Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ). Consider a mural.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." We want to cultivate a more diverse audience, especially younger people, and we want to do it authentically." Fabulous!" "But This is incredibly scary.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. The people at Museums and the Web are on the forefront of web-based innovative museum practice. Where’s the museum you know and love?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. ” While the specific topics will emerge from the people in the room, impact leadership is focusing within, people, processes and plans to help the org reach it’s mission.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I spent today at day 1 of the TechSoup Global Summit in Mountain View with two hundred and forty people who work in the TechSoup Global Network around the world, plus other stakeholders. Alan Gunn was the moderator/host and the participatory design did not disappoint. The started with some big picture frames.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,&# a story telling tool. (And, had to laugh at the geeky recursiveness of creating a story out of qualitative data from Twitter and other sources – and then adding it to my curated nonprofit measurement collection on scoop.it).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. We continuously and actively respond to requests as well as invite people to be a part of our programs. Bonding social capital refers to networks that bring people together with common interests to strengthen relationships in preexisting groups.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We wanted to share with people, in as clear and transparent a format as possible, our approach to developing exhibitions. If you are working with us as an artist or contributor to an exhibition, you should expect that museum staff will create multi-modal, interdisciplinary, participatory, immersive, and social experiences around your work.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

Fifteen people engage in the prescribed activities. Approximately 100 people walk by while the program is going on. How many people participated? It was a creative stretch for everyone involved--people who had to draw quickly, exercisers who had to hold poses for longer-than-normal time periods--and everyone had a good time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. It also makes it easy for attendees to follow the conversation thread and participate whether they are or in the room or following from afar. Photo by Mansikka. What is a #HashTag?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Dustin: About a year ago I met a couple of people from Museum Hack at a conference. We interacted with the art and with each other through dynamic photo challenges, kinesthetic activities, and conversations. Who is the audience for Museum Hack? How did you first get involved with Museum Hack? How do you advertise Museum Hack?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

Negotiated agency" strikes me as a really useful framework in which to talk about visitor/audience participation in the arts. You tell people they can''t take photographs in the gallery or the performance, but the phones sneak out , covertly or defiantly, to reassert personal control of the experience. Patrons clap between movements.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

People at work with the games running in the background on their computers. Conversations about the tournament on the street. And it''s got me thinking about how we build energy and audience for the arts in this country. And all of that led to more audience--at all levels of the game. It''s World Cup time. It''s exciting.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

I wanted to open up conversation about how we judge the relative ethics of various sources of museum revenue--all of which have moral grey areas. In the last week: 10,000ish people saw the blog post on the web or as an email. 3,125 people viewed the game. 610 people played the game. 20 people commented on it.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,” a story telling tool. (I Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. It is being used less for remote participation and more for people in the room. How can the backchannel enhance our attentiveness and learning ?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. People are showing up, getting involved, and sharing their enthusiasm in droves. It is incredibly rewarding work. I feel lucky.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In July of 2013, the MAH will host our first You Can't Do That in Museums Camp (or better name to be suggested by you), inviting 80 creative people to collaborate on an experimental exhibition. We will also offer a half-day series of workshops on July 10 for a wider audience for $50. and this one is going to be awesome.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

A national election is the ultimate participatory project. As Jane McGonigal has written , "the chance to be part of something bigger" than yourself is one of the four things that make people feel happy and fulfilled. These conversations are the basis for institutional partnerships and much of our funding.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

It was terrific to have a packed room and a long, open conversation (we split the session into half presenting, half audience discussion) about these issues. A couple of weeks ago, I posted on this blog that I was interested in meeting some new people at the conference. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

Our audience has quadrupled in size, and the people walking through our doors increasingly reflect the age, income, and ethnic diversity of our County. We’re proud that the MAH is a thriving museum AND community center for Santa Cruz County, a place for people of all walks of life to connect around our shared creativity and culture.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. People are seeing that collection knowledge should be shared in ways that center the visitor instead of the museum. This decade has begun the conversation about labor.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. folk through comments, emails to me, and hallway conversations. I''ve never taken a break from blogging before. To me, Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

” The following games are expanding the reach of various nonprofits and helping them connect with audiences in meaningful ways. government and encouraging participatory democracy. ” Senate Immersion Module. Created by ESI Design, the 100-player Senate Immersion Module game was made for the Edward M.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

Among other things, I led a workshop on "social objects" --artifacts and exhibits that inspire people to point, discuss, snap photos, and generally share their experience both with friends and strangers. When I tell people this in a presentation, it can sound vague or dubious. See for example the photo at the top of this post.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

While for me meandering was mostly pleasurable, if I were there with a particular goal or a group of people, I would have been stressed out. We quickly learned a few things: You really can't guess what people will like. People told us about mummies and infinity rooms and gold crosses. Most people enjoyed talking to us.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

to experiment with different kinds of events (time of day, audience, size, type) and get a sense of how we can best program the space in the longterm. The ideal candidate has a good grasp of our local artistic assets in Santa Cruz County, a knack for participatory placemaking, and enthusiasm about putting on a show.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The call was from Mercedes Martinez and Zachary Kent, the people behind an internet radio show called Dial-A-Stranger. People sign up to be called by submitting a phone number to be added to a database. Other people submit questions they'd like to have answered by strangers. Dial-A-Stranger is what it sounds like.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

For those who are unfamiliar with it, Twitter is a service that allows you to send messages of 140 characters in length to a set of people (“followers”) who self-elect to receive your messages (“tweets”). It’s about conversations. Each week, about 1,500 unique people visit Museum 2.0 What makes Twitter a conversational space?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The chairs were cast-off art, reclaimed as art, available for people to take off the hooks and use. It opens up new conversations about the work of art in our communities. It loses its flavor--or is completely imperceptible--when people don't understand what they are drinking. They were there for artist talks.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. You have an audience need and an institutional value, and now you just need a verb that connects them. I get impatient with long complicated processes that require buy-in from hundreds of people.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. I met lovely people in engineering, but I found the work to be too detail-oriented and microscopic in scope to satisfy me. We had only eight people doing everything related to content and programming at the museum.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. This is the cocktail party, the hallway conversation, a structured time to meet and talk. Why are they doing this?

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