Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. Check out the other parts here. Why Self-Publish?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether that community is career-oriented (like professional associations) or something related to a person’s interests or identity (like museums or community groups), it’s important to them. Be Thoughtful About Your Timing Timing is everything, and it will inform the content of your renewal letter. Let’s take a look.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

Dear Museum 2.0 My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. readers, Today is my birthday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Chapter 6 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit focusing on examples of how you measure engagement which begins with formulating your engagement model. Engagement: Readers engage with their content. Connect is about connecting alumni to useful content, each other, the school community, events, and your database.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

For me, it's the beginning of chapter 8, in which J. The story of Peter Pan is well-known, but it's just as unique for its tone as its content. William Goldman does something similar with The Princess Bride, commenting about dreadfully dull chapters he has omitted for the reader's sanity. What does Peter Pan make you think of?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

Here's that chapter. RELEVANCE IS A MOVING TARGET FOR CONTENT Most of us aren’t steering whole institutions and mission statements. We’re working on a smaller scale, with specific content or programs. But the changing tides of relevance that affect institutions affect content too—sometimes even more acutely.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. The Museum 2.0 In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2008

see what is most useful and compelling content for you. Now that there are over 200 posts on this blog, I'd like to start acting intelligently to organize the content--beyond the tags I assign to individual posts--so that you can most quickly find the posts you most want to read. What tips do you have for organizing this content?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Dear Museum 2.0 readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Want to help substantively with the content of the book?

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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. The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2007

What does your museum have to say about it? What do visitors expect of museums, and what do museums expect of themselves, when it comes to timeliness? This is partially driven by museums, which want to be seen as "forums" for discourse, but also by the expectations of a media-saturated public. Pluto just got demoted.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

This week, we're covering the fourth objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : supporting (chapter 8). This chapter is perhaps the most surprising in the book, because it focuses on tools and techniques that predate Web 2.0 Why should museums care about customer support? by years: customer support forums.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Between the giant squid brainstorming and experimentation, I gave a talk to the larger Smithsonian Institution about multi-platform museum experiences. The slides are also available for download.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2007

This is the final installment of the Museum 2.0 book club on Civilizing the Museum; The Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian. I’d like to do more book clubs in the future; please let me know if there are any particular books on museum theory, design, innovation, etc. that you would recommend for Museum 2.0.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

This week, we're covering the third objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : energizing (chapter 6). In this post, an exploration of ways that museums can support promoters, convert detractors, and generally energize visitors to share their experience with others. How do you support your biggest fans?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

For example, in Bloom’s taxonomy of Educational Objectives, knowledge and comprehension of content comes before application. I talked about leveling up, and indeed I do believe that museums should consider engaging more in levels 3 and 4—whether their goal is making it to level 5 or not. Narratively, this makes sense. What do they do?)

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This week, we're covering the first objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : listening (chapter 5). For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2007

And traveling, which provides rapidly changing content, is particularly well-suited to gaming. Unless of course it's a really boring book, in which case games like "how long until the end of this chapter" become compelling. All this leads me, naturally, to wonder what kinds of random, private, inadvertent games people play in museums.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 4, 2012

We brought our first product to market in July 2000 working with a local children’s museum as our first client. We engaged in primary research with nonprofits and their donors and became maniacal about data in order to publish educational content. I am eternally grateful for them for making a bet on us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2011

I picked up a copy of Content Rules by Ann Handley and CC Chapman and could not put it down. The books shares the secrets to creating good content on social channels that engages your audiences. Here’s summary of the key ideas: Avoid A Once and Done Approach, Think Of Your Content As Pieces of A Larger Whole.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

On Tuesday, I reviewed Elaine Gurian’s essay, Choosing Among the Options , on museum archetypes and self-definition. Next Tuesday, we'll look at chapters 16 and 17, on the merits and limitations of the team approach to exhibition design.) What if you don’t want to be identified as one type of museum? It did that more than once.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. Every non-spammer editor who signed up was granted full access to change and comment on the content.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. But there were 52 people who spent several hours working on the project as content reviewers or copy-editors.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Black Youth Project — BYP has various local chapters. Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)— SURJ has various local chapters. Sign up for updates and newsletters from the organizations in the sections above, specifically the local chapters. Find yours here. Check your local events on Google. Keep up with Rally list.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. Participants were engaged in the following ways: Content review (open).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for organizing regional chapters, activists, or special events, Meetup makes it easy for nonprofits to organize supporters online to then meet up face-to-face offline. MoFuse is a mobile content management system that allows you to easily create mobile websites using basic HTML and the RSS feed of your blog.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

This week, we consider Chapter 11 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum , "Function Follows Form: How mixed-used spaces in museums build community," but first, a short and relevant note about my writing process. Museums are naturally tuned to some of these but not all. a disparate mix of useful services.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

In 1990, educator and cultural critic Neil Postman described a museum as "an answer to a fundamental question: what does it mean to be a human being?" Without an explicit "I" voice, the museum's perspective on humanity is oblique to say the least. Welcome to Pine Point is not a museum project. It tells layered personal stories.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

I've spent the last two weeks working on the third chapter of my book about network effects of social participation. And it's brought me back to a blog post I wrote a year ago about the Science Museum of Minnesota's Race: Are We So Different? But designing an entire museum that functions this way probably isn't your goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom. A Crowd-Curated Exhibition.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

In addition, I'm sending the winner my review copy of Mitch Joel's Six Pixels of Separation because I think she can learn a lot from Chapter 14 on Participation 2.0. It takes content, strategy and elbow grease. As you know, it takes more than access to create a successful social media network.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Chapter 9 focuses on "embracing" the groundswell, or finding ways to involve users in the development of new products, services, and strategies. How many museums have stacks of comment books that are only culled for the gushing quotes that belong on annual reports? This same process can also be applied to visitor-generated content.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2007

This week, a look at Chapters 16 and 17 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum. Why don't more museums do this? Many museums, especially large ones, exhibit the worst of the feudal cubicle wars--the Collections Department vs. the Exhibition Department vs. the Education Department.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

This week, we're covering the second objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : talking (chapter 6). This is true whether you are talking about marketing text or exhibit content. Many museums have jumped into the middle level—producing their own content—without starting with commenting.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2007

Welcome to the first installment of the Museum 2.0 While every post at Museum 2.0 Elaine Gurian, author of this summer’s book, Civilizing the Museum , will also be popping into the conversation as her time and interest permits. And if you're planning ahead, next week we'll look at chapter 6, Timeliness: A discussion for museums.

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