NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Participatory. Participatory. All of the content produced and published by the New York State Senate is published under a Creative Commons license. Look for a new "About Us" page on this site soon. Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Collaborative. Now let's think about our sector. . Transparent.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Public Open Source New York 60

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Being a trusted source of information can be a barrier that keeps us from sharing content with visitors that might be more contemporary, more ambiguous, more contentious--information that may not be trusted. It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. In the Web 2.0

Participatory 20

Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. When I released it in March, I launched a simple website to host all the book content and to support discussion around it. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. Thanks in advance.

Participatory 32

Participatory Chapter Museum Case Study 32

Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

People who create content for the public try to appeal to a wide range of people, both in terms of demographics and usage styles. And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. Where do visitors get to vote on their favorite content?

Profile 26

Profile Audience Participatory Tools 26

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. People curious to learn more about these trends packed a room at the National Press Club in Washington on September 16 to discuss the challenges and successes of content syndication. The winner is the one who creates the best new model for displaying government content.

District of Columbia 52

District of Columbia Management API DC 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

There is a lot of text on the site (this should be changing soon ), but this snippet says it best: Net?? is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. This site, and the Net?? What is it?

Netsquared 50

Netsquared Project Community Offline 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. Why does Ebay email you a certificate to celebrate "your first positive feedback" on their site?

Gift 23

Gift Participatory Museum Model 23

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

Over the next several weeks, I will be dedicating posts to these questions, and most specifically, to some of the HOWs of making museums sites of civic discourse. Tags: participatory museum. How will it impact the other services and roles museums represent in contemporary society?

Museum 20

Museum Site Facilitation Participatory 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

" I'm trying to walk the walk and talk the talk of Remixing Content for nonprofits. The above slides are from yesterday's Extension presentation and focus on Step 8: User-Generated Content and Remixing. site that has photos, etc., site that has photos, etc., The title was " Ten Steps to Extension 2.0

Remix 50

Remix Mashup PowerPoint Classroom 50

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Unlike Superstruct , which employed a very open-ended collaborative framework to invite people to imagine their circumstances in 2019 relative to several provocative scenarios, Signtific is a more focused, tight experience, both in content and format. In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program.

Game 24

Game Experiment Participatory Museum 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. o is Transparency - and the best example of that is what the Indianapolis Art Museum has done with its pubic metrics on its web site. The content is focused on the professional area of expertise.

Arts 74

Arts Social Media Examples Artist 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

When I visited his site, I noticed that he had some widgets, including a message comment line. feed where he is tagging resources here. And note how he has incorporated the use of his mail comment line into his content). I'm seeing more and more examples of participatory media -- take for example WGBH's Video Sandbox.

Open Source 50

Open Source Open Widget Remix 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Usually, the institution wants to maintain some control--whether over where the content comes from or how it is selected and organized. In this way, Click is a powerful example of the "venue as content platform" definition of 2.0. We are just providing the container, the mechanism so it can function. They kept the interface simple.

Museum 24

Museum Participatory Artist Arts 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. At first, I thought it was comment spam promoting a porno site but far from it. " Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future.

Feeds 50

Feeds Green Brain Audio 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together.

Remix 50

Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Imagine that your museum is ready to start creating content on a small-scale in Web 2.0. You're ready to write commentary about content related to your institutional goals. Conceptually, commenting on other sites signals your institution's willingness to engage with others on their own terms. Where should you start?

Museum 22

Museum Technorati Boston YouTube 22

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

IVR allows a user to call, enter or say specific numbers, and listen to or contribute audio content. Where Radio Maria collected and re-broadcasted incoming voice content, Volta Star in Ghana focused on improving access to radio segments by posting outgoing content. Making radio more accessible in Ghana.

Press 49

Press Ghana Tanzania Zimbabwe 49

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

This week, I'm launching a new site: the Voicemail Museum. It's an experiment that merges two of my greatest interests: finding novel, easy ways for visitors to contribute content to museums finding questions that draw such compelling responses that random peoples' answers would be worth browsing To participate, all you need is a phone.

Museum 20

Museum Audio Participatory Phone 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

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! Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content?

Slides 20

Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

static content delivery machines) to 2.0 dynamic content aggregation and network machines)." Small, quirky projects like the public art geocaching exhibition in Bellevue, WA , and inspiring surprises like the Living Library program and book-drop based tagging at the Hague. But this blog is mostly push content.

Museum 20

Museum Voice Minnesota Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. This year, the MIA also accepted audio/video submissions of up to 80 seconds, which are displayed on a Vimeo site. The diversity of content promotes comfortable dialogue about preferences.

Participatory 46

Participatory Museum Arts Artist 46

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

I am recommending the transcript of Clay Shirky's speech about Gin, Television, and Social Surplus , in which he argues that the next twenty years will be marked by people's slow, incremental, and astoundingly impactful awakening from being passive consumers (of TV) to partly active content creators. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 But one page!

Museum 20

Museum Library Participatory Wikipedia 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. The key to these benefits is not the volume of online content produced but its reach.

Museum 22

Museum Hosting Model Community 22

Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. But there were 52 people who spent several hours working on the project as content reviewers or copy-editors.

Participatory 32

Participatory Museum Process Experiment 32

Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. Every non-spammer editor who signed up was granted full access to change and comment on the content.

Participatory 33

Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2007

More and more museums are putting resources into floor staff who are trained to connect visitors with content, to serve as interpreters and informal teachers. I’ve written before about ways social networking sites do this ; today, some concrete ideas for how museums might as well. Tags: participatory museum visitors.

Museum 20

Museum Tools Participatory Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

And the site I Like Museums lets you find whole institutions of interest based on your preference for trails like "making things," "nice cup of tea," or simply "pigs." Rating content from one to five stars may seem like a frivolous activity, but for Netflix, it's serious business. But they aren't just fun ways to express yourself.

System 22

System Design Movie Museum 22

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

A social networking site is one in which users connect with one another. 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. Note that even the content of this exhibition is focused on 2.0-style

Museum 20

Museum Social Network Case Study Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, even ExhibitFiles are tools that allows people--strangers and friends--to connect with one another. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content.

Museum 20

Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking.

Screencast 50

Screencast Instruction Instructional Tag 50

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. sites form my understanding of what the Exploratorium is. Tags: Book Discussion: Groundswell marketing participatory museum.

Museum 20

Museum Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. The negative side of this is that no one (and it should have been a Tech staff member) was providing a heavy content overlay to the experience.

Virtual 21

Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This exhibition uses RFID tags to allow visitors to save their work throughout the space--something that many institutions have been experimenting with for almost ten years now. We swiped our RFID tags all over the Brain exhibition to save our actions, scores, and preferences. There are some obvious positives to this strategy.

Personal 34

Personal Museum Pledge San Jose 34

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

For hundreds of years, we've owned the content and the message. While we may grudgingly acknowledge the fact that visitors create their own versions of the message around subsets of the content, we don't consciously empower visitors to redistribute their own substandard, non-authoritative messages. Content expertise matters.

Authoring 42

Authoring Platform Museum YouTube 42

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Their online network includes over 250,000 activists and they partner with hundreds of environmental and social justice organizations around the world to create and distribute the film, curricula, and other content. 2) Networks are participatory. The Colbert Report. Inspiring Others To Take Action: Credit Free Zone.

Story 99

Story Network Action Examples 99

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

The roles are fluid and can be redefined each time you have an interaction on the site. Gifting is a powerful participatory behavior. sites work this way, and museums are (hopefully) far from it. The concept here is that the people who want to share their content--photos, blogs, audio--are the ones who are willing to pay for it.

Museum 26

Museum Social Participatory Flickr 26

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

I am the director of a non-profit that promotes open museum practices, and we are in midst of launching a free service for arts organizations: a web site that permits any museum to create a participatory exhibit space and social network centered on the museum's collections. It takes content, strategy and elbow grease.

Library 94

Library Social Media Louisville Media 94