Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

Ken is a game designer and writer who develops narrative, collaborative augmented reality experiences about serious issues. Now, that game, GISKIN ANOMALY , is live. GISKIN ANOMALY is a “historical fiction” game I created for Rich Cherry and the Balboa Park Online Collaborative. Lesson: Have faith in your community.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

One finalist's pitch was: "We have buy-in from the community, we have rich networks on the ground, and we are building on pre-existing technologies." Empowering Marginalized Communities Using Technology. Dd's mission is "to empower marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights."

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

To avoid losing that income and as a way of connecting with patrons, fans, and community members, these organizations can host a New Year’s Eve event in a virtual format. . Virtual Game Night. Games are fun. Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. .

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

How do community members make your institution better? Yes, we have the standard ways--volunteer programs, board service, and community partnerships--but I strongly believe that if we are doing our jobs right, every visitor who walks through our doors should be able to make a meaningful impact. Evergreen Cemetery Board Game.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

It''s resulted in some of my favorite work ever: games like #namethatzoom , projects like FeederSketch , adult-only Ball Pits , and most importantly, the creation of Experimonth , which is what I''d like to blog about today. But at my museum , the support doesn''t stop at our visitors. Experimonth started out as play.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" Community response. This community was ready for a museum that reflected the unique creative identity of Santa Cruz.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined. What constraints and surprises will emerge?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

We have to find ways to use games not to escape reality, but to re-engage with reality, and that???s re asking people to bring what they learn here back to their own communities, and make a difference. s the exicting thing about the work of Global Kids ??? it is grounded in both the virtual space and the real space.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2009

What does "game 2.0" Games are already highly participatory, but over the last few years game designers have been giving players more control over the gameworld and experience. The ultimate substantiation of this is Spore, a game in which players invent their own life forms and manage their evolution.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. All motivation to play comes from the players themselves, since it's not clear where the game is going or what the point is. The game website is clear.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. It could be a game show. Let me be frank. We have no money. We cannot pay you in dollars. Late night programming.

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Museum History Participatory Arts 53

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Posts under that tag tend to examine non-museum things, from malls to games to ad campaigns , and draw some design lessons for museums from their foreignness. But in cases where there is interest in promoting more dialog, it's worth thinking about the power and challenge of a cumulative community to create the feel of the place.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

All these objects and stories together we call our ‘community of objects’. I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. For me the beauty of the Signtific Game lies in the way people are guided by a select number of possible responses to a wild idea.

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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-creation model, visitors and the institution work together from the beginning to define the project's goals and to generate the program or exhibit based on community interests.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

I host dating games. And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution. Creating her own versions of classic board games like Guess Who? Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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Reflection Columbus Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

People at work with the games running in the background on their computers. And all of that led to more audience--at all levels of the game. When we talk about embracing participatory experiences at non-professional levels, arts professionals often get worried that the best work will get drowned out in mediocrity.

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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. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.)

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

At Women Win , we believe that in the face of such adversity, the best solution — the antidote — is to invest in young women on the ground who are working to make their communities places of radical equity through sport, in spite of the fight they face. Fundacion GOLEES is based in Costa Rica and works with girls and women ages 10-60.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

Last month, the Christian Science Monitor published an article entitled, "Museums' new mantra: Connect with community." It took me a couple weeks (and various museum blog responses ) to realize what bugs me about this article--it treats "connecting with community" as a marketing ploy, a "mantra" rather than a mission. Which community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

I wanted to capture a few thoughts and pointers about using video for fundraising pitches on the web or grassroots participatory video coupled with grassroots participatory fund raising. One of the newer entries into the video hosting game is Revver. I don't know what I mean yet. I contributed. I love retro film.).

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Vlog Widget Fundraising Cambodia 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. meetup for Elite Yelp! I don't think so.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Ready to turn your institution into a site of participatory engagement? specializes in designing museum experiences and exhibitions that are community informed, socially stimulating, technologically ambitious, and intriguingly experimental. Want to bring the spirit of this blog to your colleagues and projects?

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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. Gifting is a powerful game mechanic. Ideas participatory museum. Why is gifting a model worth exploring?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

will all be featured and sharing their standards of “now communication” with Mark Horvath who is leading the discussions. Games for Good panel Monday, March 15 at 12:30 PM – “You made an amazing, educational, and progressive game using the latest in gaming technology- now how do you get people to actually play it?

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Conference Government Social Media Influence 38

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! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. technology and more focus on engaging with communities.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

Yesterday, a lovely article came out in the local paper about what we're trying to do to become a thriving community hub. The first part is saying yes and being open to the community." I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. Let me know what you think and what this brings up for you.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change When most people outside gaming think of video games, they typically fall into three buckets: "old school" games like Super Mario and Tetris, social and mobile games like Farmville and Angry Birds, or hyper-violent console games like Grand Theft Auto.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

In contrast, organizations that feature staff or member walls celebrating people's diverse talents and interests reflect the idea that this is a community of people who care about each other. These kinds of indicators help me understand that I can be part of a community by getting involved.

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Relationship Museum Game Personal 46

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. I learned about game design, theme park design, video production, script-writing, show programming, and air compressors, working with cranks and fire marshals and brilliant folks of all kinds.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Agents of Change Summit aims to unify and expand the community of professionals using marketing and technology to change people’s health and lifestyle behaviors for social good. The LGBT community is growing in visibility and formal acceptance. National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) / Washington, DC / Less than $500.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning.

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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 goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers).

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Action Ideas St. Louis Museum 31

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

The Structure Lab is set up as a "game" in which you explore cards in various categories (values, assets, financing, etc.) A company in which program recipients are involved with governance suggests a community board model. to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept.

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