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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

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This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

Museum 2.0

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report

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What does the word "participatory" mean to you? This isn't just a rhetorical question. The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. The scientists control the process, steer the data collection, and analyze the results.

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10 Ways to Build a Better Community Brainstorming Meeting

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Bonded groups are useful if you want to understand people's existing attitudes and impressions. Create a structure that values peoples' participation. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. You also can't thank them/follow up quickly enough.

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Why Your Museum Needs a Bar

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Both of these programs provide standard public lecture fare with a twist: shorter presentations, more active crowd participation, and a general attitude of a social night out rather than a learning opportunity. But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. Oh, and one other thing.

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Two Years Later

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I had heard some influential museum leaders raise the question of what a wiki museum might look like, and I wanted to explore that and related concepts. In the last year, I have seen traditional museum attitudes about social media and community co-design go from "why should we care about this?" I started the Museum 2.0

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Notes from the Future: Reflections on the IMLS Meeting on Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century

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This attitude is often self-serving: it’s also a practical problem for those who actually want to create change. One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning. The question was raised of whether we all belonged at the same table.

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