Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.” Tags: design participatory museum usercontent.

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

This list is by no means exhaustive: please add your favorites (especially non-American ones) in the comments. Whether a teen zine about punk music or a university journal, the Underground Library will collect it, catalog it, and share it in ways designed to help people learn more about their city and each other.

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Culture Alternative St. Louis Los Angeles 49

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

And while most of them aren't likely to jump at the opportunity to talk to strangers in the near future, several commented that they'd like to try more "social engineering" experiments in their lives. For me, the experience changed my perspective on what teens want from social environments and encounters. What's your experience?

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Life Teen Culture Attitude 21

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 This space definitely looked like a third place this past Wednesday night when we hosted an overnight teen event designed to help teens see how they can make a difference in the world. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place. What do you think?

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Place Discussion Columbus Italy 23

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

And even Silent Generation internet users are competitive when it comes to email (although teens might point out that this is proof that email is for old people). And if you're looking for feedback and contributions from the Boomers themselves - like comments or criticisms - make that process dead simple. Tags: social media.

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Social Media Media Social Social Network 53

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

I was particularly interested in the ECHO project and Bryan's comments about the lack of in-house technical staff in museums and how that affects ability to innovate. If you want the quick and dirty look at the conference, check out the ephemera tagged #mw2008 (twitter posts, flickr images, a blog entires).

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Museum Web Teen Flickr 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

You can upload photos to it, tag them, share them, comment on them, and search for them. Where else can you find Pakistani bathroom signage or Mexican biker teens while researching a project? Tagging makes photo search flexible and powerful. On Flickr, they are searchable both by title and by tag. Where do you go?

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Flickr Work Photo Teen 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. Whether on blogs or talk-back walls, people are more conscious about their comments when they know their name will be associated with their work. I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens.

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Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression. When they saw the results of that expression, they struggled with the content and eventually integrated it into their project in a way that diminished the teens’ involvement and hard work. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

commented that the demographic of people who are involved is much broader than you’d think, including lots of families looking for a fun, educational, free activity. refers to are dog tags with unique serial numbers on them that geocachers can use to track items easily online. puts it, “MySpace for inanimate objects.”

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Museum Teen Arts Project 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Many institutions do this unintentionally--by providing post-its or comment books, pens or crayons. I encourage you to share your own rules and thoughts on this in the comments. Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors."

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Design Goal Difference Platform 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. " At that comment, all the avatars started clapping, cheering, and agreeing with quips like "Wow, MacArthur Foundation really gets it. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. Media isn't just happening to kids.

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Digital Learning Media Avatar 50

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Finally, because of their social content, they are good places for community dialogue programming and comment boards (for example, consider the Levine Museum of the New South's extensive use of sticky notes and talking circles). Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 Children of the Lodz Ghetto ). Projects participatory museum.

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Museum Difference Participatory History 29

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

When I watch the videos teens created at the Exploratorium and post on YouTube, I see the aspects of the exhibits they thought were most important to share with their classmates. Here are three examples of changes you could make: Change the language and presentation of comment cards. What do you want?”

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Museum Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

Last week, I wrote about the ways that dogs can be useful social objects --and you had lots of good comments and input. Sure, it's social, but people stick to their own "pods"--families, teens, adults--and don't diverge or merge. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 This week, I'm hoping you can help solve a mystery on a similar topic.

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Museum Participatory Teen Game 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

This week, we're looking at the first section, Talking Back and Talking Together , which features comment boards, talk-back walls, and discussion forums at a variety of museums. I invite you to do the same in the comments. Over three exhibitions at the LSM, 20-35% of visitor comment cards were deemed "relevant" to the exhibition.

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Voice Museum Lesson Pledge 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

It was co-designed by staff across the Ontario Science Centre, teen co-conspirators, and visitors via a series of ingenious brainstorming and making exercises developed by Julie Bowen and her brilliant team. Tags: design participatory museum. Does that require participatory design, design for participation, or both?

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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. The content starts with the teen team.

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Interview Museum Teen Myspace 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

When producing for/by kids, there was more of an emphasis on giving the feel of the piece—with music, stories about the artist, comments about other art the artist produced—and those context clues helped me step into the art more emotionally. Tags: storytelling exhibition design. I loved that. I’m begging here.

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Arts Museum Artist Audio 30

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

In his piece about interaction design for StoryCorps, Jake Barton comments that "for most people the value of the experience will be in making and submitting a story, not seeing it shared with everyone else." Next week, some comments on the final section of the book and the book overall. Not for us.

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Voice Create Museum Arts 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

In Children of the Lodz Ghetto, every data entry is verified by staff in a three-step process as well as reviewed and commented on by other users. I was particularly thrilled by danah boyd's excellent talk about the politics of how teens use social media and how the social web reinforces societal inequity and self-segregation.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

In many museums, comment cards are currently the most "participatory" part of the visitor experience. There are few, if any, ways to write back and continue the conversation with the visitor who commented. In other words, comment cards aren't effectively organized for use. Enter the internet.

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Comment Tools Museum Conversation 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem. Museums need to develop ways to track frequency of use, whether with technology or otherwise As David Gilman commented, "How can we be friends if I not only keep forgetting things about you, but never learn them to begin with?"

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Community Museum San Diego San Francisco 22

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

Later, Elaine comments: Now, after researching the topic, I am less certain that broadening the audience for museums is achievable in general. Tags: design Book Discussion: Civilizing the Museum. What does this “not sufficient by itself’ bit mean?

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People Museum San Jose Chapter 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2019

I hope to hear you articulate your thoughts in comments or on social. If you have a teen program running, there are no second teen programs person out drumming up business. Tag me so I can add your thoughts to this month’s summary post @artlust on twitter, @_art_lust_ on IG, & @brilliantideastudiollc on FB).

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Museum Accessibility Articulate Teen 29

Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

One person commented about how he loved growing up in DC as a teen and generally using the Smithsonian as a playground. Tags: interview Book Discussion: Civilizing the Museum inclusion. The conversation on the blog about Free at Last touched on that. So I think the facilitation of that makes for a new museum.

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Museum Puerto Rico Change Boston 20

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Nearly 70% of users are under 35 , and 72% of teens use Instagram. An active account that interacts with followers and replies to comments. Using a hashtag, like #nonprofit, ‘tags’ your post to the subject nonprofit. You can read more about why you should use Instagram Business on the Constant Contact blog.

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Guide Beginner Social Media Nonprofit 40

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Then, they encourage others in the Flickr community to post their own images of the same plant and tag them "flickrplantproject." Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. Does Jamal's comment enrich the primarily Minnesotan readers of Science Buzz?

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Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. If you had one youth educator, would you expect them to develop and run overnights AND scout programs AND teen programs AND toddler programs AND outreach AND… of course not. Has your tagging system increased overall google hits for the museum? Tags: web2.0 Keep statistics.

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Museum Advice Interview Web 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

If only museums' blogs got such a wealth of poorly spelled comments. " In the same way that today's teens have grown up with the mobile phone technology, today's pre-teens are growing up with social networks and virtual worlds. Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out virtual worlds. So what does this mean for museums?

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Second Life Teen Virtual Museum 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Tom compared public perception of racial intelligence to that of sexual orientation, commenting that over the last thirty years, the left has advocated to have racial intelligence categorized as nurture and sexual orientation categorized as nature. I encourage you to add your own examples and thoughts on this list to the comments.

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

If you have a tween or a teen, I’m sure you’re familiar with TikTok. The majority of TikTokers, they’re so young, they’re so spontaneous, they’re so generous with reactions, with shares, with tagging. You can save them of course, your camera roll, and repurpose them in other ways if you want to.

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Social Media Trend Video Marketing 85

Forum One

AUGUST 26, 2009

Not only can visitors create their own indicators - they can comments on others indicators, share indicators on various social media sites, and "rate" their favorite indicators! For example, see the comments back and forth about " $$ Spent per student and SAT Score ", or " How Likely Are Your Gun Owners to Shoot Somebody ".

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Open Source Wisconsin Illinois Contest 52