Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content.

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 50

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Don't assume that content/form that is relevant to you or your existing audiences will be relevant to people from other backgrounds. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. It's rooted in the assets and needs of creative teens in our County.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content.

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We created Race Through Time in partnership with a local networking group called Santa Cruz Next , whose primary aim is to support and celebrate ways that young professionals can and are changing our community for the better. Performances just for teens. The event was oversold, and participants raved about the experience.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. People are now coming to the library to see it as it includes content by all the 500 participants from that night.

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Game Culture Museum Change 140

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. People are now coming to the library to see it as it includes content by all the 500 participants from that night.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly. Here's a photo of one of the retired couples who came with their family to celebrate her 80th birthday in the exhibition. Some are conceptual (i.e.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51