Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. THINGS I’M MOST PROUD OF: Redefining our role in the community. THINGS THAT SURPRISE ME: The central role of event-driven experiences.

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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. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

We just started to try to live up to that vision, partnership by partnership, activity by activity. We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county. It feels pretty amazing. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. Why haven't children's museums pushed past the 1970s model? Do you talk to people sitting next to you on planes?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. The media strategy is impressive.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

Who their role models are. When we talk about embracing participatory experiences at non-professional levels, arts professionals often get worried that the best work will get drowned out in mediocrity. At the same time, it has cultivated active spectators who understand the subtle differences between the tiers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. Katya Andresen , Network for Good, offers some insights in the comments : We, too, are working on understanding how to find more superactivists and how to make the long tail of less active evangelists more engaged. Maybe we all need to be role models.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

When visitors feel confident about their roles and opportunities, they are more likely to feel able to extend their experience in a social direction. I've written before about the fact that large, active objects are often natural social objects. Tags: Talking to Strangers participatory museum comfort.

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Community Museum Participatory Relationship 21

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

to be a more participatory site with comment streams rampantly debating each post topic, but the reality is that my voice dominates the site. If I told you I'd created a participatory website in which 0.3% of visitors add their own content, you'd probably send me to a dictionary to look up "participatory." I’d love Museum 2.0

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Twitter Participatory Broadcast Museum 24

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs. I started the blog as a personal learning activity, but also for the dorkiest reason in the world: to have something to talk about with my heroes.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2012

I'll also be part of two sessions on Tuesday, May 1 - one in the morning about money and business models, and one in the afternoon about prototyping and experimentation. Here's what I'd love to explore at AAM this year: Event-driven models for museums. What role will exhibitions play in this kind of institution?

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Conversation Participatory Museum Minneapolis 43

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Artists and administrators grapple with the shifting roles of institutions as hosts and incubators for creative work. Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

This year, the Yale Philanthropy Conference will explore the evolving role of philanthropy within this ecosystem of change. Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants. Yale Philanthropy Conference 2016. Yale Philanthropy Conference 2016.

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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 7, 2009

But The Tech's management decided that spending time in the online community space was a "waste of time" for staff whose role was not explicitly focused on that community, and the engineers and fabricators who had enthusiastically engaged early on were forbidden to continue. Projects participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With a focus on using AI and data as a tool for impact, here are some of the areas I see as key for our sector: AI’s role in the digital transformation journey. Reimagined service delivery: AI-powered digital tools open the door to entirely new service delivery models, offering innovative ways to achieve mission-driven goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. To be sure, new power funding models are not without their downside: The campaigns, projects, or start-ups that are most rewarded by the crowd may not be the smartest investments or those that benefit the most people. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It is made by many.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

If ever there was a mandate to reexamine the role and process of funding, now is that time. Foundations are scrambling to award grants faster, and nonprofits are pressing to eliminate all non-value-added activity. Both software and data will play a critical role in operationalizing these streamlined, agile processes.

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