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Book Announcement: The Participatory Museum is now available!

Museum 2.0

As many of you know, I've been working for the past year+ on a book about visitor participation in museums, libraries, science centers, and art galleries. The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. Want to buy a book ?

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Examples of Abundance in the Arts: Ask A Conductor on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A month or two ago, museums and galleries around the world participated in a Twitter event called Ask a Curator. I asked Jim Richardson, who blogs at the Museum Next Blog and is the brainchild behind the event, a couple of questions: How did #askacurator come about? How did you get 340 museums to participate?

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Quick Hit: Five Great Links

Museum 2.0

Museums, Politics, and Power is a new blog that lives up to its name. Elsewhere in podcast-land, Radiolab did a fascinating piece about cultural appropriation and gate-keeping in hip hop music. Finally, if you need a hit of inspiration and historical museum-making, I strongly recommend checking out the Boston Stories project.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away. I’ve added one more category to the mix called hosted.

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Use This: Audience Research in Rotterdam Provides a Template for Smarter Segmenting

Museum 2.0

Imagine a concise, well-designed report on audiences for cultural activities in a large urban city. They created psychographic profiles of eight target types of cultural consumer in Rotterdam, based on existing European market segmentation research. They interviewed and learned more about people representing these eight types.

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But What if it FAILS? Using the FMEA Tool to Analyze the Potential Effects and Impacts of Failure

Museum 2.0

For example, we share it at OF/BY/FOR ALL bootcamps to help cultural and civic professionals identify and address fault lines in their plans to involve new communities. Here's a PDF template of the FMEA tool you can download and use if helpful to you. You can use it for anything. It generates clarity and confidence - fast.

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Quick Hit: Kathy McLean's Work Now Online

Museum 2.0

culture might affect museums. The true story is that I desperately wanted to find a way to engage in discussions with some of my museum heroes. Kathy McLean is one of my heroes who motivated the start of Museum 2.0, downloadable PDF versions of several essays (and links to her great books on exhibition design).

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