Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. Tags: children's museums design business models. It creates another forgettable museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

If you don’t watch Big Brother , The Apprentice , Dancing with the Stars or X factor you probably dismiss these shows because they revolve around people you don’t know in an environment you find uninteresting and over-hyped. A fairly large label with this week’s chart position was placed next to each artwork.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Finally, if visitors are saving their activities in competitive environments like games, being able to see your score relative to others--either in your party or overall--is incredibly engaging. I worked with the Boston Children's Museum on a project called Our Green Trail (check it out!)

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Unschooling" is an an educational theory that argues that people of all ages (including children) learn best when their work is self-directed--and that children are better at determining what and how they should learn than any accredited school or instructor. As John Holt wrote, "Learning is not the product of teaching.

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