Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. What if it isn't what I expected?

Museum 51

Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc. This is not, of course, to suggest that there have been no efforts to produce software that addresses social and human needs – there have been a lot.

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Open Source Open Software Music 100

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

Back in 2008, I devised a plan to outsource my New Year''s Resolutions. I tweeted and Facebooked a request for friends to suggest things I could resolve to do over the course of 2009. We recruited folks and designed software that texted them five times a day for thirty days, asking one question, "Rate your mood 1 (low) to 10 (high)."

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Museum Roles Game Participatory 51

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. We spent significantly more time with the art to create these photos than we would have had we just been strolling through. Visitors use personal photos differently from store-bought ones.

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Museum Photo Policy Open 54

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

Race is a remarkably social exhibit; visitors spend a lot of time pointing things out to each other and talking about them. When I wrote about this in 2008, I focused on the question of how to design exhibits to be optimized for "pointiness." Pointing is a social behavior that works best in physically proximate, real-time situations.

Social Network 22

Social Network Tech Network Museum 22