Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Short story: we learned a lot. This project wove together many different participatory threads. We commissioned new collaborative artwork. We'd love to see this model evolve and grow. We wrote a toolkit about our process. You can download it for free right now. What did we learn? There were over 100 partners.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. Even the conference itself was a model of social bridging.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized. Why haven't children's museums pushed past the 1970s model?

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Classroom Children Museum Model 22

Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. From day 1, I believed that we needed to focus in our first year on creating new participatory events to engage the community.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

Last week, the local newspaper did a really generous front-page story on my museum (the MAH) and the changes here over the past eight months since I started. I'm incredibly proud of all the staff, trustees, volunteers, collaborators, visitors, and members who have made this happen. but I didn't have numbers to back it up.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be. In the Zingerman's model, visioning is for everyone at all levels of the organization. It's a story written from the vantage point of a few months or years from now. That's the story a vision tells. A vision is a story. HOW DO YOU WRITE IT?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It's a worthwhile 30 minutes of discussion about the use of sound to provide an emotional context for stories--specifically, stories about science. RadioLab is a superlative model of how we can think of new ideas and new technology as an "and" instead of an "instead". And that makes it feel much more participatory.

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Audio Storytelling Tutorial Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It''s neither "quick" nor "inexpensive" to mount exhibitions that include diverse community stories. Yes, community involvement is at the heart of our shifted, successful business model. The curators are the humans in the story. Our prototypical participant is a 49-year old Santa Cruz County woman with a story to share.

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Journal Participatory Museum Community 54

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The NTC brings together the best and brightest nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness with technology. Each year, the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is the nonprofit industry's signature technology event, and 2016 will be no different. Technology / #16NTC / @NTENorg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On Day 3, Mary Joyce will lead a workshop on digital activism using the Story of Electronics , an environmental-themed short film, as a case study and jumping off point for a workshop exercise to create a digital campaign. It is a collaborative way of working. It isn’t a matter of a Facebook profile or using Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. They then formed task forces to consider various options and make decisions, using a consensus-based model. The design was to share this learning was amazing.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Designing Online Engagement to Collaborate With Your Community - You can design online engagement to unleash your evangelists. In this workshop, we'll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. For example, disability justice activists shared links to their proposed social model of disability on the platform, making it easier for peers and reviewers to learn about the concept and ask questions.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? So when do wikis work?

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

There are many different models, including The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History , The New York Met , SF Mobile Museum , and even a Pop Up Prison Museum. Our primary goal for pop up museums is to bring people together in conversation through stories, art, history, and objects. What does this look like?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. letting museum visitors contribute and collaborate in museums), I now see this as a crucial issue also for more democratic and inclusive practice (i.e. There are many models as well for what we do with user-generated content in the museum.

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