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Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto: Are Museums Evolving with their Innovative Web Strategies?

Museum 2.0

I just got home from the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis. I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Instead, I found a standard art museum. Impersonal guards.

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Guest Post: Rearranging the Fossils - Using Museum 2.0 to Get a Stuck Innovation Process Moving Again

Museum 2.0

This guest post was written by Ruben Huele and describes the scenario-based strategic process used at the Dutch Natural History Museum, Naturalis , to innovate the redevelopment of their permanent collection. The new building of Naturalis, the Dutch National Natural History Museum, opened in 1998. It should not surprise the Museum 2.0

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Join Me for A Social Design Experiment on April 5

Museum 2.0

On Sunday April 5, I’ll be conducting a collaborative experiment with 15 intrepid University of Washington graduate students, and I’d like to invite you to join in from your own hometown. And there are three reasons I’d really value your participation: I want to suck your brain and revel in your inventiveness. So how about it?

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. Growing a Strong Volunteer Culture Every year, thousands of new librarians and archivists graduate from MLS programs.

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Game Friday: Do Games Have to Be Fun To Be Good?

Museum 2.0

The second article continues this argument, talking about ways that games--if we let go of strict expectations about their use--can be applied in "mundane" (universal?) Similarly, the enormously successful casual Brain Game, which is essentially a repetitive IQ test experience, isn't popular solely because it's fun. situations.

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Repeat After Me: Modeling Multiple Visitation

Museum 2.0

Why don't people come back to museums? When I worked at the Spy Museum, many visitors expressed a lack of desire to return not because the experience was dissatisfying, but because they'd experienced the whole story. We've all heard the excuses: "I've already seen it all," says the family that visited half the exhibits.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

I don’t know how you find the time to do this, Elizabeth, in addition to your full-time job which is a lot, but you’re also an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. As I shared, I’m a Senior Vice President at CCS and an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. It’s how my brain works.