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.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression.

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

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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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. As it turned out, the experiment pushed everyone's abilities and comfort levels.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

The best participatory projects are useful. The participatory activity in question is part of the new Unfinished Business gallery, a room in which the museum engages with a contemporary issue related to the passion and work of Jane Addams and the historic Hull-House activist residents. Send poems!" was one of the answers.

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Participatory Museum Action Experiment 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Fine writes about in her book Momentum. The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. the capacity to experiment with one???s Performance ???

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Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. While some aspects are quite technical and specific, it should be useful for anyone considering writing a book for a niche audience. Check out the other parts here.

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Participatory Museum Process Adobe 33

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

Instead, Stacey thought, why not make the feedback experience an activity unto itself? This past Friday, we experimented with a new feedback format at an evening event focused on poetry and book arts. They came to the booth when they wanted to share, and everyone felt good about the sharing experience. you tell me.

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Activities Active Activism Participatory 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Note: If you have read the book and would like to write a guest post for this series, please contact me. The root of my frustration with the book is not that the project never came to fruition. The root of my frustration with the book is not that the project never came to fruition. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

Take five minutes and learn how the Science Museum in London created better experiences for deaf visitors. Why make the book available for free under a Creative Commons license? I do it for three reasons: It makes it easier for people to share and spread the ideas in the book. It expands access to the book.

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Arts Free Chapter Cleveland 40

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Two exceptional examples of community committees stand out: one long standing, The Community Advisory Committees of The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience and one emerging, the Creative Community Council of the Children’s Creativity Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

Steve's book is due out in December, 2009, and while it doesn't focus exclusively on nonprofits (or one camera), judging from the sneak peek at the draft - it's a must read. How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide. Editing Software. The camera comes with some editing software.

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Camera Camtasia Experiment Screencast 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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Model Activities Active Activism 98

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

In this post, Jasper shares some lessons learned from a recent experiment to design a more social comment station. I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. I think it is quite possible to translate the Signtific Game to a real-life experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Unlike fellow nonprofit book nerd, Rosetta Thurman , I am way behind on my nonprofit book summer reading list. My blog is the July 15th stop on Clay Shirky’s virtual book tour for his recently published book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in A Connected Age.

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Participatory Lesson Social Media Review 95

Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

Priya Parker's wonderful book The Art of Gathering shares the core principles of how to drive. Whether you dream of better meetings or you're planning a community festival, I urge you to read this book. The book explains how to host events with purpose, drawing lessons from intimate parties, mass happenings, and international summits.

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Hosting Arts Help Museum 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2010

The Smithsonian is one of the Networked Nonprofits we feature in the book. There were a number of online/offline participatory visitor experiences. Playing tourist in DC, it is interesting to see how much your online digital life impacts your offline life. We spent most of the day at the Smithsonian.

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DC Asia Offline Participatory 91

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. 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. Yes and no.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

This is the first 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. I closed this book wondering: are cultural institutions really interested in being third places? Facebook discussion board here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 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 struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. questions that draw from personal experience, not abstraction. speculative (what if?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. 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. Yes and no.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times. In early 2017, we completed a two week book tour. I also had a glorious week-long experience working along side the co-founders of Wake on the Tech2Empower program in Guatemala.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

The network on Twitter responded: If you’re overly emotional and reject quantitative data or unemotional and reject lived experience, you are less effective from Seth Godin shared by WSUCCSR. Storytelling Project is an experiment in collecting community feedback. Will we ever move away from the either/or mindset from Jdeancoffey.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

It's been an intense year - finishing the book and spending lots of time on the road working with cultural institutions. My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. The book is still open to new ideas and stories. Dear Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. So many times we book an hour meeting when we don’t need the whole hour and then we fill the time.

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Facilitation Virtual Arts Participatory 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

I was reminded of this "care, then act" framework when I saw a recent story about a student's experience at a powerful issue-driven exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center, Half the Sky. This exhibition about oppression of women worldwide is based on the book by the same title by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl DuWunn.

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Story Participatory Museum History 47

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The network on Twitter responded: If you're overly emotional and reject quantitative data or unemotional and reject lived experience, you are less effective – from Seth Godin shared by WSUCCSR. She's currently working on a book on measurement with KD Paine. Will we ever move away from the either/or mindset – from Jdeancoffey.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

It's a little living room in a lobby area that invites people to lounge on comfortable chairs, leaf through magazines and books related to art and Santa Cruz history, and generally hang out. Lisa and I have fundamentally different ideas of what a "good" museum experience is. The area that houses the Creativity Lounge also shows art.

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Museum Arts History Columbus 51

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.

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Teen Social Museum Participatory 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. Create ownership of solutions : “Based on your experience, what do you suggest we do here?”. These techniques are described in more detail in “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Windy Borman - Filmmaker & Strategist Windy brings over a decade of professional experience in film, video, event planning, theater, and the nonprofit sector to D.V.A. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

What happens when you don't have the time to experiment or play so you feel comfortable? d apply anywhere else outside my experience." He defines participatory culture as a culture: 1. Our conversations here in the blogosphere are participatory, although it would be nice to have multimedia conversations.

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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. It frames and personalizes the exhibit experience. instead of what is?)

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Technique Question Design Develop 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

By placing players squarely in the middle of the issues at-hand, games for social impact allow them to experience the nuances of these challenges in a way that is often as transformative and it is informative. government and encouraging participatory democracy. Kennedy (EMK) Institute to support it in educating the public about U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. And while anything you do the first time will not be perfect and in many cases stressful, in the end it was a good experience. What makes for a good team experience is a good on-boarding process.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This week, we're covering the first objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : listening (chapter 5). Please let me know (since I'm listening) whether this length is a benefit or a detriment to your experience. Improving the Visitor Experience Listening is an active behavior. and opportunity.

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Museum Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. Be personal.

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