Book Culture Participatory University 
Museum 2.0
APRIL 2, 2014
It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files.
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. That said, there are a couple big things I got wrong in the book - or at least, that I''ve changed my perspective on since writing it. and "why?" to "how?".
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.” ” Widad E.
Museum 2.0
JULY 20, 2010
Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.
Museum 2.0
JULY 1, 2011
But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection. OK, so we made up the last couple of those prohibitions. I want to make this happen.'"
Museum 2.0
APRIL 22, 2008
donation to the universe, is a gift. When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. This simple act, a $2.50 Why is gifting a model worth exploring?
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
Looking closer, I saw that each seat had its own handwritten label, telling the story of the Philadelphia cultural institution from which it originated. It takes the kind of risks that a university art gallery should take. They were charming, but puzzling. They were there for artist talks.
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