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. Most gifting is personal , both in real life and on the web. There's a lot of argument about whether the Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

On the web, a jury of the masses (anyone) can evaluate the photographs in terms of aesthetic quality and relevance to the exhibition theme. But it's pretty unusual to have a REAL exhibition led by a web person. Click is not just an application of Web 2.0 All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. The social web makes it easy for your find people with exactly the same passion. Explore popular blog, searches and tags.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Imagine that your museum is ready to start creating content on a small-scale in Web 2.0. By posting intelligent, insightful, value-adding comments and responses on pre-existing high-traffic sites, you can drive more visitors back to your own site and nascent Web 2.0 There is a culture on Web 2.0 marketing participatory museum.

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Museum Technorati Boston YouTube 22

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. Telling visitors that they can't take photos in museums reinforces the sense that the museum is an external authority that owns and controls its objects rather than a shared public resource.

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Museum Photo Policy Open 54

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2007

While they can expand and enlighten visitor experiences with content, they also add to the perception that the museum authorities—curators, designers, and now staff—are the ones who dictate what the visitor experience is about. Tags: participatory museum visitors. What other ideas are out there?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

What makes Web 2.0 On the web, you define your persona, which may make you feel empowered both to be more honest (and therefore potentially offer information you would not give a stranger on the street) and to engage in fantasy. Being on the web means being tracked, published, and spread around. Or is it the stalkers?

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

Scott McCloud is the author of hands-down my favorite design book: Understanding Comics. If we number the five elements as follows: Content Interaction Network Social Benefit Collective Action then I’d argue that most museums provide something very different from Web 2.0: But now, web usage is different. Tags: web2.0

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Taxonomy Museum Social Wikipedia 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Other person: "But doesn't that erode museums' authority?" And in a world where visitors want to create, remix, and interpret content messages on their own, museums can assume a new role of authority as "platforms" for those creations and recombinations. But the companies that run YouTube, Flickr, and other major Web 2.0

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Authoring Platform Museum YouTube 42

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

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. in a sea of similar navel-gazing Web 2.0 Tags: exhibition web2.0 It's a short-sighted quickie, a "hey mom, look at me!" Projects.

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Museum Social Network Case Study Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. Second Life was a better community space for The Tech Virtual than the Web. Tags: exhibition Tech Virtual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The post initially caught my eye because there was a quote from Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith, co-authors of The Dragonfly Effect (I’m giving away a copy ). I posted a link on FB page and it prompted quite a discussion from nonprofit folks. Tags: Books Movement Building Networked Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

He writes a blog called " Read It To Me " that summarizes business books and also hosts Webinars with authors. This weekend I participated in a Webinar about the book The Whuffie Factor along with author Tara Hunt where we discussed how the ideas apply to nonprofits. Tags: Books pinko marketing relationships.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

I've written before about techniques for talking to strangers, looking at how buttons , buses , and dogs and can all be tools for participatory design. I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. These activities are not always grounds for participatory encounters.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

On Buzz, for example, every author is part of the same overall blog, so it is not hard to conceptually manage the idea of multiple institutional authors. Many museums are attacking this problem by hosting a central "community" or "social" page on their websites (see COSI's or the Brooklyn Museum's ) that aggregates all of the Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

Their questions made me think about a blog post I wrote in 2008, The Future of Authority. While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. Other person: "But doesn't that erode museums' authority?" But the companies that run YouTube, Flickr, and other major Web 2.0 Every Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

It can be uncomfortable or downright limiting to declare yourself and your single voice the authority on a complex or multi-faceted topic. On the web, via the MN150 wiki, you can view the winning (and non-winning) nominations and additional historical content provided by the museum. We printed out every web nomination.

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