Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

Executive Director Nina Simon, who was hired in 2011, says that in the years following the global financial crisis, the facility was struggling. “At The whole second half of the article was dedicated to our work: Smaller museums can be especially scrappy in finding ways to connect with the community.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

By the end of 2011, the House of Representatives withdrew its political and financial support. The early participatory projects are terrific. Immersive design. It's hardly a model for an entirely new approach to museum design. The root of my frustration with the book is not that the project never came to fruition.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

The busiest day in both 2011 and 2012 is our longtime community program, Free First Friday. And finally, and perhaps most interestingly, here's a comparison of Jan-June 2011 vs Jan-June 2012. I'd like to show you the data for the full fiscal year, but we only have this daily data beginning in the winter of 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

I’m honored to be working with her on a training project that I’ll share more about in 2011. Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing Change for Good by Nedra Kline Weinreich. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. The book is available on Amazon or as a free download.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2012

Once there was a project to design a national history museum in the Netherlands. Three years later, at the end of 2011, the project was canceled. There was a location, a budget, and a flurry of planning. The team developed some highly innovative digital projects and approaches to history. What happened?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. 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! More on that in months to come.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

Kelvingrove in particular was impressive for embracing an eclectic, "we all belong here" approach to gallery design and display. Kelvingrove is in a hundred-year-old palace of galleries around a central court in a park, whereas Riverside is a 2011 Zaha Hadid open-plan warehouse on a riverfront with a dramatic contemporary exterior.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I arrived in 2011 with the explicit directive to execute a turnaround. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. I jumped in and started talking about how we are designing furniture for it, that we''ve been focusing on injecting warmth in gallery spaces, that it is energized and peopled during events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

” After spending five years living and breathing networks and measurement and designing and delivering many, many nonprofit capacity building programs, my focus is going to be on how nonprofits can apply measurement and their networks to learn for impact. Patrice Martin, IDEO.org (Co-Lead & Creative Director).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I need to find a space like this in Silicon Valley for 2011. I did a lot of adjusting in real time and was very transparent with the group about this idea might get “lost in translation&# or “not be relevant&# and that’s okay. I designed share pair exercises that incorporated reflective questions about translation.

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