Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. I suspect these big ideas were opaque to most visitors. This year, we took a different approach.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

In this post, Jasper shares some lessons learned from a recent experiment to design a more social comment station. He will respond to comments here and can also be reached on his blog (where this post first appeared). I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Here’s what the NTEN team said about voting: We received more than 400 ideas this year — a 75% increase over last year — and we need your help to narrow those down to the 100 or so that will make the 2011 NTC the best one yet. Click the session title if you’d like to leave a comment. Vote today! Fundraising.

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

But the people who are on the frontlines of these issues—the people who work directly with the unhoused, who live in areas affected by severe weather, or who are a member of a marginalized group—are the ones who often know how best to loosen the knot. That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. What is Participatory Grantmaking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Source: Share Your Ideas. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. If you want a chance of winning a copy, leave a comment saying how you might apply some of the science of participation to your social media strategy. Blog commenters are contributors, as are people who engage in contests.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. We have seven participatory elements in our current exhibitions on three floors, ranging from voting to talkback walls to an in-depth "make a memory jar" craft activity.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Please add your own ideas in the comments too. Consider whether you want a bonded group (people who are like each other) or a bridged group (people who are different from each other). Bonded groups are useful if you want to understand people's existing attitudes and impressions. But those concerns are real.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. Both of these seem natural as we are in the business of ideas and we are adjacent to formal education systems. For some visitors, the feeling of engagement comes from being connected to ideas quickly.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. 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. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). What type of customer support are you looking for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” ” Lots of comments pros and cons.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

When people ask about blogging, the question of comments comes up more frequently than any other. There are many good ways to measure a blog's value , but somewhere inside ourselves, we feel that comments are the thing that validate a blog's existence. So when people ask, "Why don't more people comment?," It's a bit strange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. Shirky suggests that the most profound use of social media will come from groups trying new things. This idea of experimentation really resonates.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. I crave community, but I am not naturally outgoing in large group settings like conferences. As the readership for Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. In the co-option model, the institution turns over a portion of its facilities and resources to support programs developed and implemented by external public groups.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 29, 2011

Last month, I learned about a fabulous, simple participatory experiment called “Case by Case” at the San Diego Museum of Natural History that uses visitor feedback to develop more effective object labels. Our exhibits group knocked around ideas for mechanisms of audience feedback.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. There is another, surprising group that is much less likely to participate in dialogue with strangers: teenagers. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

I came to her with an idea I called "Gut Sense." Experimonth can provide this generative experience for scientists, where the flexible interaction with participants allows for potentially new hypotheses and ideas to form. Beck will be checking in to respond to your comments and questions here.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. I soon discovered the enormity of that group: there are dozens of guilds in Colorado dedicated to quilting alone. Who are all of these people?

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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, Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral. So, let’s look at these 4Cs in some detail.

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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? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

We are asked to contain those people and make sure they do what we want, and also ensure only the “good” ideas are accepted. People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. As you go into your sessions today, I ask you to think not about how to get 1000 people into your Facebook groups.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face? Right, right, right.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Go to the wiki , read a bit, and add your comments and suggestions for improvement.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. hinges on the ideas experimentation, uncertainty and partnership. team, please share it.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Need ideas to turn your resolutions into reality? The most popular and relevant resolutions were grouped into four areas-- empowering supporters, using social media networks, focusing on the needs of supporters and making websites user-friendly. Get the low down on social media platforms and what social and participatory media entails.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

There was no agenda or angle in setting up the DCM, the idea was simply to create an awesome place for the community to share their stories. Over a year I began to wonder how to combine the two ideas and the DCM was the result. set up any participatory elements and organize the opening, which occurred the following Friday or Saturday.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Need ideas to turn your resolutions into reality? The most popular and relevant resolutions were grouped into four areas-- empowering supporters, using social media networks, focusing on the needs of supporters and making websites user-friendly. Get the low down on social media platforms and what social and participatory media entails.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He doesn't get much in the way of comments, but when he misses a few days, he gets lots of complaints. Everyone is a Curator.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. This may sound obvious, but we all fall victim to featuritis when we get seduced by the idea of live bodies.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

Or “I love the MAH because it is a truly participatory space where diverse groups can enjoy, express themselves, and learn from/about/with others.” But in the spirit of that last visitor comment, we feel it is our responsibility and our glorious opportunity to spread that love beyond our walls.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Many institutions do this unintentionally--by providing post-its or comment books, pens or crayons. I encourage you to share your own rules and thoughts on this in the comments. 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

JUNE 1, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. This is the only post written by me, Nina Simon.

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