Recent Posts by Joseph O'Neill
Pandemic-Friendly Ideas for Welcoming Immigrants and Refugees to Your Community
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Community Engagement & Impact
Welcoming Week is an annual event from Welcoming America that seeks to unite recent immigrants and refugees with longer residents in communities. Along with other organizations of all …
See the Standout Face Masks Commissioned by Museums
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COVID-19
One of the main ways museums are starting to look different as they reopen is the ubiquity of face masks. Who would have believed, going into this year, that everyone roaming the galleries …
6 Data-Tested Approaches to Building New Audiences
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Building Audiences
It’s safe to say that most museums would like new visitors. Visitors actualize museums’ missions, give them vibrancy as places of insight and connection, and contribute to their financial …
The Rubin Museum of Art’s #MuseumFromHome Strategy: A Meditative Offering
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Technology
Ever since the closures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, museums have been working to engage the public through remote alternatives. Two hashtags have emerged on social media …
One Museum’s Plan to Keep Its Full Staff During COVID-19
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Labor
Like most sectors of the economy, the museum field is facing sharp losses in revenue and uncertainty about when they will be reversed. Many institutions have decided to lay off, furlough, …
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s #MuseumFromHome Strategy: Funny TikToks
Category:
Technology
Ever since the rash of closures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, museums have been working behind the scenes to set strategies for engaging the public through remote …