Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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. 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

MARCH 28, 2012

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development. There are many amazing community representatives from business, arts, education, and social services who connect us to powerful ideas and partners. It was an evening meeting with beer and chips.

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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."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Kennedy (EMK) Institute to support it in educating the public about U.S. government and encouraging participatory democracy. They work together in varied group sizes to consider historic issues, significant moments in the Senate’s history and current policies affecting the country. .” Senate Immersion Module.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. You can read a full report on the exhibition process, including lots of quotes from the young curators, staff, and educators involved, here [pdf]. The partnership was a manageable starting point for future collaborations.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

We're seeking great folks for public programs, participatory exhibit design, online marketing, 3D design, and whatever else you might have to offer. If you're interested in interning with me and my crew at the MAH in the coming months, please check out our offerings.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. They talked about community building. And so on.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Or suppose you were leading a program to educate young people about violent behavior in dating relationships. Nonprofit organizations, libraries, and educational institutions are experimenting with "user-generated" or community-powered campaigns. Hiring people.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

We are hiring for a School Programs Coordinator to wrangle the 3,500+ students and their teachers who come to the museum every year for a tour and hands-on experience in our art and history exhibitions. We see this job as a starting point for someone who is cheerfully obsessed with the future of museum education.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Many people, particularly family and friends from non-museum world, talked about museums at places to visit, like a cousin-in-law, Tina Cappel who said, “A museum is a place that captures existence for people to wander and wonder, to enjoy and to be educated.” For many people museums are purveyors of and intercessors with history.

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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. In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” Radical Collaboration. With only two digital staffers the campaign hosted the largest distributed political event in history with 2,700 kick-off parties in one night! “Old power works like a currency. Read our latest analysis of p2p fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

Grantees painstakingly provide long histories of past performance, financial projections, and thorough descriptions of expected results. Values such as power-sharing, equity, and collaboration are at the heart of these ideas, and they provide a framework for enhancing agility, reducing burden, and simplifying the funding process.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2015

Now, education for the cause has spread in a way that organization’s couldn’t have planned for, and it happened without having to spend a single dollar on media buys. More than any other event in the history, this campaign gave food for thought to many who were critics of slacktivism and clicktivism. It Takes a Village!

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