Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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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. The book of the same title that he edited is rocking my world, both as a museum professional who cares about inclusion and as a new mother.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

We just posted a part-time position at my museum for a Community Engagement/Marketing Associate. Does a Small Museum Really Need a Marketing Person? At our museum, we distribute marketing tasks--some with our membership director, our programs staff, and our visitor services staff. But then, a few things happened. We started.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" I'm incredibly proud of all the staff, trustees, volunteers, collaborators, visitors, and members who have made this happen.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

If you think about what a museum curator does, it is very similar. The museum curator does research, is an expert in the particular artistic style, selects the best examples, puts them together in an exhibit, provides important context with annotation on the labels, and so on. What is content curation exactly?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

specializes in designing museum experiences and exhibitions that are community informed, socially stimulating, technologically ambitious, and intriguingly experimental. With expertise in gaming, the social web, and collaborative exhibit development, I can bring new perspectives to the way you do business across your institution.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. The Museum 2.0 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Click to see larger version.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Thanks to Kyle Evans, who forwarded me the fascinating, lengthy master’s dissertation.art: Situating Internet Art in the Modern Museum by Karen Verschooren at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program. In it, Karen provides a survey of the evolving relationship of Internet art to art museums. Citizen science programs. On the website?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The first of these reasons is practical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2008

Photographic Documentation: An environmental organization that supports organic farmers had literally thousands of amazing photographs documenting the development of organic farming techniques over the last decade. Flickr provided a way for the collaborators to easily upload and share photos publicly and privately.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

These nontraditional audience engagement techniques helped make complex goals and visions explicit and understandable to visitors. As one participant said, "the museum feels friendly in a way it usually doesn't." People make the museum friendly, not activities. The secrets ranged from funny to sexy to deeply serious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice. Conference. Examples: Wildlife Direct and Brooklyn Museum. Connecting With New Colleagues. I used David Hood as an example.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

This technique was used in the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and continues in the popular StoryCorps project. Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Use the "hot pen" or automatic writing technique. A SIMPLE WAY TO TRY IT This week, we experimented with visioning at my museum in an all-staff meeting. A small group volunteered to take this work forward to establish a shared vision we can then use to guide us to more collaboration in the coming months.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Exhibit labels in science centers ask more questions than any other kinds of museums, and yet the questions are often awful--teacherly, overly rhetorical, and totally meaningless. asked by a cop or mother, garners the full attention of asker and askee alike, museum questions like "what is nanotechnology?," Leary (NRG!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

" What has been going on here is experimentation to understand the possibilities and potential of virtual worlds as an educational , instructional , therapeutic , marketing , and/or collaboration medium. A Museum group is also forming to discuss and explore what museum's can do in SL. So back to last night's events.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

On Sunday April 5, I’ll be conducting a collaborative experiment with 15 intrepid University of Washington graduate students, and I’d like to invite you to join in from your own hometown. I want to connect these students to a larger group of people interested in exploring topics around social technology in museums. So how about it?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2008

The exhibition I'm curating for The Tech Museum of Innovation is opening and we are hosting a summit on June 4 (in real life and in Second Life ) for museum professionals to discuss the process by which it was created. Are community-driven design techniques viable for all kinds of exhibitions (and institutions)?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

This chapter is perhaps the most surprising in the book, because it focuses on tools and techniques that predate Web 2.0 Why should museums care about customer support? The reason museums resist peer-to-peer visitor support is fear of erroneous and unvetted information. by years: customer support forums.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2009

I just returned from the Creativity and Collaboration retreat (C2) , a NAME/AAM program that I've been helping develop for about a year and a half. When we first started planning C2, we were concerned that no one would come or that people would perceive it as frivolous in a time of extreme stress in the economy and museum industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

Museum Visitor Experience. Museums have been all over bots on other platforms, see the Momabot on Twitter for example. So, it comes as no surprise that Museums have been early adopters of Facebook Messenger Bots. The Australia Democracy Museum also has a Facebook Messenger Bot, with similar objectives. The Pop Bot.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. The Love Lounge I LOVE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowd voting has been used in Cause Marketing. There has been an explosion of “Vote for Me&# contests that have become contests in techniques for vote getting and inspired cause fatigue at worst. Brooklyn Museum implemented a crowdsourced photography exhibit experiment called “ Click! Think Yelp , eBay , or Amazon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain to describe this. Now wonder some arts organizations - museums, orchestras, and now operas - have embraced crowdsourcing as a creative technique. Typically these are collaborations between the crowd and individuals guiding them. Crowd Creation: Crowds have creativity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

While the trip was a rich and deep experience, I using this post to reflect on the instructional design of the exercises and small group facilitation techniques. collaboration and interaction opportunities between participants, local experts, and others. topics, issues, and activites all linked to a respective location and a story.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

The longer I consult with museums and cultural institutions, the more time I spend peering into people's eyes, wondering: do folks here feel able to innovate? Others are "how" innovators--using unusual techniques to accomplish traditional goals. Is this a place where staff members are comfortable taking risks?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Yeah, the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. I’ve been to the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. We’ve collaborated on some content. And then, as Steven suggested, we have collaborated on, a while back now, a manual. Steven: And it’s not 2:00 a.m. or whatever time it was when you did the last webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources. Dutch Nonprofits Collaborate With Del.icio.us. Tagging in Art Museums. t be accessed from different locations or computers. (3) 3) Links can get lost in email. (4) Act 2: Definitions. account: [link]. :

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