Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. Such participatory activities would be seen as a waste of time. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. nothing happens.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Nonprofit Use #2: Sharing Knowledge/Resources As Community of Practice Hashtags can create an ad hoc community of practice or a channel for people in a field to informally share resources or conversation. And, in the case of Twitter Vote Report Twitter hashtags have been used for real-time participatory democracy.

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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. In this guest post, Jeffrey shares the story behind their big hit with a visitor co-created exhibition. is a project that lets real-world and virtual visitors share their work in our gallery. At its core, Oh Snap!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Please add your own ideas in the comments too. Create a structure that values peoples' participation. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Build on their existing expertise/experience/perspective as opposed to asking them to comment on yours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures. Note from Beth: This week I'm researching and thinking about the topic of creating movements. Ironically, if we have time, the last matter is the least difficult. And that is the crossroads.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand." Get the low down on social media platforms and what social and participatory media entails. Convio says knowing your audience is key because the online tools you choose to use must align with the technical capabilities of your audience.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." I don't know - and I hope you'll share your thoughts in the comments. Fabulous!" "But So what's the solution? I employ the parallel strategy all the time in my work.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''m open to any questions you want to share in the comments. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale. This year was a year of building, challenging, and strengthening. In the meantime, here are some.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program. The most important aspect of designing a successful participatory platform is to intentionally, deliberately, and clearly DESIGN the platform. I encourage you to check it out, submit a card, and share your comments here.

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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

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? 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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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. I hope you'll share your thoughts in the comments. In contrast, the Wikimedians were focused on making cultural content digitally available online using as open a licensing structure as possible.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! In Children of the Lodz Ghetto, every data entry is verified by staff in a three-step process as well as reviewed and commented on by other users.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. My strategy is: make it work really well, research what works and doesn't, and share the design lessons with the world. Recently, I've been wrestling a lot with the relationship between innovation and impact.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. My first reaction was skepticism.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. Every non-spammer editor who signed up was granted full access to change and comment on the content.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

And when I think back on the last year and how it compared to year one of blogging, the shining difference is you--your interest, your comments, and most of all, your extraordinary example. But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. Today, Museum 2.0 I started the Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Sharing Content is freely available for use and reuse. Leave a comment on a post.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. Each of these articles--and the comments around them--are fascinating artifacts of a debate that has been behind the scenes for too long. I''ve always understood that participatory experiences are not for everyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. m sticking with DOS???

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

It is a group of people connected by something shared. We think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well. This starts right when you walk into our museum, where you can share opinions about how to improve the institution on a comment wall.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. Please let me know in the comments if there's anything in particular you want to know about - I'm happy to share whatever interests you. At least 50 blog posts and 240 related comments fall into this category.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Introduce yourself if you haven’t, say hi, but ask questions, you know, leave comments. So I don’t want to take any more time away from you, Julie, so I’m going to stop sharing and I’ll let you bring up your beautiful slides here. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I hope to share some simple and fun ways to create "shoulder-to-shoulder" instructional media for the panel on Screencasting at NTC I'm doing. If you're still with me, let me share some tidbits about that photo. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s That's enough meta for now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

It’s open for comments and feedback right now – or “applause.” ” This blog shares some thoughts about this project and I have to give it a big round of applause. Training and Peer Learning :: skill-building, knowledge sharing, and network building. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. What if historic arts experiences were actually a lot more participatory? comment thread. But what if the "traditional" arts experiences is a myth?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

There are lots of museums (and organizations of all kinds) looking for ways to inspire users and visitors to produce their own content and share it with the institution online. Visitors to the website can't even comment on the photos or mark them as favorites. What makes the World Beach Project so successful? It's not marketing hype.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I hope you'll share yours in the comments below (or on your own blog). And check out the comments. Much to my mom's relief, I stayed in school but remained deeply suspicious of the artificial structure of grades and gold stars. There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The NAS has expressed high interest in hearing from interested parties who were not at the meeting; please share your personal 21st century issues as comments and they will get to the labcoats in Washington. Dream big, share it in the comments, and help this be a more productive study. How do you plan for the future?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

Several spoke disparagingly of the idea that co-creation is primarily about empowering participants; as the Artistic Director of Dance United, Tara-Jane Herbert, commented, "if you want to save people, then this is not the company for you." When an institution becomes wholly participatory, those distinctions often erode.

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