Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2015

In addition to those listed below, see also international public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Days. 18: International Museum Day — #MuseumDay. The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and add them to your editorial calendar.

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Most often, private operating foundations are organizations which operate museums and theater/arts centers, although any other charitable activity conducted directly by the foundation can qualify. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2012

Most often, private operating foundations are organizations which operate museums and theater/arts centers, although any other charitable activity conducted directly by the foundation can qualify. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. This multi-museum collaborative is undertaking a thoughtful process to tackle these issues.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Drupal gets updated and maintained by millions of developers (a lot like Wikipedia). It's also trusted by institutions like Greenpeace, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Red Cross, and the White House. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

Most often, private operating foundations are organizations that operate museums, theaters, or arts centers, although any other charitable activity conducted directly by the foundation can qualify. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Dear Museum 2.0-ers, ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. Tags: Core Museum 2.0

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. As the nonprofit community considers the future of virtual media in education, particularly in libraries and museums, it must not forget the role Second Life plays in pushing information sharing and experiencing to new heights and levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

XRI and I-names are part of the OpenID ecology that is gaining traction on lots of grassroots sites along with big sites Technorati and Wikipedia. There is also a $50,000 bounty program for OpenID integration in major open source distribution.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2007

Whether those collaborations take the form of the set of Amazon book reviews that affect your purchasing or the development of wikipedia entries, short-format contributions can be quickly assembled into a reasonable composite. application like MySpace or Wikipedia. On Wikipedia? Think about potlucks from the 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

I created a directional pyramid to make a point about social content in museum; namely, that museums are not offering networked, social experiences—and therefore will have a hard time jumping to initiating meaningful social discourse. And I’m not advocating that the dream museum would be all level 5 experiences, all the time.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

But the aspect that most excited me were the discussions about active participation in museums. But the concepts behind them are powerful and useful in the discussion about the future of museums. No museum is as flexible or participatory as the Web has become. Or, check out the wikipedia article , which is more readable.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Like other museums that have hosted Bodyworlds and its sequels, the exhibit has doubled overall museum attendance for 2007--and it's only been here for three months. According to Wikipedia , 20 million people have viewed a Bodyworlds exhibition. Consider the Creation Museum. First, what makes something uncomfortable?

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. If we want to work with directors, trustees, and other skeptics to evolve museums and other content providers alongside Web 2.0, And even if you understand what a site does, what can it do for your museum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

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??? Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia. 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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Starting at $8 per month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0′s ′s mobile website is powered using MoFuse at nonprofitorgs.mobi.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

s Hawaiian son as applied to museums. The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia, like YouTube and Facebook, is a giant in the world of Web 2.0. What's a wiki? What makes them succeed?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

On our last trip to San Diego, my daughter and I took a trip to the Natural History Museum. Meanwhile, the condor’s habitat was improved due to work done by government agencies and environmental groups to protect ranging lands and enact laws against lead bullets. In 1991, condors began to be released back into the wild. It soars.”.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2007

Today, personal ads from three kinds of museum users. This weekend, I was working on this article about encouraging civic discourse in museums through 2.0 As a designer, I believe that museums should strive to offer diverse networked, social experiences. How does this relate to the experience design in museums?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

I had a surprisingly good label-reading experience at the de Young museum recently. A computer kiosk in a museum might allow you to send a link home to yourself related to a physical exhibit experienced at the museum. You can read more about the game on Wikipedia , and some commentary on it from Wired.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2007

For example, to add Museum 2.0 On the right, I have direct wikipedia search and feeds from several blogs. No more opening Wikipedia in a new tab. Months ago, I wrote about the potential power of disaggregation for museums , referring to the concept of the "ultimate mix tape" of greatest hits and personal favorites.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

This interest stems back to the very beginning of the Museum 2.0 Since 2006, I've heard terms like "wikimuseum" and "YouTube museum" spring from the mouths of many well-meaning, interested museum directors and leaders, but I haven't seen enough concerted work to define what these metaphors really mean and how they can be used.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Starting at $8 per month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0′s ′s mobile website is powered using MoFuse at nonprofitorgs.mobi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. Tagging in Art Museums. Users add tags to describe online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks or text. These tags are then shared and sometimes refined. Here are the examples I showed you in the screencast, using the tag ??? sharpie.??? account: [link]. :

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Starting at $8 per month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0′s ′s mobile website is powered using MoFuse at nonprofitorgs.mobi.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Starting at $8 per month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0′s ′s mobile website is powered using MoFuse at nonprofitorgs.mobi.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Starting at $8 per month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0′s ′s mobile website is powered using MoFuse at nonprofitorgs.mobi.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Starting at $8 per month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0′s ′s mobile website is powered using MoFuse at nonprofitorgs.mobi.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2009

On sites like Wikipedia and YouTube, the ratio of spectators to producers is even more pronounced; on sites like Flickr or Facebook, the ratio is lower. of Museum 2.0 In social media, the rule of thumb is 90-9-1 : 90% spectate, 9% comment or rate content, and 1% produce content. 1% is a pretty exclusive club. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2007

Since I'm living at the Spy Museum right now in the run-up to the opening of Operation Spy, I asked Museum 2.0 Jessica Harden here: Museum 2.0’s Most of the things that I know about Wikipedia are from watching The Colbert Report. in museums? Do museums really feel as though they have control over content?

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