Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. I'm generalizing grossly here, but for the most part, I find European museums to be conservative. The whole experience was exhilarating and deeply human. I first sensed the difference at the front door. There wasn't one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures. My experience has informed me over and over again that you will fail. Ironically, if we have time, the last matter is the least difficult. And that is the crossroads. Don’t make that mistake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. What investments can the Brainerd Foundation make over the next five years to help build an effective infrastructure of advocacy that builds power for conservation that will endure beyond the foundation’s sunset?

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click!

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

This is an excellent "pre blogging experience." Nature Conservancy. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. My experiment with user-generated content is here.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Who controls the experience? Some leaders are more conservative than I feared, and these people are alternately smug and desperate about maintaining their power. One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning. Who controls the experience?

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