Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. Your numerical data can tell stories , but can stories be data that leads to continuous improvement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. In the Networked Nonprofit, Kanter and Fine show nonprofits how to harness this flexibility to pursue their mission in partnership with two billion connected citizens.&#.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. One of our research volunteers, Sangye Hawke, blew me away when she posted a photo on Facebook of the board game she's developing about the restoration work we're doing at historic Evergreen Cemetery. Here's a picture of it in action. Evergreen Cemetery Board Game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

As a blogger and social media maker, I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. As an activist and evangelist for creative commons ' values and tools, I want to play a major role in helping to ensure that our culture remains as free and accessible as possible. I've reaped the benefits too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Flickr Photo by Geoffrey and used with permission. He made this point: But, participatory culture is changing the nature and topology of ours. I had to go the extra step to email Geoffrey and request permission to republish the photo with attribution. David Weinberger gave the wrap up at the end of the day. He granted it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” ” Lots of comments pros and cons. . #1:

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

A colleague who''s out on maternity leave posts photos of her baby and makes everyone jealous. Connectedness builds staff culture. participatory museum professional development' People use it to share surprises in the archives, inspiring meetings with artists, dead birds in the lobby, and free food in the fridge.

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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.”. It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. How much has our environment, culture, or information overload changed? I was really excited to find her photo contributed to one of my flickr groups!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Photo by Pratham Books: Snapshots from Bookaroo 2010 : Children's Literature Festival. Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. Like my friend Gautam John , I’ve been an advocate and donor to Creative Commons.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, Citizen journalism.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

The article describes how the genre is linked to participatory/DIY culture. The article includes a pointer to a YouTube video of a presentation of how Bells and Spurs (here's a pointer to the references in a photo I took of myself on the set several months ago) movie was made in Second Life.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution. The lead photo on this post is from a project I saw when I visited last spring. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

Using facial morphing software to change a player''s avatar to a different ethnicity, we fed the game with hundreds of photos that were judged in a "hot or not" type interface and gave players a view of how intelligent, attractive, and trustworthy others perceived them to be as two different ethnicities. as a part of Experimonth: Race.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

The next step, of course, is to throw in a little remix and participatory media culture into it! There are 198 photos in the flickr stream. (My My personal favorite photo is here ). They are encouraging people to tag into del.icio.us, flickr, YouTube, etc. and then aggregating tagged content on their site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I placed the photo of me wearing my newest Creative Commons T-Shirt on blog - and of course added it to my Facebook profile and on Twitter , you'll see the Creative Commons Logo with a donate message. I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. But that's not all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. site that has photos, etc.,

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2010

Hosting a session on Monday at 2pm on Design for Participation with participatory design gurus Kathleen McLean and Dan Spock, along with research extraordinaire Kris Morrissey and participatory art rockstar Mark Allen. I don't eat chicken anymore, but I spent a lot of time as a kid at these incredible, tasty, cultural icons of LA.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Every time someone writes a label, he or she gets a badge (a pin featuring the Ruru mascot owl), a photo taken, and an energetic writeup on the blog. But the badges are a brilliant stroke that really fit staff culture at Puke Ariki. If you're doing something special and participatory, for goodness sakes, let me know.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

In his post Andrew asks, How do professional arts organizations foster and encourage participatory practice in our communities, and is that part of their job? Or are we working along a spectrum of cultural opportunities that demands we focus even more narrowly on our point in that spectrum? Next time I'll take part sooner!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

The Museum of Art & History is now in the hands of internationally known innovator Nina Simon, while the community eagerly awaits what happens next By WALLACE BAINE Posted: 06/30/2011 01:30:40 AM PDT Click photo to enlarge Museum of Art & History Director Nina Simon. We all know Santa Cruz is such a creative place," she said.

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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. If your kid gets his photo taken at the museum and can instantly "send that photo to grandma," two things happen.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. The Wikimedians asked if the museum would coordinate a project in which people could photograph artworks in cultural institutions to illustrate Wikipedia articles. It started with a request from a group of New York Wikimedians to the Brooklyn Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

YouTube, the popular online video-sharing site, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing site, for instance, include social networking. What does a "listening and participatory" culture in a nonprofit look like? "I think it's been both overhyped and underestimated," Dogster's Rheingold said.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Third, you need to align your idea with institutional culture. This may sound obvious and natural, but it’s easy to underestimate the power of institutional culture. Sometimes staff are unaware of their own cultural biases and requirements even as they manage new projects. There are some ideas that will never fly where you work.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2011

In many cases, once the final project is launched, it's hard to detect the participatory touch. There might be a plaque listing names or a group photo of participants, but that's about it. Not every participatory process has to scream "look at me!" In some ways, this is a good thing.

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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. I've loved checking out the videos and photos that staff took to support Foot in the Door 4. I also think it would be useful for the MIA to aggregate blog posts, Flickr photos, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

These programs involved cultural, educational and training efforts that used interactive theater and storytelling. whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

Recently, I've been doing a lot of workshops with cultural professionals around the question of developing authentic relationships between institutions and visitors. I always love it when I see a staff show at a museum or a wall at a design firm celebrating the kids who have come in to serve as focus group members (see photo).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

These services will link you directly to real-time conversations happening about your institution, whether via photos uploaded on Flickr or links on Delicious. There is a culture on Web 2.0 marketing participatory museum. Many comments are neither insightful nor enticing. You can put yourself ahead of the pack by doing both.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

On Spot.us, we're trying to bring in a culture of transparency in journalism, where we say, "Invite the public into the reporting from day one. The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. Again, that is very different from the traditional culture of journalism and journalists.

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