Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

Teen Outreach Pregnancy Services. Private grantmaking foundations are usually, but not always, funded from principally one source, such as a for-profit business. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia. " —Laura Pedersen.

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Foundation San Francisco Donation Los Angeles 63

Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Consultant Myspace Social Media Advocacy 31

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens. Recognizing the power of the mullet, they put the business-end up front and the party in the back. You can drag a literal splitter bar across the page and view a community-created site blinged out by the teens or the business site for funders and professionals.

Museum 20

Museum Web Teen Flickr 20

Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Consultant Social Media Myspace Advocacy 31

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Frank doesn't give people some office address behind a generic business name--you are writing to a real person at a real house. Fortunately, we're not in a life-or-death business, so we should feel even more assured that honesty, not marketing spin, might be the best policy for gaining trust. Many of the teens write, "learn with us.

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Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20