Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

Visitor-contributed photos surround a collection piece in Carnegie Museum of Art's Oh Snap! It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. Warm purple tones invite curiosity and modern iconography convey relevance to a younger, digitally-connected demographic.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

This special digital storytelling episode of Nonprofits Live will include secrets from the pros for nonprofits submitting photo and video stories to the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge in February. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! His forthcoming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Provide digital infrastructure to the 150 – 250 organizations through a public-private partnership with Microsoft. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I met Janet Salmons many years ago while I working on various arts and technology projects in New York State for the New York Foundation for the Arts. Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

The above powerpoint is from 1999 and excerpted from day-long workshops I used to lead when I worked at NYFA and design and ran a program called "KIT: Knowledge in Technology - Technology Planning for Arts Organizations." He defines participatory culture as a culture: 1.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

This special Digital Storytelling episode of Nonprofits Live will include secrets from the pros for nonprofits submitting photo and video stories to the TSDigs challenge in February. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

While there are some kinds of participation that are not language-based like making art or voting, most participation is lingual. Many fabulous participatory projects--like the Johnny Cash Project or the Art Gallery of Ontario's " In Your Face "--don't require language. use digital interfaces.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. I immediately flashed to my work with art museums and staff members' concerns that older, traditional audiences will shy away from social engagement in the galleries.

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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. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Documenter: Using a digital camera, the documenter should capture photos of the process – the set up, the activity, and the products from the activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

One of my best sources is, of course, Andy Carvin's digital divide category on his blog. It made me curious about the art of mircoblogging - and how you develop the technique of saying it in 140 characters. I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology IP Tidbits August 18, 2005 Here are a few tidbits I’ve come across in the Intellectual Property arena in the past few days. This is very cool. It’s definitely a thing to watch. Be Helpful.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I spent some time playing with this question last week at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a large general museum that is moving toward redesign of the permanent galleries. I could imagine expanding this to something digital that would be easier to use but no more compelling. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. There are thriving groups of Flickr users who share photos of themselves imitating art.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. This feels like a different part of the digital divide. Be Helpful.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. Participants gather in a physical venue with their own digital audio players, and everyone hits “play” at the same time. Participants gather in a physical venue with their own digital audio players, and everyone hits “play” at the same time.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Last month, I gave the closing keynote at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand. I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” For this reason, I spoke specifically about how to make dream projects possible at real institutions.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

We rarely offer alcoholic beverages, comfortable seating, background music, or free admission to go with the art, lectures, and interactive experiences now available in many hybrid retail spaces. And on the assets side, we’re being rendered obsolete by digitization and the Web.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Digital Media and Learning Conference. Digital Media and Learning Conference. Digital Media and Learning Hub / Irvine, CA / $175. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project / Austin, TX / $575. Marketing & Communications.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Several said things like, "I was curious to see how this kind of participatory, collaborative approach would work in practice."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

We're taking the art of freelancing for writers, and making it much more transparent and much more public. The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

The Brooklyn Museum of Art is a great example of a museum really embracing these environments for community-building purposes. At the kiosks, children can make a promise, which floats up into the tree as a digital leaf. The exhibition culminates at the physical Tree of Promise, a giant tree surrounded by computer kiosks.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2015

To learn more, I interviewed Brooklyn Museum project partners Shelley Bernstein, Vice Director of Digital Engagement & Technology, and Sara Devine, Manager of Audience Engagement & Interpretive Materials. Our visitors were telling us they wanted personal connection and they wanted to talk about art. frequently!).

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

is taking the local currency digital. The addition of a digital platform to the local paper currency will make BerkShares more accessible for users while broadening access for merchants. The addition of a digital platform to the local paper currency will make BerkShares more accessible for users while broadening access for merchants.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Unlike digital networks, which have to manufacture or solicit online versions of objects around which users can rally, museums are full of objects. There are many collections-rich museums that have created ways for visitors to create their own digital collections. Gifting is a powerful participatory behavior.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Museums will always need to retain some powers to manage the preservation of objects, to wield IP controls properly, and to manage the digital reproduction and dissemination of content. Ideas participatory museum usercontent. There are many models as well for what we do with user-generated content in the museum. Core Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

For a long time, I’ve admired their ambitious work, from exhibitions on complex topics like network science to integration of contemporary art into their galleries to incredible dedication to advancing the careers of diverse youth in Queens. Then again, the New York Hall of Science isn’t just any science center. It hasn''t.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

Our entire strategy at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is rooted in community participation. That means offering clear, visible, appealing participatory experiences that enhance the destination experience. I love tackling the challenges of building a more connected community in our county through art and history.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

This week, I've had multiple conversations with colleagues in the arts, symphonies, and urban planning about the fear professionals have about "losing control" when opening up new opportunities for people to participate. While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e.

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