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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I got a chance to meet her face-to-face for the first time at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in 2007. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation.

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Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

Museum 2.0

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. The Museum 2.0 In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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10 Amazing Environmental Nonprofits You Need to Know About

Tech Soup

They use refurbished tablet computers from TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative program to conduct a survey of restaurants and grocery store employees and better understand food waste in Boulder. The nonprofit creates books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

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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10 Holiday Gifts That Give Back

Have Fun - Do Good

percent from last year, according to NRF's 2007 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey." Babatunde Olatunji" Full disclosure: New Mexico Creates is related to the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, where my dad works. on holiday gifts, which includes $106.67 This is up a moderate 3.7 Wouldn't be great if some of that $923.36

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State Fairs and Visitor Co-Creation: An Interview about MN150

Museum 2.0

Traditional exhibition design, in which the museum has a specific story or message to tell, doesn't easily accommodate visitor co-creation. This realization--that a single museum voice was not the best way to tell a particular story--formed the basis for MN150 , the exhibition explored in this post. It was so rewarding.