Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

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. Less than 1% of the users of most social Web platform create original content. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. My answer: neither. Subjects to Change was born.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

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. Less than 1% of the users of most social Web platform create original content. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. We need employees who focus less on creating experiences directly for visitors and more on creating platforms for visitors to share with each other.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. In Children of the Lodz Ghetto, every data entry is verified by staff in a three-step process as well as reviewed and commented on by other users. This was particularly true for Click!,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

Later, when were chatting with a small group of people in the lobby, we noticed a group of teens walking by looking a little sad. ABCs: He started off with some basics – a riff on Guy Kawasaki’s Always Be Commenting. Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art.

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