Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. After a broad survey, Rick’s team defined three broad categories of public participation in scientific research: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. Wiki users are often collaborators. I’ve added one more category to the mix called hosted.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 5, 2009

I've been designing game-like experiences with museums for a long time. We rarely talk about this when we design museum exhibits. It had a very simple structure. Each person was given an "identity card" that featured a mashup of two faces smooshed together (see image at top). What does it mean to play well in your museum?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

I've become convinced that successful paths to participation in museums start with self-identification. The easiest way to do that is to acknowledge their uniqueness and validate their ability to connect with the museum on their own terms. Who is the "me" in the museum experience? Not so at museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# How to structure crowd sourced philanthropy based on voting or feedback depends on the outcomes of the project, a theory of change. Brooklyn Museum implemented a crowdsourced photography exhibit experiment called “ Click! 2) Crowd Creation. .

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