Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 2003, my collaborator Stephanie and I began an excavation, declaring nothing for sale. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

Starting Zoetica came on the heels of one of the most dramatic changes I made in my life in recent years. I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE. I now look forward to further refining curriculum and workshops over the coming months.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Watchitoo — The new tool behind the TechSoup NPlive web series offers video from many sources integrated with images, YouTube and social chat, Q&A, and webinar tools including a collaborative whiteboard. We think Watchitoo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It’s also a sign that the employee and the manager are not setting a good culture of work life balance. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, The Second C: Collaboration. Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Then you should check out the Creativity and Collaboration (C2) retreat sponsored by NAME and AAM, May 31-June 2 of this year in Monterey, CA. You may already go to a lot of conferences and money is tight this year, but isn't this the kind of experience that might actually thrill you and change your life? Sounds good?

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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

JULY 11, 2012

But every once in awhile, something extraordinary comes up, something that isn't emergent or evolving or encouraging but something that explodes into your life like a comet knocking on your door. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined.

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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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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. The activities had a really low barrier to entry.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

Ken is a game designer and writer who develops narrative, collaborative augmented reality experiences about serious issues. GISKIN ANOMALY is a “historical fiction” game I created for Rich Cherry and the Balboa Park Online Collaborative. Lesson: what myths are working for you in your game or participatory project?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

government and encouraging participatory democracy. Through a partnership with game studio E-Line Media and the nonprofit Cook Inlet Tribal Council, it became the first game developed in collaboration with the Iñupiat community. Created by ESI Design, the 100-player Senate Immersion Module game was made for the Edward M.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

We''re an institution that focuses intentionally on being transparent and collaborative with our community members. But everyone was on Facebook, knew how to use it, and was using it in the course of daily life already. participatory museum professional development' What tools do you use to stay connected behind-the-scenes?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

And for the first time in my adult life as an American, that seems significant. For most of my life in America, pro soccer was considered something risible and vaguely deviant, like picking your nose in public. Soccer isn''t just part of school; it''s part of life. It''s World Cup time. Constant radio coverage. It''s exciting.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be. It's for anyone who wants to go somewhere in their day, their year, their life. What's different about your life, your work? For me, writing a vision was empowering, exciting, and useful. What does the world look like in that future? HOW DO YOU WRITE IT?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice."

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

We talk a lot at our museum about empowering our visitors, collaborators, interns, and staff by making space for them to shine. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale. Right now, we have a double life online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.” She was one of the first patients to use video blogging through her nationally recognized YouTube channel to share her story and educate people about life with IBD. This “Dr. Carrie Martin Munk, The ALS Association.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

We were discussing the potential for cultural organizations to have significant impact across communities: on planning, health, education, and quality of life. A fitness trail for urban life. It takes leaders like Deborah to claim those seats and launch successful collaborations. A soundtrack for the street.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Most of the projects with these programs were carried out collaboratively; so I had a chance to see how different kinds of organizations, from grassroots to national, operate. It focused on collaborative e-learning. A premise for this work is that we need to be better at working collaboratively???whether

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions? This revealed a gold mine of insights to help improve the design of the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. In this approach, the Brainerd Foundation would focus on fostering sharing and innovation by thinking differently, funding differently, collaborating with other funders differently, and sharing differently—all starting tomorrow.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

After several months of planning massively collaborative programs (a typical monthly event might involve 50 partners), we've realized that the people who are best at helping us come up with ideas are not necessarily the people who are best to help us execute them. Moving from community needs out to possible projects/collaborators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

While one might be tempted to discount the value of face-to-face gatherings when we have the Internet, some of my most valuable connections and learning experiences have taken place "in real life" at the NTC. I'll be collaborating with colleagues online to further plan our sessions and online materials.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. The other one I'd say is, I'm a big believer in collaboration, and the future of journalism is collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. Why did these and others fail and why is Second Life really pointing the. principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

I would love it if my i_like_to_watch tag was adopted widely so that the collaborative filtering aspect of tags could help me separate wheat from chaff. " Here's my interview with her: I am curious as to whether or not you work for a nonprofit organization? Tagging is a small part of that.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It also has some interesting lessons about collaboration in design; there's a lot of acknowledgment and discussion about the positives and negatives of bringing new technologies (digital audio manipulation) into a classic venue (radio). It's This American Life meets Science Friday with a whole slew of strange audio tweaks thrown in.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Since 2004 Personal Democracy Forum in New York has been an exceptional opportunity for representatives of NGOs, public administration, activists and journalists to discuss how technology affects politics, government and civic life. Technology / #16NTC / @NTENorg. Technology. Diversity Abroad Conference. Diversity Abroad Conference.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. In Second Life, I am not an expert--but many of our virtual exhibit designers are.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

These systems use forms of collaborative filtering to analyze what you've liked and find things that might be similar based on both expert and user data. There is no reason in the life cycle of movie rental that a user should be expected to rate a movie. Consider the case of Netflix, the dominant US online movie rental company.

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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

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. So we spend most of our energy working on ways to bring people together from different walks of life in the museum. We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

I’ve been visiting museums my whole life. I’ve worked in them my whole adult life. To me, museums are room for debate, that they are institutions where the world and one's own life are put into perspective, and that they are filled with works and stories where values, such as equality, sustainability, democracy and justice.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

As you progress through the challenges, you gain more constituents that will help you with tasks, and learn valuable skills that can be used in real life. 1 Evoke Played over 10 weeks, Evoke had participants all over the world solving problems with "super powers" like collaboration, courage and resourcefulness.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

One of our core programming goals is to build social capital by forging unexpected connections between diverse collaborators and audience members. At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we''re approaching this challenge through a different lens: social bridging.

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