Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

When we say we want our museum to be "audience-centered," what do we mean? However, I have enormous respect for the customer-centered model when it is executed in ways that truly invite visitors in on their own terms and deliver satisfying experiences. They catered to different audiences. These displays were memorable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. The goals need to be front and center through the entire process, particularly when the measurement approach is more new or participatory and is designed to evolve over time. Who is your audience?

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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. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized. Why haven't children's museums pushed past the 1970s model?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. Participants who felt more confident modeled generous behavior and engaged others.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. From day 1, I believed that we needed to focus in our first year on creating new participatory events to engage the community.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

And it''s got me thinking about how we build energy and audience for the arts in this country. Barry Hessenius recently wrote a blog post questioning the theory that more art into the school day will increase and bolster future adult audiences for art experiences. Who their role models are. But now it''s everywhere.

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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

MAY 9, 2012

I led a session with Eric Siegel and Ellen Rosenthal on museum business models and some of the issues we grapple with in managing money. And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution.

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Reflection Columbus Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

Our audience has quadrupled in size, and the people walking through our doors increasingly reflect the age, income, and ethnic diversity of our County. Or “I love the MAH because it is a truly participatory space where diverse groups can enjoy, express themselves, and learn from/about/with others.”

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. How do they affect the relationship between those on the stage and the audience? Jeffrey Veen calls this person an ombudsman for the audience.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Elsewhere’s Living Museum, open daily, offers audiences (average 300/week) an exploratory environment to play within and a site where creative practice is made public and the artwork and museum are themselves in a constant state of flux. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. Others went on to crown the achievements from the participatory public sphere that have arisen as a result of increased access to content. However, these traditional models are breaking apart. Traditional barriers between consumers and real-time information are falling.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. And we realized of course that the majority audience would be watchers, not storytellers. Projects participatory museum storytelling usercontent'

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

A national election is the ultimate participatory project. I realize as I write this list that we do invite certain people to participate in these conversations, but not our onsite audience. Why not restructure our marketing and community engagement efforts to more closely model successful campaigns and activist movements?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

But there is also the sense that whatever is lost in message control will be more than made up for by the opportunity to engage audiences in new ways, with greater programmatic impact. The topics include: Control and Transparency: How comfortable is the foundation with the participatory nature of Web 2.0 communications?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. Why is gifting a model worth exploring? Ideas participatory museum.

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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

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. These institutions have three additional reasons for homogeneity: The audience cycles frequently as families "age out." Institutions may feel less of a need to offer something unusual or distinctive if the audience will keep refreshing every few years.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. I was recently discussing this project with an audience research specialist, Peter Linett, who is working on a related project to encourage experimentation and risk-taking in museum practice. Maybe not.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. When people share their photos of your museum, they promote and spread your content to new audiences in authentic ways. And I think the fourth and fifth are bizarre and ungenerous to visitors.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

to be a more participatory site with comment streams rampantly debating each post topic, but the reality is that my voice dominates the site. If I told you I'd created a participatory website in which 0.3% of visitors add their own content, you'd probably send me to a dictionary to look up "participatory." I’d love Museum 2.0

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Twitter Participatory Broadcast Museum 24

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I learned to appreciate the audience reach of a big institution while vastly preferring the diversity of work and lack of bureaucracy of a small one. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

She published a book in 2010 titled "The Participatory Museum" that outlined the ideas of her blog -- and many of the world's big-city museums brought her in to help them figure out how to shake off the fusty image of museums and embrace modern times and modern audiences. Lots of people now don't even know where the museum is.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Today, both of these models are threatened, and within 50 years they will no longer be sustainable. Why are our current models failing? If we can listen and remake ourselves into those dreams, we will finally become places for our audiences. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. And we realized of course that the majority audience would be watchers, not storytellers. How and why did Object Stories come to be? I only know anecdotally.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

Make room for personal expression and ownership--both by staff and audience members. They model impersonal, businesslike relationships between the institution and the people who care about it the most. These lists do not convey the passion that these people feel for the organization.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. Two person audiences in the Little William Theater. No, this is not a reality TV show. Eric: Absolutely.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Read through the below condensed excerpt below for Jeremy’s insight into new power versus old power, how it’s used as a currency, and how it affects the world around us: Rachel: We are going to start today, Jeremy, by having you explain, because we are working with a live audience here who weren’t all necessarily in his keynote.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 30, 2014

Our work to transform the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History into a participatory and community-centered place has been heavily supported by the James Irvine Foundation. The report is a slim 12 pages on the common characteristics of arts organizations that successfully and continuously engage diverse audiences. We all have leaders.

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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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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In this workshop, we'll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. This will be an interactive session in which members of the audience can share their own success stories and horror stories on the journey toward the multichannel ideal.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

and discover how to reach your audiences more directly through social and digital media, while still landing placements through the national press or your local newspapers and broadcast stations. Annual Conference for Media Relations Professionals. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / Washington, DC / Not available.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Charlene and Josh define two distinct reasons why embracing audience participation is useful: to develop better products, and to develop them faster. I admit that I have often jumped directly to "embracing" in exploration of how museums can become more participatory.

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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? To do this kind of modeling, Robert and Jad actively portray themselves as novices. And they're doing it quite. aggressively.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

One of the primary fears museum professionals (and all professionals) have about entering new relationships with audiences is the fear of losing control. There are many models as well for what we do with user-generated content in the museum. Ideas participatory museum usercontent. There are some emerging case studies for this.

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