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 marketing team promoted the project with outreach to several road trip and roadside attraction-related websites and blogs, but the creative control of the project belonged to Chris and Lucy. What happened?

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

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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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

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

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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Teen Social Museum Participatory 49

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. This wasn't a situation where you make a video and maybe you'll win the chance for it to be on the website or playing in the lobby. I hope you'll weigh in with your own favorites and observations in the comments.

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Museum Contest Video Chicago 34

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. Specifically, the Brooklyn Museum is doing research about the role of independence and influence in participatory experiences.

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Museum Participatory Artist Arts 24

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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Gift Participatory Museum Model 23

Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The ubiquitous “plan a visit” section of a museum website would be ridiculous and unnecessary for the sociable corner store or pub that patrons visit with little forethought. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place. Facebook discussion board here.

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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. While these participants had done the hard work of capturing the images, it was up to the institutions to validate, tag, caption, and prepare them for Wikipedia's use. Tags: web2.0

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Wikipedia Arts Museum Images 40

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Conceptually, commenting on other sites signals your institution's willingness to engage with others on their own terms. Conceptually, commenting on other sites signals your institution's willingness to engage with others on their own terms. Your goal with commenting should be to be "one of the few" rather than one of many.

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Museum Technorati Boston YouTube 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Explore popular blog, searches and tags. Leave a comment on a post.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Another theme of web2.o

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

I believe that focusing specifically on the social capacity of an object, rather than its content or interpretation, yields new design techniques for museum exhibits and other participatory spaces. If you want to participate, please leave a comment here or send me an email at nina@museumtwo.com. So how about it?

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Design Experiment Seattle Social 20

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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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

According to their website : The Living Library works exactly like a normal library – readers come and borrow a 'book' for a limited period of time. On the Living Library website , you can also find sample catalogues, Book application forms, and marketing materials for download. What is the Living Library? well, you know.

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Library Model Museum Europe 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

I was surprised at how generic the conference appears on the VSA website. Joe commented that they didn’t want people to feel like they were getting into something radically different, that this is just an opening overture to potential changes in years to come. Tags: professional development. Are you headed to Houston?

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

They thrive on secret websites, mysterious codes, and bizarre incidents. The initial "ask" on the website is specific: create a necklace and mail it to the Luce Center. The game website is clear. But comments on the gamers' forum like: An internet collaborative [sic] art display in a national museum? I think so.

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Game Museum Arts Alternative 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

Museums need to develop ways to track frequency of use, whether with technology or otherwise As David Gilman commented, "How can we be friends if I not only keep forgetting things about you, but never learn them to begin with?" I'd like to close with a few words from the "About Us" section of El Rio's website. See the link to the left.

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Community Museum San Diego San Francisco 22

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Here are three examples of changes you could make: Change the language and presentation of comment cards. While plenty of museums say “We want your feedback,” I have yet to visit a museum with a comment card that says, “we want your best idea to make this museum better.” What do you want?” Museum emails are almost always shouting.

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Museum Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

In many museums, comment cards are currently the most "participatory" part of the visitor experience. There are few, if any, ways to write back and continue the conversation with the visitor who commented. In other words, comment cards aren't effectively organized for use. Enter the internet.

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Comment Tools Museum Conversation 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. The Tech Virtual was launched as a two-platform system: a website and a Second Life island. Tags: exhibition Tech Virtual. or to start their own.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

It's like following blog comments. Not everyone comes back to read the evolving comment stream, but the aggregate is always valuable to the next visitor. The Advice team also offered a guest comment book (sparsely used) for people to offer comments about the whole exhibit.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

It's a warning sign when community members make comments like , "it was only boundless encouragement from Avi (Nina's Second Life avatar) that prevented me from giving up more than once." During her tenure as director of web experience, Beck has helped staff across the museum start their own projects on several social websites.

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Community Management Museum Aggregator 40

Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

Oh, and they wanted it to be participatory. I talked with Sarah Rich , one of the project’s instigators and staff members, to learn more about 48 Hour Magazine and its implications for other participatory media projects. He set up an infrastructure for people to evaluate submissions by giving it a yes, no, or maybe, with comments.

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Participatory Journal San Francisco Interview 36

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The artist, Sue Lawty, maintains a blog with her reflections on the project and occasionally celebrates particular contributions, but this blog is fairly contained within the project website and is not a major source of web links. Visitors to the website can't even comment on the photos or mark them as favorites.

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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. When I first explored the ILI website, I assumed that free-choice learning was the backbone of all museums. There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. Tags: Core Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

I sat down with Kate Roberts, lead exhibit developer on MN150, to learn about the particulars of this visitor-driven exhibition, which used a website, a state fair, and over 2700 slips of paper to apply a new process to a standard historical exhibition topic. In the house, we had computers set up with the website. It really worked.

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