Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

Ken is a game designer and writer who develops narrative, collaborative augmented reality experiences about serious issues. Play any time, as much as you like, and play with any cellphone. The goal was to design an audio tour for people who never do audio tours. And widely accessible. Was it too weird?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums. framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. The time cost of Web 2.0 I provided the Web 2.0 Absolutely.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact. The Denver Community Museum (DCM) was a grassroots operation in almost every sense.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Web and Audio Conferencing. Change presenters : Pass presenter controls to another attendee at any time. Recording and playback : Record the audio and on-screen content of your meetings to send to others or review later. GoToTraining includes many of the same core web and audio conferencing features as GoToMeeting.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

I don't usually fist-pump while reading the New York Times. But I’d been scribbling notes for an art museum label post for awhile, and then yesterday, the NY Times had a review of a new show at MOMA, Comic Abstraction. Half the time, I’m the one who doesn’t know what I’m missing. MOMA has standard art museum labels.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2007

I’m working on a virtual museum project these days, and one question that often comes up is “What is the most fun thing we could let visitors do here that they can’t do in the real world?” Every time one of these ideas comes up, a guilty silence spreads around the team. Let’s start by talking about design. Can we really do this?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

How would you design a recommendation system for a museum? When it comes to museums, recommendation systems are a natural solution for the problem of the customized tour. When it comes to museums, recommendation systems are a natural solution for the problem of the customized tour.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. One of the things I always focus on in participatory exhibit design is ensuring that everyone has the same tools to work with.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Gamasutra has a feature up entitled Game Design Essentials: 20 Open World Games. In it, John Harris provides a whirlwind tour through arcades, Ataris, and Nintendos, discussing the design principles and evolution of video games described as “open world” or “exploration." The site will be active until Oct 16, so keep the ideas coming!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

How do you design an object experience that encourages participation among visitors? This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

They are accepting film, audio, images and text on these issues: War & Dialogue : Women's Perspectives Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2006 Let us take you beyond the headlines and show you how war is affecting the lives of young women around the world-both in conflict zones and outside them. stories story museum women international

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. Design them free on Canva. It is seen as wasteful overhead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2005

" Mal Booth, Head of Research Centre, at the Australian War Memorial Museum comes word of museum podcasting from down under. We've just ventured out for the first time into podcasting. These are designed to accompany a 'treasure trail' in our museum over summer (in the southern hemisphere).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2008

means, and I usually use a form of Tim O'Reilly's four elements: content platform not provider, architecture of participation with network effects, perpetual beta, and modular design. There are other elements that often come up on this blog, like user-generated content or me-to-we design, that are more about implementation than theory.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

They offer a chance to dress up, get together with others, and have a good time — while also raising money for a good cause. Maybe you could even send out dinner packages to all of your guests ahead of time so they get the full dining experience as well. Events are many people’s favorite thing about charity fundraising.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2009

In my continuing quest to find elegant ways to integrate technology into the museum experience, we come to interpretative material and the simple question, "How can you create natural ways for visitors to retrieve the information of most interest to them relative to an artifact or exhibit?" Here's one lovely answer: Meta.L.Hyttan.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in three sessions: a Pecha Kucha design blitz, a dialogue on bridging online/onsite connections, and a discussion of the IMLS 21st Century Skills report. Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Elizabeth Merritt is the director of the Center for the Future of Museums , a new project of the American Association of Museums (AAM). When I was given the opportunity to found the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM) I had been working for nearly 10 years with Museum Assessment and Accreditation at AAM.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I particularly like the MP3 experiments , events at which Improv Everywhere distribute an audio file to people for free as a podcast. Participants gather in a physical venue with their own digital audio players, and everyone hits “play” at the same time. Again: easy, non-conspicuous, non-threatening.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

Today, an interview with Sibley Verbeck (Hathor's his virtual name), founder/CEO of the Electric Sheep Company , which does experience design for real-world companies in virtual worlds including Second Life. Most museums already have websites. It’s a little disjointed, but the key points are: 1. It’s not a way to do it socially.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. In fact, they even design the background for you. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In this age of increasing hacks and cybercrime, the Norman Rockwell Museum has a lot of digital assets, museum operations data, and private patron data that need to be protected. Find out why Frank Kennedy, IT manager at the Rockwell museum, chose Veritas Backup Exec to be a key part of the museum's security strategy.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Businesses that fall under Title I, those that operate 20 or more weeks per year with at least 15 full-time employees, or Title III, those that fall under the category of “public accommodation,” are covered by the ADA. AA standards, which includes captioning and audio description requirements. Museums, libraries, and zoos.

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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? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? But for museum and art wonks, it could be. Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

In this week's book club post , Elaine Gurian commented on the failures of NMAI, and of many museums, to find new palettes for interpretation and presentation of museum content, especially when the intended result is an emotional, spiritual, or non object-focused experience. Is it fun to read a magazine on the train?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Someday we want to collect audio and video, too, but we’d need a pretty serious operating budget to do that and at least one full-time employee. Because he has impeccable timing, our cataloging manager (who does have his MLS) might wander in for the regular meeting. Geography is fluid, though.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. local time). local time). "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. The only advice out there is to limit screen time. It starts in the home.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. The Love Lounge I LOVE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

If you are thinking about adding a Facebook Messenger bot to your organization’s digital strategy, spend some time interacting with other nonprofit bots. I set up this List to save you some time hunting down nonprofit examples. Museum Visitor Experience. Climate Reality Bot. Engage and Educate. The Anne Frank House Bot.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2010

When a technologist calls me to talk about their brilliant idea for a museum-related business, it's always a mobile application. There are lots of wonderful (and probably not very high margin) experiments going on in museums with mobile devices. Most visitors to museums attend in social groups.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

ska, an art historian interested in museums, education, and new technologies. Museum-themed apps, which I work with, are mostly just gallery guides. For example, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York created a fantastic iPad application called MoMA Books that lets you buy e-book versions of out-of-print publications.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 29, 2008

How can you make your museum website more effective in driving traffic and raising awareness of your institution? Most people think this requires designing more sophisticated content (and it can). But there is a simpler, more impactful way for museum websites to become more visible, cited, and visited in the online landscape.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

I spent last week working with staff at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) on ways to make this encyclopedic art museum more open to visitor participation across programs, exhibitions, and events. All artworks delivered to the museum during the submission period will be accepted and presented; no one is turned away.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

I've become convinced that successful paths to participation in museums start with self-identification. The easiest way to do that is to acknowledge their uniqueness and validate their ability to connect with the museum on their own terms. Who is the "me" in the museum experience? Not so at museums.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

There are lots of things visitors can’t do in museums. But what about the things that museum professionals can’t (or feel they can’t) do? This week at the ASTC conference, Kathy McLean, Tom Rockwell, Eric Siegel and I presented a session called “You Can’t Do That in Museums!” The audio starts noisy. but it gets better.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

How can you design museum spaces so that exhibits and artifacts become social objects--things that people want to share with each other? This is great news for museums. Unlike digital networks, which have to manufacture or solicit online versions of objects around which users can rally, museums are full of objects.

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