NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Weekly, I hear from someone who is putting ideas from the book into action. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" and "why?" to "how?". I feel lucky to be a small part of that change.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 12, 2010

There were so many fabulous recommendations for the next Museum 2.0 book club, in which we'll focus on a business book about innovation and organizational learning. This book club will work like the last one. Get your hands on a copy of the book in the next couple of weeks. post with a response to the book.

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Government Organization Museum Blended 42

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street.

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Chicago Library Public Culture 48

Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This is the second installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Every Tuesday in June, this blog will feature a guest post examining some aspect of the book. This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania.

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Place Museum Discussion Pennsylvania 27

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Dear Museum 2.0 Energized by the response to the blog series this summer on relevance , I've decided to write a book on the topic. THANK YOU in advance for helping make this book as relevant and compelling as possible (and yes, I think those two terms are quite different and am writing about the difference in the book).

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Story Case Study Project Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Dear Museum 2.0-ers, ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S.

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Museum Library Participatory Wikipedia 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2012

In 2008, I wrote a post arguing that museums should focus on the pre-visit, not the post-visit, if they want to capture and retain visitors. I said: In many ways, the ability to successfully set a powerful and useful expectation for museum experiences is MORE valuable than the ability to extend said experience. Reader, I was wrong.

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Experiment Museum Library Aggregator 46

Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2008

One of the surprise benefits of Saturday's Museums and Civic Discourse session was the chance to sit down with Mitch Allen of Left Coast Press (formerly AltaMira press), publisher of the Museums and Social Discourse journal among many, many other museum publications. To his credit, Mitch didn't take offense. you must read this!"

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Dear Museum 2.0 readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Tags: participatory museum. Technical Review?

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Help Participatory Museum Wiki 28

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? Then bow your head and say a silent "tak" (that's "thank you" in Danish) to the creators of the Living Library. What is the Living Library? This is true for the readers, the Books and the organisers alike.”

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Library Model Museum Europe 20

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. You can follow along with the sessions today through Wednesday using #ERL11.

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Library Model Adopt Community 241

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Particularly in an age of cultural and political division, Bedoya argues that leaders in the arts need to responsibly and boldly intermediate among many voices, using a combination of ethics and aesthetics to make policy and artistic decisions. Adam argued for museums to become "less visitor-oriented," and I argued the opposite.

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Arts Museum Artist Tucson 45

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

AUGUST 11, 2011

What inspires me about its organizational culture is the unusual degree of dedication, creativity, and harmony among the employees. The Perkins History Museum has an impressive collection on the history of education for people who are blind and deafblind.

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Massachusetts Museum Library History 56

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Huge thanks to everyone who participated in the idea-sharing over the last couple months about how to make Museum 2.0 These posts will be an opportunity to hear from more people who are experimenting, leading, and banging their heads against the challenges of incorporating participation into museums and other public cultural places.

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Museum Participatory Library Blogger 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2008

When you design a new interactive, talkback station, or traditional exhibit for your museum, what best practices and design requirements do you consult? Do you use classic books? Museums don't have a well-developed body of industry-wide best practices. The solution is a design pattern library, a place where Yahoo!

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Yahoo Library Design Experiment 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. Or, so I thought.

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Participatory Project Library Netherlands 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0 On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. questions that induce grappling.

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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. 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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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Groupon is an audience development machine, and it's highly relevant to cultural institutions looking to attract people with promises of exciting new discoveries within. A coupon goes up for half-price museum admission or spa treatments, and users have one day to buy. There's no better way to advertise what the library's about."

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Learning Museum San Francisco Cleveland 39

Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

On Tuesday, I reviewed Elaine Gurian’s essay, Choosing Among the Options , on museum archetypes and self-definition. Today, discussion with Elaine about ways museums choose their direction, how change is possible, and new museum types to be added to the list. What if you don’t want to be identified as one type of museum?

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Museum Puerto Rico Change Boston 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. The question is, "would you recommend this book to someone?" instead of what is?)

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Technique Design Question Develop 52

Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

We were discussing the potential for cultural organizations to have significant impact across communities: on planning, health, education, and quality of life. But I couldn''t fully imagine how a museum or an arts center could embody it. Pop up libraries, performance spaces, and seating areas. They were open books.

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San Francisco Arts Design Marketing 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

into the museum is the potential to encourage more positive in-museum interactions among strangers. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content. A lot of what interests me about bringing 2.0

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. Henry Jenkins notes that it isn't about the tools and that it was more about the culture growing up around the technology. Jenkins from MIT described something called "convergence culture."

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2007

On Musematic , Holly Witchey has rigorously recorded her recent experience at WebWise, a " IMLS/RLG/OCLC/Getty sponsored conference" on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World that was held March 1-2. I wonder what the library people in the room thought when they heard this. Libraries are the ultimate 2.0 I like this.

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Library Museum Arts Aggregator 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2007

Welcome to the first installment of the Museum 2.0 virtual book club. While every post at Museum 2.0 I hope these book club posts can serve as invitations for lively discussion in the comment section. And if you're planning ahead, next week we'll look at chapter 6, Timeliness: A discussion for museums.

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Free Museum Library Louisville 22

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2009

Earlier this year, the New Museum and Creative Time commissioned a traveling piece by artist Jeremy Deller called "It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq." I saw It Is What It Is twice at the Hammer Museum. Why would I want to talk about Iraq on a visit to an art museum? Even for me, the barriers were too high.

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Iraq Challenge Museum Library 28

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. So really good book just above costs and I’m offering them at $8 and my book on “Organizational Development.”

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Money Personal Relationship Raise 97

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I think of 3six5 as a coffee table book that is being written one day at a time. Participating in this made me wonder: could a museum or library run a project like 3six5? From my perspective, there are two primary barriers that would prevent a museum from running a project like this: Perception of lack of significance.

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Participatory Project Museum Journal 34

Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

You can procure items that encourage residents to explore the city in a fun way, such as local restaurant gift certificates or tickets to museums or sports games. You can even center your questions around your specific mission or choose a theme like Pop Culture or Movie Trivia. Travel auction – Who doesn’t love to travel?

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Ideas Fundraising Virtual Fun 59

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

Woman reading a book on a beached rowboat, 1925. Image via State Library of Queensland (an institution I love). Dear friends, This is my last post as the author of Museum 2.0. I'm thrilled that Seema Rao is taking this blog and museum community into its next chapter. You can find all my archived Museum 2.0

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Museum Reflection Participatory Attitude 27

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. Libraries are more customer-focused, museums, more content-focused.

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Library Museum Reflection Alternative 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

This is the fifth installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Every Tuesday in June, this blog is featuring a guest post examining some aspect of the book. Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience.

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Place Discussion Library Museum 30

Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Author of two books, one just came out last February. We have a live library in our lobby here at Bloomerang. And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. Now, type in the chat if you know this reference, if you know this pop culture reference. You’re going to want to learn more about that.

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