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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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Anyone who uses the designated tag on Twitter automatically becomes a part of the ongoing global conversation on that topic of interest. Check this chart for a comparison of web conferencing tools. We think Watchitoo.

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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

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

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This exhibition uses RFID tags to allow visitors to save their work throughout the space--something that many institutions have been experimenting with for almost ten years now. We swiped our RFID tags all over the Brain exhibition to save our actions, scores, and preferences. This makes for a very low-engagement post-visit experience.

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Personal Museum Pledge San Jose 34

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. Instead of trying to align ourselves more closely with K-12 and universities, why aren't museums charting new territory in free-choice learning? Tags: Core Museum 2.0 I know the practical answers. What's your goal? Where are you coming from?

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