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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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Guest Post: Restoration Artwork

Museum 2.0

Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. This past July, artist Guillermo Gómez proposed to restore a piece of art. Both objects and art-objects would be part of this continuing transformation and evolution.

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Four Unusual Professional Development Events in 2013

Museum 2.0

Ever wish for a low-cost, energizing professional development experience where you can work intensely with diverse colleagues in a risk-tolerant environment? The Arts Dinner-vention Project - date TBD. This one was cooked up by Barry Hessenius, former director of the California Arts Council and public art blogger extraordinaire.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

Museum 2.0

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. We work hard to name and build our culture in many ways. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. Naming our goals and our culture.

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Flickr As Mechanism To Reconnect With Professional Colleagues

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. Meet Susan Silverman. I was teaching Web1.0

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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

Museum 2.0

As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play. We worked with a social scientist studying the power of being able to walk away from an uncooperative environment to develop Experimonth: Freeloader , a public-goods game where players decide whether to invest in their group or freeload.

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What Does Audience-Centered Look Like? It Looks like Glasgow Museums.

Museum 2.0

One hundred years ago, John Cotton Dana, founder of the Newark Museum and godfather of modern museums, famously said: “A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established." They offered immersive, powerful environments. All were given value.

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