Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2015

and his voice getting lost in the waves. We wanted to reflect this diversity of identities by inviting all kinds of artists and artworks into the gallery. The exhibition includes artwork about the ocean by over 250 artists of all backgrounds and abilities, grouped into ten poetic metaphors for the ocean.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

With that in mind, Zero1's community engagement manager Danielle Siembieda-Gribben organized HackFlux : a weekend hackathon bringing together a mix of coders, developers, designers, artists, and thinkers this past June. The goals of the hackathon were twofold: To build a community around mobile development and art.

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Arts Tech San Francisco Proposal 58

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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Arts Social Media Examples Artist 74

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We attentively respond to requests and purposefully use different modes of feedback to inform program design from our comment board, social media outlets, conversations and observations both inside and outside the museum, creative feedback at events such as our Show and Tell Booth and online visitor surveys specific to our programs.

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Museum Program Participatory Community 49

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. And pop culture icons, from basketball players to rock stars , are making highly visible commentary with their clothes and voices. Where do museums fit in? It has held programs related to Ferguson since August and is planning more for 2015.

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Museum Blogger Cleveland Missouri 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Different External Voices Bring Different Skills to the Table Community partners, artists, peers, and funders all play different roles as collaborators and contributors to participatory institutions. And consider sharing a comment here with a takeaway that is meaningful for you. As this video points out, critics make you swear.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. George will respond to comments on this post and is also reachable here. In 2003, my collaborator Stephanie and I began an excavation, declaring nothing for sale.

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Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist 36

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? There is a strong community of Oaxacan artists, dancers, and musicians in Live Oak. It gets easier to hear their voices in our heads when we make a decision.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share and Comment on Breaking News. A first-person voice is best. Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. Post a wide variety of blog content and have some fun with it. Finally, remember that blog posts make great content for e-newsletters.

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Content Ideas Nonprofit Interview 117

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers. They are artists whose experience deserves a home in our institution alongside painters, photographers, and sculptors.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

When we work with diverse collaborators, from opera singers and ukelele players to knitters and graffiti artists, we catalyze new partnerships and relationships that make our community stronger and more cohesive. You want to have an artist collective sleepover at the museum? We believe in fearless experimentation. Sounds great.

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Museum Learning History Arts 55

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. The Museum 2.0 why not museums?

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2007

This one-week test will hopefully be followed by many more progressively ambitious projects to develop new tools for museums, scientists, artists, experience designers, visitors, and all kinds of folks to work together to create high-quality exhi bitions. is launching an experiment in collaborative exhibition design. Projects design.

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Museum Experiment New York Voice 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2007

You can use it to create your own narrative experience, and you can also allow other users to comment on and add their own commentary to the images.

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Story Online Artist Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

The collection is disaggregated, grouped by floor (Painting and Sculpture 1) rather than artist, movement, time period, or geography. Most featured Name of Artist, Name of Piece, Year of Execution, Materials. How long did it take this artist to make this piece? Did the artist like it? Did the artist like it?

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Arts Museum Artist Audio 30

Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

I don't know - and I hope you'll share your thoughts in the comments. As Peter wrote: If someone enjoys Arts Event A because it’s social, informal, energetic, fun, and hip, why should we expect her to also enjoy Arts Event B if B is individual, formal, quiet, serious, and traditional (at least in its presentation, if not artistically)?

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Audience Museum Oakland Participatory 40

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. The Museum 2.0 why not museums?

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. It’s not about building a more effective ATM — sorry, “donor list” — it’s about cultivating relationships with your most passionate supporters, giving them ways to speak in their own voice and connecting them with other people. I agree that's not true.

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Washington Metrics Facebook Donor 85

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have. a "wedding worthy" community hall). The exhibits are exciting. And the staff have a dizzying commitment to the neighborhood.

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2010

As Kathy McLean noted in Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , while staff were afraid that typing on the typewriter would be too hard for some young children, "kids lined up to carefully and slowly type their letters." Kids could type letters on a Remington typewriter and put them in a mailbox marked "To Snoopy." Some wrote poems.

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Museum Library Images Children 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I started meeting people through the blog--both those I interviewed and early readers who commented. It took blogging and developing a specific interest for me to gain the confidence and voice to know what I wanted to ask.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Had we held onto an authority voice rather than presenting ourselves as individuals engaged in the project, people would not have been willing to weather the storms with us. To produce that content, I put an ad on craigslist and invited artists down to The Tech to be videotaped while creating art.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

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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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I started contributing to Global Voices where I did blogging roundups from Cambodia. In 2007, I raised money to help sponsor the first Cambodian Bloggers conference and raised a lot of the money via Twitter as Shel Israel noted in his book, Twitterville. It was terrific to see Tharum who was one of the first Cambodia bloggers.

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Cambodia Blogger Camera 95

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2007

But in this project, each artist is uniquely powerful because they give voice to something vital, something easy for viewers to access emotionally. Frank commented that he thinks we love these cards not because we’re voyeurs, but because they reveal “the essence of humanity.” PostSecret has a great medium.

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Generation Content Lesson Museum 30

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Last week, we looked at the first section of Visitor Voices , on Talk-backs, and came to the conclusion that comment boards and the like are functionally conversations, and that their design, therefore, should focus on encouraging positive, lively, thoughtful, engaged discussion. The accompaniment is a strange one. Share the love.

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Voice Museum Vietnam Music 20

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. And now more than ever, people are reaching out to their members of congress through online channels to voice their concerns about some of these very issues. But how is Congress responding?

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Web Advocacy Open Source Bookmarking 111

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. 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.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

Without an explicit "I" voice, the museum's perspective on humanity is oblique to say the least. Welcome to Pine Point is a kind of virtual museum exhibition about the town, told from the perspective of Michael Simons, an artist who grew up in the nearby town of Yellowknife and visited Pine Point as a boy.

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History Museum Sound Voice 43

Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2011

Let's say you spend a year working with a group of teens to co-create an exhibition, or you invite members and local artists to help redesign the lobby. After each short video, there was a single screen featuring a curator's comments (in text) about the importance of the object from his or her perspective.

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Participatory Process Museum Children 48

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Our web site serves as an international resource for anyone interested in the healing potential of art, especially environmentalists, social activists, artists, art professionals, health care practitioners, and those challenged by illness. Sales at the Market directly benefit artists and their families and help sustain communities worldwide."

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Arts Impact Photography Artist 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

Lifting my arms and voices to say “I FAILED, NOW LETS MOVE ON.”Led California arts organizations conducted 28 experiments to achieve new relevance for audiences, communities and professional artists with support from The James Irvine Foundation. Best moment of #MIForum ?Lifting ”Led by @ kanter.

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Learning Impact Culture DC 115

Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Curate content from underrepresented voices Do you work in a field that works for the rights of a marginalized or underrepresented community? Amplify their voices on your platform. Post fill-in-the-blanks and ask users to respond with their answer in the comments. Fill in the _. Follow up the next day with the answer.

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Social Media Ideas Media Social 98

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2007

They received over 4,000 submissions from all 50 states, which were judged by a panel of seven—including museum staff and outside artists. Some of these artists, regardless of the status of their submission, continued contributing to the site for a year. They advertised the competition on the web, and only accepted online entries.

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Artist Museum Childhood Arts 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

Several were created or conceived by a single person, often an artist/non-museum professional. It speaks in a distinctive, unapologetic voice--whether that voice reflects a single person or a team. So if a group can tell a story in one voice, why are so many of the exhibitions that change our lives created by individuals?

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Life Create Change Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2007

Dan Spock, commenting on the rise in museum attendance from 1990-2000, offers this hopeful note in Elaine's essay: could [the rise] also be related to the fact that museums have become more engaging? It's certainly true that a diversity of voices has changed the way that exhibits are presented, objects labeled, and artifacts interpreted.

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Team Museum Chapter Design 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

In recent email correspondence about this issue, Elaine commented: The other problem is that there is a disconnect between what non-Native Americans wanted to see and what the Indian people wanted to tell them. Again, Elaine comments today: The first, where NMAI suffered, is in repetition. Was it possible to create new ones?

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