Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. The content starts with the teen team.

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Interview Museum Teen Myspace 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

This technique was used in the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and continues in the popular StoryCorps project. When you want visitors to spend a long time reflecting and sharing their thoughts, you need to design spaces for response that are comfortable and minimize distractions.

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Design Goal Difference Platform 31

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

By understanding what individuals are highlighting about the Exploratorium experience, the museum can craft its own messaging--and programming--to reflect and enhance the elements seen as most valuable. Tags: Book Discussion: Groundswell marketing participatory museum. Otherwise, it’s likely to fall on deaf ears.

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Museum Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?” Projects participatory museum. Tags: web2.0 Work with communities that relate to your content and reach desired audiences.

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Museum Hosting Model Community 22

Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. During the school year, they spend one day per week at the Taylor Center working on science projects and leading science programs for young children, seniors, and other community groups.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Nearly 70% of users are under 35 , and 72% of teens use Instagram. As above, your content should be visually focused, so unique, high-quality imagery that reflects your nonprofit’s values and branding is essential. Using a hashtag, like #nonprofit, ‘tags’ your post to the subject nonprofit. Who is Instagram’s audience?

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Guide Beginner Social Media Nonprofit 40

Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. If you had one youth educator, would you expect them to develop and run overnights AND scout programs AND teen programs AND toddler programs AND outreach AND… of course not. Museums need to develop sustainable models for projects that require frequent content updates.

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Museum Advice Interview Web 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project. Then, they encourage others in the Flickr community to post their own images of the same plant and tag them "flickrplantproject." Why would a museum want to invest in projects that connect a small number of people with the content?

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Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

For example, “Nazi science” came up several times as a “can’t”—but the Holocaust Museum’s Deadly Medicine exhibition was a successful project that didn’t bring the walls down. Our desire to "protect kids"--which reflects twenty years of clamping down (at least in the U.S.) Tags: exhibition design professional development.

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

These themes of race and class were not lost on ethnographer danah boyd , who gave one of the most provocative presentations of the conference – quoting both Habermas and inner-city teens! Tags: guest blogging. Currently both lean heavily Democratic and voted for Obama in ‘08.

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