Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). The comments, which were previously unmoderated, suddenly were overloaded with opportunists who wanted their voice to be heard on the YouTube homepage. Tags: exhibition marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). They also tag and analyze responses. How long do you need to archive the data?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

And pop culture icons, from basketball players to rock stars , are making highly visible commentary with their clothes and voices. Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” Where do museums fit in?

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles. Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. Tags: amy sample ward mobile devices netsquared Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Third Place: $10,000.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Fabulous!" "But

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. For about half an hour, hundreds of people play together, silently, as directed by disembodied voices inside their headphones. The voice tells you what to do –stand up, shake hands, play Twister, make silly shapes—and you do it.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I remember in 2005 the Global Voices Summit used IRC as a backchannel -- no so much for people in the room, but for remote participation. Tags: backchannel. How can we use them as a test of how things are going at the conference?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Our archeology did not aim to uncover the hidden voice of my grandmother, but instead to begin an ongoing practice of recreation. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences. In 2003, my collaborator Stephanie and I began an excavation, declaring nothing for sale.

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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. While most of the voices represented are positive about a "Smithsonian 2.0" Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. When you hear other voices talking about race, you feel more comfortable joining or starting your own conversations.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. Small museums, which are most likely to cultivate local, distinctive voice and approaches, often have an inferiority complex. Tags: children's museums design business models. But when I really think about it, all my favorites (so far) have one thing in common.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

People already know how to leave voice and text messages and don't have to grapple with a comment system to do so. This was surprising given that participants were required to do a lot more to post a comment on the voicethread than on the blog: they had to register an account, have a microphone, and record their voice.

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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! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

There is no dissonance between the museum’s formal voice and laminate and the visitors’ pens and paper. But the design of Side Trip really allows those stories to flourish, both through creative acts like the poster-making and light show and through participatory expression on the rolodexes and the Youtube-a-phone.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. Tag me so I can add your thoughts to this month’s summary post @artlust on twitter, @_art_lust_ on IG, & @brilliantideastudiollc on FB).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

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 enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. Tags: professional development.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. But visitors and visitor research deserve voices in the discussion about whether photo policies are open or closed. Tags: marketing usercontent visitors.

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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. Several said things like, "I was curious to see how this kind of participatory, collaborative approach would work in practice."

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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. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

By simplifying and personalizing the design technique used for the institutional voice, visitors felt like they were part of a natural conversation with the institution. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives. What have you seen work well, and what have you seen fail?

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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. Finally the Library of Congress community tagging pilot project on flickr. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. They ask judges to self-define their art knowledge. innovator.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. Commenting on the high level of participation at Cafe Scientifique in Denver, John Cohen and Helen MacFarlane write: Several group members have said that they happily ask questions or voice opinions at the Cafe, but would not do so at a lecture.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. It showcases diverse voices. Tags: storytelling Unusual Projects and Influences usercontent. I promise a very different window into my life.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Yes, the Exploratorium is also present in these arenas as a "talker" (more on that next week), but it is just one voice among thousands. Tags: Book Discussion: Groundswell marketing participatory museum. to make recreation decisions, reading blogs to form an impression, watching videos to get my feel for a place--these Web 2.0

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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. Tags: exhibition Tech Virtual. We certainly did the latter but only learned about the importance of the former late in the process.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" It lets you be the only expert with a voice. Single voices represented on single labels is not scalable. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books. Ideas participatory museum usercontent. Tags: web2.0 Content expertise matters.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

After listening to this clip a few times, I wondered: what if museums dropped the authoritative voice, the cultural voice, the friendly teacher voice, and adopted a novice voice? I love the Radiolab experience, but I wonder how much the success of the "novice voice" is contingent on the context of conversation.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2008

Is it just an exercise in giving visitors a fake voice? Grappling questions" are not merely interesting or even provocative, but one where the adversaries exist as much in our own hearts as in the voices of those on the opposite side of the aisle. A leading voice in declarative labels can hide. A tall order, I know. All of you.

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Question Museum Participatory Voice 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

But they are more importantly the face and voice of the institution to everyone online, a floor staff army of one. The more voices there are in the mix, the more the community management team can effectively welcome community members of all kinds. Projects participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. BUT we won't acknowledge their voices and their meaning. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 It wasn't until I started working in museums that I discovered that the museum as a place where you make your own meaning is more a promise than a reality.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments and add your own voice to the debate. Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place guestpost. A museum is good only in so far as it is of use.”.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" It lets you be the only expert with a voice. Single voices represented on single labels is not scalable. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

Also, it may not deliver what it might have done for participants: if our primary motivation wasn’t to make something spectacularly good, they may not have been involved in creating something of amazing quality, or have really developed their skills and confidence to be a creative voice to which others listened.

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