Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. All of these have gone through a series of movements in the last 30 years reflecting cultural shifts and expectations.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Small, quirky projects like the public art geocaching exhibition in Bellevue, WA , and inspiring surprises like the Living Library program and book-drop based tagging at the Hague. Excellent new blogs focused on the field like Museum Audience Insight and Useum. As the audience for the Museum 2.0 There is funding.

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Museum Voice Minnesota Participatory 20

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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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 use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Explore popular blog, searches and tags. I'm nervous.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

When you want visitors to spend a long time reflecting and sharing their thoughts, you need to design spaces for response that are comfortable and minimize distractions. If you feel that your audience needs monitoring or social support, position the talkback stations in open settings.

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Design Goal Difference Platform 31

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. So we wanted a membership segmentation that reflected their individual needs. Tags: marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects interview membership.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Tate's Mobile Blog is collecting audience input on the new building design at the Tate - via mobile phones to blog - or mob blogging. Read more of Jim Spadaccini's reflections. innovator.

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Arts Social Media Examples Artist 74

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

To expand their audiences. Ghosts of a Chance is in the emerging sub-field of non-commercial ARGs that are directed to a general rather than niche audience. Reaching Non-Gamer Audiences ARGs can be confusing. that the attendance on that day would be a real reflection of how the game went. To tap into maker culture.

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Game Museum Arts Alternative 20

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Most free social networks include advertising that may not reflect museum mission. In this way, Tree of Promise takes a quick participatory in-museum experience—writing down a promise—and provides a supportive platform on which users can cultivate and substantiate that action. Tags: exhibition web2.0 freedom from advertising.

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Museum Social Network Case Study Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

As she moves through the museum, she uses a web-based application to tag her favorite exhibits, or perhaps she texts a rating for each exhibit to SMS short codes posted at the bottom of each label. I also point things out to a mass audience when I post ideas to Twitter or Facebook. What others should we consider?

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Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

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 Participatory Evaluation Chapter 20

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. Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books. Each Web 2.0

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Authoring Platform Museum YouTube 42

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

The film was long for a museum (35 minutes) and geared towards adults, so the audience had thinned appreciably by the end, when a staff member invited all of us to join her on the floor of the museum for our own laughter club. There’s a reason clowns pull up single volunteers to mortify them and entertain the audience.

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Program People Museum Lecture 20

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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Library Museum Reflection Alternative 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. One of the primary fears museum professionals (and all professionals) have about entering new relationships with audiences is the fear of losing control. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books. and my emphatic response is YES.

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