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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. and "why?" to "how?".

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Guest Post from Museums and the Web: Bryan Kennedy

Museum 2.0

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. Who's sharing authority and how? Their task is both especially important and challenging.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. In February 2001, AAM commissioned a study about the trustworthiness of museums and found that "Almost 9 out of 10 Americans (87%) find museums to be one of the most trustworthy or a trustworthy source of information among a wide range of choices.

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NPTechTag Roundup: Election Debriefs and Wikis in Your Kitchen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It will be interesting to see if this advice holds true for the voters of the future based on Dannah Boyd's post " What i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens. Meanwhile, library geeks are talking about tagging. "Do young people have email accounts? Do they login to them semi-regularly?

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Don't Talk to Strangers? Safety 2.0

Museum 2.0

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? into the museum is the potential to encourage more positive in-museum interactions among strangers. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content.

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[VIDEO] Emerging Trends in Nonprofit Social Media Marketing

Bloomerang

Author of two books, one just came out last February. We have a live library in our lobby here at Bloomerang. If you have a tween or a teen, I’m sure you’re familiar with TikTok. And not just museums jumped into that, it was a lot of different organizations. You’re going to want to learn more about that.