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284 Articles match "Museum","Personal"
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum . Please let me know in the comments if there's anything in particular you want to know about - I'm happy to share whatever interests you. Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. Many of the book sections started as blog posts on Museum This week, we'll look at the overview of the process of the creation of the book and some overall statistics for user participation.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
In most cases, within two seconds, you or the person with whom you are videochatting decides that the other person is not worth their time. I could imagine a delightful application on a museum website that would allow me to chat with a stranger about a featured artifact or artwork. The object and the context of the museum website would both provide framing and structure that would likely make for a positive encounter. This morning, in less than fifteen seconds, I saw live video of: a guy on the phone, lounging in front of his computer a guy taking a photo of me while ignoring simple questions a guy who used a mirror effect to look like an alien a penis The penis was the last straw.
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Monday, March 1, 2010
1) Watching the social stream from a TV station in Chile live streaming> (2) Contacting the family's friends on Facebook through their accounts (3) Keyword searches on Twitter using the various hashtags including #chile, #buscapersonas (lost persons) (4) The Google People Finder
(5) Human Rights Museum and Villa Gramaldi have been my best networks as they've been well-organized for about 30 years. Last night, one of my colleagues at Packard Foundation, Jeff Jackson, left this post on my wall. I did a little Twitter coaching and connected him with others who might help.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum . Today, an interview with Shelley Bernstein , the Manager of Information Systems at the Brooklyn Museum, and the engine behind that museum’s fabulous forays into Web 2.0. to support programs and exhibits. A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Last week, I spoke with Jim Richardson, managing director of SUMO Design , about their very cool new project with the North East Regional Museums Hub : I like... museums . museums is a website on which visitors can search for museums in the North East region of England. Funded by the UK MLA and launched on July 9, i like... But it's not a typical directory.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
I have a lot of conversations with people that go like this: Other person: "So, you think that museums should let visitors control the museum experience?" Other person: "But doesn't that erode museums' authority?" One of the primary fears museum professionals (and all professionals) have about entering new relationships with audiences is the fear of losing control. Me: "Sort of." Me: "No."
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The presumed answer is "yes" your museum needs a blog, a pony, or a set of comfy couches. Does your museum need a custom online social network? Most social networking sites give each user a unique user profile, along with a personal "home base" where you can always find your content, your contacts, and your interests. Usually, when I start posts with a question in the title, it's a cheat. In this case, it's debatable.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
And while the Brain exhibition has some qualities that were significantly improved over other RFID-enabled exhibitions (better scanning of the tags, more content-rich personalized welcome screens, effective timeouts if you walked away, a semi-useful group option to accommodate families), it offered an output mechanism that is dated and downright frustrating: the personal webpage. Many institutions that are pursuing online/onsite experience connections have lighted on the personal webpage as THE way to deliver post-visit experiences. Yesterday, I visited the Experimentarium , a science center just north of Copenhagen in Denmark.
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Friday, May 23, 2008
I've written before about three types of museum users: contributors, lurkers, and judges. The social media user types, like learning styles or gaming styles, are more like personality traits than exclusive groupings. It would be strange to imagine talking the same way about learning styles--trying to push people out of their own modalities into preferred "higher-level" engagement types.* *Digression: Some people have commented that my hierarchy of social participation People who create content for the public try to appeal to a wide range of people, both in terms of demographics and usage styles.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
As part of the article I’m working on for the journal Museums and Social Issues on using web 2.0 to promote civic discourse in museums, I’m developing an argument about the “hierarchy of social participation.” I believe that, as with basic human needs, experience design in museums (and for other content platforms) can occur on many levels, and that it is hard to achieve the highest level without satisfying, or at least understanding, those that come before it. One of the impediments to discourse in museums is that fact that designers want to jump straight from individuals interacting
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Last week, I received an inquiry from Mary Maher, editor of Hand to Hand, a magazine put out by the Association of Children's Museums , about Museum 2.0. Why, Mary asked, were there no posts about children's museums on this site? I did a quick mental scan, and she's right; with the exception of a few mentions of the Exploratorium and the City Museum (both of which are much more than children's museums), has focused on "interactive" and "collecting" museums, with much attention paid to the ways adults engage therein. So today, we start righting the
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Nik inquired as to how I feel about museum blogs. what's your take on museums that keep blogs? In general, yes, I think that museums maintaining blogs is an effective, cheap way to get changing content out to the public frequently. Do I have a personal preference among these approaches? That's not the point. The point is that you have to decide WHY your institution is starting a blog (and no, "all my He asked: Hey Ms. 2.0,
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s Do you talk to people sitting next to you on planes? I don't.
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