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

We’re going to save some time for Q&A at the end. Probably, we would have ran into each other a dozen times right now at conferences. The last time we actually went to anything I think, it was the 2019 Boston Pride parade, always a favorite of ours and our family. We’ll get you the recording. Don’t worry.

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