Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

I was particularly interested in the ECHO project and Bryan's comments about the lack of in-house technical staff in museums and how that affects ability to innovate. If you want the quick and dirty look at the conference, check out the ephemera tagged #mw2008 (twitter posts, flickr images, a blog entires). Sharing Authority.or

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g. Because of the incredible popularity of genealogy as an activity, history museums are also excellent places for visitor-generated or -supported research projects (e.g.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

commented that the demographic of people who are involved is much broader than you’d think, including lots of families looking for a fun, educational, free activity. The Bellevue Sculptural Travel Bugs Project This summer, Seth! You can check out the path of some of the teen sculptures here. The “travel bugs” that Seth!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

You can upload photos to it, tag them, share them, comment on them, and search for them. Where else can you find Pakistani bathroom signage or Mexican biker teens while researching a project? Tagging makes photo search flexible and powerful. On Flickr, they are searchable both by title and by tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. " At that comment, all the avatars started clapping, cheering, and agreeing with quips like "Wow, MacArthur Foundation really gets it. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. Media isn't just happening to kids.

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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. This technique was used in the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and continues in the popular StoryCorps project.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

I once worked on a project where the main goal behind our community-based participatory model was to make our exhibit process faster and cheaper. For some museum professionals and projects, this is a good thing--it "proves" that participatory design can yield products that meet institutional standards.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

Last week, I wrote about the ways that dogs can be useful social objects --and you had lots of good comments and input. Sure, it's social, but people stick to their own "pods"--families, teens, adults--and don't diverge or merge. Ideas participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences visitors. Tags: Core Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Surveys, interviews, tracking studies, and exhibit evaluations are often isolated events, and the information gleaned is specific to particular projects. When I watch the videos teens created at the Exploratorium and post on YouTube, I see the aspects of the exhibits they thought were most important to share with their classmates.

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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! This spanned all the projects. how do you set clear criteria for participation when the project is experimental and ever-changing? Neither Click!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

The essays in this section, on “Expressing and Co-Creating,” present projects in which visitors create exhibition content, contribute to its creation, or get a heavy done of meaning-making in their experience of museum content. Each of the projects profiled in this section offers visitors partial ownership in at least one of these categories.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

This week, we're looking at the first section, Talking Back and Talking Together , which features comment boards, talk-back walls, and discussion forums at a variety of museums. Rather than rehash each of the projects (hint: read the book!), I invite you to do the same in the comments. responded to other visitors' comments.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. The content starts with the teen team.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2019

I hope to hear you articulate your thoughts in comments or on social. If you have a teen program running, there are no second teen programs person out drumming up business. So much of our work is collective, a lifelong group project. Leaders often look at their best staff, and think, ‘hey let’s put them on this project.’

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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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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Nearly 70% of users are under 35 , and 72% of teens use Instagram. An active account that interacts with followers and replies to comments. Using a hashtag, like #nonprofit, ‘tags’ your post to the subject nonprofit. This might include your nonprofit’s name, or the name of a certain project, or of a social media campaign.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies. If you had one youth educator, would you expect them to develop and run overnights AND scout programs AND teen programs AND toddler programs AND outreach AND… of course not. Museums need to develop sustainable models for projects that require frequent content updates.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Consider, for example, the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science's new Flickr Plant Project. Then, they encourage others in the Flickr community to post their own images of the same plant and tag them "flickrplantproject." Why would a museum want to invest in projects that connect a small number of people with the content?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

For example, “Nazi science” came up several times as a “can’t”—but the Holocaust Museum’s Deadly Medicine exhibition was a successful project that didn’t bring the walls down. I encourage you to add your own examples and thoughts on this list to the comments. Tags: exhibition design professional development.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

If you have a tween or a teen, I’m sure you’re familiar with TikTok. The majority of TikTokers, they’re so young, they’re so spontaneous, they’re so generous with reactions, with shares, with tagging. The Duo Duo Project Red Envelope Fundraiser, doesn’t mean anything to you. Okay, TikTok now.

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