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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

This museum was unusual in that the lobby area had a high concentration of pop art meant to appeal to a wide audience. When I asked a few women about their conversations, they explained that some of the people in the photos looked like their grandparents, or were famous people they'd heard about. Where would you like them to be?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. These folks are taking content to the biggest audiences in the field, often without the resources or support of other content creators. The work is 24/7 and the pay can be 7/11.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

In many cases, we ended up in long conversations with visitors, but that was always driven by their interest in telling us more about what they liked, why they were at the museum, etc. The cards are ok, but the people (and the conversations) are what matters. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. You have an audience need and an institutional value, and now you just need a verb that connects them. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

They edit the conversations into radio shows, which are then made available as a podcast (you can listen to episode featuring me, #89: Museum Secrets, here ). The conversations are often long--20 minutes or more--and Mercedes and Zachary only get to the question at the end of a meandering conversation with the guest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We went to a pub with some David Wilcox and Nick Booth, ordered up a few rounds of drinks, and had a fantastic conversation about social media and nonprofits. The type of conversation you have with your peers about your work that you can only have face-to-face. I pulled out my video camera to do some moment capture.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

However, by the end of the first week it was clear that the majority of our audience was hooked. As well as our existing audience, new visitors came just because they wanted to be part of it. It was clear that their publicity had more impact with our audience than our tweeting and Flickr posts. Projects participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. This is the cocktail party, the hallway conversation, a structured time to meet and talk. Why are they doing this?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. The audience recycles every few years, and every kid loves making giant bubbles. Tags: children's museums.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur. If you feel that your audience needs monitoring or social support, position the talkback stations in open settings.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

You can join the conversation that is already happening about your content where the most eyes and ears are engaged. But if you can find communities with a tight content fit to yours, a robust audience, and a low number of "first responders," you can make a major impact commenting in those arenas. marketing participatory museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

The bad news is that museums and libraries are rarely part of those conversations and in many cases are willfully preventing the inclusion of their assets in that discussion. We should be helping enable these conversations in the real world. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Audience segmentation and research has become a hot topic in museums, especially when it comes to crafting appealing offerings that are customized to different kinds of visitors. This conversion is really important and it's just the beginning. It's true; this will extend the conversation in the lobby.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. But these events have benefits both in terms of audience development and word-of-mouth marketing.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. And yet these bar games have something that few museum adult programs offer: complete focus on the audience/participants, not the leader/speaker. It's reasonable to start a side conversation. It's fine to drop in and out of the game.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. I felt accountable to an audience, and that kept me going throughout the writing. Check out the other parts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Tate's Mobile Blog is collecting audience input on the new building design at the Tate - via mobile phones to blog - or mob blogging.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

Near the end of the talk, an audience member asked, How do you choose which level to approach a topic when your listeners range from people who know nothing to people who know all too much? Effectively, Robert is saying that Radiolab isn't just a show where the hosts have conversations with scientists. And they're doing it quite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Malcolm Gladwell’s article “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted,&# brings the slacktivism , social media for social good or evil , strong and weak ties , and organizations vs networks debates to a mainstream audience. Tags: Books Movement Building Networked Nonprofit. That was the point.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I have a lot of conversations with people that go like this: Other person: "So, you think that museums should let visitors control the museum experience?" One of the primary fears museum professionals (and all professionals) have about entering new relationships with audiences is the fear of losing control. Tags: web2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The goal, from IMLS’s standpoint, is for NAS to create a report that can address the fundamental issues facing museums and libraries in the 21st century, with an intended audience of industry professionals, trustees, funding sources, and government representatives. Of course, that audience is a long way from seeing such a report.

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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. Me: "Sort of." Each Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

We know from research that our audience is very interested in taking the next step with us, like to draw their own conclusions and express their own opinions. The interpreters do say that that conversation is happening. But that's for another conversation. Projects interview design participatory museum usercontent.

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