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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

I’m at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. and "why?" to "how?".

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Authenticity and Demystifying the Artistic Process: Walker Art Center Blogs - Part 2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The best metaphor for the Walker New Media blog is a fish bowl. Through a fish bowl blog, we can learn more about the everyday life of the institution and how staff contribute to the Walker's mission. This Walker Blog let's us peer into the inner workings of the art institution. audiences via the internet. week to writing.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon -- Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0. I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. I know this sounds strange coming from someone writing an admittedly self-expressive blog post, but hear me out. And yet many museums are fixated on creators. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Sustaining Innovation Part 3: Interview With Sarah Schultz of the Walker Art Center

Museum 2.0

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. It's inherent in what we do.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

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I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image The museum was founded in 1981, opened in 1989. My focus is on how children learn science.

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