Chapter Content Participatory Sound 
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory. We had some money.
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."
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Museum 2.0
APRIL 25, 2011
I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."
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. You should be able to read your mission statement like a chapter of the Torah--exploding out its implications and using it as a kind of legal text for proper action.
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.
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.
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. But the content was so remarkable that visitors felt the need to just to consume it but to point it out to others. But designing an entire museum that functions this way probably isn't your goal.
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