Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

It feels like a real gift to myself (and hopefully, to you) to schedule all this content now and not have to worry about it when my baby is born. You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more.

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Museum Participatory Reflection Conference 35

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving. This community was ready for a museum that reflected the unique creative identity of Santa Cruz.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

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 History Netherlands Create 36

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

This week, they hosted "Let Them Be Heard: Visitor Participation in the Museum Experience," featuring four presentations on incorporating visitors' content into museums. I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). Was the Road Trip experiment successful?

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Being a trusted source of information can be a barrier that keeps us from sharing content with visitors that might be more contemporary, more ambiguous, more contentious--information that may not be trusted. It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. Be personal.

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Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20

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. The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision. The Love Lounge I LOVE.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

The exhibition will coincide with programs about art theory, online communities, and crowd theory, providing a forum for public evaluation and discussion about the process. Usually, the institution wants to maintain some control--whether over where the content comes from or how it is selected and organized. What makes Click special?

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Museum Participatory Artist Arts 24

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

The participatory element employs an accessible speculative question. The Odditoreum's "write your own label" program is very successful because visitors are being asked to author imaginative content. The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content. They model the requested visitor contributions.

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Museum Alternative Portland Artist 22

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

static content delivery machines) to 2.0 dynamic content aggregation and network machines)." I always assumed that this would be a semi-private endeavor and that the public nature of the blog would just be an efficient vehicle for sharing my ideas with a small group of interested folks. But this blog is mostly push content.

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Museum Voice Minnesota Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Anna had been the founding Curator of Education at the National Building Museum, led the Rolling Rainforest project, and was a real innovator in developing in-depth participatory design experiences with community members (though I wouldn't have used those words at the time). The Spy Museum was a dream place for me.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. By limiting artworks by size alone, Foot in the Door is open to a huge range of content and media. The diversity of content promotes comfortable dialogue about preferences.

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Participatory Museum Arts Artist 46

Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The exhibition will coincide with programs about art theory, online communities, and crowd theory, providing a forum for public evaluation and discussion about the process. 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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Arts Social Media Examples Artist 74

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. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

It is an exhibit of user-generated content? Some new initiatives already under way will delve into this topic next year with the Modern Women's Project, which will involve installations in all the collection galleries, a major publication, and a number of public programs. Is this a research project? Is it a conversation?

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Conversation Museum Artist Minneapolis 21

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. The key to these benefits is not the volume of online content produced but its reach. Work with communities that relate to your content and reach desired audiences. Does this mean copping out on our core values?

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Museum Hosting Model Community 22

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

So my agreement with you to share some content that many nonprofit leaders find useful, and to stop periodically during the webinar to make sure that you’re with me and get your thoughts. And I encourage you to value our time together, the more that you’re present, the more you’ll benefit from the content being shared. .

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Video Nonprofit San Francisco Question 121

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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Participatory Museum Arts History 53

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. How does it help the Exploratorium to listen to these environments if they can't be controlled? Museum emails are almost always shouting.

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Museum Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

And while SAAM is steering the content, Ghosts of a Chance is being produced by City Mystery and the Playtime Anti-Boredom Society , some of the same fine folks who brought you SF0. that the attendance on that day would be a real reflection of how the game went. Reaching Non-Gamer Audiences ARGs can be confusing.

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Game Museum Arts Alternative 20

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Most social networking sites give each user a unique user profile, along with a personal "home base" where you can always find your content, your contacts, and your interests. Most free social networks include advertising that may not reflect museum mission. Note that even the content of this exhibition is focused on 2.0-style

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Museum Social Network Case Study Discussion 20

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It's a public gift certificate system that emphasizes the way that ice cream--something you can only get in person at the store--can be shared. Gifting is a powerful participatory behavior. The concept here is that the people who want to share their content--photos, blogs, audio--are the ones who are willing to pay for it.

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Museum Social Participatory Flickr 26

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

This same process can also be applied to visitor-generated content. But if the content is laying fallow, reviewed by NO ONE, why not let visitors take up the mantle? As service organizations (on some level), museums have even more of a responsibility than businesses to serve the needs and interests of the public and user communities.

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Museum Participatory Evaluation Chapter 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I don't know if that was their original plan or a reaction to our poor use of the wiki, but it certainly didn't reflect our supposed digital chops. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. Wikis don't explicitly acknowledge individuals with "profile power"--content is prioritized, not identity.

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I created this screencast back in September/October of last year, so this release has provided a great opportunity to meta reflect on the whole screencast creation process as well as consider how my views about the use of tagging have evolved. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Publicize and Monetize???

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Screencast Instruction Instructional Tag 50

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

It was the kind of experience I wish I had at lots of museum programs—the staff and the content pulled me out of my comfort zone, engaged me in something unusual, and made me feel great. Why not allow people to put their feet up, their drinks down, and enjoy the program the way they enjoy other content experiences?

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Program People Museum Lecture 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

Now, NYSCI is experimenting in a new medium, with a very tough and adult content focus. I sat down with Eric Siegel, NYSCI’s Director and Chief Content Officer, to learn more about False Conviction. It’s about thinking about science centers and the public understanding of science as a human problem. This project had that feel.

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Help Museum eBook Project 45

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The sensibility is the content and the style with which the engagement happens. I've written before about the difference between participatory processes and products , but this question of frameworks and sensibility is more broadly applicable to community engagement strategies.

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Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The NAS publishes one such report every business day, and apparently these reports are seen as a gold standard of objective, well-researched content on a range of industries and issues. From my perspective the line wasn’t between libraries and museums but public-facing and private/researcher-facing organizations.

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Library Museum Reflection Alternative 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. For hundreds of years, we've owned the content and the message. Content expertise matters. Content control shouldn't. Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections.

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Authoring Share Museum YouTube 44