Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking.

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Museum Story Project Design 43

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities. Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. People voted by clapping.

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Causes Change Museum Social 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

It brought together a rich mix of people working in humanitarian causes, using social media, and creatives. Many passionate people and stories. . In the afternoon, I did workshop and put the audience right on the cat walk with me. This workshop was an experiment in the interactive lecture and lots of small groups.

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Conference Long Beach Slides Lecture 85

Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. The people at Museums and the Web are on the forefront of web-based innovative museum practice. You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Participatory Museum Web Indianapolis 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Why do we do what we do if not to make people’s lives better, their communities safer or increase access to quality education? We are convinced of the importance of inclusive and participatory design and planning of organizational strengthening interventions.

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Results Program Build Help 94

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. We continuously and actively respond to requests as well as invite people to be a part of our programs. Bonding social capital refers to networks that bring people together with common interests to strengthen relationships in preexisting groups.

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Museum Program Participatory Community 49

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2010

Many of the talks are related to The Participatory Museum and I will have books for sale on all of these forays. I'm giving a workshop on design techniques for encouraging user participation (sorry, it's full). The workshop requires an RSVP, the talk does not. It's $35 and limited to 50 people. May 17 - NYC.

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Los Angeles Museum Participatory Minneapolis 22

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Last week, Jim Richardson and I hosted MuseumNext , a 24-hour workshop for museum professionals focused on bringing new, wild museum projects into the world. We only did two rounds of these, but they were very active and I think a lot of people were surprised to find them so useful even though they were organized on the spot.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. I'm not sure that's enough to go on for such a complex and diverse set of research, education, and civic facilities. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Slides Process Video Open 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. The good news? The bad news?

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Structure Model Social Profit 31

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / Less than $200. Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / San Diego, CA / Not available. Leadership.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way.

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Story Interview Museum Audio 53

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. I met lovely people in engineering, but I found the work to be too detail-oriented and microscopic in scope to satisfy me. I designed electricity workshops for families. Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

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. So often, organizations present people--staff, donors, board members--in the most formal ways possible, via long lists of printed names or stilted photographs.

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Relationship Museum Game Personal 46

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

The article suggests that museums have previously served one community--"traditional" museum patrons who are white and elderly--and must now be relevant to several other communities that are diverse in cultural, educational, and socio-economic backgrounds. People like to sit down and drink a cup of coffee or a beer. Which community?

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Community Museum San Diego San Francisco 22

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

We did not ask people to design whole exhibits and hand over CAD drawings so we could build them. If good ideas are easy to come by, why not let other people contribute them and focus our time on the hard work of execution? People were unsure whether they should go it alone (and try to win the whole prize) or team up with others.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

This week, we tackle educational programs and this question: what program could compel you to dress in carrots and hit the streets? How can educational programs at museums push the boundaries of comfort to support these special experiences? By sending people on missions. The Spy Museum puts on extraordinary educational programs.

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Program People Museum Lecture 20