Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. In the second, you make the product participatory.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

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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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Click the session title if you’d like to leave a comment. If you want to leave feedback or comments about the sessions I am a part of, please do! This participatory workshop will help you answer the question: What does old-school community organizing have to teach the wired activist? Fundraising. Leadership. My sessions.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. They're simple --you can comment on any given chapter, or you can write a review of the whole book. Only one person has added a comment to a chapter (thank you, Juline Chevalier!),

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). The mysterious unseen gods of YouTube had anointed the Road Trip video with top billing, which shot the views way up (over 80,000 to date) and sent comments and video responses pouring in. Projects.

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

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. So, if you’ve read this far, leave a comment answering this question: How can your nonprofit create a way of working that allows it to learn rapidly and adapt?

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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 ). They also tag and analyze responses.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Prestige of commenters and other participants. Obvious attention: discussions in blogspace, comments in posts, reclarification, and continued discussion. Obvious attention: discussions in blogspace, comments in posts, reclarification, and continued discussion. Prestige of peer prereviewers (if any). Raw links to the document.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” We are a community of museum bloggers who write from a variety of perspectives and museum disciplines. inclusion'

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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 28, 2008

It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. Tags: inclusion comfort.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In the most extreme cases, I've talked to folks from museums that are government-mandated to provide all content in multiple languages who say they are unable to invite visitors to make comments because they'd have to translate all of them and simply can't dedicate the resources to do so. Tags: design usercontent inclusion.

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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. They’re tagging with yarn. Stefania will respond to your comments and questions here. exhibition guestpost inclusion participatory museum'

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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. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

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, Tags: ROI. Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices.

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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. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. Digression: Some people have commented that my hierarchy of social participation suffers this fault by implying that museums should be trying to level up to higher social engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

One of the things you have to do with user-generated content -- participatory media projects is show the work to encourage others to jump in. Alan Levine left me a comment suggested Splashr and shared his notes. Unfortunately, it didn't have an option for "groups" - you can only pull photos based on tags or a user.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Kristiansen captured the drama on this video clip of Mena Trott's Keynote calling for more civility in blog commenting. Mena got angry at the comments because they were not so civil - particularly those from Ben MetCalfe who Mena called out publically. Tags: backchannel. Warning she says the F-word on the clip.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

I "met" Arin Crumley of Four-Eyed Monsters when he commented on a video of on mine over at YouTube. When I visited his site, I noticed that he had some widgets, including a message comment line. feed where he is tagging resources here. And note how he has incorporated the use of his mail comment line into his content).

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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. Tags: programs visitors. Fabulous!" "But So what's the solution?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 9, 2006

I've also been on about participatory video on the net lately, in particular the much-in-the-news You Tube , as well as CurrentTV. In a comment on one of those posts Anne Walk refers us to this surprisingly long list of free video hosting services on the web. Tags: nptech , resources

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

It is my hope, my prayer that I can use these god given communication skills, our not so new world of participatory media, and make green something so compelling that it cannot help but become an all powerful movement. Tags: movement building.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Unlike many museums that just ask for comments or set a fun little “activity corner,” the DCM gave over complete control and that’s part of the reason it worked. set up any participatory elements and organize the opening, which occurred the following Friday or Saturday. Projects design participatory museum guestpost usercontent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. At first, I thought it was comment spam promoting a porno site but far from it. Tell me about your experience with tagging. Why do you tag? Tagging is a small part of that.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. future, you can also see the passion of different groups that feel underrepresented or unheard in the evaluation comments. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. Content is also being added to the site through streams of aggregated content through the net2 tag. This site, and the Net??

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. There are comments in code which as Zittrain notes, ???Are It wasn't quite right for the page I ended up assembling.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. How can we improve on these models to becomes sites for participatory giving? Ideas participatory museum.

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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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Game Experiment Participatory Museum 24

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. I hope you'll weigh in with your own favorites and observations in the comments. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening. At some institutions, there has been friction when artists find out that their work will be judged or commented on publicly by visitors. They kept the interface simple.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

George will respond to comments on this post and is also reachable here. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences. 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.

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