Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

Want to buy a book ? As many of you know, I've been working for the past year+ on a book about visitor participation in museums, libraries, science centers, and art galleries. Now, after long last, the book is here! The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 11, 2010

While it hasn't happened here in awhile, a new Museum 2.0 book club will be starting in two weeks to read and discuss The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg. Oldenburg is the individual to whom the term "third place" is attributed, and this well-researched 1989 book put him on the map. post with a response to the book.

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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. Or how Felton Thomas fought the library union to make the Cleveland Public Library matter more. Why make the book available for free under a Creative Commons license? It expands access to the book.

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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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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Museums have used games to engage visitors for decades. SR: I came to games before I came to museums. My grandmother cheated at Candyland and uno. :) Games, I think, have a nice Venn diagram of overlap between museum lovers. I love thinking we're getting new museum lovers through games. How did you get into museum games?

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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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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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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. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 This is the only post written by me, Nina Simon.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2015

The Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library (MBWML) was established in 1958 and named to honor the mother of America's first president. The museum and library preserves the rich history of the Northern Neck through its collections, exhibits, tours, and educational programs. Celebrating a Region Rich with History.

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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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2016

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance in advance of its release. I wrote this book because of a fundamental curiosity about what relevance is and how it works. This chapter appears midway through the book. To get into this chapter, imagine that your institution/program/art is a room.

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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. From the Web 2.0

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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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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 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2006

Direct Link to " Tales from the Public Domain: Bound By Law " Museum, Education, and Library IT networks have special interest or affinity groups on the topic of copyright and fair use. The MCN (Museum Computer Network) Intellectual Property Special Internet Group is chaired by. Amalyah Keshet.

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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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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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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. Want to help substantively with the content of the book?

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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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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2012

As an added incentive for nonprofits to participate, everyone who completes the survey between now and Monday, April 2 will have a chance to win a copy of one of these great books : Nonprofit Management 101. We have two copies of each book. The Networked Nonprofit. Social Media PR.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

You'd like to participate, but it would have taken too much effort to attend the summer book launch events in Edinburgh and Santa Cruz. Fortunately, I'm hitting the road this fall, and I hope to be able to discuss this book with you at a time and place that hits your sweet spot in the effort/meaning calculus.

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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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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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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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Me: Have you ever been to this museum? meetup for Elite Yelp!

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

AUGUST 11, 2011

The Perkins History Museum has an impressive collection on the history of education for people who are blind and deafblind. However, they are also planning to create an online museum and archive that will be fully accessible to all. (I Visually impaired and blind people can go online to borrow books and reading machines.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. Recently, I learned about an innovative, super-low tech tagging pro ject in a library that does this beautifully. They installed more book drops. Why are folksonomies useful?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

This week, we're covering the third objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : energizing (chapter 6). In this post, an exploration of ways that museums can support promoters, convert detractors, and generally energize visitors to share their experience with others. Maybe a comment card or book.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 21, 2016

My new book, The Art of Relevance , is now available and ready to move from my computer to your hands. Here's more about the book and what you can expect. The result is this book. The book is separated into five sections: What is Relevance? You gave me the roadmap to write this book. Kid-tested, nonprofit-approved.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

Today I got an early present from the San Francisco NPR station, KQED, which aired a piece on Museum 2.0 featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). This concept has spawned a question I like to obsess over: What would a museum look like that got better the more people used it?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2016

My new book's coming, and I want you to be part of it. The result is a new book, The Art of Relevance , coming out in a few weeks. I am truly thrilled to share this book with you. But this post today isn't a book announcement. This post is for those of you who want to read the book. Writing a book is lonely.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

In the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s four part series on comfort in museums, we get down to the basics: creature comfort. So for this last piece, we look at going the other way: making museums more physically comfortable. And on the walls, my friend explained, was art from the museum itself. There was funky music.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Adam and I first met in 2008, when we were part of a National Academies think tank-ish thing on the future of museums and libraries. All the participants were asked to write one-page position papers about museums and libraries in the 21st century. Turns out we're a lot more alike than I thought at the time.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But Vi doesn't work in a science museum. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who are well known in museums for their excellent Smarthistory website and podcasts. the way the best museums do. Does this mean Khan Academy is competitive with museums? She would be the best science center educator ever.

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