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JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. You can also see the images I used, which were constructed with an extremely cool presentation software called Prezi, here. What amazing thing is this designer or author or game creator doing that I can take a slice of and stick into my museum?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. But there's a big problem with the parallel strategy. Two institutions I see making this "or" choice in exciting ways are the Brooklyn Museum and the Oakland Museum in California.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Young people are not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's tech-centric workforce—and that's a huge problem. According to the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a staggering 100 million Americans don't have a broadband connection in their households. The Role of Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2010

on January 19 that many users who had not voted for Invisible Children had been tagged in a photo with an image reading "I Voted For Invisible Children," making it appear as though that user had voted for the group. Invisible Children has also been accused of fraud during the duration of the contest. Change.org reported.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Thanks to Kyle Evans, who forwarded me the fascinating, lengthy master’s dissertation.art: Situating Internet Art in the Modern Museum by Karen Verschooren at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. In it, Karen provides a survey of the evolving relationship of Internet art to art museums. Citizen science programs. On the website?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. We made a giant mobile for the center of the museum out of origami birds folded from visitor comments received in the past year.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. As you read the story in the next few paragraphs, consider the four-step approach in the image above. But there’s a problem (for me) with this kind of tagging: it only affects the Web.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

But over the last couple of months, I've learned about two tagging projects that actually get me excited-- CamClickr at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Posse at the Brooklyn Museum. When museums embark on collections-tagging projects, they are almost entirely focused on this secondary benefit.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators. It is great to feel more of a part of the museum!" "All

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Exhibit labels in science centers ask more questions than any other kinds of museums, and yet the questions are often awful--teacherly, overly rhetorical, and totally meaningless. asked by a cop or mother, garners the full attention of asker and askee alike, museum questions like "what is nanotechnology?,"

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. Why would an art museum create an ARG? And the "stuff" of the game is real stuff, artifacts created by players and sent to the museum. To expand their audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

When I graduated in 2003, I moved out here to California and worked with the San Jose Museum of Art before getting a job with Linden Labs. I learned a lot from San Jose Art Museum. My biggest challenge is that there isn???t Time management becomes quite the problem when you have 2 different worlds to keep track of.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2008

In the museum world, we often talk about lowering barriers to entry, helping people get through the door. And so today we look at an educational facility (not a museum) that swabs the deck with these barriers. A tutoring center is even more stereotyped than a museum in terms of the public's expectation about who it is "for."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

This week, we're looking at the first section, Talking Back and Talking Together , which features comment boards, talk-back walls, and discussion forums at a variety of museums. At the Boston Museum of Science's video kiosk on wind power, 3/4 of people were most interested in making their own video (as opposed to watching others).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Consider, for example, the above image, created by David Lee King , which describes less a spectrum than an ascension to 2.0topia. The image below, created by Meredith Farkas , is more balanced, providing a "cultural landscape" of fear, loathing, and obsession with Web 2.0. To many people, the culture of Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Elisa’s focus is interactive arts, media design, and cultural management, and she has been involved in many pertinent projects, such as MUVI (the Virtual Museum of the Collective Memory of Lombardia). This is an interesting problem related to natural heritage and how it is shared and enjoyed. The stakeholders are really engaged.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

The interview includes stories about some of his projects, and a delving into questions about what makes viral content compelling, how to draw people into an uncomfortable environment, and ways that art--or museum content--can become more pervasive by being hidden in the corners of life. Everyone else, make your exhibitions.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2007

I've spent several hours perusing the WWO time machine, finding the voices, images, and missions most interesting and applicable to my lifestyle. But the biggest question in my mind is: what lessons can museums (and game designers, and etc.) And I immediately considered that that argument is not one which museums could easily present.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

The conversation with Yeshi is “smart,” meaning that she asks and answers questions with a variety of images, maps, text, and videos. For instance, the San Francisco Museum of Art has 34,678 items in its collection. The bot unlocks all of the artwork of the museum for virtual viewing by anyone, anywhere and at any time.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. The challenge was to figure out how to do it and end up with a high-quality book. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. Check out the other parts here.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was fascinating to see people--across social differences--responding to representations of love in the paintings, images, objects and narratives that were part of the installation. The inclusion and prominence of amateur art in the museum makes a complicated statement that is worth a whole other blog post. The Love Lounge I LOVE.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Now, after attending with museum friends from around the country, I'm hooked. Unlike most museum experiences, where people quietly absorb the work in a room, people were very comfortable pulling each other to specific pieces and extolling their merits or less inspiring qualities. Very few wrote in typical museum or even gallery-speak.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

A group of individuals has more knowledge for solving a problem than any single individual. Brooklyn Museum implemented a crowdsourced photography exhibit experiment called “ Click! For the funders side, we looked at the America’s Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. A Crowd-Curated Exhibition.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

He shared many examples of how social change activists are using the power of connection to make deeper connections and work on solving social change challenges by activating their networks through Facebook. ”FB can be a catalyst and lever to tackle wicked problems.” Click to see full size image.

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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!” And so my question is, why are we keeping them away?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2007

There were no problems with spam or inappropriate comments. The participants were diverse, ranging from museum exhibit developers to NPR accessibility engineers to content experts to e-learning professionals. There was no clear way to identify the people speaking, except via their name, image, and voice. Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2008

At any given time, do you know: how many visitors are in your museum? how many members are in your museum? Shockingly, for many museums, large and small, the answer to these questions is no. The store and the museum entrance are strangers. Imagine museums that… well, we’ll get there. So what about museums?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

It’s about thinking about science centers and the public understanding of science as a human problem. If there was a way to engage these deep emotions in the context of science museums, then there is an opportunity to expand our impact. This is our biggest problem right now. This interview is not really about an ebook.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

No, these are neither the words of a self-important curator nor a well-spoken museum director. the crowd-curated photo exhibition now open at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It is a substantive research contribution by the museum to the social technology field at large. As with any good museum exhibition, Click!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

In the last few years, the Smithsonian American Art Museum. has been looking at our museum’s online information in the same way. The challenge: how could we make it easier for our online visitors to find things of interest even if that information is buried deep in our site? Museums are changing. Collaborator.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

These are grassroots organizations, and they were helping each other with the most intractable problems that face women everywhere: domestic violence, sex trafficking, disease, discrimination. BB: You've captured so many amazing images and stories in this book, what is the image that stands out the most for you?

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